Library Guides: Women's History: Home

Select Images from Archives & Special Collections

Women outside the YWCA of Bellingham Building, 1974. YWCA of Bellingham Records, CPNWS.

Women's track at Western, 1926. Herbert Ruckmick photograph. Women in Sport at Western Digital Collection (Western Libraries Special Collections).

Fund-raising flier for the Equal Rights Amendment campaign. American Association of University Women (Washington) Records, CPNWS.

Blue Barnacles (Synchronized Swimming Club) diver, circa 1959. Women's Recreation Assocation Collection, WWU Archives.

Introduction

This guide focuses on local and region-specific materials available through Western Libraries Archives & Special Collections. Contact Archives & Special Collections staff and/or the Western Libraries Research Consultation Desk if you need assistance finding more information!

Digital Collections

Select digitized resources are available through Western Libraries Digital Collections. Please note that these and many additional "women's history" materials can be accessed in their original form through Archives & Special Collections programs.

Washington Women's History Consortium - Images
Select digital copies of archival resources (including photographic images, posters, flyers and other manuscript materials) drawn from a wide range of larger collections at the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies.
Washington Women's History Consortium - Oral Histories
Select abstracts, transcripts and audio recordings from oral histories documenting the history of women in Washington State. These oral histories are drawn from a variety of larger collections housed at the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies.
Women in Sport at Western
Images digitized from the holdings of Western Libraries Special Collections.
Women's Recreation Association
Images from Western's Women's Recreation Association, digitized from holdings of the WWU University Archives.