Library Research Guides: WGST 120: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies: Primary Sources

Images

This overview explains why and how you can find images to use in course & personal projects.

Finding Images (Wellesley College Art Library Research guide)
consult sources in the "public collections" section for images you can use
Wikipedia's Public Domain Images
List of sites with images in the public domain
Wikimedia Commons
All of the images you'll find here have clear information about permission for use. Many are in the public domain.
Flickr.com
Browse Creative Commons images / Search for Creative Commons images / Search by color with MulticolorEngine
morgueFile
Contains free high resolution digital stock photography for use in all creative pursuits.
Compfight
Search Flickr and other photo sites for freely-available images. Narrow your search by Creative Commons license to find images for public use.
Smithsonian Open Access
Open access and copyright-free images from the Smithsonian collections on every imaginable topic.

Want to use these images in a presentation, on a blog, or sharing on Tumblr, Twitter, or other social media?

Citing and Crediting Image Creators
A step-by-step guide to help you do this
Adding Photo Creds to Talk Slides
Nice tutorial on how to include images credits on powerpoint slides.

Primary Sources

Primary sources are original, uninterpreted information, such as firsthand accounts of events in letters, diaries, interviews, or historical news reportage.

For tips on how to find more visual resources or how to cite them, check the Zine How-To page!

Queer Zine Archive Project
The mission of the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) is to establish a "living history" archive of past and present queer zines and to encourage current and emerging zine publishers to continue to create. In curating such a unique aspect of culture, we value a collectivist approach that respects the diversity of experiences that fall under the heading "queer."
Grrrl Zine Network
Grrrl, lady, queer, and trans folk zines, distros and Do-It-Yourself projects from all over the world.
American Memory
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
Digital Collections from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History & Culture, Duke University
Collections of materials on the Women's Liberation Movement, African American women's experiences under slavery, and Civil War women. The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture acquires, preserves and makes available to a large population of researchers published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present.

Vogue Archive
A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, reproduced in high-resolution color page images.
Dates: 1892 CE-Present
Women's Magazine Archive, 1883-2005
Full text of six leading women's magazines focused on social issues, women's health, family and the home, politics, and fashion.
Dates: 1883-2005 CE
Independent Voices
Full text of alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals, produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines.
Dates: 1950-2023 CE
Gerritsen Collection
International collection of digitized books, pamphlets, magazines, journals and newspapers from pertaining to social history, women's and gender studies, and women's rights.
Dates: 1543-1988 CE
Twentieth Century Advice Literature
A full-text collection of advice manuals covering all aspects of social, political, cultural and professional life in the U.S. during the 20th century. Includes textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books.
Dates: 1890-1985 CE