Databases
- Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940, Parts I & IIFarmington Hills, MI: Gale Cengage Learning, 2016- .
Part of Gale Primary Sources and cross-searchable with all the other databases therein.
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"Part I: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 features historical documents published in more than 35 countries, with over 15 languages represented. Including fully searchable periodicals, newsletters, manuscripts, government records, organizational papers, correspondence, an international selection of posters, and other primary source materials, LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part II provides coverage of underrepresented communities through access to key publications. This second installment in the series highlights often-excluded groups--even within the LGBTQ community--and enables users to draw new connections across the development of LGBTQ culture and activism." [Publisher's summary]
- Everyday Life & Women in AmericaThis digital collection provides access to rare primary source material on American social, cultural, and popular history from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It comprises thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes, emphasizing conduct of life and domestic management literature, the daily lives of women and men, and contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures.
- The Gerritsen Collection Women's History Online, 1543-1945Full Text
The Gerritsen Collection was begun by Aletta Jacobs Gerritsen in the late 1800s. The online resource delivers two million page images exactly as they appeared in the original printed works. It includes monographs, periodicals and pamphlets in fifteen languages, and is searchable by keyword and Boolean operators. - HEARTH: Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and HistoryIthaca, NY: Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, 2003. [http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/]
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A full text archive projected to include over 1,500 popular and scholarly books, as well as magazine and journal runs, mostly from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Subject areas include applied arts and design; food and nutrition; home economics; housing, furnishings and equipment; hygiene; retail and consumer studies; clothing and textiles; home management; child care and human development; and institutional management. Books were selected by a panel of scholarly reviewers and include works from various libraries, including Cornell's. Freely available over the Internet. The full text of both books and articles will be searchable by author, title, and keyword. - Human Sexuality CollectionCollection Guide/Full Text
What is in the Collection, an overview of the Human Sexuality Collection from Brenda Marston, the Curator. - LGBT thought and cultureLGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource hosting books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.
- Medieval and Early Modern Women [microfilm]>Marlborough [England]: Adam Matthew Publications, 2000- .
(Olin Library Film 8263; parts 1-2 = reels 1-26)
Microform Collection & Guide
For details, see Microfilm Guide 8263 on the microform guide shelves in Olin Reference. - National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Records, 1973-2000 [microfilm]Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Microfilm, 2001- .
(Olin Library Film 8256; 298 reels)
Microform Collection & Guide
Filmed from the holdings of the Human Sexuality Collection, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, which owns the original material. "The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force collection consists of correspondence, press clippings, financial and administrative records, subject files, and photographs that, taken together, provide a broad overview of the American movement for lesbian and gay civil rights from 1973 to 2000." (From the Collection Overview, p. xii, of the extensive 343-page guide--Olin film 8256 guide, shelved in Olin Reference--which documents the collection.) - North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950Full Text/Indexes
Full-text database of letters and diaries of women who lived in North America before 1950. The collection includes about 150,000 pages of letters and diaries from Colonial times to 1950, including 7,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts. More than 1,500 biographies of the diarists and letter-writers enhance the database. Browsing and searching available for both a rich set of bibliographic fields and subjects and the complete text of these primary sources. - Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Collection, 1848-1920Washington: Library of Congress, 1999.
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"The NAWSA Collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. They are a subset of the Library's larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in November of 1938. The collection includes works from the libraries of other members and officers of the organization including: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Mary A. Livermore." [Home page] A searchable full-text collection, part of the American Memory project. Includes a timeline and a selected bibliography. - Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000Kathryn Sklar and Thomas Dublin, editors. Scholar's edition. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press; Binghamton, NY: Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York, Binghamton.
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The Scholar's Edition includes all features of the Basic Edition that have been published since March 2004. It currently includes 72 document projects with 2,100 documents, 28,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and 1,600 primary authors. It includes as well book, film and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools. This edition also includes the Women's Commission reports collection, an archive of the publications and documents of local, state, and federal Commissions on the Status of Women from 1963 to the present. A future release of the Scholar's Edition will also include the full text of the complete five volumes of Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, available for the first time in electronic form.
Location note: Microform guides for microform sets housed in Olin Library are shelved in the Olin Reference Collection, arranged by their film or fiche guide number. The microfilm reels and microfiche are housed on the B (Lower) Level of Olin Library.
Microform Collections
Location note: Microform guides for microform sets housed in Olin Library are shelved in the Olin Reference Collection, arranged by their film or fiche guide number. The microfilm reels and microfiche are housed on the B (Lower) Level of Olin Library.
- Ladies of Llangollen: Letters and Journals of Lady Eleanor Butler (1739-1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (1755-1831) from the National Library of Wales [microfilm]Microform Collection & Guide; (Olin Library Film 7025; 5 reels)
Film 7025 in Olin Library consists of five reels of microfilm. A printed guide to this collection is available on the microform guide shelves in Olin Reference. This collection is a vital source of primary documents on this important partnership and the literary circle that they created. Known as the Hamwood Papers, formerly in the possession of the Hamilton family of Hamwood, Dunboyne, co Meath, they are extensive. Valuable for anyone writing on Romantic Friendship, the Gothic Pastoral Ideal, 18th Century Literary Circles and the Romantic Movement. - Medieval and Early Modern Women [microfilm]Marlborough [England]: Adam Matthew Publications, 2000- .
(Olin Library Film 8263; parts 1-2 = reels 1-26)
Microform Collection & Guide
For details, see Microfilm Guide 8263 on the microform guide shelves in Olin Reference. - Sex & Sexuality, 1640-1940 [microfilm]: Literary, Medical and Sociological Perspectives[Marlborough, Wilshire, England]: Adam Matthew Publications, [1998].
(Olin Film 7084; Part 1, 15 reels)
Microform Collection
Sources from the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. This series sets out to provide the raw material for the dialogue already started by Roy Porter and Lesley Hall in The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950. Editor's Introduction to Part 1.