Open Collections Program: Women Working: Teacher Resources

"The Materials of the New Race": Immigration and Whiteness
Photographs, maps, graphs, texts, and illustrations that trace the shifting boundaries between new immigrant and other "alien" groups, and between these and the "native white" population

	*Soap and Settlements: "Making a Cleaner Society"* Photographs, advertisements, and other materials depicting Progressive Era assimilation efforts, consistency and change in women's roles, and the cultural significance of cleanliness
	*"What Is the Value of a Child?": Childhood and Child Labor* Illustrations, photographs, and texts revealing relationships among real children's work, perceptions of childhood, new programs for children, and the child labor debate
	*"One Kitchen or Fifty?": Conveniences, Cooperation, Consumption* House plans and other evidence of women's visions for their homes, economy, and society, and of the effects of industrialization on domestic work and domestic architecture
	*"If One Could Only Go on with Original Work": Women, Science, and Nature* Manuscripts, photographs, courses of study, and other sources describing consistency and change over time in natural science activities thought suitable for female amateurs, students, teachers, and workers

Welcome to the Women Working Teacher Resources Pages

Here you will find primary sources that will capture your students' attention. From all the texts and images in Women Working, these materials were selected for their potential to help your students:

raise questions and make observations
compare and contrast sources
reconstruct conflicting perspectives
bring historical contexts and understandings to life in their own minds

The materials are organized to illuminate themes commonly taught in social studies and history classes. The featured combinations are provisional, and designed so that you can easily rearrange or substitute items to fit your curricular needs. Click on the themes listed above to:

examine the sources
discover connections among them
see real students' conversations about the materials
identify relevant learning standards and recent work by historians
explore further Women Working resources related to these themes