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
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
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
This collection documents Chinese immigration to California with about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Items are drawn from collections at The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley; The Ethnic Studies Library,...
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...
Select "Browse/Topics" for an outline of the major subjects in the collection, including the arrival of immigrants, attitudes toward immigrants, education, and employment. Highlighted themes include contextual essays and cover such subjects as the...
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...
Fletcher's account of her six-week venture into Plains Indian territory in 1881. The site also includes an overview of Fletcher's life, a photo gallery, and the text of the folktales that she recorded in her diary.
Dakota Indians; Indians of North America; Women anthropologists
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...
This digital collection includes 8,000 cylinder recordings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Highlights include more than 300 songs performed by Ada Jones, six songs performed by Sophie Tucker, and songs from the World War I period...
Cylinder recordings; Popular music; Songs; Women musicians; Women singers; World War, 1914-1918
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
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)
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 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
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 database currently includes 34,000 digitized images. The majority of search results for "women" (2000 images) and "girls" (500 images) are portraits.
Browse or search this collection of more than 2300 covers, as well as text from selected dime novels.
Select "Browse the Covers Listed by Image Feature," then select either "Women" or "Both" (Men and women) under audience. Also browse 60 subject...
