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A Woman's Legacy: Five Women Who Made a Difference oral history series
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SSC-MS-00533
Overview
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).
Dates of Materials:
1998-2003
Abby Morton Diaz papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00048
Overview
Author, Suffragist, Social reformer. The Abby Morton Diaz Papers include biographical articles; articles and pamphlets written by Diaz; photographs; suffrage leaflets; reports of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union; miscellaneous pamphlets; and a book that includes a speech by Diaz.
Dates of Materials:
1879-1900
Abby Shute Merchant papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00102
Overview
Playwright. Typescripts of plays, some with explanatory notes.
Dates of Materials:
1912-1940
Abe Louise Young papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00399
Overview
Abe Louise Young is a poet, activist, Sophia Smith Scholar in Poetry, and a founder of the Poetry Center at Smith College. Collection contains correspondence; diaries; poetry and writings; passport; flyers, brochures and newsletters pertaining to the women's movement and lesbian activism; and miscellaneous printed material, memorabilia, and photographs. A typescript of an interview with Elizabeth Alexander, first director of the Smith Poetry Center, is also included.
Dates of Materials:
1983 - 2007
Abortion and Birth Control Committee records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00786
Overview
The collection contains the newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, forms, and correspondence of the Abortion and Birth Control Committee, a pre-Roe v. Wade committee associated with Valley Women's Center.
Dates of Materials:
1969-1974
Abortion collection
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00428
Overview
Primarily printed materials, plus legislative records, memorabilia, and audiovisual materials documenting the efforts of both the pro-life and pro-choice movements. The Legal status section documents specific court cases, with an emphasis on the Roe v. Wade case (1973). Organizations represented include the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and the Women's National Abortion Action Coalition (WONAAC).
Dates of Materials:
1936-2005
Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00331
Overview
The Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts is a volunteer group that generates donations from individuals and foundations to make loans to low-income women seeking abortions. The group also works to increase public awareness of curbs on freedom of choice. The papers include organization records, including financial material, conference materials, correspondence, fundraising material, publications, and other printed material.
Dates of Materials:
1986 - 2007
Academic Computing Center records
Collection
Identifier: CA-MS-01051
Overview
On the recommendation of the Committee to Study the Role of Computers at the College and the Faculty Council, in 1983 Smith President Jill Ker Conway established an overall governance structure, consisting of four committees, for computing on campus. That stucture was revamped in 1988 and has subsequently been updated. These records include materials on the formation of the governance structure and its subsequent iterations, minutes of the Academic Computing committee, as well as files on...
Dates of Materials:
1966 - 1986
Found in:
Smith College Archives
Academic Departments records
Collection
Identifier: CA-MS-01010
Overview
The collection contains papers of academic departments, including Interdepartmental, Sciences, Languagem, Colloquiu, and Social Sciences. The collection has publications, syllabuses, source notes, department records and memos, photographs, and material on departmental clubs.
Dates of Materials:
1880 - 2014
Found in:
Smith College Archives
Activist Life Oral History Project oral histories
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00641
Overview
A collection of life histories of women who have dedicated their lives to social and political activism. Fifteen interviews, conducted by Smith College students, document both the diversity and the persistence of women's activism, as organizers and as cultural workers, in a variety of social movements such as women's health, economic justice, LGBT liberation, peace, education, and environmental sustainability.
Dates of Materials:
2008 - 2009
Ada Comstock Scholars Program records
Collection
Identifier: CA-MS-01052
Overview
The Ada Comstock Scholars Program enables women of nontraditional college age to complete a bachelor of arts degree at Smith College. The collection consists of individual student files for Ada Comstock Scholars as well as records of the program, student and alumni events, and related committees.
Dates of Materials:
1922 - 2005
Found in:
Smith College Archives
Ada Louise Comstock papers
Collection
Identifier: CA-MS-00015
Overview
Acting President of Smith College, Dean of the College of Smith College, Professor of English at Smith College, and President of Radcliffe College. Contains biographical material, correspondence, materials related to professional and volunteer work, and photographs.
Dates of Materials:
1897 - 1998
Found in:
Smith College Archives
Adaline Pendleton Satterthwaite papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00519
Overview
Physician; Birth control advocate. The papers include extensive correspondence, diaries, medical records and reports, photographs, writings, and subject files pertaining to Satterthwaite's career as a physican, birth control pioneer, and internationally renowned expert in family planning. The collection is rich in materials documenting Satterthwaite's work in family planning in Puerto Rico, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and China.
Dates of Materials:
1917-2005; Majority of material found within 1917-2003
Addie Genevieve Stockwell papers
Collection
Identifier: CA-MS-00316
Overview
These papers contain memorabilia and correspondence between Addie Genevieve Stockwell, Class of 1912, and her family and friends.
Dates of Materials:
1904 - 1937
Found in:
Smith College Archives
Adelaide Crapsey Papers
Collection
Identifier: CA-MS-00050
Overview
Instructor of English, poet. Contains biographical material, correspondence, and publications.
Dates of Materials:
1913 - 1977
Found in:
Smith College Archives
Adelaide Wellington Houghton diary
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SSC-MS-00290
Overview
Homemaker. Privately printed diary doumenting her life during the period her husband was in public service, first in Congress, then as U.S. ambassador to Berlin (1922-25) and to London (1925-29), and his return to Washington (1929-41).
Dates of Materials:
1925-1929
Administrative Offices records
Collection
Identifier: CA-MS-01005
Overview
Administrative Offices records include pamphlets, office files, exams, reports, meeting minutes.
Dates of Materials:
1875 - 2019
Found in:
Smith College Archives
Adrienne Auerswald papers
Collection
Identifier: CA-MS-00376
Overview
Adrienne Aurswald entered the music program at Smith College in 1939 and graduated in 1943. She returned to Smith to teach in 1957. In 1962, Auerswald earned her Master's degree and became a faculty member. The collection contains her photograph albums and memorabilia books from her time as a Smith College student as well as committee files from when she was a faculty memeber.
Dates of Materials:
1936 - 1979
Found in:
Smith College Archives
Adrienne Germain papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00778
Overview
The Adrienne Germain papers contain the working papers of Adrienne Germain, a champion for women's health and human rights in low-income countries, including essays, research materials, and correspondence related to her work with the Ford Foundation and the International Women's Health Coalition.
Dates of Materials:
1964 - 2016
Agnes De Mille papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00046
Overview
Agnes De Mille was a dancer and choreographer. The first woman to choreograph on Broadway, Agnes de Mille was an innovator who combined American folk dances with American music and transformed the world of musical comedy forever. Papers include writings, extensive family correspondence, photographs, research notes for two autobiographies, and memorabilia. Correspondence describes her life and activities in great detail and discusses many notable people including Cecil B. de Mille, Rebecca West,...
Dates of Materials:
1897 - 1993
Agnes Hunt Papers
Collection
Identifier: CA-MS-00155
Overview
Professor of History and poet. Contains biographical material, correspondence, poetry, photographs, publications and tributes.
Dates of Materials:
1897 - 1946; Majority of material found within 1900-1923
Found in:
Smith College Archives
Agnes Lauga papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SSC-MS-00577
Overview
Social worker; Social work administrator and educator. The papers include correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, writings by Lauga and others, teaching materials, and other documents related to Lauga's teaching and administrative work at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine and her involvement in the Alumnae Association of the Smith College School for Social Work. [NOTE: The contents list for this collection is not online. Contact the Sophia Smith Collection if you would like one sent to...
Dates of Materials:
1940-1989
Agnes Morgenthau Newborg papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SSC-MS-00107
Overview
Woman's club leader; Suffragist. Collection contains correspondence pertaining to suffrage activities from nine women to Agnes Morgenthau, circa 1914: Mary Austin, Belle da Costa Greene, Beatrice Forbes- Robertson Hale, Marie Jenney Howe, Gertrude Kingston, Fola LaFollette, Alice Duer Miller, Marie Tempest, and Vira Boarman Whitehouse. There is also a photograph and suffrage poems by Alice Duer Miller.
Dates of Materials:
1914-1933
Aileen C. Hernandez papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00730
Overview
Comprised of correspondence, reports, research notes, surveys, audiovisual materials, and newspaper clippings from the papers of Aileen C. Hernandez, activist and civic leader. These papers document the life of Aileen C. Hernandez, activist and civic leader.
Dates of Materials:
1926 - 2014
Alan Guttmacher Institute records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00720
Overview
The Alan Guttmacher Institute is a birth control research and advocacy organization; fields of study include abortion, contraception, HIV and STI's, pregnancy and teenage sexual health research. As the Guttmacher Institute website states, 'Good reproductive health policy starts with credible research'; indeed, the Institute's records provide accurate and accessible research from a wide range of sexual and reproductive health fields. Records include reports, data, publications, administrative...
Dates of Materials:
1960 - 2018
Albert Francis Blakeslee Papers
Collection
Identifier: CA-MS-00039
Overview
Professor of Botany and Director of the Smith College Genetics Experiment Station. Contains publications and manuscripts of seminars and talks.
Dates of Materials:
1904 - 1979
Found in:
Smith College Archives
Alene Stern Erlanger papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00056
Overview
Dog trainer and breeder. Small collection of material from Erlanger's work with war dogs during World War II, including correspondence, photographs, citations, and books on dog training.
Dates of Materials:
1942-1969
Alexander C. Sanger papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00654
Overview
The Alexander C. Sanger papers document Alexander Sanger's work as President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of New York City, and his involvement in Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and the general struggle for reproductive rights in the U.S. and abroad. The collection also includes materials related to the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Program for Commissioning Women in the Performing Arts, founded by Alexander Sanger in 2013.
Dates of Materials:
1955 - 2017
Alfred Jerome Brown bookplate collection
Collection
Identifier: MRBC-MS-00021
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of virtually all of Edwin Davis French's bookplates in various conditions, many autographed by him, and some of his copperplates. Also included are bookplates of other engravers, some autographed.
Dates of Materials:
1890 - 1960
Found in:
Mortimer Rare Book Collection
Alfred Vance Churchill Papers
Collection
Identifier: CA-MS-00079
Overview
Professor of Fine Arts. Collection contains biographical material, correspondence, material related to museum and art collecting, publications, and teaching materials.
Dates of Materials:
1828 - 1965
Found in:
Smith College Archives
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