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"The Materials of the New Race": Immigration and Whiteness Photographs, maps, graphs, texts, and illustrations that trace the shifting boundaries between new immigrant and other "alien" groups, and between these and the "native white" population |
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Soap and Settlements: "Making a Cleaner Society" Photographs, advertisements, and other materials depicting Progressive Era assimilation efforts, consistency and change in women's roles, and the cultural significance of cleanliness |
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"What Is the Value of a Child?": Childhood and Child Labor Illustrations, photographs, and texts revealing relationships among real children's work, perceptions of childhood, new programs for children, and the child labor debate |
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"One Kitchen or Fifty?": Conveniences, Cooperation, Consumption House plans and other evidence of women's visions for their homes, economy, and society, and of the effects of industrialization on domestic work and domestic architecture |
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"If One Could Only Go on with Original Work": Women, Science, and Nature Manuscripts, photographs, courses of study, and other sources describing consistency and change over time in natural science activities thought suitable for female amateurs, students, teachers, and workers |
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Women in Medicine Photographs, manuscripts, and texts that illuminate the personal, social, institutional, and political context for women doctors and nurses during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries |