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Women's Archives and Special Collections on the WWW
Maintained by Genny Daley, Special Collections Library, Duke University

Women's Studies Primary Source Materials - (dead link)
"Uncovering Women's history in archival collections. A guide to WWW pages of archives, libraries, and other repositories that have primary source materials by or about women."
Maintained by the Archives for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Texas at San Antonio

Duke Women's Archives & Special Collections
"range from plantation diaries to women's suffrage documents, from a Phyllis Wheatley letter to Anne Tyler manuscripts, from the records of local Women's Christian Temperance Union to the papers of contemporary feminist activists."
Online archival collections include 'Womens' Liberation Movement', 'African-American Women,' and 'Civil War Women.'

Glasgow Women's Library (GWL) - (dead link)
"The only women's lending library in the UK...Glasgow Women's Library is a women only environment."

Irish Manuscripts Commission - Historical Manuscripts

• Women's History Project - (dead link) "The aim of the Womenís History Project is to locate, list and edit sources relating to the history of women in Ireland."

Iowa State University Archives of Women in Science and Engineering
They are "interested in the personal papers of individual women as well as the records of women's organizations in engineering and the sciences. It seeks not only the papers of the most notable women whose names are already in the history books, but also those of women who have labored in the background, sometimes with little or no recognition."

Jessie Street National Women's Library (Australia)
"To provide the Australian Community with a specialist library which collects, preserves and promotes awareness of the cultural heritage of Australian women, facilitating learning, research and communication."

Radcliffe College - Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America

Smith College Libraries - Sophia Smith Collection
"The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College is an internationally recognized repository of manuscripts, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history...the Collection consists of 6,000 linear feet of material in manuscript, print, and audio- visual formats. The holdings document the historical experience of women in the United States and abroad from the colonial era to the present. Subject strengths include birth control, women's rights, suffrage, the contemporary women's movement, U.S. women working abroad, the arts (especially theatre), the professions (especially journalism and social work), and middle-class family life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New England."

The Women's Library
"The Women's Library has the most extensive collections of women's history in the UK. Our collections cover a range of topics relating primarily to women in Britain, but some international material is available."

• Genesis Database
  Developing Access to Women's History Sources in the British Isles
  "The database holds descriptions of women's history collections from libraries, archives and museums from around the British Isles."
  • Guide To Sources - (dead link)
    "This extensive list of web resources on women's history will enable you to discover where in the world you can access information to aid your research."
    Categories include: A-Z List ; Archives, Libraries, Museums ; Centres ; Directories ; Discussion Lists ; General History ; Groups, Associations, Societies ; Publications ; Subjects.
• Suffrage Banners Collection
  "The Library houses an important collection of early twentieth century suffrage banners many designed and created by the artist based suffrage organisations the Artist's Suffrage League and the Suffrage Atelier."
  The collection is accessible via the vads [Visual Arts Data Service] online Image Collection.

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