Women's Studies Primary Sources--Annotated Guide
Alphabetical annotated guide to primary source materials (predominantly microfilm) available at Bartle Library. You may also browse the Index to these materials.
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The Jane Addams Papers
This microfilm edition of the Jane Addams Papers was compiled from collections of over 150 individuals and institutions. The collection includes correspondence to and from Jane Addams; documents including calendars, diaries, legal records, etc.; the writings of Jane Addams; minutes, reports, and publications for organizations in which Addams participated; clippings, articles, and other reference material selected by Addams for personal use; and the records of Hull House.
Guide: Ref HV40.32 A33 J36 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1823
82 microfilm reels
Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1984.
Records of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Although the main focus of the records of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (1911-1970) is on labor, the collection also provides insights into events concerning civil rights, America's urban ethnic culture, and Jewish studies. The papers of Bessie Hillman, one of the founders of ACWA, are included. Her efforts as an union organizer, as well as her correspondence with Golda Meir are well-documented.
Guide: Ref HD6515 .C6 A525 1989 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1846
61 microfilm reels
Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1990.
American Women's Diaries: New England
This collection covers the lives of eight middle and upper middle class women residing in New England. They are: Ruth Henshaw Bascom (1772-1848), Abigail Gardner Drew (1777-1868), Susan E. Parsons Brown Forbes (1824-1910), Hannah Davis Gale (1818-1851), Louisa Adams Park (1773-1813), Sally Ripley (b.1785), Martha "Patty" Rogers (1761-1840) and Caroline Bennett White (1828-1915). Diaries were selected to illustrate life from a day-to-day point of view and because they portray local incidents that relate to national events.
Guide: Ref Z5305 .U5 G85 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1807
21 microfilm reels
New Canaan, CT: Readex, 1984.
Anthony, Susan B--see Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Archives of the Settlement Movement, Series I, part 5 - Major Figures of the Settlement Movement: Correspondence, Speeches, and Articles, c.1899-1958
Series 1 of this collection constitutes the Archives of the National Federation of Settlements, and successors. Part 5 includes the correspondence, speeches, and articles of major figures in the Settlement Movement between 1899 and 1958: Jane Addams, Canon Barnett, Margery Berry, Helen Hall, Paul Kellog, Florence Kelly, Albert J. Kennedy, Lillie Peck, John McDowell, Mary Simkhovitch, Lea Taylor, and Robert Woods.
Guide: Ref HV4194 .A7 1990 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1856
6 microfilm reels (part 5)
New Haven, CT: Research Publications, 1990.
Papers of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment and the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform
Both the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment (AAPA) and the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform emerged as important political forces in the 1920s and the 1930s in the United States. This set contains the AAPA and Women's Organization documents, reports, conferences, minutes of meetings, general correspondence, articles, speeches, and election results.
Guide: Ref HV5089 .G8 1982 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1791
17 microfilm reels
Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1982.
Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching papers, 1930-1942
This collection documents the efforts of this organization, which was closely aligned with the Commission on Interracial Cooperation as both groups worked to alleviate lynchings.
Guide: Ref E185.92 D83-shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #2240
8 microfilm reels
Ann Arbor, MI: Bell & Howell, 1983.
The Papers of Emily Greene Balch, 1875-1961
One of only two American women to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Emily Greene Balch played a leading role in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom of which she was elected honorary international president in 1937. These papers include biographical information, including material related to her 1946 Nobel prize, correspondence to and from prominent contemporaries, and her diaries, journals, notes and other manuscripts.
Guide: Ref Z6464 .Z9 P36 1988 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1929
26 microfilm reels
Wilmington, DE: SRA, 1988.
Black Women in the United States History, ed. by Darlene Clark Hine
Brooklyn, NY: Carlson, 1990.
This 16 volume series covers colonial times to the present and is an invaluable collection of widely-scattered secondary materials on Black women's history. The experiences of Black American women are described touching on such themes as slavery, emancipation, reconstruction, migration, urbanization, work, family, resistance, club formation, institution building, and aesthetic expression.
Access: Individual titles are in the online catalog.
Location: Main library stacks E185.86 .B543 vo. 1-16
Black Women Oral History Project
This is a collection of autobiographical memoirs of a group of Black American women 70 years of age and older who have made significant contributions of varying kinds to American society in the early and middle decades of the twentieth century. Among those interviewed are Rosa Parks, Dorothy West, Jesse Abbott, Sadie Alexander, and Merze Tate. There are two sets in two locations.
Guides: Main library stacks E185.86 B345 1991 and Special Collections (Oversize)
Location: Main library stacks and Special Collections (Oversize)
E185.86 B345 1991 vols. 1-10
Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration, 1916-1929
Documenting the dramatic black migration in the United States from the rural South to urban centers in the North, this collection chronicles various aspects of Afro-American labor history. Included are documents related to agricultural labor, industrial work, unionism, and race relations. Several reels pertain to women: Reels 10-11 contain the records of the U.S. Railroad Administration's Women's Service Section and Reels 16-19 include records from the U.S. Women's Bureau concerning Black women.
Guide: Ref Z1361 .N39 B558 1985 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1720
25 microfilm reels
Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1985.
Papers of Sophonisba P. Breckinridge
The papers of Sophonisba P. Breckinridge include correspondence which covers the entire range of her activities in the field of social work and social reform. She was a key figure in the group of women reformers in Chicago who shaped the Progressive era. The correspondents who are represented in her papers include Jane Addams, Alben Barkley, Cordell Hull, Frances Perkins and Frankin D. Roosevelt.
Guide: Guide on Reel 1
Microfilm #2186
37 microfilm reels
Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1981.
Papers of Charlotte Hawkins Brown, 1883-1961
This collection of Charlotte Hawkins Brown's papers provides information about her life and activities, Palmer Memorial Institute, and her struggle to enlarge the school. The collection is divided into the following three series: Personal and Biographical, Correspondence, and Palmer Memorial Institute.
Guide: Ref LA2317 B66 H37 1984-shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #2238
4 microfilms
Watertown MA: General Microfilm Co., 1984
The Papers of Carrie Chapman Catt
Unpublished papers held at the Library of Congress include items on women's suffrage, world peace, and women's rights. Also include diaries, letters, and other materials collected by or pertaining to Carrie Chapman Catt. Materials cover the period 1848-1950.
No published guide
Microfilm #1927
18 microfilm reels
Washington, DC: Library of Congress
The Collected Correspondence of Lydia Maria Child, 1817-1880
This collection consists of 2,604 letters, the majority of which were written by Child. It is most plentiful for the late 1830s, 1840s, late 1850s, 1860s and 1870s. The antislavery movement and surrounding political controversies are the predominant themes, but the collection also includes correspondence on feminist issues.
Guide: Ref E449 .C534152 H64 - shelved with microform guides
Microfiche #299
97 microfiche sheets
Records of the Children's Bureau, 1912-1969
Children's Bureau History-part 3; of a 6 part collection that documents the organizational structure and administrative history of the Children's Bureau. Contains pioneering surveys on social concerns including nutrition, maternal mortality, sweat shops and juvenile delinguency.
Guide: Ref HV741 U54 1993 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #2230
92 microfilm reels
Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healy, 1988
Columbia University Oral History Collection: Women Pioneers and Professionals
Selected memoirists are owned by the libraries and can be located with a search on the memoirist's name as an author in the online catalog. Most memoirs are shelved at Microfiche #726. Related titles to search on : "Social Security Project," and "The New York Times Oral History Project."
Guide: Cumulative index to memoirists at Ref A13 .O72 1990z -shelved with the microform guides
Access: individual memoirists are in the libraries' online catalog
Microfiche #726
Commission on Interracial Cooperation Papers, 1919-1944
These papers describe the work of a moderate coalition of whites and blacks that promoted improved race relations through public awareness and educational programs. The collection includes correspondence, minutes of CIC meetings, pamphlets, reports, and educational material.
Guide: Ref E185.92 D83 - shelved with microform guides
Microfiche #2195
55 microfilm reels
Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1984
Cornell University collection of women's rights pamphlets, 1814-1912
This microfiche collection of pamphlets provides a definitive record of the women's rights movement from its infancy to the advent of the Women's Suffrage Amendment. Contained in the collection are the proceedings of the National Women's Rights Convention of 1850 and other proceedings and speeches from other significant women's conferences during this century
Guide: REF HQ1423 C67 1974 - shelved with microform guides
Microfiche #1005
124 microfiche
Wooster, OH: Bell & Howell, 1974
Denison House Records
Denison House, founded in 1892 in Boston, Massachusetts was created by affluent women who sought a "democracy" between leisure class and the working class. Their outreach programs and the history of this organization are documented in chronological order.
Guide: Ref HV4196.B6 D45 1999 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #2243
6 microfilm reels
Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998
Elizabeth Glendower Evans papers and correspondence
This Women In America series, from the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College, includes the papers and correspondence of Elizabeth Glendower Evans a prominent social reformer who lived from 1856-1937.
Guide: Ref HQ1413 .E93 A78 1987 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #2166
11 microfilm reels
Brighton, Sussex, England: Research Publications, 1987.
Gerritsen Collection of Women's History
This collection is one of the most comprehensive resources for the study of women in American and European social history and of the feminist movement worldwide. Both monographs and periodicals in many languages are included. Subject areas include: history and social conditions, political and social reform, biography and autobiography, psychology of women, feminism, and women in the arts.
Access: Titles of monographs and periodicals are in the libraries' online catalog.
Guide: Ref HQ1121 .G47 1983 - 1 copy shelved with microform guides
1 copy located with the microfiche set
Microfiche #683
12, 895 microfiche sheets and 238 microfilm reels
Sanford, NC: Microfilming Corporation of America, 1980.
Herstory
The International Women's History Periodical Archive, from which the HERSTORY microfilms were made, is a collection of newspapers, journals, and newsletters covering the time period 1968-1974. It was assembled by the Women's History Research Center, Berkeley, California. Included are materials on women's liberation and women's civic, religious, professional and peace organizations from all over the world.
Guide: Ref Z7962 .W67 1972 and Ref Z962 .W672 1976 -shelved with microform guides.
Microfilm #1639
Berkeley, CA: Women's History Research Project, 1971 - .
90 reels
History of Women
This enormous set consists of primary source materials from the world's most important library holdings on women's history through 1920. The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College and the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College form the core of this collection. New York Public Library and Boston Public Library added rare early imprints and periodicals on women outside of the United States. The Jane Addams Hull House Library provided coverage of the settlement house movement and the activities of women in social reform in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The items in this microfilm collection are arranged chronologically and are divided into 5 sections; monographs, pamphlets, periodicals, manuscripts, and photographs. The guide to the set includes a list of periodicals, index to photographs, main-entry index, and a subject index. The subject index provides access to a wide range of topics relevant to women's history. Examples of specific subject headings include: adultery; beauty, personal; children; clothing & dress; conduct of life; divorce; education of women; family; home economics; marriage; prostitution; women's rights. etc.
Access: Monographs and periodicals are in the library's online catalog.
Guide: Ref HQ 1121 .R474 1983 - shelved with microform guides
Monographs: Microfilm #1620
Periodicals: Microfilm #1621
1248 microfilm reels
New Haven, CT: Research Publications, 1977.
History of Women in the United States (ed. by Nancy C. Cott)
New York: K.G. Saur, 1992.
This 20 volume set is a collection of reprints of journal articles from the 1940s to the 1980s covering the history of women in the United States from the Revolutionary Era to the 1960s. Topics covered include: theory and methods of women's history, domestic and family matters, women's work, women's sexuality and health issues, religion, education, intercultural and interracial relations, politics, suffrage, women and war, organizational life, and social and moral reform. Articles are arranged chronologically within each volume to serve as an historical overview of scholarship on each topic.
Location: Main library stacks - HQ1410 .H57 1992
Papers of Hannah Clothier Hull, 1889-1958
This set includes correspondence, speeches, articles, notes, biographical materials, clippings and photographs. Hannah Clothier Hull, pacifist and suffrage leader, was one of the founders of the Woman's Peace party and was affiliated with the American Friends Service Committee and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Guide: Ref JX1962 .H84 P37 1991 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #2171
6 microfilm reels
Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1991
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
SUNY Binghamton is a member of the ICPSR and has access to over 30,000 data files on computer tape available for quantitative analysis. The breadth of data available is enormous. Examples include: United State Decennial Censuses from 1790-1980; Family Budget Study, Massachusetts, 1874; National Survey of Adolescent Female Sexual Behavior, 1976; Women in Development; and ABC News/Washington Post Sex and Abortion Poll, May 1981.
Access: Titles of data sets are in the libraries' online catalog.
Guides and Technical Documentation: Data Services Office, Main Reference.
Jewish American Women
Microfilm sets on the history of Jewish women in social movements includes the following individual sets;
Lizzie Black Kander papers, 1875-1960
Microfilm #2235
2 microfilm reels
Cincinnati, OH: American Jewish Archives, 1999Correspondence and miscellaneous items pertaining to her numerous activities, 1875-1960 (Lizzie Black Kander)
Microfilm #2238
2 microfilm reels
Cincinnati, OH: American Jewish ArchivesEmma Lazarus collection
Microfilm #2231
4 microfilm reels
Cincinnati, OH: American Jewish Archives of the Hebrew Union College, 1999Marion, Ohio, Temple Israel (1897-1991) records consisting of congregational history
Microfilm #2234
2 microfilm reels
Cincinnati, OH: American Jewish Archives, 1999Maud Nathan scrapbooks, 1890-1938
Microfilm #2236
2 microfilm reels
Cincinnati, OH: American Jewish Archives, 1999Minutes of board, executive budget, and various committees, and of general meetings, also newspaper clippings, 1908-1987 (National Council of Jewish Women, Cincinnati Section)
Microfilm #2232
7 microfilm reels
Cincinnati, OH: American Jewish Archives, 1999Minutes, 1908-1917, 1925-1940, miscellaneous reports, membership lists, newspaper articles, committee reports, correspondence, and annual reports (National Council of Jewish Women, Cincinnati Section
Microfilm #2233
7 microfilm reels
Cincinnati, OH: American Jewish Archives, 1999Scrapbook pertaining to her numerous activities, 1894-1939 (Hannah G. Solomon)
Microfilm #2237
1 microfilm reel
Cincinnati, OH: American Jewish Archives
Papers of the League of Women Voters, 1918-1974
Founded in 1918, the League of Women Voters legitimated women's political activism throughout the post-suffrage period. The League worked at both the state and national levels to educate women about their new responsibilities after the vote was won in 1920. They also worked towards improving the legal status of women from a non-partisan standpoint. The collection includes transcripts and records of national conventions, minutes of meetings and relevant personal correspondence.
Guide: Ref HQ1402 .P3 1985 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1750
64 microfilm reels
Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1985.
The Papers of Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead, 1876-1936
Edwin D. Mead (1849-1937) and Lucia Ames Mead (1856-1936) were leading pacifists, writers, and social reformers. Both Meads were involved in the leadership of the international peace movement. Correspondents and others in this collection include Jane Addams, Emily Greene Balch, Alice Stone Blackwell, Carrie Chapman Catt, Hannah Clothier Hull, and Rebecca Shelley.
Guide: Ref JX1962 .M479 P37 1991- shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1939
11 microfilm reels
Wilmington DE: Scholarly Resources, 1991
Records of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1850-1960
This collection of suffrage-oriented materials contains letters, progress reports from state and local suffrage organizations, biographical information on some of the principal suffrage workers, and a collection of antisuffrage literature.
Guide: Ref JK1896.N29 1981 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #2167
73 microfilm reels
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1981
Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1992
Part 1. Minutes of National Conventions, Publications, and President's Office Correspondence, includes minutes of national conventions, 1895-1992; publications of state and local NACWC affiliates including histories of many state and local clubs; National Notes, the organization's quarterly periodical 1897-1992; other publications of the national office, and correspondence of the President's office, 1920-1958.
Guide: Ref E185.86.B64 1994 pt. 1. - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm # 1925
26 microfilm reels
Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, c1993.
Part 2. President's Office Files; 1958-1968, includes the President's Office Files of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC) under the administrations of Rosa Slade Gragg and Mamie B. Reese. These records document the association's activities during the modern civil rights movement.
Guide: Ref E185.86.B64 1994 pt. 2 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm # 1925
15 microfilm reels
Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, c1995
Records of the National Consumers League, 1882-1973
This collection includes correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, speeches, project and program files, legal files, scrapbooks, and other papers (chiefly 1920-50) relating to the League's work with public health, consumer protection, public welfare and fair labor standards.
Guide: Guide on Reel 1
Microfilm #2187
124 microfilm reels
Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1982.
National Woman's Party Papers, 1913-1974
This collection of primary sources materials covers the founding and subsequent development of the National Woman's Party (NWP) in the United States. It documents the Party's impressive achievements in bringing about hundreds of federal and local laws that advanced the status of women. The Papers trace the NWP's promotion of the Equal Rights Amendment which was originally introduced in 1923.
Guide: Ref HQ1904 N37 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1717
179 microfilm reels
Glen Rock, NJ: Microfilming Corporation of America, 1977-1978.
National Woman's Party Papers: The Suffrage Years, 1913-1920
This collection of papers document the militant aspects of the suffrage campaign in the United States. They are concerned exclusively with the federal suffrage amendment campaign. The papers date primarily from 1913 to 1920 and relate the specific activities of the National Woman's Party.
Guide: Ref HQ1904.N373 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #2182
97 microfilm reels
Bethedsa, MD: UPA, 1981
Records of the New York State Factory Investigating Committee
These records, made available from the New York State Archives and Records Administration, offer researchers a detailed view of early twentieth century working life. The deaths of 145 employees, predominantly women and girls, of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company during a factory fire on March 2, 1911 precipitated the establishment of the Factory Investigating Commission (Laws of 1911, Chapter 561). The guide to the microfilm collection is entitled: Working Lives: A Guide to the Records of the New York State Factory Investigating Committee.
Guide: Ref HD8083 .N7 W6 1989 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm # 1838
42 microfilm reels
Albany, NY: New York State Archives and Records Administration, 1911-1915
Oneida community books, pamphlets, and serials, 1834-1972
Oneida Community collection is divided into two main sections; books & pamphlets and serials. The books and pamphlets section is arranged chronologically 1838-1879 and 1848-1972. These two groups of materials include information written by and for the Oneida Community and material written later about the community. The serials published by the community are arranged chronologically and include two internal newsletters.
Guide: Ref HX656.05 056 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1391
15 microfilm reels
Glen Rock, NJ: Microfilming Corp of America, 1973
Pamphlets in American History: Women
Included among the 646 pamphlets are biographies, campaign literature, speeches, legal decisions, trade union leaflets, and personal narratives. The majority of materials were published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and deal with issues such as women in the workplace, women's suffrage, and the continuing struggle for equal rights after the vote was obtained. The collection is a rich source of primary materials drawn from the collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Tamiment Library of New York University, the New York Historical Society and others.
Access: Individual titles are in the libraries' catalog.
Guide: Ref Z1236 .P36 1979 - shelved with microform guides
Microfiche # 128
722 microfiche
Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1978-
Periodicals on Women and Women's Rights
Diverse collection of 24 titles dating from the mid 19th century to the 1930s. Includes feminist titles such as Susan B. Anthony's The Revolution, labor movement titles such as Woman Worker and Ladies' Garment Worker, politically moderate titles such as Club Woman, and conservative titles such as The Woman Patriot, "dedicated to the defense of womanhood, motherhood, the family and the state. Against suffrage, feminism, and socialism."
Access: Individual titles are in the library's online catalog.
Guide: In process
Frederick, MD: University Publications of America.
FBI file on Eleanor Roosevelt
The FBI investigated Eleanor Roosevelt's alleged radical & un-American activities. This file contains correspondence, memos and newspaper clippings, from 1932-1962. Also included are letters from "ordinary" citizens protesting her activities & her newspaper column "My Day".
Guide: Ref E807.1 R48 G85 1996 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm # 2242
3 microfilm reels
Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1996
The Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945
The papers span the 1930s and 1940s and demonstrate Eleanor Roosevelt's activist role in U.S. history. As an advocate of the oppressed including textile workers, garment workers, Black Americans and Jewish refugees, Roosevelt emerged as a major public figure. She contributed greatly to the New Deal and worked closely with the NAACP.
Guide: Ref E807.1 .R41 1986 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm # 1778
20 microfilm reels
Frederick, MD: UPA
Margaret Sanger Papers: Smith College Collections series and Collected Documents series
Vast collection of the papers of Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) founder and lifelong leader of the birth control movement. These two series include extensive correspondence, writings, and organizational records chronicling Sanger's career. Also included are documents recording her personal life, friendships and family. Public and private correspondence documents Sanger's work with the American Birth Control League (founded in 1921) which evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Smith College Collections Series
Guide: RefHQ764.S3 A2 1995 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #2184
83 microfilm reels
Bethesda, MD: UPA, 1995
Collected Documents Series
Guide: RefHQ764.S3 A2 1995 -shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #2185
18 microfilm reels
Bethesda, MD: UPA, 1996
Papers of Margaret Sanger
This collection does not significantly overlap the a bove two collections. It describes Sanger's career and the birth control movement in America. It concentrates on the years 1928-1940 and is divided into 8 series: Diaries, Personal Correspondence File, General Correspondence File, Professional File, Conference File, Speeches and Writings File, Scrapbooks File, Miscellany and Printed Matter.
Guide: RefHQ764.S3L52 1977 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #2227
145 microfilm reels
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976
Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers
Reprinted from the Schomburg collection by Oxford University Press beginning in 1988 over 30 volumes are now available including titles by Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784), Anna J. Cooper (1858-1964), Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935), and Charlotte Forten Grimke; as well as collected works on black women's narratives and slave narratives.
Access: Titles are in the library's online catalog
(t=Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century...)
Location: Some titles are in Special Collections
Other titles are located in the main library stacks
Settlement Movement--see Archives of the Settlement Movement
Socialist Party of America Papers, 1897-1976
This set contains correspondence, minutes of committee meetings and proceedings of conventions, financial records, court records, speeches, press releases, pamphlets, books, and serials. The papers chronicle the activities of American Socialists within their party and in their contacts with other individuals, organizations, and movements during the 20th century
Guide: Ref JK2391 .S6 S63 1995 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #2196
142 microfilm reels
Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1995
The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
The papers in this collection span the years 1831 through 1906 and contain more than 14,000 documents including legislative testimony, correspondence, diaries, speeches, accounts of meetings, calls to action, articles, legal papers, and financial records. It is divided into three series: Series 1 contains a complete run of Revolution (1868-1871), the weekly newspaper established by Stanton and Anthony; Series 2 contains the Chicago Historical Society's collection of 1,700 letters and petitions seeking a woman suffrage plank in the 1880 Republican party platform; Series 3 is the bulk of the collection, organized in a single chronology of all types of papers of Stanton and Anthony.
Guide: Ref HQ1413 .S67 P37 1992 - 1 copy shelved with microform guides
1 copy in Main Stacks Oversize collection
Microfilm #1853
45 microfilm reels
Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1991.
Survey Associates records
These records document the publication of the Survey magazines and illustrate the magazines' role in twentieth-century social work and social reform. Part II Editorial Files (1922-1952) is a series of 14 special issues from the Survey Graphic which describe the work of progressive women reformers.
Guide: Ref Z6616 S82 S97 1985 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1938
19 microfilm reels (Pt.2)
Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1985
Papers of Mary Church Terrell, 1863-1954
Papers of an Afro-American leader, author, lecturer and educator. Set includes correspondence, diaries, printed material, speeches and other writings chiefly 1886-1954.
Guide at the beginning of reel 1
Microfilm #2168
34 microfilm reels
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1977
Earl Conrad/Harriet Tubman Collection
Series 2: Antebellum America and Slavery from the Manuscript Collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This collection reproduces letters, pamphlets, clippings, manuscripts, interview notes and other materials accumulated by the journalist Earl Conrad while he prepared writings about Harriet Tubman.
Guide: Ref E185.86 G7375 1995 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #2241
2 microfilm reels
Wilmington, DE:Scholarly Resources, 1995
Twentieth Century Trade Union Woman, Vehicle for Social Change: Oral History Project
This collection of interviews highlights the roles of women in American labor struggles. Forty-one interviewees discuss their lives, families, and beliefs as well as the events that led them to become involved in union organizations.
Access: Headers on microfiche are alphabetical by last name of worker and are in the library's online catalog.
Microfiche #460
61 microfiche sheets (41 interview transcripts)
Sanford, NC: Microfilming Corporation of America, 1979.
Union Signal (Woman's Temperance Publication Association) 1883-1933
As The official newspaper of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) The Union Signal was devoted primarily to temperance and prohibition topics, encompassing the social, economic, and political aspects of the question. Other topics covered in the paper included: the women's movement and the suffrage question; and welfare reform, including concern for prisoners, immigrants and child laborers; disarmament and the peace movement. Contributors to the paper included many of the prominent temperance leaders.
Guide: Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Temperance and Prohibition Papers
Ref HV5296.G85 1977 - 1 copy shelved with microform guides
1 copy in main stacks
Microfilm #1933
49 microfilm reels
Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1977.
U.S.Bureau of Labor. Report on the Condition of Women and Child Wage-Earners in the United States
Prepared under the direction of Charles P. Neill, Commissioner of Labor this 19 volume set covers the period from 1910-1913 on women and children and work in the United States. The purpose of the series of reports was "to investigate and report the industrial, social, moral, educational and physical condition of women and child workers in the United States wherever employed, with special reference to their age, hours of labor, terms of employment, health, illiteracy, sanitary and other conditions surrounding their occupation, and the means employed for the protection of their health, person, and morals."
Location: Government Documents
Serial Set: (volumes 5685-5703) at call number: J66 .A2
United States Women's Bureau, Special Bulletin, 1940-44
Twenty Special Bulletins were issues by the Women's Bureau. With the onset of World War II, the topics of discussion focused on aspects of employment for women in wartime.
Guide: Ref Z7963 .E7 B78 1980z - shelved with microform guides
Microfiche #320
Millwood, NJ: Kraus Microform.
Lillian Wald Papers, 1895-1936
This collection documents Wald's involvement with the Henry Street Settlement, the Federal Children's Bureau, the American Union Against Militarism, The National Child Labour Committee, and the League of Free Nations Association. Her correspondence contains letters from major public figures including Jane Addams, Lavinia Dock, Frances Perkins, and Margaret Sanger.
No guide
Microfilm #1826
37 microfilm reels
New York, NY: New York Public Library, 1976[1989].
Lillian Wald Papers
These papers are the institutional records of the Henry Street Settlement and describe the origins of public health nursing in the United States. They augment the above collection of Wald Papers (from New York Public Library).
Guide: Ref HQ1413.W34 L55 1992 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #2169
112 microfilm reels
Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, 1992
What Women Wrote: Scenarios, 1912-1929
Included here are over 60 scenarios representing the work of nearly 40 women writers and covering the years 1912-1929. "Scenarios" include synopses, cutting continuities, and screenplays deposited with the Library of Congress as part of the required copyright application reflecting the 1912 copyright law. Together these scenarios provide an opportunity to study the development of film writing during a formative period of motion pictures.
Guide: Fine Arts Ref Z5784 .M9 S3 1987
Fine Arts Microfilm #1835
2 microfilm reels
Frederick, MD: UPA, 1987.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1853 through 1939
This microform series of WCTU material includes 20 linear feet of scrapbooks, correspondence, minutes, and miscellaneous manuscript and printed material. The WCTU National Headquarters papers consist of national convention minutes, correspondence, scrapbooks, and other biographical and historical materials. The WCTU series begins with a complete set of printed Minutes for the Annual Meetings of the WCTU from 1874 to 1934. Correspondence forms the bulk of the rest of the collection.
Guide: Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Temperance and Prohibition Papers
Ref HV5296 .G85 1977 - 1 copy shelved with microform guides
1 copy in main stacks
Microfilm # 1932
49 microfilm reels
Alexandria, VA:Chadwyck-Healey, 1977.
Collected Records of the Woman's Peace Party, 1914-1920
Founded in 1915 at a national conference called by Jane Addams and Carrie Chapman Catt, more than 3,000 members of various local women's peace organizations gathered to oppose militarism, limit armaments in the United States, gain democratic control of foreign policy, and extend the vote to women. This collection is divided into Historical records and Correspondence and includes annual meeting minutes, executive council minutes, membership lists, literature, speeches, and news clippings.
Guide: Ref Z6464 .Z9 C68 1988 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1830
23 microfilm reels
Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1988.
Women and Health: Mental Health
This set makes available an important source of research materials collected between 1968 and 1974 on all aspects of women's health. Material was drawn from mass circulation and alternative publishing and professional journals.
Guide: Guide to the microfilm edition of the women and health collection
Ref Z7962 .W68 - shelved with microform guides
14 microfilm reels
Berkeley, CA: Women's History Research Center, 1975.
Women and Law
This set covers six subject areas: Law/general: politics; employment; education; rape/prison/prostitution; and black and third world women. law materials were gathered from mass, alternative and professional publications from 1968-1974.
Guide: Ref Z7962 .W69 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1641
Berkeley, CA:Women's History Research Center, 1975.
Women Pioneers and Professionals--see Columbia University Oral History Collection
Records of the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor, 1918-1965
This collection includes reports of the director of the Women's Bureau, major conference records, speeches, and articles. The records cover protective labor legislation and the ERA, women in industry, immigrant women workers, technological change and women's employment, child care, black women workers, occupational and safety hazards, women's employment patterns in wartime, the legal status of women, and other areas.
Guide: Ref HD6095 .H9 1986 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1779
23 microfilm reels
Frederick, MD: UPA, 1986.
Records of the Women's City Club of New York, 1916-1980
These records chronicle women's initiatives and responses to a wide range of local and national issues including protective labor legislation, child and maternal welfare, ethics and government, public education, voter participation, immigration, race relations, and housing, criminal justice, ecology and the arts. Founded during the 1915 campaign for women's suffrage, the Women's City Club (WCC) provided a forum for women to study and debate political issues. Among its founders were Vira Boardman Whitehouse, Alice Duer Miller, and Helen Rogers Reid. The records are comprised of minutes of the WCC board of directors, minutes of standing committee meetings, minutes and reports of annual meetings, the president's annual reports, WCC publications, Quarterly Bulletin (1919-1932) and Agenda (1940-1980), and published special reports.
Guide: Ref Z7964 .N4 G8 1989 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1841
24 microfilm reels
Frederick, MD: UPA, 1989
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Papers, 1915-1978
Assembled at the international headquarters of the Women's League in Geneva, Switzerland, this collection dates from the organization's inception at the Hague in 1915 until 1978. WILPF is one of the most influential advocates for peace worldwide. Historical manuscripts cover committee and financial records, correspondence, international congresses, summer schools, national sections and other countries.
Guide: Ref JX1965 .W4594 1983 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1713
114 microfilm reels
Sanford, NC: Microfilming Corp. of America, 1983.
The Records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section, 1919-1959
WILPF was established in 1919 and replaced the Woman's Peace Party (WPP) in the United States. The records collected here are arranged in three series - Historical Records, Correspondence, and Serial Publications - which document the WILPF's lobbying techniques, demonstrations, letter campaigns, speeches, and grass-roots organizing.
Guide: Ref JX1965 .W4595 1988 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1934
97 microfilm reels
Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1988.
Women's Joint Congressional Committee - Records
These records include correspondence, information forms, minutes, reports, financial records, membership lists, and miscellaneous other printed matter, chiefly from 1920 to 1953, relating to the Women's Joint Congressional Committee's work monitoring and promoting legislation in the areas of social welfare, education, and women's rights.
Guide: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Grassroots Women's Organizations
Ref Z7964 .N4 G8 1989 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1847
7 microfilm reels
Washington, DC: LC Photoduplication Services, 1983.
Women's Movement in Cuba, 1898-1958
This unique collection of sources on the Cuban women's movement was compiled by Dr. K Lynn Stoner from Cuban archives. It spans the period from Cuban independence from Spain through the end of the Batista regime and will facilitate research on Cuban feminism, women in politics, literature by Cuban women, and the legal status of women. The documents, which are in Spanish, fall into three categories: works by feminists about feminists and their causes; works by men about the status of women; and literary works by feminist writers illustrating the condition of women.
Guide: Ref HQ1507 .P75 1991 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1854
13 microfilm reels
Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1991.
Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform--see Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College:
Series 1, Women's Suffrage
Part A. National Leaders
This series is a collection of the papers of prominent national suffragists speaking to the national cause. Highlights include major collections of Anna Howard Shaw, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Julia Ward Howe, as well as the smaller collections of Carrie Chapman Catt and Lucy Stone.
Guide: Ref JK1896 .D63 1990 pt.a - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1840
18 microfilm reels
Bethesda, MD: UPA, 1990.
Part B. New York
This series is a collection of the papers of women involved in voluntary work and social issues: including suffrage, birth control, and the movement for international peace. The collection includes the autobiography of Gertrude Brown, papers of Clementina Hartshorne, Mary Hay, Harriet Laidlaw, Helen Owens, Vira Whitehouse and the Mary Loines series.
Guide: Ref JK1896 .D63 1990 pt.b - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1840
15 microfilm reels
Bethesda, MD: UPA, 1990
Part D. New England
This series is a collection of the papers of several women involved with suffrage, charitable, and political causes. The collection includes the papers of Maud Wood Park, first president of the National League of Women Voters. It also includes the records of several associations involved with the suffrage movement; Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, New Hampshire Woman Suffrage Association and others. Also included is the Woman's Journal (1870-1931) a weekly newspaper.
Guide: Ref JK1896 .D63 1990 pt.d - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1840
65 microfilm reels
Bethesda, MD: UPA, 1990
Series 2, Women in National Politics
Part A. Democrats
This series is a collection of the papers of three women active in Democratic party politics; Mary (Molly) Dewson, (1874-1962), Emma (Guffey) Miller, (1874-1970), and Sue Shelton White (1887-1943).
Guide: Ref HQ1236.5 U6 1993 pt.a - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #2181
14 microfilm reels
Bethesda, MD: UPA, 1993.
Part B. Republicans Jeannette Rankin
This series is a collection of the papers of Jeannette B. Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress. She was the only American to vote against the entry of the US into both WWI and WWII. Her papers document her career as a pacifist, reformer and her second congressional term.
Guide: Ref HQ1236.5 U6 1993 pt.b sec.2 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #2181
12 microfilm reels
Bethesda, MD: UPA, 1993.
Series 3, Sexuality, Sex Education, and Reproductive Rights
Part B. Papers of Mary Ware Dennett and the Voluntary Parenthood League
This collection of the papers of Mary Ware Dennett (1872-1947) documents her life and work on behalf of social and political reform movements. She was an advocate of birth control and sex education. The collection is arranged in five series and includes her personal and professional correspondence; writings; office files of the Voluntary Parenthood League; organizational material, publications, and mailings from other organizations she was affiliated with ; and photographs.
Guide: Ref HQ766.C68 1994 pt.b - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #2178
36 microfilm reels
Bethesda, MD: UPA, 1994.
Grassroots Women's Organizations: Women's Suffrage in Wisconsin. Part 1 Records of the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association, 1892-1925.
This collection traces the history of the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association (WWSA), with the bulk of the material beginning with the 1913 election of Theodora W. Youmans as president. The majority of the material is correspondence, but also included are press releases, minutes, reports, WWSA scrapbooks and newspaper clippings. The set illustrates WWSA relations with National America Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA); Youmans approved of their policies and strongly supported Carrie Chapman Catt. The reels include correspondence with Olympia Brown, Jessie J. Hooper, Ada L. James, Grace Wilbur Trout, and Clara Ueland.
Guide: Ref JK1911 .W6 G83 1989 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1855
18 microfilm reels
Frederick, MD: UPA, 1991.
Papers of the Women's Trade Union League and its Principal Leaders
Founded in Boston in 1903, the Women's Trade Union League represents a converging of social currents -- the women's movement, the labor movement, and the social reform period. Membership in the League included working and middle class women united to counter the exploitation of working women. The collection includes Women's Trade Union League papers, the Margaret Dreier Robins papers, the Mary Anderson papers, the Leonora O'Reilly papers, the Rose Schneiderman papers, and the Agnes Nestor papers.
Guide: Ref HD6079.2 .U5 P36 - shelved with microform guides
Microfilm #1708
131 microfilm reels
Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, 1981.
Work and Family: Low Income and Minority Women Talk About Their Lives
This oral history project was begun in the mid-1970s by Fran Lepper Buss and was conducted by the Southwest Institute for Research on Women at the University of Arizona. It consists of interviews with more than 100 women varying from short single encounters to repeated conversations that span several years. The women selected for the interviews came from different age groups, geographic regions, racial/ethnic groups, and from both rural and urban areas. The collection includes a master index.
Location: Special Collections - no call number
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