Women’s Royal Naval Service photograph album documenting life at HMS Royal Arthur, the Royal Navy’s training camp establishment at Skegness, where a prewar holiday camp was transformed into a military training and accommodation center during the Second World War. Named individuals throughout with handwritten identifications, the album follows Dorothy Gardner.....

Lockwood, Belva A. Autograph Letter Signed, April 30, 1903, documents the continued public presence of the first woman to appear on a United States presidential ballot and a central figure in nineteenth-century woman suffrage and legal reform. Written from Washington, D.C. to Mark Bennitt, publicity director of the 1904 St.....

Gibson, J. The Emancipation of Women, 1894, political and social reform text advocating the expansion of women’s rights in late nineteenth century Britain during the period when organized campaigns for women’s suffrage and legal equality intensified. The book addresses the historical subordination of women under British law and argues that.....

Bookbinding factory image archive documenting women’s labor inside an early twentieth century printing and bindery plant, showing how blank book and stationery manufacture had been divided into specialized departments by the 1900s. Caption labels on the versos identify the coordinated production chain through printing, cutting and trimming, office and accounting.....

[Labor Organizing] Ford River Rouge plant press photographs documenting labor conflict, picketing, and union organization at the largest industrial complex in the United States from the early UAW recognition battles of 1941 through the major Ford walkouts of 1949 and 1967. The River Rouge plant in Dearborn employed tens of.....

Promotional materials and photographs documenting burlesque and nightclub performance in the United States between the 1920s and 1950s record the visibility of women performers within commercial entertainment industries centered in cities such as San Francisco and Las Vegas. These materials identify venues including Chez Paree, the Colony Club, Queen Night.....

Red Cross service photographs by notable Clearwater photographer George Fulmer recording volunteer nursing instruction, clinic intake, fundraising, and civic ceremony in Clearwater, Florida, 1951-1952, with primary source images of the care and volunteer infrastructure that accompanied postwar Sunbelt growth. Fulmer, a Clearwater native, served as a U.S. Navy photographer during.....

American pioneer and naturalist Martha Maxwell portrait photograph, 1876 documents one of the earliest widely recognized American female naturalists and taxidermists during the year of the United States Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Maxwell gained national attention in the 1870s for assembling large natural history displays drawn from wildlife she hunted.....

Black women’s labor photo archive depicting agricultural work, nursing, hospital training, clerical employment, service labor, and street protest from the turn of the century to 1960. Black women’s labor photo archive depicting the long movement of Black women into paid work beyond domestic service and agricultural labor, from cane-processing and.....

[Women in Science] [Marie Curie] [ Lise Meitner] [Women's History] Women scientists press photo archive documenting how newspapers and syndication services translated female expertise into public image culture in the decade spanning the late interwar and immediate postwar years, when scientific authority remained coded as male and women researchers were.....

[Feminism and Women's Rights ] Hilda Martindale. Autograph Letter Signed. Dated April 24, 1939. 1 page. 7 x 4.5 in. Black ink on light blue paper. In her hand, Martindale writes in thanks of a friend’s encouragement and sends a copy of her recent work. In full: "Here is my.....

[Women's History] Women in scientific and medical laboratories photo archive documenting female participation in laboratory education, microscopy, chemical work, dental training, and technical employment across the first half of the twentieth century, providing concrete visual evidence of how women entered scientific institutions in the years before full professional parity. The.....

WWI Women’s Welfare Department photographs of a rail-side institutional complex serving women attached to wartime industry, circa 1917 to 1919, documenting how World War I expanded women’s paid labor while also placing their housing, meals, recreation, and conduct under organized supervision. In the United States, wartime labor demand drew women.....