HEARTH: Home Economics Archive, Research, Tradition, History.
http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/
HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance. The first phase of this project focused on books published between 1850 and 1925 and a small number of journals. Future phases of the project will include books published between 1926 and 1950, as well as additional journals. The full text of these materials, as well as bibliographies and essays on the wide array of subjects relating to Home Economics, are all freely accessible on this site. This is the first time a collection of this scale and scope has been made available.
American Women: a Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/
Unlike most American Memory presentations, American Women is not a collection of digital items. It is a gateway -- a first stop for Library of Congress researchers working in the field of American women's history.
The site contains a slightly expanded and fully searchable version of the print publication American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2001). The guide has been redesigned for online use, with added illustrations and links to existing digitized material located throughout the Library of Congress Web site. These materials are supplemented by a small number of newly digitized items that provide a sample of the many relevant types of materials available in Library of Congress holdings (see Building the Digital Collection). The Research Guide also provides practical search tips, detailed collection summaries of the Library's voluminous multiformat holdings, and links to fuller catalog record descriptions and digitized material (see About the Guide for further information regarding the content and structure of the Research Guide portion of the site, as well as tips for using its search feature).
Enterprising Women. 250 Years of American Business
http://www.enterprisingwomenexhibit.org/
Enterprising Women brings to life the stories of some 40 intriguing women who helped shape the landscape of American business. Artifacts and costumes, diaries and letters, business and legal documents, photographs and paper ephemera, audio recordings, and interactive technology reveal the trials and triumphs of this diverse group of inventors, innovators and trendsetters.
The exhibition tells a saga grand in sweep and rich in details. Organized into five historic sections and enhanced by interactive and evocative settings, such as an 18th-century printshop, a 19th-century dressmaking shop, turn-of-the-century beauty parlor, and a 20th-century corporate office, Enterprising Women illuminates and personalizes the nation's transformation from an agricultural and household economy to one influenced by industrialization, the rise of big business, the emergence of consumer culture, and the technology revolution. Along the way, the exhibition highlights how race, class, ethnicity, geography, generation and social upheaval infused the experiences of women in business.
At the opening of the 21st century, American women own more than 7.7 million firms and represent 40 percent of businesses operating in the United States. Enterprising Women tells the story of the women who paved the way for this success. This exhibit was organized by the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Mass.
American Antiquarian Society, Online Exhibition, "A Woman's Work is Never Done."
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Womanswork/intro.htm
Although the majority of women chose to stay home, where society believed a woman should be, many ventured out into the working world either to begin their own business or to work for others in order to support themselves and their families. But whether a woman sought paid employment, or stayed at home to work in the domestic realm, she was always working. As Martha Ballard, a well-known eighteenth-century woman, wrote in her journal on Nov. 26, 1795, "A woman's work is Never Done as the Song Says, and happy She who's Strength holds out to the End..."
This exhibition brings together a selection of images from the Society's collections that illustrate many facets of American women's work, from the beginning of the American Revolution through the Industrial Revolution.
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/
The Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, draws thousands of researchers each year to study the history of women in the United States. The library holds letters and diaries, photographs, books and periodicals, ephemera, oral histories, and audiovisual materials that document the history of women, families, and organizations, primarily in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is also home to an extensive culinary collection and the Radcliffe Archives.
Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Women, Enterprise and Society: A Guide to Resources in the Business Manuscripts Collection at Baker Library.
http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/wes/
This Web-based publication identifies materials in the Business Manuscripts Collection at Baker Library that document women's participation in American business and culture from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Women, Enterprise and Society represents the culmination of a three-year project to identify and catalog resources for study of this unexplored aspect of the manuscript collections.