Wednesday, November 30, 2011
American History Online
American History Online is a site for searching across 362 digital collections of primary sources at libraries and archives in the United States, as well as selected related sources (e.g., the America: History & Life database). Direct links to some of the "women's history" digital collections that are searched at the site are provided here:
American Jewess (Jewish Women's Archive)
Catt Collection of Suffrage Photographs (Bryn Mawr College)
Charlotta Bass (USC Digital Library)
A Celebration of Women Writers (University of Pennsylvania)
Documenting the American South (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Folkstreams
Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress)
Freedom House Project (Northeastern University Library)
George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers (Purdue University Libraries)
Home Economics Archive (Cornell University Libraries)
Peace Collection Ephemera (Swarthmore College Peace Collection)
Peace Collection Photographs (Swarthmore College Peace Collection)
Sharlot M. Hall: Arizona's Curator (Sharlot Hall Museum)
Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. and U.K., 1815-1914 (Harvard Univ. Library)
Women Working, 1800-1930 (Harvard University Library)
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Staff and Officers (Swarthmore College Peace Collection)
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Deena Stryker Photographs of Cuba
Deena Stryker Photographs of Cuba, 1963-1964 and undated
This digital collection from Duke University Libraries includes more than 1800 photographs. The journalist, then known as Deena Boyer, interviewed and photographed Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, and other major figures in the Cuban Revolution (e.g., Celia Sánchez Manduley) during her second visit to Cuba. Although "Women" is not a subject heading in the records for these photographs, searches for the following terms will retrieve relevant records: Ana Betancourt students, Carnaval, cousins, mother, teachers, woman, and women. Researchers can also find photographs of specific women: Edith Gombos, Celia Sánchez Manduley, and Palma Soriano.
Karen Glynn, Visual Materials Archivist at Duke University, provides an overview of the collection in the latest edition of VIEWS: The Newsletter of the Visual Materials Section of the Society of American Archivists.
This digital collection from Duke University Libraries includes more than 1800 photographs. The journalist, then known as Deena Boyer, interviewed and photographed Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, and other major figures in the Cuban Revolution (e.g., Celia Sánchez Manduley) during her second visit to Cuba. Although "Women" is not a subject heading in the records for these photographs, searches for the following terms will retrieve relevant records: Ana Betancourt students, Carnaval, cousins, mother, teachers, woman, and women. Researchers can also find photographs of specific women: Edith Gombos, Celia Sánchez Manduley, and Palma Soriano.
Karen Glynn, Visual Materials Archivist at Duke University, provides an overview of the collection in the latest edition of VIEWS: The Newsletter of the Visual Materials Section of the Society of American Archivists.
Women in Science, Medicine, and Technology
The International Symposium of the Commission on the History of Women in Science, Technology and Medicine was held in Paris, September 14-17, 2011. Slides and texts from symposium presentations are now available. Three of the presentations are featured below:
Jessica Sedgwick's overview of the Archives for Women in Medicine (Harvard) covered three primary goals of the Archives: building a collection of enduring value; improving access (e.g., oral histories, digitization); and outreach (promoting collections and celebrating women leaders). SlideShare includes Sedgwick's slides as well as the presentation text).
Highlights from The Archives for Women in Medicine site include Women in Medicine Oral Histories, digitized items from manuscript collections, finding aids, and information about current events at the Archives.
Philippa Hardman's presentation highlighted the hidden world of women and science in Charles Darwin’s private correspondence. See the Darwin and Gender site for more information about this initiative.
Margaret Rossiter's slides list the archival collections that she used in researching her new book, Women Scientists in America: Forging a New World Since 1972 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011). Earlier volumes from this series include Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972, and Women Scientists in America, Struggles and Strategies to 1940.
Jessica Sedgwick's overview of the Archives for Women in Medicine (Harvard) covered three primary goals of the Archives: building a collection of enduring value; improving access (e.g., oral histories, digitization); and outreach (promoting collections and celebrating women leaders). SlideShare includes Sedgwick's slides as well as the presentation text).
Highlights from The Archives for Women in Medicine site include Women in Medicine Oral Histories, digitized items from manuscript collections, finding aids, and information about current events at the Archives.
Philippa Hardman's presentation highlighted the hidden world of women and science in Charles Darwin’s private correspondence. See the Darwin and Gender site for more information about this initiative.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
New on Europeana: Weddings in Eastern Europe
Weddings in Eastern Europe (Europeana)
This virtual exhibition features sound and photographs from Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovenia. The site is organized into 10 themes (e.g., "The evening before the wedding," "The ceremonial blessing," and "The capping ceremony").
Related Sources
Monger, George. Marriage Customs of the World: From Henna to Honeymoons. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2004.
WorldCat record with preview
Katrina Thomas Ethnic Wedding Collection features more than 800 of Thomas' photographs of ethnic weddings in the United States. Ethnic and religious traditions that are represented in the collection include Afghan (Muslim); African American; Akan (Ghana); Albanian (Catholic and Muslim); American Kalmyk-Mongolian Buddhist; Anglo-American; Armenian; Asante (Ghana); Assyrian; Bukharan Jewish; Cajun; Cambodian; Carpatho-Rusyn; Chaldean; Chinese; Creole; Croatian; Dominican; Eritrean; Ethiopian; Filipino; Greek; Guyanese (Hindu); Hmong; Igbo (Nigeria); Japanese; Jewish; Korean; Kurdish; Laotian; Latvian; Lithuanian; Mexican; Mien; Norwegian; Pakistani; Palestinian; Persian; Polish Gorale (Highlander); Puerto Rican; Roman Catholic; Russian Old Believer; Salvadoran/Honduran; Serbian; Sikh; Slovak; Swedish; Thai; Tibetan; Ukrainian; Vietnamese; Yemeni; Yoruba (Nigeria); and Zoroastrian Irani.
This virtual exhibition features sound and photographs from Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovenia. The site is organized into 10 themes (e.g., "The evening before the wedding," "The ceremonial blessing," and "The capping ceremony").
Related Sources
WorldCat record with preview
Katrina Thomas Ethnic Wedding Collection features more than 800 of Thomas' photographs of ethnic weddings in the United States. Ethnic and religious traditions that are represented in the collection include Afghan (Muslim); African American; Akan (Ghana); Albanian (Catholic and Muslim); American Kalmyk-Mongolian Buddhist; Anglo-American; Armenian; Asante (Ghana); Assyrian; Bukharan Jewish; Cajun; Cambodian; Carpatho-Rusyn; Chaldean; Chinese; Creole; Croatian; Dominican; Eritrean; Ethiopian; Filipino; Greek; Guyanese (Hindu); Hmong; Igbo (Nigeria); Japanese; Jewish; Korean; Kurdish; Laotian; Latvian; Lithuanian; Mexican; Mien; Norwegian; Pakistani; Palestinian; Persian; Polish Gorale (Highlander); Puerto Rican; Roman Catholic; Russian Old Believer; Salvadoran/Honduran; Serbian; Sikh; Slovak; Swedish; Thai; Tibetan; Ukrainian; Vietnamese; Yemeni; Yoruba (Nigeria); and Zoroastrian Irani.
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