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Women -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Yvonne Brathwaite Burke papers: Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

 Collection
Identifier: 0218-2
Abstract

The Yvonne Brathwaite Burke papers contain the records of the political activities of Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, University of Southern California Gould Law School alumna, state and federal legislator, and county official. Included in this collection are the records from Burke's second tenure on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (1992-2008).

Dates: 1968 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1991 - 2008
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Cecile R. Parker letter and liberated woman die-cut

 Collection
Identifier: 6183
Abstract The Cecile R. Parker letter and liberated woman die-cut consists of two items relating to women's history during the American Victorian and Edwardian eras. The first item is an 1874 letter from Cecile R. Parker to Mrs. Evaline Price regarding Parker's marriage, divorce, and her new life after leaving her former husband. The second item is a two-part advertising embossed die-cut portraying a woman wearing bloomers and riding a bicycle. The die-cut was created circa 1900 and includes an...
Dates: 1874, circa 1900
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Poets Garden records

 Collection
Identifier: 0110
Abstract

The Poets Garden records contains publications, letters, diaries, and memorabilia of the literary group created by Los Angeles poet Ruth Le Prade. The collection also contains materials relating to the poet Edwin Markham (1852-1940) and the labor and socialist activist Eugene Debs.

Dates: 1876-1971
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Amy C. Ransome collection on Women's Suffrage

 Collection
Identifier: 0001
Abstract The Amy C. Ransome collection contains material related to women's suffrage from 1884-1949. There is a large amount of correspondence and printed material connected with Sarah Ware Whitney, editor of the Women's Standard in Waterloo, Iowa. In addition, there is correspondence and organizational material from the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association and other state organizations; equal rights and temperance pamphlets, ca. 1890-1900; World Woman's Party correspondence and clippings, ca. 1940; and...
Dates: 1884 - 1949
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

University of Southern California Faculty Wives and Women's Club records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5050
Abstract

This collection consists of the records and scrapbooks of the University of Southern California's Faculty Wives and Women's Club.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1920s-1980s
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections
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