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The digitization of 30 linear feet of archives and manuscripts pertaining to the woman suffrage movement held by member repositories of the Philadelphia Area Consortium for Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) and other institutions in the region.

The core of our work will be digitizing and describing manuscript and some printed materials documenting women working for their own and for others’ rights in the century leading up to the woman suffrage vote in 1920, held in area institutions, irrespective of the geographic focus of the collection itself. The digitized material will be served up through a robust web presence that provides access to well-described digital items; the capacity to manipulate the descriptive data to generate new scholarly products; and other resources that will serve students and scholars studying not only women’s work leading up to the 1920 vote for woman suffrage but countless other topics as well. A two-year implementation grant, beginning in 2019, will ensure that a significant portion of the material will be digitized and online prior to the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, with collection-level records calling out those collections still to be digitized.