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Title page. "Candle-Lightin' Time," by Paul Laurence Dunbar, with photographs from the Hampton Institute Camera club, c. 1908. From the collection of Widener Library, Harvard College Library.

The Collection
Women Working, 1800 - 1930 focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images including:

  • 7,500 pages of manuscripts
  • 3,500 books and pamphlets
  • 1,200 photographs
Image at left: Title page. "Candle-Lightin' Time," by Paul Laurence Dunbar, with photographs from the Hampton Institute Camera club, c. 1908. From the collection of Widener Library, Harvard College Library.

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The Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia
Items in the "Women Working" collection related to the Hampton Institute.

a Class Studying Soils, Hampton Institute, Virginia
Photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston, c. 1900.
One of over 50 images documenting the Hampton Institute's work to prepare young African-American women and men for new roles in American social and economic life. These and other images documenting social conditions and reform efforts were collected by Harvard University Professor Francis Peabody's Social Museum. about the Social Museum» | more images»
a Senior Music Class, Hampton Institute, Virginia
Photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston, c. 1900.
One of over 50 images documenting the Hampton Institute's work to prepare young African-American women and men for new roles in American social and economic life. These and other images documenting social conditions and reform efforts were collected by Harvard University Professor Francis Peabody's Social Museum. about the Social Museum» | more images»
a Class in Physics, Hampton Institute, Virginia
Unidentified photographer, c. 1900.
One of over 50 images documenting the Hampton Institute's work to prepare young African-American women and men for new roles in American social and economic life. These and other images documenting social conditions and reform efforts were collected by Harvard University Professor Francis Peabody's Social Museum. about the Social Museum» | more images»