This online exhibit features selected primary sources that document the work of five YWCA Overseas Secretaries. Highlights include the YWCA War Work Bulletin article from 1918 about Bessie Boies Cotton's work in Russia; Virginia L. Heim's diary...
Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A
Colombia; India; Liberia; Puerto Rico; Russia; Taiwan; Turkey
This narrative history includes more than 60 photographs. Sections cover the early emphasis on gymnastics and calisthenics; the creation of the Women's Athletic Association; the debate over whether women should participate in competitive sports;...
Education (Higher); Women athletes; Women college students
Includes an oral history interview with Janet Coleman Kimbrough, Class of 1921; a small collection of photographs; social rules for students from 1923-24; and Laura F. Parrish's thesis, "When Mary Entered with her Brother William: Women at the...
This collection presents 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Product subcategories under "Beauty and Hygiene" include cosmetics; deodorants; feminine hygiene; hair preparations; rouge;...
Advertising; Beauty culture; Women in advertising; World War, 1939-1945
Includes a wide variety of primary sources from the Iowa Women's Archives, the African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa, the University of Iowa Archive, and the State Historical Society of Iowa. Highlights include...
African American women; Societies and clubs; Women librarians
This collaborative digitization program includes a variety of primary sources from Alabama archives and libraries. Highlights include 29 oral history interviews from the "Women in the Depression" collection at University of Alabama at Birmingham;...
African American women; Depressions -- 1929; Women college students; World War, 1939-1945
This collection offers more than 10,000 items from seven libraries and museums.
Includes a good selection of short film clips: Eskimo women weaving baskets and shoveling coal; Miss Alaska at Fairbanks Ice Carnival, 1935-1936; and women ice fishing....
Eskimo women; Handicraft; Health care; Indians of North America; Women
Drawing from the holdings of Bryn Mawr College Special Collections and other repositories, this site offers a variety of primary source materials that document the history of women's education. In addition to photos of students and faculty,...
Physical education for women; Women college students; Women educators; Women's colleges; Working class women -- Education
United States -- Kentucky -- Berea; United States -- Pennsylvania -- Bryn Mawr; China
This collection includes digital editions of books about the history of clothing, styles of dress, fashion drawing, and clothing design and construction.
Browse/search the digital collection that includes approximately 2000 objects and transcribed document pages from Memorial Hall Museum and Library. The "Activities" section of the site includes video demonstrations of such tools as the "great...
Clothing and dress; Home labor; Temperance; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1939-1945; Women photographers
This collection documents the history of the American Colony, a non-denominational utopian Christian community founded by a small group of American expatriates in Ottoman Palestine in 1881.
American Colony (Jerusalem); Christian communities -- Palestine; Missionaries; Religion
Highlights in this collection include audio clips from oral history interviews with actress Molly Picon, columnist Ellen Goodman, politicians Bella Abzug and Elizabeth Holtzman, medical physicist Rosalyn Yalow, and lawyer/political activist Rita...
Actresses; Jewish women; Women legislators; Women political activists; Women scientists
Includes 48 posters from "Youth and Life," a series designed to educate teenage girls and young women about the dangers of sexual promiscuity and encouraged them to adopt a healthy lifestyle.
Conduct of life; Health education; Prostitution; Sexually transmitted diseases; World War, 1939-1945
This guide is a slightly 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).
This collection includes 17,000 of the 28,000 physical items in the Printed Ephemera collection at the Library of Congress. Highlights include the broadside "The Sentiments of an American Woman" (1780), "Declaration and Protest of the Women of the...
Advertising; Social life and customs; Women -- Suffrage
Angie Debo's books included The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic (1934), And Still the Waters Run (1940), The Road to Disappearance: A History of the Creek Indians (1941), and Geronimo (1976). This digital collection includes more than 1200...
