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Women's History Month - March 2007
Selected Long Island & New York State Aspects
Comp. & ed. by Mark H. Rothenberg
Famous Women from Long Island and Queens (Newsday.com)
Ginzberg, Lori D. Untidy Origins: A Story of Women's Rights in Antebellum New York. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 222 p. -- Non-Fiction 305.4209 GIN
Ketcham, Nettie. Netty's Diary: The 1880's Diary of Nettie Ketcham, ed. by Van & Mary Field. Center Moriches, NY: Ketcham Inn Foundation, 1995. 254 p. Glossary. Chronology. Name index. -- LI REF 929.2 KETCHAM
Long Island Woman (Long Island Woman) [Online version of the periodical]
"LI's Rebels with a Cause: For Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt Belmont and Other Suffragettes, 'Failure is Impossible'" (Newsday.com Long Island: Our Story)
New York: Women's History (About.com)
New York State Division for Women (The Division)
Click on Women's History, then on either: Women's History - Historical Markers (which is an alphabetical list, arranged by NYS county), or Women's History - A New York State Perspective (which is an historical overview). [Note: All of these sites use the same basic web address, which is why a little extra clicking is involved.]
Ochs, Ridgely. "Dinner with Typhoid Mary: A Household in Oyster Bay is Stricken, and the Trail Leads to the Cook, Mary Mallon" (Newsday.com)
Places Where Women Made History (U.S. National Park Service) [NY & MA]
Records in the New York State Archives Related to Women: An Overview (New York State. Archives & Records Management Administration)
Organized in 3 clickable sections: Legislative Records, Court Records, and Ececutive Branch Records. The latter is further broken down into: Women's Rights, Social Services, Incarcerated Women, Women and War, Health Records, Civil Service Records, Education Department Records, and Department of State Records. There is a link to descriptions of each of these types of records and to a related Publications list. In a gray band near the top of the page are links arranged under the following clickable themes: Family, Agriculture, Business & Labor, Community, Education, Environment, Health Care, Legal, Military, People/Groups/Culture, Transportation, Film Scripts, and Photographic Coolections.
Selected Women's History Collections Held by the New York State Library (New York State Library. Manuscripts & Special Collections)
"Seneca Falls Conventiion," by Laura E. Free. [sample entry]. In The Encyclopedia of New York State (Syracuse University Press)
Spinzia, Raymond E. and Judith A. Maiden Names [Index]. In Long Island's Prominent North Shore Families: Their Estates and Their Country Homes, v. 2 [of 2]. College Station, TX, 2006: pp. 1007-1059. -- Q974.721 SPI v. 1-2
Woman and Her Needs, by E[lizabeth]. Oakes Smith...for the Tribune [1850-51 (Northeasstern Illinois University. Elizabeth Oakes Smith [1806-1893])
Women's History Emphmera Collection (SUNY at Stony Brook. Special Collections and University Archives. Collections & Finding Aids. Manuscripts. Manuscript Collection 188)
Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement (University of Rochester. River Campus Libraries. Rare Books and Special Collections)
"Women" [website search results]. Longwood's Journey (Longwood Middle School)