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Women in Music
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Explore collections related to women in music from across the Smithsonian.
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives
Female musician playing drum, Tombouctou, Mali, slide
National Postal Museum
32c Rosetta Tharpe single
National Museum of American History
Patsy Cline's Costume
National Museum of American History
Journal, used by MC Lyte
National Museum of American History
Selena's Leather Outfit
National Museum of American History
Dolly Parton
National Museum of American History
“On The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe"
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Aretha Franklin, SCLC convention, Club Paradise, Memphis, TN
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Satin gown worn by Marian Anderson and Denyce Graves
National Portrait Gallery
Marian Anderson and Leonard Bernstein
National Portrait Gallery
Sarah Chang
National Museum of American History
Hello, Dolly
Dress
National Portrait Gallery
Patti Smith Self-Portrait
National Portrait Gallery
Sissieretta Jones
National Museum of American History
Mother Maybelle and the Carter Family
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Dress worn by Celia Cruz
National Portrait Gallery
Billie Holiday
National Portrait Gallery
Deborah Harry
National Portrait Gallery
Leontyne Price
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Woman playing Samisen
National Postal Museum
Forever Latin Music Legends: Celia Cruz single
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives
Tuareg women playing drum, clapping hands and singing melodies during spontaneous event called tende, Tombouctou, Mali. slide
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Nina Simone, 1977
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives
Aissa Alimiri playing single-stringed lute, Tombouctou, Mali. slide
National Portrait Gallery
Odetta
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
A group of women in a garden, entertaining themselves with music and dancing
National Museum of African Art
Drum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Women's Dance
National Portrait Gallery
Madonna
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Track sheet used during the recording of "Ladies First" by Queen Latifah
National Portrait Gallery
Joni Mitchell
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives
Madagascar (Sud) postcard : Types Bara, Joueurs de Valiha
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
Irish folk songs for women sound recording / sung by Lori Holland ; edited by Kenneth S. Goldstein
National Portrait Gallery
Joan Baez
National Portrait Gallery
Mahalia Jackson
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