Collection includes images and information about the New York Historical Society's collection of more than 60,000 artifacts (buttons, clothing, dolls, furniture, quilts, etc.) and works of art. More than 50 digital images of Tiffany lamps designed...
Emma Bell Miles (1879-1919) was a naturalist, artist, and noted author of The Spirit of the Mountains (1905), a classic study of Southern Appalachia. Highlights from this collection include photographs of Miles and her family, a nice selection of...
In addtion to classic feminist works that influenced the thinking of CWLU members, this collection offers selections from Womankind (CWLU's newspaper) and other sources covering such topics as consciousness raising, family life, health,...
Abortion; Feminism; Feminists; Lesbians; Women's rights
Includes 908 posters from the Works Projects Administration. These posters publicized health programs (e.g., prenatal care); cultural programs (art exhibitions, theatrical, and musical performances); travel and tourism; educational programs; and...
Health and hygiene; History; New Deal, 1933-1939; Posters; Women; Works Projects Administration; World War, 1939-1945
United States -- California; United States -- Illinois; United States -- Iowa; United States -- Massachusetts; United States -- New York; United States -- Ohio; United States -- Pennsylvania;
Includes works by or about numerous women, including Elizabeth Ashbridge, Elizabeth Leslie Rous Wright Comstock, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Lucretia Mott, and Hannah Whitall Smith.
Searchable digital collection of pamphlets and leaflets. Activities of women's societies in opposing slavery are heavily documented. Highlights include reports from the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery...
The preconfigured searches illustrate the subject strengths of this collection: "African Americans and Libraries," "Bookmobiles," "Children and Libraries," "Library Legislation," "Reading Programs," "Women and Libraries," and "Works Progress...
Bookmobiles; Children; Libraries; Women librarians
The Westinghouse Works Collection contains 21 actuality films that Westinghouse used to showcase its operations. Five films feature women workers at winding machines, working with coils, and taking time checks. For an overview of working conditions...
This collection contains the collected works of nineteenth century Louisiana French writer Sidonie de la Houssaye (1820-1894), as well as correspondence, a scrapbook, and newspaper clippings about her life and writings.
This collection contains works by a number of women artists, including founding members of Reno’s Latimer Art Club: Mildred Lane, Hildegard Herz, and Minerva Pierce
This collection includes 42 published works of fiction, poetry, autobiography/biography, and essays. Highlights include Ann Plato's Essays (1841), the first book of essays by an African American; Harriet Wilson's Our Nig (1859), the first novel...
This collection includes a wide range of sources: : images of art work by O’Keeffe and other artists; letters written by Georgia O'Keeffe and addressed to Alfred Stieglitz, Maria Chabot or Claudia O'Keeffe; photographs of Georgia O'Keeffe from...
Women artists
United States -- New Mexico -- Abiquiu; United States -- Texas;
This collection includes more than 300 black and white photographs by Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) from her "Changing New York" Works Progress Administration/ Federal Art Project.
This collection includes seven works published by the University of Wisconsin that explore the history of women students and faculty at the University of Wisconsin System. They Came to Learn, They Came to Teach, They Came to Stay (1980) includes...
Women college students; Women college teachers; Women's studies
This collection of digital editions of previously published works includes approximately 40 works by women. Highlights include Mary Boykin Chesnut's "A Diary from Dixie;" Sarah Morgan Dawson's "A Confederate Girl's Diary;" and works by Confederate...
Civil War, 1861-1865; Girls; Plantation life; Women Spies
United States -- Alabama; United States -- Georgia; United States -- North Carolina; United States -- South Carolina; United States -- Tennessee; United States -- Virginia
Thousands of photographs, lantern slides and postcards documenting New York Public Library buildings, collections, and programs, as well as those of NYPL predecessor institutions. Includes
Lewis Hine's images of children's activities at NYPL...
