Valley Women's Martial Arts records
Scope and Contents
The Valley Women Martial Arts Records consists of documents pertaining to daily operations of the organization, including mailing lists, public relations materials, and fundraising initiatives; information about VWMA programs and classes, including registration forms, tests and test results, and student and teacher evaluations; newsclippings, student art, correspondence; publications and information about other self-defense organizations and programs, primarily in Massachusetts but also elsewhere in the U.S.; and artwork by adults and children who participated in VWMA programs; and VWMA financial information.
Dates of Materials
- Creation: 1976 - 2013
Creator
- Valley Women's Martial Arts (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research use with the following restriction on access: This collection must be screened by an archivist for student records before being used by researchers. Please contact special collections staff at specialcollections@smith.edu a minimum of two weeks in advance of your visit for access.
Extent
28.73 linear feet (28 containers)
0.1241 Gigabytes
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This collection has been added to over time in multiple "accessions." An accession is a group of materials received from the same source at approximately the same time.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
This collection contains materials received from the donor in digital form that are not currently available online. Please consult with Special Collections staff or email specialcollections@smith.edu to request access to this digital content.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Valley Women's Martial Arts director Janet Aalfs in 2004, 2011, and 2017.
Processing Information
The contents of computer media in this collection has been copied to networked storage for preservation and access; the original directory and file structure was retained and file lists were created. Some floppy disks were unable to be copied. See the log files linked in the container list for more details.
Processing Information
Between September 2022 and February 2023, Smith College Special Collections renumbered many boxes to eliminate duplicate numbers within collections in order to improve researcher experience. The following changes were made in this collection: Accession 2004-S-0064, Boxes 1-8A renumbered as Boxes 19-27
Subject
- Valley Women's Martial Arts (Organization)
- Dragonfire, Wendi (Person)
- Aalfs, Janet E. (Person)
Source
- Aalfs, Janet E. (Person)
Genre / Form
- Agendas
- Brochures
- Drawings
- Evaluations
- Financial records
- Fliers
- Mailing lists
- Membership lists
- Memorandums
- Minutes
- Newsletters
- Notes
- Pamphlets
- Proposals
- Questionnaires
- Receipts
- Surveys
- articles
- clippings
- correspondence
- press releases
Topical
- Electronic records
- Examinations
- Feminists -- Massachusetts
- Martial artists -- United States
- Martial arts -- Study and teaching
- Publications
- Publicity
- Self-defense for women
- Women -- Violence against -- Prevention
- Women martial artists -- United States
- Women-owned business enterprises -- United States
- Title
- Valley Women's Martial Arts records
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2017-07-26T17:48:24-04:00: This record was migrated from InMagic DB Textworks to ArchivesSpace.
- 2020-07-17: Description added for born-digital content.
- 2021-10-28: Added links to PDF accession inventories, updated notes, and published
Repository Details
Part of the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History Repository
