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Please note that items in bold are described in the Library’s online catalog and you will need to review the catalog to obtain the call number of each item. All other items are described in guides in Special Collections and Archives.

I. Manuscript and Archival
II. Books and Published
III. Reference
IV. Online Resources at Furman
V. Web Sites

• Greenville Woman's College
• Alumnae Collections including scrapbooks
• Administrative Records
• Alumni materials
• Catalogues, digital and microfilm versions
• Publications including social guidance brochures
• Textbook Collection
• Charles Hallette Judson Papers, 1853-1907, Furman Professor, President Greenville Woman's College
• Reedy River Baptist Association minutes - comments re: role of women, 1880 to 1930
• Thursday Club 1889-2008
• Thursday Afternoon Club 1895-1994
• Popular Sheet Music Collections, 20th century and Women
• Rotary Book Club, discussion of books, places and current events, 1901 to present
• Furman University Archives
• Women's Dorm Council contains scrapbooks, 1920s, 1950s, and 1960s, RG 42
• Furman Link/Campus Club Records--women's organization 1958 to present
• Feminist Initiative
• Laura Ebaugh Collection - Furman Sociology Professor 1935-1963, community activities and consultant for social welfare agencies
• Olivia Futch Collection - Furman Education Professor 1938, Dean Woman's College 1950
• Marjorie Barr O'Steen Family Collection: O'Steen wrote a column entitled "Of This and That" for the Greenville News from 1936-1963. Copies of her columns, letters, and memorabilia are included in the collection.
• South Carolina Poetry Archives
• Claire Bateman
• Phebe Davidson
• Marjory Wentworth, SC Poet Laureate
• Watson Cook Book Collection - 20th century
• Women's Popular Magazine Collection, 20th century
• Scrapbook Collection, 20th century

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• Chicora Clarion, 1901, published by the students of Chicora College. (Years 1901, 1902, 1904, 1912-14 available online in SC Digital Library.)
• Chicora Clarion, 1902, published by the students of Chicora College
• The history of human marriage, Edward Westermarck, 1903
• Evelina: or, the history of a young lady's entrance into the world, Fanny Burney; with an introduction by Austin Dobson, 1904
• Chicora College Catalogue, 1908-1909
• American beauties, Harrison Fisher; decorations by E. Stetson Crawford, 1909
• Pictorial Review, December 1912
• Shelter and Clothing: A Textbook of the Household Arts, Helen Kinne and Anna M. Cooley, B.S., 1914
• The Florence Crittenton home and training school of South Carolina, 1916
• The Sexual Question: A scientific, psychological, hygienic, and sociological study, August Forel, 1924
• The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, Bernard Shaw, 1928
• Good Housekeeping, August 1930
• McCall's, September 1931
• Pictorial Review, April 1933
• McCall's, September 1933
• Cosmopolitan, July 1934
• Your carriage, madam! A guide to good posture, Janet Lane; drawings by Howard Butler, 1934
• Ladies' Home Journal, June 1936
• Pictorial Review combined with Delineator, June 1938
• Greenville Hosts and Hostesses, Junior Charities, 1945
• The American Household Encyclopedia, N.H. and S.K. Mager, 1951
• Cosmopolitan Magazine, August 1964
• South Carolina Women Writers, ed. James B. Meriwether, 1979
• A history of popular women's magazines in the United States, 1792-1995 Mary Ellen Zuckerman, 1998
• The Past in the Present, Women's Higher Education in the Twentieth-Century American South Amy Thompson McCandless, 1999
• Academy and College: The history of the woman's college of Furman University, Judith T. Bainbridge, 2001
• The Fan: Fashion and Femininity Unfolded, Valerie Steele, 2002
• Her Past Around Us, Interpreting Sites for Women's History , Editor Polly Welts Kaufman, 2003
• Southern Baptist Sisters: In search of status, 1845-2000 David T. Morgan, 2003
• Women Writing Home, 1700-1920 Klaus Stierstorfer, 2006, 6 volume collection of women's letters from across the former British strongpire includes Africa, India, USA, Canada and others
• Sex Goes to School; Girls and Sex Education before the 1960s, Susan K. Frestrongan, 2008 Furman Collection
• Women Adventurers, 1750-1900: A Biographical Dictionary Mary F. McVicker, 2008
• South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 2, Edited by Marjorie Julian Spruill, Valinda W. Littlefield, and Joan Marie Johnson, 2009
• South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 3, Edited by Marjorie Julian Spruill, Valinda W. Littlefield, and Joan Marie Johnson, 2009
• McCall's
• Well-read lives : How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women, Barbara Sicherman, 2010
• Encyclopedia of world dress and fashion, 10 volumes, international collection beginning with pre-history extending to present, 2010

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• Writing Home: American women abroad, 1830-1920 Mary Suzanne Schriber, 1997
• Women and the Politics of Travel, 1870-1914 Monica Anderson, 2006

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• Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History (online database at Furman)
• Biography in Context (online database at Furman)
• American National Biography Online (online database at Furman)
• Gender Studies Database (online database at Furman)
• Women's Studies International (online database at Furman)
• Black Women in America Pulls together the research in this field to provide a building block of Black Women’s Studies. Includes women such as Venus and Serena Williams, Condoleezza Rice, Carol Moseley Braun, Ruth Simmons, and Ann Fudge. Addresses the achievements of black women throughout history, highlights their ongoing contributions in America today, and represents the new research the first edition helped to generate.

• Internet Women's History Sourcebook on Women
• For a list of popular magazines in the Main Library, some of which are published for women see: Popular Print Journals
• For additional information on Women's Resources see: Women's and Gender Study Resources
• TIME Archive: a searchable text collection of TIME magazine articles since 1923
• American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States, from the Library of Congress American Memory web site
• Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, from the Library of Congress American Memory web site
• United States Army Women's Museum in Fort Lee, VA
• National Women's History Museum exhibitions
• National Woman's Party Digital Collection
• American Women Writers National Museum
• Women’s Education in Early 20th Century Greenville: The South Carlina Digital Library has a collection of digitized yearbooks from The Greenville Woman's College and Chicora College from the early 1900s to the late 1920s.

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