Research Guides: Women's History Month: Women's History Guides & Images

Women in History

The awakening/Hy Mayer.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. In: Puck v. 77, no. 1981 (1915 February 20).

Retrieved from American Women (Library of Congress).

Description: "Illustration shows a torch-bearing female labeled 'Votes for Women', symbolizing the awakening of the nation's women to the desire for suffrage, striding across the western states, where women already had the right to vote, toward the east where women are reaching out to her. Printed below the cartoon is a poem by Alice Duer Miller."

Bibliographies

Black American Feminisms: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography
"[A]n extensive bibliography of black American Feminist thought from across the disciplines," covering the 19th century through the present.
--Compiled by Sherri L. Barnes, University of California, Santa Barbara Library
Collected Biographies of Women, an Annotated Bibliography
An annotated bibliography of biographies about women throughout history. Includes a chart that shows how often particular women were written about in chronological eras.
--Alison Booth, UVA

Women in the USA

African American Women in the Military and At War
Books and other resources on the history of African American women and the military.
--Library of Congress
American Women
A gateway to Library of Congress information and resources on women's history, to make everything the LoC holds on the subject (text, images, audio, government publications, legal documents, manuscripts, and much more) available in one place.
--Library of Congress
Discovering American Women's History Online
"This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s."
--Middle Tennessee State University

Women in Science

Early Women in Science (Biodiversity Library)
Women who studied science prior to 1922. Often self-taught, sometimes lauded, sometimes ignored. Search by country, era, and subject studied.
Women in Science
"This is a guide to sources relating to the history and contributions of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). Also included are resources on present-day women scientists, as well as materials on the current status and concerns of women in the sciences."
--Library of Congress

Image Collections

Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress. New Britain, Connecticut. Women welders at the Landers, Frary, and Clark plant. (1943, Gordon Parks).

Retrieved from Rosie Pictures: Select Images Relating to American Women Workers During World War II (Library of Congress).

Votes for Women: The Struggle for Women's Suffrage
Includes photos, portraits, ephemera, etc.
--Library of Congress
Photographs of Women During the Civil War: Selected Images
--Library of Congress
Rosie Pictures: Select Images Relating to American Women Workers During World War II
"The selected images were issued by the U.S. government or by commercial sources during World War II, often to encourage women to join the work force or to highlight other aspects of the war effort."
--Library of Congress
Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection: Photographs and papers of Frances Benjamin Johnston
"The Library of Congress is the principal repository of the writings and photographs of Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), one of the first American women to achieve prominence as a photographer."
--Library of Congress

Women's History Month