The Densho Digital Archive documents the Japanese American experience, with a strong emphasis on the World War II mass incarceration. The collection includes over 300 video interviews and over 9,500 historic photos, documents, and newspapers. Free...
Japanese American women; Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Women; World War, 1939-1945
United States -- Arizona; United States -- Arkansas; United States -- California; United States -- Colorado; United States -- Idaho; United States -- Utah; United States -- Washington (State); United States -- Wyoming
The Joe Smith Collection contains over 225 audio recordings of noted musicians and music industry executives. Current selections in this digital collection include interviews with Ruth Brown, Natalie Cole, Ellie Greenwich, Yoko Ono, and Linda...
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 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 collection includes ollection of over 200 social dance manuals from the Library of Congress. Also included are antidance manuals, histories, and treatises on etiquette,
The Mountaineers Club was founded in 1906 to promote the discovery and conservation of the "mountains, forests and watercourses of the Pacific Northwest." Over half of the charter members of the Mountaineers were women. More than 670 photographs in...
Includes digital images of publicity brochures for over 4500 performers and speakers who were part of the Chautauqua circuit. Highlights include brochures for Maud Ballington Booth : the "Little Mother" of the prisons; Clare Boothe Luce:...
Actresses; Women artists; Women authors; Women dramatists; Women educators; Women entertainers; Women orators; Women travelers
Clara Breed, a children's librarian at San Diego Public Library, corresponded regularly with her Japanese American patrons after they were forced into concentration camps with their families in 1942. This collection includes over 300 letters and...
Children; Girls; Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Women librarians; World War, 1939-1945
United States -- Arizona -- Poston; United States -- California -- Arcadia;
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
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 collection includes images of over 420 separately published trial narratives from Harvard Law School Library's trial collections. The narratives cover such topics as domestic violence, bigamy, seduction, breach of promise to marry, child...
Adultery; Divorce; History; Marriage; Murder; Trials; Violence against women;
This collection includes 300 photographs taken by Jessie Groves (1894-1994) over the course of four decades at the Indiana University Medical Center; a slideshow of her original photo album; and an oral history interview (audio with transcript).
Highlights from this site iclude an image gallery with over 600 photographs of Cather and related subjects; full text of selected novels and other writings; a text analysis tool; Cather's a ten second silent movie clip from the only known moving...
Women authors
United States -- Nebraska
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