Today in history.
Contributors: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress); Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.; Woman's Rights Convention (1851 : Akron, Ohio)
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Thorpe, Jim, 1887-1953.; Women's rights -- United States -- History.; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History.; Sports -- United States -- History.
Other titles: May 28
Description: Includes information on the Ohio Woman's Rights Convention, that opened on May 28, 1851, in Akron. Provides links to the complete text of the convention proceedings, and  selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, along with other information about the history of the woman's suffrage movement and women's rights in America. Also includes information about the world-class athlete, Jim Thorpe, who was born in Oklahoma on May 28, 1888. Links are also provided for early baseball pictures, 1860s-1920s, baseballs cards, 1887-1914, and, for photographs of the early days of collegiate football.
Notes: Title from HTML header (viewed on Jan. 17, 2003; resource last updated May, 2002).
Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: [Ohio Woman's Rights Convention, May 28, 1851]; title: Jim Thorpe.