Collection Highlight: Sisters of Survival Records

Getty Research InstituteLos Angeles, CA Three nuns in colorful habits trudge down a long desert road—but they are not alone. Not far behind them stalks a skeleton, who relentlessly pursues them as they clamber over boulders and menaces them while they sleep. The skeleton represents something more profound than death: it is the “spectre of

Collection Highlight: Women’s Bureau of the Department of Labor

FRASERDigital library (St. Louis, MO) FRASER holds a unique digital collection documenting the work of the Women’s Bureau, with historical documents on working conditions, wages, home life, workplace regulations, costs of living, health and hygiene, and social issues. The Bulletin of the Women’s Bureau contains the majority of the material and covers a range of

Collection Highlight: Victorine Quille Adams Papers

Beulah M. Davis Special CollectionsBaltimore, Maryland Victorine Quille Adams (1912 – 2006) was a Baltimore Public School teacher, business manager of the Charm Center, Founder of the Colored Women’s Democratic Campaign Committee, Co-Founder of Woman Power, Incorporated, and first African American Baltimore City Councilwoman. She was a native Baltimorean whose contributions sought to improve political