tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50017060374036838492024-03-16T02:08:51.065-05:00Women's History SourcesNew and Notable Primary Sources in Archives, Libraries, and MuseumsKen Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-13132509459694998772013-11-11T08:52:00.000-06:002013-11-11T10:03:35.715-06:00<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://davisdiaries.villanova.edu/">Memorable Days Web Site: An African
American Woman’s Civil War Diaries</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq12H4_BoocFjwKQ7MPofSDKKWOMVp9cOEF2JIw9yGR0gtcF6e54oNrQ-YH7FvsGK0kix7q1gpWY6Jkd-pzlWzcwIElJ3-E12tbD8y5v4j3LnjZrKgwzi4mE3t4owOtAWx4Legg3bAi-Zc/s1600/Image+of+Diary+Taken+by+Judith+Giesberg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq12H4_BoocFjwKQ7MPofSDKKWOMVp9cOEF2JIw9yGR0gtcF6e54oNrQ-YH7FvsGK0kix7q1gpWY6Jkd-pzlWzcwIElJ3-E12tbD8y5v4j3LnjZrKgwzi4mE3t4owOtAWx4Legg3bAi-Zc/s1600/Image+of+Diary+Taken+by+Judith+Giesberg.jpg" height="200" width="165" /></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://davisdiaries.villanova.edu/january_1-3_1863/">Memorable Days: The
Emilie Davis Diaries</a> commemorates the 150<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the
Civil War by sharing the remarkable diaries kept by an African American woman
in Philadelphia from 1863 to 1865.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Through this Web site, which includes annotated transcriptions of the
diaries and scans of the original pages, readers can experience the events in
Emilie Davis’s life in real time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Going
back 150 years to October-November 1863, for example, readers learn that Davis’s
brother, Alfred, <a href="http://davisdiaries.villanova.edu/october_28-30_1863/">enlisted
in the U.S. Navy</a> just days before his wife, Mary, <a href="http://davisdiaries.villanova.edu/november_3-5_1863/">died of consumption</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Readers can navigate the Web site by date or
by keyword.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Topics include the <a href="http://davisdiaries.villanova.edu/tag/emancipation-proclamation/">Emancipation
Proclamation</a>, the <a href="http://davisdiaries.villanova.edu/tag/gettysburg/">Battle of Gettysburg</a>
and the <a href="http://davisdiaries.villanova.edu/tag/gettysburg-address/">Gettysburg
Address</a>, and the <a href="http://davisdiaries.villanova.edu/april_13-15_1865/">assassination of
President Abraham Lincoln</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Web site
is a project of Villanova University and its Falvey Memorial Library, with
support from the History Department, the Communication Department, and the
Villanova Institute for Teaching and Learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The diaries are in the collection of the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania and are accessible in its <a href="http://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php">Digital Library</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were scanned as part of <a href="http://peoplescontest.psu.edu/">The People’s Contest: A Civil War Era
Digital Archiving Project</a>, a project of Pennsylvania State University Libraries
and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This exhibition <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">tells the stories of more than 30 women, men, and children who found themselves at the gateways to America between 1880 and 1945.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #30302e; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Summer 2012 issue of <i>Prologue </i>provides an </span><a href="http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2012/pdfs/prologue-attachments.pdf" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">illustrated overview of the exhibit</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<br />Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-84394084656718399372012-12-01T21:57:00.001-06:002012-12-01T21:57:52.248-06:00CFP: Women's History in the Digital World<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Check out the Call for Papers for the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://greenfield.blogs.brynmawr.edu/2012/11/16/reminder-call-for-papers-womens-history-in-the-digital-world/">Women's History in the Digital</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://greenfield.blogs.brynmawr.edu/2012/11/16/reminder-call-for-papers-womens-history-in-the-digital-world/"> World</a> conference to be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">held at Bryn Mawr College, March 22-23, 2013. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The keynote speaker will be Laura Mandell, Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture, and Professor of English at Texas A&M. </span>Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-87627319066995711992012-07-29T19:39:00.000-05:002012-07-29T19:55:36.081-05:00WNYC Radio Audio Preservation and Access Project<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">WNYC's Archives and Preservation Department is digitizing 660 hours of recordings from the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC collection. <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/neh-preservation-project/">Annotations</a>, the NEH preservation project blog, offers highlights from the collection. The following list provides just some of the blog entries that feature women:</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/neh-preservation-project/2012/jul/23/marian-anderson/">Marian Anderson</a> </span><span style="border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">addresses the issues of prejudice and segregation in this 1957 Books and Authors Luncheon appearance. </span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/neh-preservation-project/2012/jul/19/svetlana-alliluyeva/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Svetlana Alliluyeva</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">, the daughter of Joseph Stalin, replies to questions by the New York press after leaving the Soviet Union. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/neh-preservation-project/2011/aug/12/rachel-carson-1951/">Rachel Carson, 1951</a> - </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Carson's speech at the </span><span style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Herald Tribune's Books and Authors Luncheon focused on her book, <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/573901"><i>The Sea Around Us</i></a>.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/neh-preservation-project/2011/jun/15/overseas-press-club-dickey-chapelle-1964/">Overseas Press Club, Dickey Chapelle, 1964</a> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Chapelle, a pioneering photojournalist who received the <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Award for Gallantry in News Coverage from the Overseas Press Club</span> in 1964, was killed in 1965 by a land mine while covering the Vietnam War. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Wisconsin Historical Society offers an </span><a href="http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/feature/wi_women/chapelle.asp" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">online collection of more than 400 or Chapelle's photographs</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> from World War II, Algiers, Cuba, and Vietnam. </span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/neh-preservation-project/2011/nov/07/remembering-eleanor/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Eleanor Roosevelt tribute</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> (1962) Friends of Eleanor Roosevelt shared their memories just three days after her death. </span></li>
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Emma Bell Miles (1879-1919) was a naturalist, artist, and writer. This digital collection features photographs of Miles and her family, samples of her artwork, and an excerpt from her personal journal.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.lib.utc.edu/Emmabellmiles.html">Emma Bell Miles Symposium on Appalachian Culture & Nature </a>was hosted by the UTC Lupton Library and the UTC Department of English. September 2011). The symposium site includes videos of presentations, interactive maps of Chattanooga sites relevant to Emma Bell Miles, and additional resources.<br />
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<a href="http://archive.org/details/spiritofmountain00mile">The Spirit of the Mountains</a> and <a href="http://archive.org/details/oursouthernbirds00mile">Our Southern Birds</a> are available on the Internet Archive. A <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1527502">facsimile edition</a> of <i>The Spirit of the Mountains</i>, with a forward by Roger D. Abrahams and an introduction by David E. Whisnant, was published by the University of Tennessee Press in 1975.Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-40418793386538735562012-03-25T14:39:00.000-05:002012-03-25T14:39:33.247-05:00Discovering American Women's History Online: New features, New URL<br />
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*Descriptions/links to more than 600 digital collections of primary sources.</div>
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Please email me (ken.middlet@gmail.com) if you know of relevant digital collections that are not covered in the database, or of other ways to improve the site. </div>Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-13639817503000219192012-02-29T15:35:00.000-06:002012-02-29T15:36:48.008-06:00C-SPAN Video Library<a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/">The C-SPAN Video Library</a> offers a wealth of programs that feature historians, archivists, and curators.<br />
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<a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/301970-1">Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on LIfe</a> (Oct. 3, 2011)<br />
<a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/302791-1">The Legend and Influence of the First Ladies</a> (Nov. 15, 2011)<br />
<a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/296811-1">Sewall-Belmont House and Museum Tour</a> (Nov. 5, 2010)<br />
<a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/293150-1">Women Trailblazers in the Law </a>- Oral History Project (April 22, 2010)Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-11887557974134308002012-02-14T16:56:00.003-06:002012-02-14T16:56:38.775-06:00Scottish Council on Archives Newsletter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The cover of a <a href="http://www.scoarch.org.uk/filegrab/documents/275e788b626eaedbfcc4d67de2bf3919/broadsheet-the-sca-newsletter-issue-11-.pdf">recent issue of Broadsheet</a>, the newsletter of the Scottish Council on Archives, features a Valentine card sent to Miss Jane Grieve, Elwick Bank, Shapinsay in 1849. This issue also explores the Glasgow City Archives' Poor Law Records.Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-61069561270438392352012-01-17T22:00:00.000-06:002012-01-17T22:08:06.263-06:00New Exhibit: Wendy Wasserstein<a href="http://www.mtholyoke.edu/wendywasserstein/exhibition.html">The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein</a> is a new exhibit on view at Mount Holyoke College until April 15, 2012. The American playwright Wendy Wasserstein graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1971. <br />
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The exhibit overview includes a <a href="http://www.mtholyoke.edu/wendywasserstein/exhibition111011videos.html">video interview with Julie Salamon</a>, author of <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713567430">Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein</a> (Penguin Press, 2011). Salamon highlights the importance of Wasserstein's notebooks, and expresses a deep appreciation for the work of the Mount Holyoke College Archives.<br />
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A number of women from the Mount Holyoke College class of 1971 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%2771+Remembers+Wendy+Wasserstein&oq=%2771+Remembers+Wendy+Wasserstein&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=280753l282262l0l282953l4l4l0l0l0l0l234l521l2.1.1l4l0">share their memories of Wasserstein in these YouTube videos</a>. <br />
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CUNY TV offers Linda Winer's Women in Theatre <a href="http://www.cuny.tv/show/womenintheatre/PR1005781">interview with Wasserstein</a> (28 min) from 2003, and <a href="http://www.cuny.tv/show/onetoone/PR2000116">Sheryl McCarthy's interview with Salamon</a> (25 min).Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-68841177592779006272012-01-05T22:21:00.000-06:002012-01-06T00:07:05.392-06:00Women Inventors<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" height="406" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left; width: 250px;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drawing for a Game Board, 01/05/1904 (ARC Identifier: 595519); Series: Patented Case Files, 1836-1956; Records of the Patent and Trademark Office; Record Group 241; National Archives.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/index.html?dod-date=105#2012">Drawing for a Game Board, 01/05/1904</a>, the patent drawing for a game invented by Lizzie J. Magie, is "Today's Document" from the National Archives. A variation of this game would later become the board game "Monopoly."<br />
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<a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/301323-4">Early Female Inventor</a> (C-SPAN Video Library) features Margaret Knight and her invention of a paper bag maker, part of the Great American Hall of Wonders exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.<br />
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B. Zorina Khan's <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57235942">The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920</a> (Cambridge University Press, 2005) includes chapters on "Women Inventors in America" and "Patentees and Married Women's Property Rights."Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-7357769066020613112011-12-31T19:47:00.001-06:002011-12-31T19:47:28.135-06:00New Exhibition: I Love Lucy<a href="http://myloc.gov/exhibitions/ilovelucy/Pages/default.aspx">I Love Lucy, an American Legend</a> is being held at the Library of Congress from August 4, 2011 to January 28, 2012. This site provides an overview of the themes of the exhibition (e.g., "The Cast, Crew, and Set," "Theme Songs") and a gallery of exhibition items. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/110910/lucy.html">We Still Love Lucy</a> (<i>Information Bulletin</i>, September/October 2011) provides additional information about the exhibition.Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-11792940476776510352011-12-30T22:00:00.000-06:002011-12-30T21:59:52.572-06:00New Book: Understanding Medieval Primary Sources<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rosenthal, Joel Thomas, ed. <i>Understanding Medieval Primary Sources: Using Historical Sources to Discover Medieval Europe</i>. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2012. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/651914433">WorldCat record </a><br />
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See in particular Katherine L. French's chapter, "Medieval Women's History: Sources and Issues." French covers both <b>descriptive documents</b> (notarial registers, manor records, charters, witness depositions, and coroners' rolls, Episcopal visitation records, financial records of institutions, and household accounts) and <b>prescriptive sources (</b>the Bible, civic codes, guild regulations, monastic rules, sermons, and advice literature). Additional chapters provide different perspectives on relevant sources: wills as primary sources; letters and letter collections; sources for manorial and rural history; medieval urban history; public health in the medieval city; images and objects as sources; and medieval archaeology. <br />
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<br />Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-83500407150352843112011-12-05T21:00:00.000-06:002011-12-05T23:22:06.796-06:00In the News: Children of Cuba Remember Operation Pedro PanOperation Pedro Pan was a U.S. government program that brought more than 14,000 Cuban children to the United States from 1960 to 1962.<br />
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<a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/11/19/142534943/pedro-pan-childrens-life-altering-flight-from-cuba">Children of Cuba Remember Their Flight to America</a> (NPR, Nov. 19, 2011)<br />
In this audio segment, Carmen Valdivia, Jose Azel, and Carlos Eire relate how the experience shaped their lives. The web page for the story includes a photo of Valdivia and other girls at a camp for displaced children in Florida City, and a recent photo of Valdivia holding the visa waiver that she received in 1962.<br />
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<a href="http://www.c-span.org/Events/The-Legacy-of-Operation-Pedro-Pan/10737423427/">The Legacy of Pedro Pan</a> (C-SPAN) was a panel discussion at the National Museum of American History (August 14, 2011). Panelists included Jackie Bhabha (Human Rights Program at Harvard) and Pedro Pan participants Emilio Cueto, Eloiza Echazabel, and Maria de los Angeles Torres. Torres is also the author of <i><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51615198">The Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan, Cuban Children in the U. S., and the Promise of a Better Future</a></i> (Beacon Press, 2003).<br />
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<i>The Miami Herald</i> maintains a site that features <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/pedropan/">articles and videos about Operation Pedro Pan</a>.<br />
The <a href="http://www.library.miami.edu/chc/">Cuban Heritage Collection</a> at the University of Miami provides access to primary and secondary sources that relate to Cuba and the Cuban diaspora from colonial times to he present. One of the digital collections on the site includes a video<a href="http://merrick.library.miami.edu/u?/botifoll,158"> interview with Albertina O'Farrill</a>, who used her diplomatic connections as a Cuban ambassador's wife to get children out of Cuba during Operation Pedro Pan.<br />
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Conde, Yvonne M. <i>Operation Pedro Pan: The Untold Exodus of 14,048 Cuban Children</i>. New York: Routledge, 1999. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40738929">WorldCat Record with Preview</a><br />
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Stoner, K. Lynn, and Luís Hipólito Serrano Pérez. <i>Cuban and Cuban-American Women: An Annotated Bibliography</i>. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 2000. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39085425">WorldCat Record with Preview</a><br />
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Triay, Victor Andres. <i>Fleeing Castro Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program</i>. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47011562">WorldCat Record with Preview</a><br />
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<br />Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-26866967930625208962011-11-30T16:25:00.000-06:002011-11-30T16:26:15.262-06:00American History Online<br />
<a href="http://www.americanhistoryonline.org/">American History Online</a> 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 <i>America: History & Life</i> database). Direct links to some of the "women's history" digital collections that are searched at the site are provided here: <br />
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<a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amjewess/">American Jewess </a>(Jewish Women's Archive)<br />
<a href="http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/cdm4/catt.php">Catt Collection of Suffrage Photographs</a> (Bryn Mawr College)<br />
<a href="http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search/controller/collection/scl-m0000.html">Charlotta Bass</a> (USC Digital Library)<br />
<a href="http://draft.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_2055226418"></span>A Celebration of Women Writers<span id="goog_2055226419"></span></a> (University of Pennsylvania)<br />
<a href="http://docsouth.unc.edu/">Documenting the American South</a> (UNC-Chapel Hill) <br />
<a href="http://www.folkstreams.net/">Folkstreams</a><br />
<a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/fbjhtml/fbjabt.html">Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection</a> (Library of Congress)<br />
<a href="http://www.lib.neu.edu/freedomhouse/">Freedom House Project</a> (Northeastern University Library)<br />
<a href="http://www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol/aearhart/collection.php">George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers</a> (Purdue University Libraries)<br />
<a href="http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/">Home Economics Archive</a> (Cornell University Libraries)<br />
<a href="http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/cdm4/ephemera.php">Peace Collection Ephemera</a> (Swarthmore College Peace Collection)<br />
<a href="http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/cdm4/photographs.php">Peace Collection Photographs</a> (Swarthmore College Peace Collection)<br />
<a href="http://azmemory.lib.az.us/cdm4/index.php?CISOROOT=/shmcurator">Sharlot M. Hall: Arizona's Curator </a>(Sharlot Hall Museum)<br />
<a href="http://vc.lib.harvard.edu/vc/deliver/home?_collection=scarlet">Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. and U.K., 1815-1914</a> (Harvard Univ. Library)<br />
<a href="http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/">Women Working, 1800-1930 </a>(Harvard University Library)<br />
<a href="http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/cdm4/wilpf.php">Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Staff and Officers</a> (Swarthmore College Peace Collection)Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-72584769242215949932011-11-27T12:05:00.000-06:002011-11-27T12:12:44.806-06:00Deena Stryker Photographs of Cuba<a href="http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/stryker/">Deena Stryker Photographs of Cuba, 1963-1964 and undated</a><br />
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. <br />
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Karen Glynn, Visual Materials Archivist at Duke University, provides an overview of the collection in the latest edition of <a href="http://www.archivesinaction.com/views_aug_2011.pdf">VIEWS: The Newsletter of the Visual Materials Section of the Society of American Archivists.</a>Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-87343630574463174802011-11-27T08:19:00.000-06:002011-11-27T00:57:21.965-06:00Women in Science, Medicine, and Technology<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/parissymposium2011/home">The International Symposium of the Commission on the History of Women in Science, Technology and Medicine</a> was held in Paris, September 14-17, 2011. <b><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/parissymposium2011/programme/abstracts-and-slides">Slides and texts</a></b> from symposium presentations are now available. Three of the presentations are featured below: <br />
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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 <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jmsedgwick/awm-paris-symposium2011">Sedgwick's slides as well as the presentation text</a>).<br />
Highlights from <a href="https://www.countway.harvard.edu/menuNavigation/chom/awm.html">The Archives for Women in Medicine</a> site include <a href="http://repository.countway.harvard.edu/xmlui/handle/10473/8">Women in Medicine Oral Histories</a>, digitized items from manuscript collections, finding aids, and information about current events at the Archives. <br />
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Philippa Hardman's presentation highlighted the hidden world of women and science in Charles Darwin’s private correspondence. See the <a href="http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwin-and-gender">Darwin and Gender site </a>for more information about this initiative. <br />
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Margaret Rossiter's slides list the archival collections that she used in researching her new book, <i>Women Scientists in America: Forging a New World Since 1972 </i>(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011). Earlier volumes from this series include <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32014330">Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972</a>, and <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8052928">Women Scientists in America, Struggles and Strategies to 1940</a>.Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-73003208115480352102011-11-22T00:01:00.000-06:002011-11-22T00:02:25.259-06:00New on Europeana: Weddings in Eastern Europe<a href="http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/show/weddings-in-eastern-europe">Weddings in Eastern Europe</a> (Europeana)<br />
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"). <br />
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Monger, George. <i>Marriage Customs of the World: From Henna to Honeymoons</i>. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2004.<br />
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<a href="http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/cdm4/wedding.php">Katrina Thomas Ethnic Wedding Collection</a> <span class="maintext">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.</span>Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-32991679767720198572011-10-31T22:03:00.001-05:002011-10-31T22:03:41.975-05:00Audre Lorde: Newly-discovered Recording<a href="http://fromthevaultradio.org/home/2011/08/26/ftv-276-audre-lorde/">From the Vault: Audre Lorde</a> (Pacific Archives)<br />
In this audio recording (57 min, 21 sec) from 1980, Lorde reads from her poetry (e.g., A Song for Many Movements) and from her book <i><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7105884">The Cancer Journals</a>.</i><br />
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<br />Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-18929176116737971182011-10-31T20:55:00.001-05:002011-10-31T20:55:50.424-05:00New Exhibition: Circus Posters<a href="http://www.ringling.org/Exhibitions2.aspx?id=10646">The Amazing American Circus Poster: The Strobridge Lithographing Company</a><br />
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art<br />
September 17, 2011 - January 29, 2012<br />
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The <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694172206">exhibition catalog</a> includes numerous images of women circus performers: "Evetta the Only Lady Clown," "Madam Yucca: The Champion American Female Hercules," and "Polly Lee." The essays in the catalog cover a wide range of topics, including "Bearded Ladies, Dainty Amazons, Hindoo Fakirs, and Lady Savages: Circus Representations of Gender and Race in Victorian America," by Janet M. Davis.<br />
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Davis is also the author of <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48858223">The Circus Age: Culture & Society Under the American Big Top</a> (University of North Carolina Press, 2002). <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/features/archive/2003/circus.html">Under the Big Top</a> profiles her work on this book.<br />
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A search for circus posters in the <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures">Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog</a> retrieves more than 200 images. The Wisconsin Historical Society's <a href="http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/feature/circus/">Let's Go to the Circus</a> includes more than 200 photos (e.g., trapeze artist Jennie Rooney). The <a href="http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/lib/digcoll/speccoll/sayre">Harrison Sayre Circus Collection</a> (Florida State University) offers posters and photographs. Archives Hub provides a gateway for <a href="http://archiveshub.ac.uk/features/fairsandcircus.shtml">Fairs and Circus History collections</a> in the UK.<br />
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Dance companies have performed at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival since 1932. Highlights from this collection of video clips include performances by Alexandra Danilova, Carola Goya, Tanaquil LeClercq, Ruth St. Denis, Pearl Primus, Maria Tallchief, and Twyla Tharp. Browse options for genre and era are also available. A recent Washington Post article by Sarah Kaufman provides further information about the collection: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/in-jacobs-pillow-archives-moving-history/2011/09/23/gIQA8zwdAL_story.html">In Jacob's Pillow Archives, Moving History</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46918095"><i>I See America Dancing</i> </a>(University of Illinois Press, 2002), edited by Maureen Needham, is a collection of primary source documents and articles. Discovering American Women's History Online provides <a href="http://content.mtsu.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=all&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISORESTMP=results.php&CISOVIEWTMP=item_viewer.php&CISOMODE=grid&CISOGRID=thumbnail%2CA%2C0%3Btitle%2CA%2C1%3Bsubjec%2CA%2C0%3Bdescri%2CA%2C0%3Bnone%2CA%2C0%3B20%3Btitle%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone&CISOBIB=title%2CA%2C1%2CN%3Bview%2CA%2C0%2CN%3Bdescri%2C200%2C0%2CN%3Bnone%2CA%2C0%2CN%3Bnone%2CA%2C0%2CN%3B20%3Btitle%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone&CISOTHUMB=20+%284x5%29%3Btitle%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone&CISOTITLE=20%3Btitle%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone&CISOHIERA=20%3Bdescri%2Ctitle%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone&CISOSUPPRESS=0&CISOBOX1=danc*&CISOROOT=%2Fwomen">links to more than 20 digital collections</a> that include significant primary source materials about women dancers.Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-73821809019603421542011-09-30T20:51:00.001-05:002011-09-30T20:55:02.910-05:00New Digital Collection: Jennie Wilde's Float Designs<div style="text-align: left;">
Jennie Wilde (1865-1913) designed floats for many New Orleans Mardi Gras parades. <a href="http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/index.php?name=Mistick%20Krewe%20of%20Comus%201910%20Float%20Designs">Mistick Krewe of Comus 1910 float designs</a> features 20 of Wilde's colorful and detailed designs. Google Books Preview includes the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=UEwJblDez4EC&pg=PA81&lpg=PA81&dq=Jennie+Wilde&source=bl&ots=paCAmyB_8s&sig=U1MsfE1bCD4d6Pb3MC26QNM66UQ&hl=en&ei=wLYVTN_eBsP38Abt3bSdDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CEQQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Jennie%20Wilde&f=false">chapter on Jennie Wilde</a> in <span class="addmd">Henri Schindler's </span><i>Mardi Gras Treasures: Float Designs of the Golden Age</i> (Pelican Pub. Co., 2001). </div>
<br />Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-35594929154048558092011-09-29T14:39:00.000-05:002011-09-29T14:39:06.980-05:00New Exhibit: Civil War Fashions and Domestic Life<a href="http://www.kent.edu/museum/exhibits/exhibitdetail.cfm?customel_datapageid_2203427=2514745">On the Home Front: Civil War Fashions and Domestic Life</a><br />
Kent State University Museum<br />
September 30, 2011 - August 26, 2012 <br />
In addition to displays of women's and children's costumes, this exhibit includes photographs, decorative arts, and women's magazines. See <a href="http://kentstateuniversitymuseum.wordpress.com/">Kent State University Museum's blog</a> for details about the preparation of the exhibit: <a href="http://kentstateuniversitymuseum.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/choosing-pieces-for-the-civil-war-exhibit/">choosing pieces for the exhibit</a>; <a href="http://kentstateuniversitymuseum.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/photographing-for-the-civil-war-exhibit/">photographing the pieces</a>; and <a href="http://kentstateuniversitymuseum.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/dressing-mannequins-for-the-civil-war-exhibit/">dressing mannequins</a>.<br />
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Don't miss overviews of the <a href="http://www.kent.edu/museum/exhibits/pastexhibits.cfm">Museum's past exhibits</a>, such as Fashion on the Ohio Frontier to "Raiment for Receptions: A Japanese Bride's Last Furisode. <br />
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<br />Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-64373235197314021082011-09-26T16:10:00.001-05:002011-09-26T16:10:18.200-05:00New Digital Collection: Nell Shipman Collection<div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://digital.boisestate.edu/cdm4/index_shipman.php?CISOROOT=/shipman">Nell Shipman Collection</a> (Albertsons Library, Boise State University)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Nell Shipman (1892-1970) starred in, directed, or produced more than 20 films between 1916 and 1924. This digital collection offers more than 130 images that document Shipman's life and career as a pioneering filmmaker. Boise State has also published Shipman's autobiography, <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15238488">The Silent Screen & My Talking Heart</a> (1987) and <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53877464">Letters from God's Country: Nell Shipman, Selected Correspondence and Writings, 1912-1970</a> (2003).</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://digital.boisestate.edu/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=/shipman&CISOPTR=66&DMSCALE=100.00000&DMWIDTH=600&DMHEIGHT=600&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&REC=1&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="226" src="http://digital.boisestate.edu/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=/shipman&CISOPTR=66&DMSCALE=100.00000&DMWIDTH=600&DMHEIGHT=600&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&REC=1&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nell Shipman, 1922 (Boise State University Library, Special Collections)</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Albertsons Library offers additional digital collections that highlight the life stories of other women. The <a href="http://digital.boisestate.edu/cdm4/index_bchurch.php?CISOROOT=/bchurch">Bethine Church Collection</a> documents Church's student days at Boise Junior College, her years in Washington, and her contributions to civic and public affairs. Online exhibits highlight the life stories of three women: <a href="http://library.boisestate.edu/Special/GraciePfost.shtm">Gracie Pfost</a>, the first female member of Congress from Idaho; </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://library.boisestate.edu/Special/McBirney.shtm">Ruth McBirney</a>, an American librarian in postwar France; and philanthropist <a href="http://library.boisestate.edu/vmorrison/">Velma Morrison</a>. </span></span></span></span>Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-87783591448047350732011-08-29T00:01:00.001-05:002011-08-29T00:13:49.094-05:00New Exhibition: Foundling Voices<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/exhibit_temp.php">Foundling Voices</a>, The Foundling Museum, London, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">April 14 - October 30, 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="il" style="background-color: #ffff88; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;">The <i>Foundling Voices</i> e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">xhibition uses audio interviews, photographs and film to chronicle the personal stories of children who were brought up in the care of the Foundling Hospital. The interviews with more than 70 former foundlings cover a range of topics: family separation, the stigma of illegitimacy, the spartan educational environment, wartime heroism, and the search for birth mothers. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alice Hatter and Pearl Martley</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://foundlingvoices.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/">Foundling Voices Online</a>, like the exhibit, is organized into the following themes: Early Life; School Life; Into the World; Search for Birth Families; and Reflections. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The
Films section combines excerpts from the interviews with photographs to
document "Music at Foundling" and the relationships between the
children and their birth mothers. For additional images from the
exhibition, see the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Foundling-Voices/220160477998654">Foundling Voices Facebook page</a>.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Many
thanks to Gemma Colgan, Marketing and Communications Manager at the
Foundling Museum, for passing along information about this major
exhibition.</span></span>Ken Middletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12165954867785633474noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001706037403683849.post-5434690629192693042011-08-22T22:15:00.000-05:002011-08-22T22:27:54.990-05:00New Digital Collection: Outdoor Advertising<a href="http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/outdoor_advertising/">ROAD 2.0</a> (Duke University Libraries) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">provides more than 27,000
images of billboards, wall paintings, electric “spectaculars” (such as the neon
signs New York’s Times Square), bus shelters, taxi displays, and
behind-the-scenes shots of outdoor ads under construction and sign painters at
work. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The site offers multiple
options for searching and browsing (company, product, date, medium, etc.) the
collection. Researchers may need to be creative in finding relevant images because subject-based access is limited; although "women" is not used as a subject heading in this collection, try keyword searches for terms such as woman, women, girl, lady, mother, etc. However, this approach will still miss numerous billboards that depict women or that target women as consumers.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Don't miss Duke's other<a href="http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/advertising/"> Advertising Collections</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, such as Ad*Access, AdViews, and the Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920. <a href="http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/hartman/guides/women-pfinder.html">Women and Advertising Pathfinder</a> is an annotated guide to archival collections at Duke's Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">Basten, Fred E. <i>Great American Billboards. </i>Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2007. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/74968360">WorldCat Record</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This work includes images of 260 posters, signs, and billboards.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">Gudis, Catherine. <i>Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. </i>New York: Routledge, 2004. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52819591">WorldCat Record</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This history of billboards in the United States includes a good selection of images, such as a set of Atlantic Gasoline advertisements that feature sportswomen. Chapter 10, "When Separate Spheres Collide," covers the efforts of women to stop the proliferation of billboards across the American landscape. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hill, Daniel Delis. <i>Advertising to the American Woman</i>. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2002. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48170824">WorldCat Record</a></span><br />
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