Womens Work

Women Working from 1870-1930 this site "Provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. The collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Working conditions, conditions in the home, costs of living, recreation, health and hygiene, conduct of life, policies and regulations governing the workplace, and social issues are all well documented." Thousands of items are searchable, or browsable by topic, individual, dates and events, or organization.