Lycoming County Women's History Collection

A COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY PROJECT

The Lycoming County Women’s History Collection is an online archive of source material relating to the history of women in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. This collection, all from local archives, includes photographs, correspondence, minute books, diaries, scrapbooks, recipe books, newspaper stories, and much more. The documents highlight the history of local women in volunteer and reform organizations, education, the arts, the workplace, and in their private lives. The majority of the materials are from the time period 1850-1970.

The project is a cooperative effort of Lycoming College Snowden Library, the James V. Brown Library, the Lycoming County Historical Society, and Pennsylvania College of Technology Madigan Library. Other partners include the Williamsport Home, the Williamsport Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association, and the YWCA of Northcentral PA.

The project is directed by Snowden Library and the website is hosted by Lycoming College.

PRESERVE LOCAL WOMEN'S HISTORY

If you would like to support the Lycoming County Women's History Collection, you can donate online:

SPECIAL TOPICS

Spotlight

Williamsport's Female Artists

Top left: Frances Tipton Hunter (Findagrave.com); top right "Citche Manito Warns the Nations from Hiawatha" by Rena Frankeberger; bottom left: "Williamsport Train Station" by Martha LeVan Mussina; bottom right: Dewing Woodward.

In the mid-nineteenth and twentieth centuries Williamsport was home to many talented artists who gained local and even global prestige. The public, however, largely focused their attention on male artists’ work and often disregarded women artists.

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