WGSS 2013: Introduction to Women's Studies (Sanchez)

This course guide will help connect students from Gabriella Sanchez's Introduction to Women's Studies with resources in UTSA Special Collections.

Digital Images

Black and white photograph shows members of the Women's Progressive Club.

Founding members of Women's Progressive Club, San Antonio, Texas

Employees in print shop of El Progreso newspaper. Jovita Idar is on the right.

Women formerly employed by Finck Cigar Factory at 602 Buena Vista Street, picketing the plant while wearing banners pleading for better working conditions.

1937 San Antonio Laundry strike - View of women pickets carrying umbrellas

A female AFL (American Federation of Labor) laundry worker on strike. Original newspaper caption:

AFL (American Federation of Labor) laundry worker "braves injury to attempt to discourage workers speeding in trucks into the San Antonio laundry where strike is in progress. Trucks speed into the plant's driveway at about 30 miles an hour"

Police arresting Aurora Vallejo during the San Antonio Laundry Strike.

Emma Tenayuca in Bexar County Jail

Emma Tenayuca speaks to fellow members of the Workers Alliance outside offices of the U.S. Immigration Office in Federal Building during demonstration to protest beatings they claimed had been administered by border patrol officers.

Workers Alliance leader Emma Tenayuca, with clenched fist in the air, speaking to crowd outside San Antonio City Hall following a parade protesting scarcity of Works Progress Administration jobs

Women seated around tables shelling pecans by hand during the pecan shellers's strike at the Southern Pecan Shelling Company.

Striking pecan shellers picketing on the sidewalk in front of the Southern Pecan Shelling Company at 135 East Cevallos Street.

Additional Digital Materials

20th century Mexican cooking manuscript ... Ojaldras. Libro de cocina de mi mama Margarita
This manuscript cookbook contains dessert recipes that include: ojaldras, helado caliente, magdalenas, pan corriente, and more.
Libreta de cocina
1939 handwritten manuscript containing recipes for breads, cakes, desserts, salads, tacos, and other traditional Mexican dishes. Accompanying many of the recipes are illustrations cut out and pasted in from other sources.
1957 NAACP Youth Council "Wings of Freedom" Pageant
Article from Snap November 1, 1957 issue.
Donation Drive for Ella Austin Children's Home
Article from Snap January 19, 1962 issue.
"Easter Finery" for Ella Austin Child Ruby Williams
Article from Snap May 11, 1962 issue.
Lillian Sutton-Taylor, Oral History Interview 12-16-1977
Lillian Sutton-Taylor oral history in which she discusses her mother, who was a Women's Progressive Club member.
Ella Austin Brief Biography
Part of 1988 San Antonio Freedom Trail Guide.
Publicity for Many Kinds of Power, Sixth Annual Texas Lesbian Conference (1993)
WomanSpace, February 1994
First published as the Women's Community Journal in February 1986, WomanSpace was the longest continuously published women's community newsletter in San Antonio, finally ceasing publication in 2007.
The Marquise, March 10-23, 1994
The Marquise was a San Antonio LGBTQ periodical published from 1992-1997.
Progressive Women's Club Descriptions
Part of 1997 title "Archaeology at the Alamodome: investigations of a San Antonio neighborhood in transition, Volume I: Historical, architectural, and oral history research".
Ella Austin Community Center Description
Part of a 2001 East Side/Ellis Alley Neighborhood Discovery Tour publication.
Ella Austin Center Description
From a request for proposal (RFP) on Ellis Alley in Sterling K. Houston's 2001-2002 emails.