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  Everyday Life and Women in America, c1800-1920

This 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.

Notes:   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.

Availability:    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Subjects:    Area and Cultural Studies; Health & Medicine; History; History & Social Sciences; Political Science; Religion and Philosophy; Women's Studies

Resource Types:    Full-text databases; Image databases

Dates of Coverage:  1800-1920

Output Type:  Download,Print

Format:  Web