This site documents the social, educational and architectural history of Ogden, Utah. Highlights include Emily Almira Cozzens Rich's diaries from 1893 to 1947; oral histories covering the history of St. Benedict's School of Nursing; and a small...
Nurses; Nursing -- Study and teaching; Social life and customs; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1939-1945
This collection includes typescripts of interviews with thousands of Oklahomans conducted during the 1930s. Topics covered include the settlement of Oklahoma and Indian territories, living conditions, and daily life.
Indians of North America; Pioneers; Social life and customs; Women
This collection of more than 14,350 photographs documents the architecture and social life of the Washington area. Highlights include group portraits of American Association of University Women members; portrait photographs of Washington residents;...
American Association of University Women; Household appliances; Social life and customs; Vocational education; Women
United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
This collection from the Ohio Historical Society includes newspaper clippings, photographs and manuscript sources.
African American children; African American women; Education; Employment; Lynching; Religion; Segregation; Slavery; Social life and customs; Societies and clubs
This site provides transcriptions of probate inventories, wills, and court records. The "Research Papers" section includes essays about "Sexual Misconduct," "Women in the Plymouth Colony, 1633-1668," and "Domestic Violence in the Plymouth Colony."
Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Historic sites; Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony); Social life and customs
This collection documents the settlement of Nebraska with approximately 3000 of Solomon D. Butcher's photographs and approximately 3,000 pages of Oblinger family letters.
Frontier and pioneer life; Social life and customs
Folkstreams offers streaming video of documentary films about American folklore. Select "Women" from the subjects list to explore a wide range of topics, from life stories of ballad and gospel singers to the wedding traditions as practiced by Old...
African American women; Aging; Folk music; Folklore; Quiltmakers; Religion; Social life and customs; Weddings; Women singers;
Transcriptions of diaries, letters, and other documents about life and events in New England from the 1790s to the 1850s. Highlights include a prenuptial agreement from 1835, correspondence concerning work in textile mills, and the courtship...
Courtship; Employment; Marriage; Social life and customs; Women
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
More than 2,900 documents cover such topics as folklore, life during the depression, occupations, religion, immigration, and daily life.
Depressions, 1929; Folklore; Social life and customs; Women
United States -- Alabama; United States -- Connecticut; United States -- Florida; United States -- Georgia; United States -- Illinois; United States -- Massachusetts; United States -- Montana; United States -- Nebraska; United States -- New Mexico;...
The "Personalities" section includes links to documents by or about Julia Louisa Hardy Lovejoy, Clarina Nichols, and Sara Robinson.
Lovejoy's diary includes passages about the illness and death of her daughter Edith, the conflict in the territory,...
New South Voices offers access to over 800 audio recordings and transcripts of interviews, narratives and conversations. See in particular the following collections: "Before Brown Collection; "Charlotte Jewish Historical Society;" "Levine Museum of...
African American women; Education; Jewish women; Religion; Social life and customs; Women basketball players; Women teachers
The photographs and documents in Digital Horizons depict daily life on the Northern Plains from the late 1800s to the 1980s. In addition to individual and family portraits, the collection includes photos of contests (e.g., "Oil Princess Pageant"),...
Girl Scouts; Indian women -- North America; Social life and customs; Women college students; Women homesteaders;
United States -- Minnesota; United States -- North Dakota
Audio excerpts from oral history interviews with 12 women. Some of the topics covered include farming, music, entering politics in the 1970s, and the arrival of electricity in Hinesburg, VT
The 203 items in this collection from the University of Houston Libraries Special Collections are dated from 1866 to 1882, and relate to local affairs, family and friends.
The scrapbooks in this collection document such topics as travel, women’s colleges, World War II, courtship, and three generations of family life. In addition, the photos in these albums document life in Valdosta, Georgia , from 1900 hrough the...
