Life Story: Margrieta van Varick (1649–1695)
A Dutch merchant woman who traveled the world before settling in Flatbush and opening a shop to sell luxury goods.
A Dutch merchant woman who traveled the world before settling in Flatbush and opening a shop to sell luxury goods.
This document illuminates the way the Dutch Orphanmasters’ Court protected the inheritance rights of young women, and one mother’s attempt to keep them from meddling in her affairs.
This is the story of a mother and daughter in Maryland who became trapped in a perpetuating cycle of indenture and transgression.
A pair of documents that present competing arguments for and against women gaining the right to vote.
A newspaper article that challenges the unfair federal policy that tied a woman’s citizenship to that of her husband and offers an example of how one native born American woman was a victim of the system.
The cradleboard and "loopwagen" allowed Oneida and Dutch women to work while still keeping their children safe and close by. They symbolize the double duty all mothers in the early colonial period had to do.
This document reveals how Ursuline nuns approached the task of educating French and Native girls in New France.
This court document shows how a married woman in the Spanish colonies used her marriage contract to escape an unhappy marriage.
A suffrage poster with a multi-faceted view of womanhood that places men and women as equals, but still celebrates women as homemakers and caretakers.
An advertisement for Margaret Sanger’s women’s health clinic in a predominantly Italian and Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York. This resource demonstrates the challenges women faced in securing their reproductive rights.