SERIES IX. PEACE ENCAMPMENT HERSTORY PROJECT, 1980s-2016 (#61.7-66.1, E.1-E.13)
Scope and Contents
Series IX. PEACE ENCAMPMENT HERSTORY PROJECT, 1980s-2016 (#61.7-66.1, E.1-E.13), includes correspondence; lists; notes; herstory interview transcripts (#62.8, 63.3-64.5, E.1); financial documents, including grant materials; notebooks, which include to-do lists, notes taken during interviews with members or about members, and notes regarding scheduling; image and video logs of archival materials; event and fundraising materials; clippings, etc., related to the Peace Encampment Herstory Project. The Herstory Project was a non-profit, fully volunteer effort to collect the oral herstories, images, music and other media from the Seneca Women's Encampment (1982-1992) and Women's PeaceLand (1992-2006). Led by Estelle Coleman and Hershe Michele Kramer, project members collected and curated archival materials from many of the women who participated in the Encampment. The series contains documentation related to the financial and administrative development of the Peace Encampment Herstory Project, as well as the initiatives the group undertook, such as the herstory interviews with Encampment members and film projects celebrating and documenting the Encampment, including Every Woman Here: Remnants of Seneca 1983-2006. Original materials donated to the Peace Encampment Herstory Project from Encampment members were incorporated within other series in this collection, including Women's Video Collective video and audiocassettes which can be found in Series X, Subseries A. Women's Video Collective was formed by a group of women from the Boston area in May 1983 with the purpose to document the Women's Encampment. The Peace Encampment Herstory Project created an audio and video log documenting the Women's Video Collective audiovisual tapes which can be found in this series, as well as brief, descriptive logs related to other original photographs and objects. This series also includes Women's Encampment content from the 1980s digitized by the Herstory Project. Herstory Project-related photographs (#E.6-E.19) can be found in Series X. See Series XI for all Herstory Project-related audiovisual materials. The Herstory Project web site is being captured periodically as part of Schlesinger Library's web archiving program. Series is arranged alphabetically.
Dates
- Creation: 1945-2016
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1980-2008
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
TERMS OF USE
Access. Researchers must sign a statement promising to abide by the following restriction: if an individual is clearly and specifically identified in a letter, an interview, in minutes of a meeting, in a photograph (other than a group photograph obviously made in a public place), or in any other document, then the researcher must make a reasonable effort to contact that person and obtain her permission before publishing the material in question. This obligation shall apply for 75 years after the date of the material in question. Researchers wishing to use born-digital content (#E.1-E.37) must contact Research Services.
Extent
35.53 linear feet (59 file boxes, 1 card file box, 2 folio boxes, 1 folio+ box, 3 oversize boxes, 1 supersize box) plus 5 supersize folders, 82 photograph folders, 3 folio photograph folders, 209 audiocassettes, 234 videocassettes, 1 compact disc, 14 DVDs, 1 phonograph record, and 1 reel of microfilm (M-117)1.083 Gigabytes (37 files)
Creator
- From the Collection: Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace & Justice (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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