In Her Own Right: A Century of Women's Activism, 1820-1920

FAIN: PW-264121-19

Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19107-5699)
Margery Sly (Project Director: July 2018 to October 2022)

The digitization of 30 linear feet of archives and manuscripts pertaining to the woman suffrage movement held by member repositories of the Philadelphia Area Consortium for Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) and other institutions in the region.

The core of our work will be digitizing and describing manuscript and some printed materials documenting women working for their own and for others’ rights in the century leading up to the woman suffrage vote in 1920, held in area institutions, irrespective of the geographic focus of the collection itself. The digitized material will be served up through a robust web presence that provides access to well-described digital items; the capacity to manipulate the descriptive data to generate new scholarly products; and other resources that will serve students and scholars studying not only women’s work leading up to the 1920 vote for woman suffrage but countless other topics as well. A two-year implementation grant, beginning in 2019, will ensure that a significant portion of the material will be digitized and online prior to the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, with collection-level records calling out those collections still to be digitized.

Associated Products

In Her Own Right blog posts (Blog Post)
Title: In Her Own Right blog posts
Author: Project team
Abstract: Series of blog posts about the project and the content it is uncovering
Date: 06/01/2019
Primary URL: http://herownright.pacscl.org/blog/
Primary URL Description: Blog posts on project web site

In Her Own Right website (Web Resource)
Title: In Her Own Right website
Author: Project Team
Abstract: Primary sources and essays revealing stories of women's activism leading up to the right to vote. Long before the women's suffrage movement brought about the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, women were making themselves heard in a variety of ways that broadly transformed the American experience, including working for moral reform, abolition, and increased opportunities for education and employment. The Philadelphia region was among the most important centers for these movements. DISCOVER Use search and browse tools to find documents and collection descriptions. Search and Browse View collection descriptions PLAY Access raw data and find tools for using the data. Data access and use
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://inherownright.org/
Primary URL Description: Site which aggregates and exposes digitized content and contextualizing essays.

Project staging site (Web Resource)
Title: Project staging site
Author: Project team
Abstract: Project staging site which displays in-progress work for eventual addition to public site
Year: 2020
Primary URL: http://pacscl.neomindlabs.com

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