Diplomatic and consular service

Overview: Tapes and transcripts of oral histories and supporting documentation from the Women in the Federal Government Oral History Project, an oral history project of the Schlesinger Library.

Overview: Tapes and transcripts of interviews focusing on women and their involvement in the beginnings of the women’s reform movement in the United States Department of State during the early 1970s, conducted by the Women's Action Organization, formed to address some of the long-standing inequities in the treatment of women in the State Department and its "sister" Foreign Service agencies.

Overview: Correspondence, travel diaries, photographs, etc., of Avis Howard Thayer Bohlen, member of the Association of American Foreign Service Women.

Overview: Correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, etc., of Lorraine (Rowan) Cooper, speaker, hostess, columnist, and wife of John Sherman Cooper, U.S. Senator.

Overview: Papers of Lucile Atcherson Curtis, member of the American Committee for Devastated France and the first woman in the U.S. Foreign Service.

Overview: Diaries, commonplace books, and correspondence of the Byram, Gay, Swanton, and Worcester families of Maine and Massachusetts.