March is Women’s History Month, and Artstor Digital Library is celebrating women who shaped the political and social landscape of America by highlighting The Schlesinger History of Women in America, an expansive photographic collection from the archives of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at Harvard University.
Documenting American women’s experiences from the 1840s through the 1990s, the Schlesinger archive houses 36,000 professional and amateur photographs. It features photos of, and by, exceptional women like Maud Wood Park, the first president of the League of Women Voters, Edith Spurlock Sampson, the first African American woman to become a delegate of the United Nations, as well as candid shots of women at work and leisure.
Artstor is a database consisting of more than one million images covering art, architecture and archeology. Collections can be searched as a whole or individually. Made up of 10 distinct image collections: The Image Gallery; The Art History Survey Collection; The Illustrated Bartsch, The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection, The Huntington Archive of Asian Art; The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive; The Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection; Native American Art and Culture, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution; and Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection. Artstor can be found in the library’s list of All Databases.
