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HIST 4245: U.S. Women's History: Antebellum Women's Lives

Databases with Primary Documents

Compliations of Primary Documents

Autobiographies Can be Primary Documents

Look and see if the woman you are researching wrote her autobiography or memoir, for example, Elizabeth Cady Stanton's book, Eighty Years and More (1815-1902) : Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Call number: JK 1899 .S7 1970.

American Memory

The Library of Congress's American Memory site has some great women's history collections.  Here are three you might find useful.

 

Link to the Votes for Women site containing Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921.

 

Link to the Library of Congress's extensive collection of Prints and photographs of women's suffrage
Prints and photographs of women's suffrage from the Library of Congress's extensive collection.

 

 

Link to the online collection of Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party.

(Images courtesy of the Library of Congress's American Memory site)

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