The Iowa Women’s Archives and University of Iowa Libraries are marking Women’s Equality Day—Friday, Aug. 26—by unveiling a new digital collection documenting the decades-long campaign by Iowa women to gain the right to vote.
The Women’s Suffrage in Iowa Digital Collection is the culmination of a yearlong project to select and scan photographs, letters and other primary sources from the University Libraries, the State Historical Society of Iowa, and Iowa State University’s Special Collections Department. This collection is now available through the Iowa Digital Library at http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/suffrage. It offers researchers, teachers, students, historians and genealogists a centralized starting point for further investigation into this significant period in Iowa’s history.
“This is a great example of the power of digitization. Women’s Suffrage in Iowa brings together documents scattered throughout collections in the Iowa Women’s Archives and other institutions and makes them available to a wide audience within and beyond the borders of Iowa,” said IWA curator Kären Mason. “We hope the digital collection will entice Iowans to visit the Iowa Women’s Archives, the State Historical Society, or Iowa State. Since we were only able to include a fraction of the rich suffrage collections in Iowa there are many treasures yet to be uncovered”…