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'Left to right: Senoras Pico, Valenzuela, de la Golsh, Ortega, Myers, and Acosta.' There are, however, only five women visible on the photograph. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting a group of six Native American women performing a mission song in Spanish on June 4, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Pala, California.

Items available online from the Library of Congress are grouped together in collections, which give the items meaning in a broader context. The following list and groupings are not a comprehensive listing of the Library's holdings - digital or physical - on this subject. Rather, they are a representative sampling of the best of the Library's assets.

Please note: This list represents only selected digital assets available through the Library of Congress Web site. The Library's physical holdings in Washington, D.C., include more than 134 million items, including books, photos, sound recordings, films, maps and manuscripts, many of which are not available online.

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Anthropology

  • Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture

Arts & Folklife

  • American Beauties: Drawings from the Golden Age of Illustration
  • Humor's Edge: Cartoons by Ann Telnaes
  • A Petal from the Rose: Illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green
  • The Water Babies: Illustrations by Jessie Wilcox Smith
  • Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996

First-Person Accounts

  • Pages from Her Story
  • More Women's Diaries in the Library of Congress

Performing Arts

  • The Battle Hymn of the Republic
  • Dolly Parton and the Roots of Country Music
  • The Katherine Dunham Collection
  • The Zora Neale Hurston Plays

Photojournalism

  • Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection: Photographs and Papers
  • Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II

Pioneering

  • Women Pioneers of the Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920

Politics

  • The Hannah Arendt Papers

Women and War

  • Military Medicine: Nurses (Stories from the Veterans History Project)
  • Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II
  • World War II Home Front (Stories from the Veterans History Project)

Women's Rights

  • By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
  • Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911
  • Votes for Women, Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
  • Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, 1875-1938

Resource Guides

  • African American Women in the Sciences and Related Disciplines
  • American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
  • Women in the Performing Arts
  • Women's History Resources in the Prints & Photographs Division

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