Take a look at some of the Library's great resources about, by, and for amazing women:
Follow CCC Library's board Women's History on Pinterest.
This Flickr set from the Library of Congress has some amazing photographs - including these gems...
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Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division |
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Penn[sylvania] on the picket line-- 1917, Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division |
Also take a look at History Pin, which includes several collections from National Archives: Women's Suffrage, Famous Women, Women in the Military, and Women at Work:
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Women Electric Welders at Hog Island Shipyard City Hall Station, 1918, Philadelphia, PA, National Archives |
And I stumbled across this comic book treasure: Wonder Woman ran a back-up series called Wonder Women of History featuring real-life female superheroes like Sojourner Truth, Emma Willard, and Marie Curie.
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Sojourner Truth - Famous African-American women's rights activist and abolitionist - Wonder Women of History |
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