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Auburn women's baseball team, 1914

Auburn, Alabama

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Web Sites for Primary Sources

America's National Game: Early Baseball Photographs
Evolution of the Conservation Movement
The Conservation Movement
Photographs of General Motors Cars and Trucks, 1902-1938
Manufacturers Catalogs from the First Decade of American Automobiles
World War I Photograph Albums and Postcards
USMA Digital Collections- West Point
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Pioneer diaries, WWI Collection
Digital Military Newspaper Collection- Army and Navy
Tulane Digital Collection
America at War, Baby Boom America, Antebellum Period
University of New Hampshire Ice Hockey Guide 1898
Science Fiction Society Digital Collections
University at Buffalo Basketball Team 1906-1907

More Web Sites for Primary Sources

Albert Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women's Education

Discovering American Women's History Digital Collection

The 1911 Triangle Fire Factory Fire
146 people died in this fire, mostly women. It was one of the worst disasters since the start of the Industrial Revolution.
Hearth
Hearth is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance.
Duke Digital Collections- Women
Duke Digital Collections- Ad Access
Duke Digital Collections- Historic American Sheet Music
Duke Digital Collections Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South
Anti-Suffrage
Votes for Women
Dance in photographs
Women Suffrage and Feminism Photographs
Women's Travel Diaries
Over 100 diaries written by British and American women who documented their travels to places around the globe, including India, the West Indies, countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as around the United States.
The Making of a Homemaker
Women Working, 1800-1930

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Piper Cumbo

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Subjects:Environmental Studies, History, Library Instruction, Public Affairs, Reference

Reference sources (online)

Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball
Includes players, managers, coaches, umpires, and/or executives.
Cambridge Histories Online
Contains over 250 volumes published since 1960. Covers over 15 different academic subjects
Oxford Reference Online
Dictionaries and subject reference works, includes Oxford Companion to World War II and The Kings and Queens of Britain. In addition, find maps, timelines, and quotations.

Reference sources (in print)

Biographical

American National Biography REF CT213.A68 1999

Bibliographies

American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature REF D20.A43 1995

Harvard Guide to American History REF z1236.H27

Dictionaries

Dictionary of American history REF E174 .D52 2003

Encyclopedias

Dictionary of American History REF E174.D52 2003

The United States in the Nineteenth Century REF E169.1.E626 2001

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