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In American Memory
- The African-American Experience in Ohio: Selections from
the Ohio Historical Society
- This selection of manuscript and printed text and images drawn from the collections of the Ohio Historical Society illuminates the history of the African-American community living in Ohio during the period from 1850 to 1920. The materials tell the story of the life of this community, and its struggles and successes as it faced slavery and freedom, segregation and integration, religion and politics, migrations and restrictions, harmony and discord. The struggle of American women to obtain voting rights and other legal rights, regardless of their race or sex, is well documented in this online collection. For material related specifically to African-American women's struggle for the right to vote, browse the subject index and select the headings Afro-Americans--Suffrage and Women.
- African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
- The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years, from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love. Browse the author index to find works by Anna Cooper, Ida Wells-Barnett, Frances Ellen Harper and Mary Church Terrell. Select the keyword search full-text option, then search the collection on phrases such as woman suffrage and voting rights to retrieve relevant material.
- An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
- The Printed Ephemera collection at the Library of Congress is a rich repository of Americana. The collection comprises 28,000 primary-source items dating from the seventeenth century to the present and encompassing key events and eras in American history. The selection available online represents a rich variety, with more than 10,000 items including proclamations, advertisements, blank forms, programs, election tickets, catalogs, clippings, timetables, and menus. These documents capture the everyday activities of ordinary people who participated in the building of the nation and experienced its growth from the American Revolution through the Industrial Revolution up to the present day. For material related to women’s rights, select the keyword search full-text option, then search the collection on terms such as suffrage and women.
- By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
- The Library of Congress has extensive and varied resources related to the campaign for woman suffrage in the United States. This selection of thirty-eight portraits of individuals involved in the voting rights movement includes frequently requested photographs from the holdings of the Prints and Photographs Division and the Manuscript Division. Also featured are photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons commenting on the movement. This online illustrated reference aid is a pictorial partner for the text documents in Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Collection, 1848-1920.
- Photographs from the “Chicago Daily News”
- This collection comprises over 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives by photographers employed by one of Chicago's leading newspapers of the period between 1902 and 1933, the Chicago Daily News. The photographs illustrate the enormous variety of topics and events covered by the newspaper. Most photographs were taken in Chicago, Illinois, or in towns, parks, and athletic fields of the surrounding area. For material related to women’s rights, browse the subject index and select headings under the subjects Suffrage and Women.
- Words and Deeds in American History
- In honor of its centennial, the Manuscript Division's staff has selected for online display approximately ninety representative documents spanning the fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Many of the manuscripts are from the papers of prominent Americans whose lives reflect the nation’s evolution. Of particular interest to students of the women’s rights movement is the draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, dating from approximately 1895.
- African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
- The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years, from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love. Browse the author index to find works by Anna Cooper, Ida Wells-Barnett, Frances Ellen Harper and Mary Church Terrell. Select the keyword search full-text option, then search the collection combining terms such as education with female, lady, or women.
- An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals,
ca. 1490-1920
- An American Ballroom Companion presents a collection of over two hundred social-dance manuals at the Library of Congress. The items displayed online range from a rare late-fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (circa 1490) to Ella Gardner's 1929 Public dance halls, their regulation and place in the recreation of adolescents. Besides dance instruction manuals, this online presentation includes a significant number of other types of material such as antidance manuals, histories of dance, and treatises on etiquette. Browse the subject index and select headings such as Anti-dance literature, Dance--Religious aspects--Christianity--Sermons, Dance--Religious aspects--Christianity and Etiquette, Dance--Moral and ethical aspects, Etiquette, and Dance--Moral and religious aspects.
- An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
- The Printed Ephemera collection at the Library of Congress is a rich repository of Americana. The collection comprises 28,000 primary-source items dating from the seventeenth century to the present and encompassing key events and eras in American history. The selection available online represents a rich variety, with more than 10,000 items including proclamations, advertisements, blank forms, programs, election tickets, catalogs, clippings, timetables, and menus. These documents capture the everyday activities of ordinary people who participated in the building of the nation and experienced its growth from the American Revolution through the Industrial Revolution up to the present day. Select the keyword search full-text option, then search the collection combining terms such as patriotism, anti-slavery, and school with women, female, or girl.
- Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904
- The Westinghouse Works Collection contains twenty-one actuality films showing various views of Westinghouse companies. Intended to showcase the company's operations, the film includes both exterior and interior shots of the factories as well as scenes of male and female workers performing their duties at the plants. To download and view the films of women factory workers punching time clocks and engaging in other daily activities, browse the subject index and choose the heading Women electric industry workers--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
- The Nineteenth Century in Print: Books
- The books in this collection bear nineteenth-century American imprints, dating mainly from between 1850 and 1880. They have been digitized by the University of Michigan as part of the Making of America project, a major collaborative endeavor to preserve and provide access to historical texts. Currently, approximately 1,500 books are included. The collection is particularly strong in poetry and in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Relevant material is retrieved by a keyword search of the descriptive records of the collection using terms such as ladies and women. A full-text search of the collection is available on the Making of America site, but such a search should be limited by combining the terms ladies and women with other subject keywords.
- The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals
- This collection presents twenty-three popular periodicals digitized by the Making of America project of Cornell University and the Preservation Reformatting Division of the Library of Congress. They include literary and political magazines, as well as titles such as Scientific American, Manufacturer and Builder, and Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture. The North American Review covers 1815 to 1900, the longest time span of any title in the collection. A keyword search of the descriptive records of the collection or of the collection’s full text must be limited by combining the term women with other subject terms. The periodical titles may also be searched individually.
- Sunday School Books: Shaping the Values of Youth in Nineteenth-Century America
- This collection presents 163 Sunday school books published between 1815 and 1865, drawn from the collections of Michigan State University Libraries and the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University Libraries. The books document the culture of religious instruction of youth in America during the antebellum era. Browse the subject index and choose headings such as Advice books and moral tales, Children--Conduct of life, Children--Conduct of life--Fiction, Children--Conduct of life --Juvenile fiction, Children--Conduct of life--Juvenile literature, Children--Religious life, Domestic education, Etiquette for children and teenagers, Girls--Conduct of life, Moral tales, Mothers, Women in the Bible, Women--Conduct of life, and Young women.
- American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
- The site contains an expanded and fully searchable version of the print publication American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2001). The guide has been redesigned for online use, with added illustrations and links to digitized material located throughout the Library of Congress Web site.
- Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II
- This online exhibition spotlights eight women who successfully reported and photographed events on the front lines during World War II--Therese Bonney, Toni Frissell, Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, Clare Boothe Luce, Janet Flanner, Esther Bubley, Dorothea Lange, and May Craig. Their stories, primarily drawn from private papers and photographs in the collections of the Library of Congress, open a window on a generation of women who changed American society forever by securing a place for themselves in the workplace, in the newsroom, and on the battlefield.
- Not for Ourselves Alone
- The film Not for Ourselves Alone by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes, depicting the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, forms the basis of this educational Web site from PBS Online. Students are invited to "experience the work of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony—at home or in the classroom. Track key events in the suffrage movement, delve into historic documents and essays, and take a look at where women are today."
- The Schlesinger Library
- The Web site of the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute (www.radcliffe.edu/schles/) provides access to information about its collection of “letters and diaries, photographs, books and periodicals, ephemera, oral histories, and audiovisual materials that document the history of women, families, and organizations, primarily in the 19th and 20th centuries.” The Schlesinger Library’s rich resources are open to the public and used by thousands of researchers each year.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000
- This Web site is a project of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton. The site comprises forty-three brief monographs, each posing a question related to the study of women and gender in the United States. For each of these monographs, an interpretive collection of documents addressing the question is provided, to encourage viewers to participate in historical analysis. The online collection includes nearly 1,000 documents, almost 400 images, and 375 links to other Web sites.
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