Online Manuscript Resources in Southern Women’s History
About This Site: Project OverviewOnline Manuscript Resources in Southern Women’s History is an online collection of digitized manuscript, printed, and visual materials drawn from the collections at the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) in the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University. The materials on this site do not comprehensively represent all of MARBL’s holdings, but they do offer insight into some of the manuscripts available to researchers of women’s history and the American South. This website is intended to provide web access to prospective researchers who plan to visit MARBL, researchers who are unable to travel to MARBL and view the manuscripts in person, researchers of Southern and women’s history who are unfamiliar with MARBL’s holdings, and faculty interested in the integration of archival materials into the classroom.
The purpose of this site is to provide online access to selected manuscript resources in MARBL’s collections and to increase awareness of and access to MARBL’s collections in Southern and women’s history. This site also offers selected "teaching moments" that situate materials from disparate collections under a common theme and provide additional historical context, sample discussion questions, and resources for further research. We hope that these “teaching moments” provide successful examples of pedagogical strategies for the integration of archival materials into classroom environments through the use of digital technology.
The materials compiled and presented here span over a century of history and include topics such as women’s suffrage, beauty culture, women and socialism, and civil rights. All materials are either directly related to activities, persons, or organizations situated in the American South, or were drawn from manuscript collections of women who lived and worked in the South. Materials related to Georgia, particularly Atlanta, are represented strongly here, but a significant amount of material relates to individuals and activities in other Southern states, especially Mississippi and the Carolinas.
Materials have been categorized by subject and by collection name. Not all materials are included in the subject guide; the most comprehensive way of viewing items is by collection. Individual images for most items have been provided in both jpeg and pdf format. To view pdf images, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader which is available for free at www.adobe.com. Please note that images will open in a new browser window.
This website was created by Anne Sinkey with the assistance of the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library staff and the financial support of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Emory University. Special thanks to Margaret McGehee for allowing us to include her research on Southern digital collections in our "Additional Resources" page.
Although the majority of this material is in the public domain, some content may be protected under copyright and is only intended for research and instructional use under the fair use provisions of U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, United States Code). MARBL may have information on copyright owners in our EUCLID records, finding aids, and donor records. The nature of these collections may make copyright difficult or impossible to determine. The proper use of this information ultimately rests with the user.