This collection of more than 40,000 images documents a wide range of events in early 20th century New York City, including theater productions, crime, strikes, disasters, woman suffrage parades, conventions and public celebrations.
This collection includes 1900 items related to human rights, women's rights, temperance, labor rights, wars of the 20th century, and the anit-nuclear movement.
This collection includes studio portraits of actresses and actors from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Notable women among the almost 600 images of actresses: Viola Allen, Mary Anderson, Lotta Crabtree, Maxine Elliott, Julia Marlowe, and...
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
This collection includes more than 1500 images of advertising trade cards that date from the late 19th and early 20th Century. Among the hundreds of cards that depict women are advertisements for appliances, clothing, musical instruments, patent...
Children in advertising; Girls; Women in advertising
This collection offers some of the most influential American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. The Museum Gallery includes images of cooking utensils.
Elizabeth Harrison (1849-1927) and Rumah Avilla Crouse founded the Chicago Kindergarten Training School in 1887. This collection highlights the Kindergarten Movement in Chicago, education reform in the 19th and 20th centuries, and role of...
In addition to an interview with Sally Ride, this oral history project includes two relevant subcollections. "Aviatrix Pioneers" includes transcripts of interviews with aerobatic champion Betty Skelton Frankman, "Mercury 13" member Wally Funk, and...
Women air pilots; Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.); Women astronauts; Women engineers; Women mathematicians; World War, 1939-1945
The "Excerpts" section of this site includes a short audio clip from an interview with Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, as well as text excerpts from interviews with Joan LaBarbara and Tania Leon.
This collection includes Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel's video interviews with prominent individuals from the following programs (women interviewed are noted): "About the Arts" (Charlotte Curtis, Marian McPartland, Maralin Niska, Estelle...
Women architects; Women artists; Women fashion designers; Women Interior decorators; Women photographers
Highlights from this collection include the Septima Poinsette Clark Scrapbook, correspondence and memorabilia from the Pierrine Smith Byrd Collection, and
MUSC College of Nursing Class Photos.
Nursing -- Study and teaching; Women college graduates; Women college students
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...
Gladys J. Miller (1926-1993), one of the earliest registered female architects in Indiana, established her architecture firm in Terre Haute in 1958. This collection includes architectural drawings from fifty of Miller's commissions from 1950 to...
Mary Baldwin College is a private four-year women’s liberal arts college founded in 1842. This collection includes yearbooks, histories, and the college’s magazine.
Women College Students; Women college teachers; Women's colleges
This site includes five collections: Connexxus/Centro de Mujeres Collection; the
Crukshank (Margaret) Collection; the Lillian Faderman papers (1976-89); the
Southern California Women for Understanding (SCWU) Collection; and the Women Against...
Lesbian studies; Lesbians; Lesbians' writings; Lesbians--Education (Higher); Pornography; Rape; Sex in Advertising; Violence against women
The Armstrongs were one of the leading African-American magic acts in the early twentieth century. Lille Belle Armstrong, her husband, J. Hartford Armstrong, and eventually their daughter, Ellen Armstrong, specialized in mind reading, slight of...
African American women; Vaudeville; Women magicians
