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• Autry Museum - Women of the West Digital Gallery Tour

  In 2002 the Women of the West Museum merged with the Autry National Center creating a gathering place for programs, exhibitions, collections, research and education dedicated to diverse women's experiences in the American West. Our goal is to gain a new understanding, not simply of what women have done, but why it matters for the West, past, present, and future. Founded in 1991 in Boulder, Colorado, the Women of the West Museum was the first museum in the nation dedicated to the history of women of all cultures in the American West.

  • There are no Renters Here: Homesteading in a Sod House

    This is the story of one woman who, with her husband and young daughter, left Indiana to start a homestead in Nebraska. Mattie Oblinger and her family left a treasure trove of letters, enabling us to gain some insight into her life, and the lives of many others who made a similar journey to become sod house pioneers in the American West.

  • WOW Museum: Western Women's Suffrage

    This shall be the land for women: The Struggle for Western Women's Suffrage, 1860-1920

• British Red Cross Museum and Archives

  London, England.

  • History and Origin

  • Medals and Badges

  • Records of Prisoners of War

  • War-time volunteers and personnel records

• Guide to Women's History Materials in Manuscript Collections at the Indiana Historical Society

• Iowa Women's Archives

  The University of Iowa's collection, much of which has active links which give precise details of the document and its location. Includes letters, diaries, magazine and newspaper articles, government papers, scrapbooks and much more. Includes material on African-American women and rural farm women.

• Library of Congress - American Women

• National First Ladies Library

• National Maritime Museum - Research Guides

  United Kingdom.

  • Women and the Sea

• National Women's History Museum

• Pathfinder for Women's History in the National Archives and Records Administration Library

• The Molly Brown House Museum

  Denver, Colorado.

• The Washington Women's History Consortium

  Located at the State Capital Museum and Outreach Center in Olympia. Promotes the preservation of materials related to women

• U.S. Army Women's Museum

  Fort Lee, Virginia. Collect, preserve, research, exhibit and interpret historically significant properties related to service of women across all branches and organizations of the United States Army.

• Uncovering Women's History in Archival Collections

  This website offers a guide to web pages of archives, libraries, and other repositories that have primary source materials by or about women.

• Women's History Resources at Georgia Archives

  From the Georgia Archives.

• Women's Studies - A Research Guide

  From the New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library.