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Gilded Age
Collection of text, photographs, songs, and otherprimary source materials covering the topics of immigration and migration, racism and civil rights, labor and industry, women and universal suffrage, American Indians, and the environment.
Gerritsen Collection - Womens History Online, 1543-1945
Digital images of books, pamphlets, and periodicals covering the history of women, rights, suffrage, and feminism from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand.

James Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera
"The John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera is one of the largest and most important collections of printed ephemera in the world. It offers a fresh view of British history through primary, uninterpreted printed documents which, produced for short-term use, have survived by chance, including advertisements, handbills, playbills and programmes, menus, greetings cards, posters, postcards.
The Collection is strongest in the 18th to early 20th centuries but also contains earlier material. "

Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820
As told through women's voices, thsi collection has primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, reviews, pamphlets, personal narratives, advice literature, training guides, interviews and teaching tools covering the themes of conquest, colonization, settlement, resistance, and post-coloniality.
History Vault
Women's Studies subcollection
Struggle for Women's Rights, Organizational Records, 1880-1990
Records of three important women’s rights organizations: National Woman’s Party, the League of Women Voters, and the Women’s Action Alliance. Collection coverage 1880-1990.