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Items available online have been grouped together into collections, which give the items meaning in a broader context. The following list and groupings are a sampling of the material related to Women’s History available from the Library of the Congress and other partner agencies.
Please note: This list represents only a selection of the digital and physical holdings of the participating agencies.
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Arts & Folklife
- The Guerrilla Girls: The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist (National Gallery of Art)
- The Guerrilla Girls: Do Women Have to be Naked to get into the Met. Museum? (National Gallery of Art)
- "Carol Highsmith’s America" Image Sampler (Library of Congress)
- Ghost, by sculptor Rachel Whiteread (National Gallery of Art)
- Humor's Edge: Cartoons by Ann Telnaes (Library of Congress)
- Julia Margaret Cameron – The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty (National Gallery of Art)
- Judith Leyster, 1609–1660 (National Gallery of Art)
- Kay Ryan, U.S. Poet Laureate: Online Resources (Library of Congress)
- Lee Bontecou, sculptor (National Gallery of Art)
- Mary Cassatt — Selected Color Prints (National Gallery of Art)
- Mary Cassatt — Selected Paintings (National Gallery of Art)
- The Mother and Sister of the Artist by Berthe Morisot (National Gallery of Art)
- A Petal from the Rose: Illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green (Library of Congress)
- Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 (Library of Congress)
- The Water Babies: Illustrations by Jessie Wilcox Smith (Library of Congress)
Culture
- Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture (Library of Congress)
- National Park Service Uniforms: Breeches, Blouses and Skirts, 1918-1991
Historic Places (National Park Service)
- Clara Barton National Historic Site
- Rosie the Riveter/World War II Homefront National Historical Park
- Travel Itinerary Places Where Women Made History
- Women's Rights National Historical Park
History
- Pages from Her Story (Library of Congress)
- Women Striving Forward, 1910s - 1940s - Photo Exhibition (Library of Congress on Flickr)

- Women’s Words of Wisdom: Thoughts Over Time (Library of Congress)
Performing Arts
- Dolly Parton and the Roots of Country Music (Library of Congress)
- The Katherine Dunham Collection (Library of Congress)
- The Zora Neale Hurston Plays (Library of Congress)
Pioneering
Politics
- Executive and Legislative Documents (Law Library of Congress)
- The Hannah Arendt Papers (Library of Congress)
- The Patsy T. Mink Papers (Library of Congress)
Women and War
- Hannah Szenes and the Jewish Parachutists from Palestine (U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
- Military Medicine: Nurses (Stories from the Veterans History Project)
- Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II (Library of Congress)
- World War II Home Front (Stories from the Veterans History Project)
Women's Rights
- By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 (Library of Congress)
- Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911 (Library of Congress)
- Votes for Women, Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 (Library of Congress)
- Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, 1875-1938 (Library of Congress)
Resource Guides (Library of Congress)
- African American Women in the Sciences and Related Disciplines
- American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
- A Guide to Materials for Rosa Parks
- Harriet Tubman: Online Resources
- Kay Ryan: Online Resources
- Sojourner Truth: Online Resources
- Sonia Sotomayor (Law Library of Congress)
- Women and Minorities in Science and Technology
- Women in the Performing Arts
- Women of Invention: Women Inventors and Patent Holders
- Women's History Resources in the Prints & Photographs Division
Profiles (Library of Congress)
Susan B. Anthony One of the founders of the women's suffrage movement. |
Elizabeth Shippen Green Turn of the century illustrator who was the first female staff member of Harper's Weekly. |
Carol M. Highsmith A contemporary photographer who specializes in capturing the American experience. |
Sandra Day O'Connor The first woman Justice appointed to the Supreme Court. |

