Tennessee History: A Guide to Primary Sources
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Digital Collections

Alice Williamson Diary: An Online Archival Collection [online]. Durham, N.C.: Special Collections Library, Duke University, 1996. Available from: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/williamson/.
An 1864 diary of a schoolgirl from Gallatin, Tennessee. Includes images and a transcription of the diary.

Color Photographs from the FSA and OWI [online]. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1998. Available from: http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/fsachtml/fsowhome.html.
Over 1600 photographs from the Office of War Information (OWI) and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) document the crucial work of American women during World War II.

The History of Women at the University of Tennessee [online]. Knoxville: Digital Library Center, University of Tennessee Libraries, [2002- ]. Available from: http://diglib.lib.utk.edu/dlc/UTWomen/.

Lewis Hine Photographs for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
This collection includes numerous photographs of Tennessee folk crafts and culture from the 1930s. The collection also includes photographs of mountaineer families forced to vacate their homes because of the construction of Norris Dam. Use "Lewis Hine" and "Tennessee Valley Authority" as search terms.

The Quilt Index [online]. East Lansing: Matrix - The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences, Michigan State University, forthcoming.
The site will include images of quilts from a variety of institutions, including the Tennessee State Library & Archives.

Visual Information Access (VIA) [online]. [Cambridge, Mass.]: Harvard University Library, 1999- . Available from: http://via.harvard.edu:748/html/VIA.html.
A search for Sue Shelton White retrieves over thirty thumbnail images of photographs from the White papers at the Schlesinger Library. White (1887-1943) was a suffragist, attorney, and writer.

Commercial Digital Collections

The Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online. [Alexandria, Va.] : Chadwyck-Healey, [2000]. Overview from the publisher.
Abundant material about Tennessee's role in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.


Guides to Archival Collections

Appalachian Women [Archives of Appalachia, ETSU]

Guide to Manuscripts for Women's Rights Resources [Vanderbilt University Special Collections]


Microform Collections

Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries, Series J: Selections from the Southern Historical Collection, Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Part 8: Tennessee and Kentucky. Bethesda, Md.: University Publications of America, 1991- .
Includes the letters of Lizinka Brown (1820-1872), a slaveholding widow.

Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Series 2: Women in National Politics. Part A: Democrats. Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1992- .
Part of this collection documents Sue Shelton White's advocacy of woman's suffrage and her career as a New Deal administrator.



Tennessee History: A Guide to Primary Sources