This online exhibit features selected sources from the papers of six key activists and the records of Women's Action Alliance and the National Congress of Neighborhood Women.
Issues covered include labor, socialism, civil liberties, peace, racial...
Feminism; Feminists; Women lawyers; Women social reformers
This collection of more than 14,350 photographs documents the architecture and social life of the Washington area. Highlights include group portraits of American Association of University Women members; portrait photographs of Washington residents;...
American Association of University Women; Household appliances; Social life and customs; Vocational education; Women
United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
Topics covered in two Athens Woman's Club minute books include child labor, compulsory school attendance, woman's suffrage, and admitting women as students to the University of Georgia.
May Eliza Wright Sewall (1844-1920) worked as an activist and leader for a number of social causes, such as education, women's rights, cultural enrichment, and world peace. This collection includes 470 letters written to May Wright Sewall between...
This site documents the social, educational and architectural history of Ogden, Utah. Highlights include Emily Almira Cozzens Rich's diaries from 1893 to 1947; oral histories covering the history of St. Benedict's School of Nursing; and a small...
Nurses; Nursing -- Study and teaching; Social life and customs; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1939-1945
Gladys Ewing's scrapbook includes items (invitations, notes, dance cards, etc.) that she saved from the No-TSU-OH 1911 Carnival Ball, winter Mardi Gras celebrations, Krewe parties, luncheons, and other social events.
Debutante balls; Debutantes; Social life and customs
The Athenaeum Damenverein was organized in 1876 as the women’s auxiliary of the Athenaeum Turners. In addition to supporting the Turners, this German American organization has offered social and cultural events for its members, and been involved...
Fashion shows; German American women; Societies and clubs
A probate inventory is a list of possessions recorded after someone dies. The 325 probate inventories in this collection were recorded in the Chesapeake region Maryland and Virginia. These inventories provide valuable insight into a family's daily...
Consumption (Economics); Social life and customs
United States -- Maryland; United States -- Virginia
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...
Includes 48 posters from "Youth and Life," a series designed to educate teenage girls and young women about the dangers of sexual promiscuity and encouraged them to adopt a healthy lifestyle.
Conduct of life; Health education; Prostitution; Sexually transmitted diseases; World War, 1939-1945
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
Includes videos of interviews with Ramona Medina (1918- ), Socorro Gómez (1951- ), and Yolanda Almaraz (1951- ). The "Collection" section includes photographs and other sources about the walkouts from Coachella Valley schools in 1976, as well as...
Latinas; Social activists;
Coachella Valley, California; Providence, Rhode Island
Contextual essays precede small collections of primary sources covering "Breaking into the Temperance Movement, 1852-1853;" "Building the Woman's Rights Movement, 1853-1856;" "Aiding the Antislavery Movement, 1856-1859;" and "Combining Movements,...
Antislavery movements; Temperance; Women social reformers; Women's rights
This collection of 617 silver gelatin photographic prints is organized into broad subjects: labor, housing and social conditions; immigrants, including portraits of immigrants at Ellis Island; child labor; and women at work.
Hundreds of photographs of women in a variety of settings, including factories; banquets; social club gatherings; area parks; medical facilities; ships; and Barnard College plays. Also included are photographs of women at the New York Association...
Barnard College; Blind; Employment; Recreation; Societies and clubs; Theater; Women
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,
This collection from the Ohio Historical Society includes newspaper clippings, photographs and manuscript sources.
African American children; African American women; Education; Employment; Lynching; Religion; Segregation; Slavery; Social life and customs; Societies and clubs
