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    • Minnesota Reflections

    • Minnesota Reflections

    • Includes collections from archives, libraries and museums from across Minnesota. Highlights include photographs of students and faculty at normal schools (Mankato State and Winona), as well as collections from the American Swedish Institute and the...

    • Immigrants; Indians of North America; Jewish women; Nuns; Religion; Swedish American women; Teachers Colleges; Women college students; Women college teachers

    • United States -- Minnesota
    • Women Physicians: 1850s-1970s

    • Women Physicians: 1850s-1970s

    • This collection documents the history of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP), Coverage includes founding and early years of the college (1850-1870); student and academic life; racial and ethnic diversity among women physicians;...

    • African American women physicians; Missionaries; Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania; Women medical students; Women physicians; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1939-1945

    • United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
    • Mount Holyoke Digital Collections Online

    • Mount Holyoke Digital Collections Online

    • This collection includes more than 1500 primary source items that document the history of Mount Holyoke College from the 1840s to the 1990s. Highlights include items from the collections of politician Ella Grasso, physician Virginia Apgar, and New...

    • Women college teachers; Women college students; Women legislators; Women physicians; Women's colleges

    • United States -- Massachusetts -- South Hadley
    • Cecilia Beaux Papers Online

    • Cecilia Beaux Papers Online

    • This collection of more than 6000 images documents Beaux' education, career as a portrait painter, and personal life.

    • Women artists

    • United States -- Massachusetts -- Gloucester; United States -- New York (State) -- New York; United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
    • Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project

    • Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project

    • Includes "My Day" columns, correspondence related to the Kennedy election of 1960, articles, and transcripts of speeches.

    • Human rights; Presidents' spouses

    • United States
    • Eyewitness: American Originals from the National Archives

    • Eyewitness: American Originals from the National Archives

    • This site offers a variety of eyewitness accounts, including "Susan B. Anthony at the Voting Polls, 1872;" Laura Ingalls Wilder's diary of a trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri,; Marie Adams' account of the internment of American...

    • Travel; Women -- Suffrage; World War, 1939-1945
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    • New Jersey Women's History

    • New Jersey Women's History

    • Timeline entries link to online primary sources (images, documents, and material objects). Highlights include portraits of notable New Jersey women, a poster advertising a dance performance by Ruth St. Denis, and the text of Lucy Stone's protest...

    • Women

    • United States -- New Jersey
    • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

    • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

    • Rawlings won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Yearling. This collection currently includes about 180 photographs and will continue to grow.

    • Women authors

    • United States -- Florida
    • Tobacco Bag Stringing

    • Tobacco Bag Stringing

    • Members of farm families in North Carolina supplemented their incomes by sewing drawstrings into cotton tobacco bags. This site reproduces the "Report on Tobacco Bag Stringing Operations in North Carolina and Virginia" that was produced in 1939....

    • Depressions -- 1929; Employment; Tobacco industry; Women

    • United States -- North Carolina -- Rockingham County; United States -- North Carolina -- Wilkes County; United States -- Virginia -- Richmond
    • Quilt Index

    • Quilt Index

    • This collection includes images (and documentation) of thousands of quilts from documentation projects, museums, libraries, and private collections. Search fields include pattern name, quilter, location made (state), and time period.

    • Quilts

    • United States -- Alabama; United States -- Arkansas; United States -- California; United States -- Florida; United States -- Georgia; United States -- Illinois; United States -- Indiana; United States -- Iowa; United States -- Kansas; United States...
    • Perry Ballet Photographs

    • Perry Ballet Photographs

    • This collection includes 300 black and white photographs of many of the most significant ballet dancers of the mid-twentieth century, with a particular emphasis on the 1950s.

    • Ballerinas; Ballet dancers

    • United States
    • Women in Congress

    • Women in Congress

    • See the "artifacts" section for images of political campaign buttons, historic images, gallery passes, collectable cards, and magazine covers. The site also includes biographical profiles, historical essays, historical data, and educational...

    • Women legislators

    • Washington, D.C.
    • Dorothea Lange Collection 1919-1965

    • Dorothea Lange Collection 1919-1965

    • This large collection (20,820 images) from the Oakland Museum of California includes photographs from every period of Lange's career.

    • Agricultural laborers; Depressions -- 1929; Migration, Internal; Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Women photographers

    • United States -- California
    • Jackson Davis Collection of African American Educational Photographs

    • Jackson Davis Collection of African American Educational Photographs

    • This collection includes photographs of African-American schools and educational scenes in the southern United States taken by Jackson Davis during the period 1915-1930 when he was affiliated with the General Education Board in New York, New York....

    • African-American girls; African Americans -- Education; Home economics -- Study and teaching; Schools; Women

    • United States -- Alabama; United States -- Florida; United States -- Georgia; United States -- Louisiana; United States -- Mississippi; United States -- North Carolina; United States -- Oklahoma; United States -- South Carolina; United States --...
    • Suffragists Oral History Project

    • Suffragists Oral History Project

    • This collection includes full-length interviews with seven women who played key roles in the suffrage movement. Burnita Shelton Matthews remembers law school, the origin and development of the Equal Rights Amendment, and her appointment as the...

    • Equal Rights Amendment; Suffragists; Women -- Suffrage

    • United States
    • Maine Memory Network

    • Maine Memory Network

    • Maine's statewide digitization program provides access to primary sources from over 180 museums, historical societies, libraries, and other organizations. Highlights include photographs of women working (e.g., nurses, switchboard operators);...

    • Civil War, 1861-1865; Employment; Shakers; Women -- Suffrage; World War, 1939-1945

    • United States -- Maine
    • Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933

    • Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933

    • The 50,000 images in this collection document life in Chicago and surrounding towns.

    • Actresses; Girls; Women -- Suffrage; Women athletes; Women golfers; Women swimmers; Women tennis players

    • United States -- Illinois -- Chicago
    • Coming of Age in the Twentieth Century

    • Coming of Age in the Twentieth Century

    • These 40 interviews focus on girlhood, adolescence, and growing up. Each interview is accompanied by a biographical profile and photographs.

    • Girls

    • United States -- Minnesota
    • Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive

    • Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive

    • This collection brings together a wide variety of primary sources from the Idaho State Historical Society, Oregon Historical Society, Washington State Historical Society, and Washington State University Pullman. The site also includes tutorials on...

    • African Americans; Basque Americans; Chinese Americans; Immigrants; Japanese Americans; Mexican Americans; Women

    • United States -- Idaho; United States -- Oregon; United States -- Washington (State)

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