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SCOPE AND CONTENT: The bulk of the collection consists of fan letters sent to Holly Near, Ronnie Gilbert, and Redwood Records, 1973-1994. These letters, largely from women, form an excellent snapshot of the issues of concern to women and political activists during this period. Less well documented are Near's career and personal life. There are some Redwood Records business records, but there are few materials pertaining to Near's youth, family, and activities outside of her music and activism. Many...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: This collection spans five generations. It contains papers relating to the family life, philanthropy, and art interests of Susan (Morse) Hilles, and to the lives of her parents and grandparents, her children and grandchildren. There is some overlap in the various series. Letters from the Ensigns to their son-in-law, William Inglis Morse, are found in Series I, while all letters from him are in Series II. Similarly the Morse parents' letters to their daughter, Susan (Morse)...

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Series III, MEMORABILIA, 1979-2014 (#6OB.1m-6OB.19m, Mem.1, F+D.4m), contains Ruthchild's feminist t-shirts, a necklace, and a shopping bag from New Words Bookstore. Series is arranged chronologically.

Scope and Contents: Subseries F. Other papers, ca.1825-1915 (#110.2-111.9, 238.6, F+D.5-F+D.7, OD.2), includes drawings, diplomas, passports, programs, hair, pressed flowers, and other ephemeral items. Also included are biographies and obituaries for Susan Inches Lyman Lesley and J. Peter Lesley, and a folder of butterflies and other insects drawn by J. Peter Lesley's brother Henry Voorhees Lesley, a talented artist. A nail which purportedly hung in John Brown's cell, which was sent to and saved by J. Peter...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: Series I, Biographical and family (#1-64), includes documents explaining the lack of a birth certificate for Nash and her use of different names; job applications and security investigation data provided by Nash for federal employment; entries for various biographical dictionaries with accompanying correspondence; reminiscences by her and interview tapes and transcripts; correspondence and other papers about her University of Texas education (see especially her letter to her mother in #14);...

Scope and Contents: Series XIV, Carrie Chapman Catt and other suffrage-related material, 1860-1956 (#15.25-17.7, 18CB.1m-18CB.9m, FD.3, F+D.4-F+D.5, PD.9, Mem.1), includes correspondence, clippings, ephemera, writings, and photographs of Carrie Chapman Catt, her secretary Mary Grey Peck, Rhode Island suffragist Sara Algeo, feminist and temperance crusader Elizabeth Hewes Tilton, and several suffrage organizations. Of particular note are several folders (#15.38-16.1) containing handwritten lists of members of...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: This collection consists of the correspondence, reports, speeches, books, plays, articles, clippings, biographical data, and miscellaneous materials by and re: about 100 women and 4 men who were involved in furthering the woman's rights movement from colonial times to the present. The papers record the woman's rights movement up to the 1920's, highlighting the work done in Massachusetts; the woman suffrage movement up to the adoption of the woman suffrage amendment in 1920; and the gains for...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The collection is arranged in two series:Series I, Personal, 1-33, includes awards; photographs, of Elisabeth Coit, family, and friends; clippings about Coit and her work, correspondence with friends; Coit's sketches, watercolors, and plays for children.Series II, Professional, 34-98, includes photographs and architectural drawings of houses and offices designed by Coit, 1925-1941, and of public housing and offices for which Coit was consultant, 1961-1972, and...

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Subseries D, Memorabilia, 1970-2005 (#12.7m, 70.5m-70.8m, SD.1m, Mem.1-Mem.29), contains stickers, bookmarks, bumper stickers, buttons, cards, and feminist jewelry.

SCOPE AND CONTENT: This collection documents Caroline's private and professional life, and provides information on the Freedom House Ambulance Service and on the development of emergency medical care in Israel and Africa. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, school notes, essays, newspaper columns, articles, and other writings, photographs, school yearbooks, and memorabilia, including wooden objects and sixteen buttons and a ribbon originally attached to a 3.5"x28" strip of fabric....

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The papers of Anne T. Barron contain letters to Barron, mostly in her role as Legislation Chairwoman of the Massachusetts Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, from citizens and elected officials concerning the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) nationally and in Massachusetts; printed material on the ERA; bumper sticker, buttons, t-shirts, and a scarf documenting the campaign for the ERA, International Women's Year, women's political campaigns, and other women's...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The memorabilia collection of the Schlesinger Library contains buttons, pins, banners, games, stickers, t-shirts, and other objects collected by the Schlesinger Library. Objects document suffrage; gay, lesbian, and transgender rights; efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment; women candidates' political campaigns; women's and girls' organizations; demonstrations for reproductive rights; movements to end violence against women; and other women's issues. Additional objects are housed at the...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The memorabilia collection of the Schlesinger Library contains buttons, pins, banners, games, stickers, t-shirts, and other objects collected by the Schlesinger Library. Objects document suffrage; gay, lesbian, and transgender rights; efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment; women candidates' political campaigns; women's and girls' organizations; demonstrations for reproductive rights; movements to end violence against women; and other women's issues. Additional objects are housed at the...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The memorabilia collection of the Schlesinger Library contains buttons, pins, banners, games, stickers, t-shirts, and other objects collected by the Schlesinger Library. Objects document suffrage; gay, lesbian, and transgender rights; efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment; women candidates' political campaigns; women's and girls' organizations; demonstrations for reproductive rights; movements to end violence against women; and other women's issues. Additional objects are housed at the...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The memorabilia collection of the Schlesinger Library contains buttons, pins, banners, games, stickers, t-shirts, and other objects collected by the Schlesinger Library. Objects document suffrage; gay, lesbian, and transgender rights; efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment; women candidates' political campaigns; women's and girls' organizations; demonstrations for reproductive rights; movements to end violence against women; and other women's issues. Additional objects are housed at the...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The memorabilia collection of the Schlesinger Library contains buttons, pins, banners, games, stickers, t-shirts, and other objects collected by the Schlesinger Library. Objects document suffrage; gay, lesbian, and transgender rights; efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment; women candidates' political campaigns; women's and girls' organizations; demonstrations for reproductive rights; movements to end violence against women; and other women's issues. Additional objects are housed at the...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The memorabilia collection of the Schlesinger Library contains buttons, pins, banners, games, stickers, t-shirts, and other objects collected by the Schlesinger Library. Objects document suffrage; gay, lesbian, and transgender rights; efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment; women candidates' political campaigns; women's and girls' organizations; demonstrations for reproductive rights; movements to end violence against women; and other women's issues. Additional objects are housed at the...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The memorabilia collection of the Schlesinger Library contains buttons, pins, banners, games, stickers, t-shirts, and other objects collected by the Schlesinger Library. Objects document suffrage; gay, lesbian, and transgender rights; efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment; women candidates' political campaigns; women's and girls' organizations; demonstrations for reproductive rights; movements to end violence against women; and other women's issues. Additional objects are housed at the...