Helpful Resources

Web Resources:

• Ancestry Library https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/ 

• California Digital Newspaper Collection https://cdnc.ucr.edu/ 

• Chicago Ancestors map http://chicagoancestors.org/ 

• Chicago History Museum https://www.chicagohistory.org/

  • Abakanowicz Research Center https://libguides.chicagohistory.org/research 

  • Chicago History magazine archive https://issuu.com/chicagohistorymuseum

• Chicago Public Library https://www.chipublib.org/ 

• Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/ 

• Explore Chicago Collections https://explore.chicagocollections.org/ 

• Historical Society of Santa Rosa https://historicalsocietysantarosa.org/ 

• Internet Archive https://archive.org/ 

• Kalamazoo Valley Museum https://www.kalamazoomuseum.org/ 

• National Archives at Chicago https://www.archives.gov/chicago 

• Newberry Library https://www.newberry.org/ 

  • Genealogy and Local History https://www.newberry.org/collection/subjects/genealogy-and-local-history 

• Newspapers.com by Ancestry https://www.newspapers.com/ 

• Santa Rosa History blog http://santarosahistory.com/wordpress/

• Smith College Archives https://libraries.smith.edu/special-collections/about/college-archives

• Sonoma County Historical Society https://www.sonomacountyhistory.org/ 

• University of Chicago Library https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ 

• Western Sonoma County Historical Society https://wschs.org/ 

Articles and Books:

• Gordon, Sarah H. "Smith College Students: The First Ten Classes, 1879-1888." History of Education Quarterly 15, no. 2 (1975): 147-67. doi:10.2307/367978.

• Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth Century Beginnings to the 1930s. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.

• Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth Century Beginnings to the 1930s. 2nd ed. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. 

• Solomon, Barbara Miller. In the Company of Educated Women. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. 

• Wiggins, Henry H. Columbia University Press: 1893-1983. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.