UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State University Libraries Digital Collections are highlighting six online collections in honor of National Women's History Month.
Highlighted collections include:
- The Ogontz School for Young Ladies Yearbooks (1898-1950) — The Ogontz School for Young Ladies was a prominent private girls’ school that was located at three sites. The school’s final location was in Abington, Pennsylvania, where, in 1950, it was given to Penn State. The school’s yearbooks chronicle the academic and co-curricular activities of girls who attended the school.
- A Few Good Women — An audio oral history collection includes the memories and reflections of women about their careers in government service.
- Alma Mahler Collection — On the occasion of her 70th birthday, Alma Mahler-Werfel, wife to composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius and writer Franz Werfel, was given a birthday book at her home in Pacific Palisades, California. The bound volume contains 77 letters from significant representatives of European and American cultural and intellectual history.
- The Emilie Davis Diaries — The Emilie Davis Diaries provide a unique opportunity to see the fascinating work of a free African American Woman living in Philadelphia during the Civil War era. Penn State is hosting these diaries as a digital collection on behalf of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
- Women's Suffrage Collection — The Women’s Suffrage collection documents both the national women’s rights movement and the women’s suffrage movement in Pennsylvania.
- Judy Chicago Art Education Collection and the Judy Chicago Portal — Judy Chicago is a feminist artist, author and educator best known for “The Dinner Party,” a multimedia art installation honoring women in history created with the participation of hundreds of volunteers between 1974 and 1979. This digital collection consists of textual, photographic, graphic and audiovisual materials related to her art and pedagogy. The related online Judy Chicago Portal, hosted by the University Libraries, brings together digitized and born-digital items from Chicago’s art education archives, paper archives, visual archives and her comprehensive fireworks art-related archives housed at five different U.S. institutions.
These six highlighted collections from among the University Libraries’ more than 110 digital collections include digitized items from the University Libraries’ collections at Abington Campus Library and the Eberly Family Special Collections Library.