Highlights include photographs of nurses during World War I, aircraft industry workers during World War II, temperance crusaders in the 1870s, and female offenders at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in the 1950s. The collection also includes posters...
Employment; Female offenders; Temperance; Women; World War, 1939-1945
The papers, photographs, art, and artifacts of the Saltonstall family, one of the founding families of Massachusetts, document five centuries of family history and involvement in public life. Highlights include the correspondence of Mary Cooke...
During his three years working for the Southern Courier, Jim Peppler took over 11,000 photographs documenting the civil rights movement, social conditions in central Alabama, and music performances (e.g., Odetta, Tina Turner). Of particular note...
African American women; African American women civil rights workers; Beauty shops; Civil rights demonstrations; Civil rights movements; Women singers
United States -- Alabama -- Montgomery; United States -- Mississippi -- Jackson
This site includes videos of oral history interviews with 48 women who were employed in critical trades (e.g., shipbuilding and aircraft manufacturing) during the World War II years. This site includes videos of oral history interviews with 48...
Employment; Pay equity; Sex discrimination in employment; World War, 1939-1945
This collection includes transcripts of numerous oral history interviews with residents of the Bay Area about their experiences during the World War II period. Narrators cover such topics as work and family life, race relations, educational...
Employment; Race relations; Women; World War, 1939-1945
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 --...
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
Approximately 1100 women served as pilots for the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. This collection offers 2600 photographs and selected oral history transcripts. The collection also offers information about artifacts, wartime documents,...
Women air pilots; Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.); World War, 1939-1945
Highlights include Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell's diary covering the Ohio homefront during the Civil War; librarian
Nettie E. Wheeler's diary from 1870; Margaret Boyd, the first woman enrolled in Ohio University, kept this diary in 1873 and...
Civil War, 1861-1865; Education; Societies and clubs; Teachers; Temperance; Women college students; Women -- Suffrage
Highlights include Abigail Franks' letters to her son from the 1730s and 1740s; photos and posters of the actress Molly Picon; photos of Henrietta Szold from the Hadassah Archives; and oral histories of Austrian-Jewish emigrees who fled to the USA...
Actresses; Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America; Immigrants; Jewish women; World War, 1939-1945
Ellen Call Long's diary notes the progress and conclusion of the Civil War, and the assassination of Lincoln. Long's correspondence documents her experience as a member of Confederate memorial associations and women's organizations; correspondence...
Civil War, 1861-1865; Societies and clubs; Women authors;
Sisters Sue McBeth (1830-1893) and Kate McBeth (1833-1915) were missionary teachers to the Nez Percé in North-central Idaho during the last quarter of the 19th century. In addition to documenting their interactions with the Nez Percé tribe and...
Indians of North America; Religion; Sisters; Women missionaries; Women teachers
This large collection of diaries in manuscript form includes only four diaries by women. In her diary from 1846, Bathsheba Smith desscribes her journey to Utah in 1849, as well daily events in Utah in 1873. Emmeline Wells writes of her journey from...
Mormon women; Overland journeys to the Pacific; Travel; Women pioneers
United States -- Iowa; United States -- Montana; United States -- Utah
The 14 oral history interviews in this collection cover such topics as campus events, classes during the World War II era, and life after Drake. The site also includes a gallery of photographs.
Topics covered under the "Feminist" section of the site include "Community Centers for Women;" "Reproductive Rights;" "Violence Against Women;" "Women in the Workplace;" "Body Image;" and Pride in Accomplishment. In addition to a variety of...
African American women; Employment; Feminism; Hispanic American women; Lesbians; Reproductive rights; Violence against women
Highlights include interviews with the first librarian at Old Dominion, faculty members, physicians, priests, and Girl Scout leaders. One set of interviews explores sex roles during the Great Depression.
Civil rights movements; Depressions, 1929; Education (Higher); Girl Scouts; Women college teachers; Women physicians; Woman priests
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 scrapbook documents the contributions of Sarah Lawrence College students to the war effort. Clippings cover such topics as Nurses' Aide courses and the Red Cross at the college during the war; nutrition; the victory garden on campus; child...
Women college students; Women's colleges; World War, 1939-1945
