A Woman's Legacy: Five Women Who Made a Difference oral history series
Scope and Contents
Series of oral histories of five notable women entitled A Woman's Legacy: Five Women Who Made a Difference, published by Women's Forum West Legacy Foundation (San Francisco, Calif, 2004). Consists of transcripts and five CD-ROMS. Includes:
- "Belva Davis: the oral history of a pioneer in the field of journalism : a series of interviews" / conducted by Mauree Jane Perry, November 7, 14, 21, 2002, December 16, 2003.
- "Bernice Hemphill : the mother of blood banking: Irwin Memorial Blood Bank and the American Association of Blood Banks, 1915-1994" / an oral history conducted in 1995 and 1996 by Germaine LaBerge, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1998.
- "Marian Cleeves Diamond : the oral history of a leader in the field of science : a series of interviews" / conducted by Carol McLaughlin.
- "Mary Lanigar : the oral history of a pioneering woman in the field of accounting : a series of interviews" / conducted by Carol McLauglin, July 1999.
- "Sandra Day O'Connor : the oral history of a pioneering woman in the judiciary : an interview" / conducted by Mauree Jane Perry, April 4, 2001.
Dates of Materials
- Creation: 1998-2003
Creator
- Women's Forum West Legacy Foundation (Organization)
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research use without restriction beyond the standard terms and conditions of Smith College Special Collections.
Conditions Governing Use
Materials in this collection may be governed by copyright. For reproductions of materials that are governed by fair use as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission to cite or publish is required. Researchers are responsible for determining who may hold materials' copyrights and obtaining approval from them. Researchers do not need anything further from Smith College Special Collections to move forward with their use.
Extent
0.438 linear feet (1 container)
Abstract
Series of oral histories of four notable women: Belva Davis, journalist; Bernice Hemphill, bio-analyist; Marian Cleeves Diamond, scientist; Mary Lanigar, accountant; and Sandra Day O'Connor, supreme court justice. Published by Women's Forum West Legacy Foundation (San Francisco, Calif, 2004).
Subject
- Davis, Belva, 1933- --Interviews (Person)
- Lanigar, Mary--Interviews (Person)
- O'Connor, Sandra Day, 1930- --Interviews (Person)
- Hemphill, Bernice M., 1915-1996--Interviews (Person)
- Diamond, Marian Cleeves--Interviews (Person)
- Irwin Memorial Blood Bank (Organization)
- American Association of Blood Banks (Organization)
- Perry, Mauree Jane (Person)
- LaBerge, Germaine (Person)
- McLaughlin, Carol (Person)
- Women's Forum West Legacy Foundation (Organization)
- United States. Supreme Court--Officials And Employees--Interviews (Organization)
Genre / Form
Topical
- Accountant
- African American journalists
- African American journalists -- Interviews
- Blood banks -- United States
- Journalists
- Journalists
- Judge
- Lawyers
- Scientist
- Women accountants -- United States
- Women accountants -- United States -- Interviews
- Women in STEM
- Women in journalism -- United States
- Women in medicine
- Women in television broadcasting -- United States
- Women journalists -- United States
- Women journalists -- United States -- Interviews
- Women judges -- United States
- Women judges -- United States -- Interviews
- Women medical scientists -- United States
- Women scientists -- United States -- Interviews
- Title
- A Woman's Legacy: Five Women Who Made a Difference oral history series
- Subtitle
- Finding Aid
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Margaret Jessup.
- Date
- 2008
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 07/26/2017: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
- 2017-07-26T17:48:19-04:00: This record was migrated from InMagic DB Textworks to ArchivesSpace.
Repository Details
Part of the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History Repository
