Menstruation

Overview: Additional records of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, a non-profit women's health education, advocacy and consulting organization, including administrative records; founder's files; engagements and project files; material relating to the publication, revision, and adaptation of several versions of Our Bodies, Ourselves; memorabilia; audiovisual material; and electronic records.

Overview: Collection includes radio and conference appearances by Collective members, a benefit, board meeting proceedings, and a variety of materials on topics relating to women's health, etc.

Overview: Diaries of Mary Augusta Carr Cumings, mother and homemaker.

Overview: Letters to the editor of Ms. magazine, including photographs, clippings, manuscripts, audiotapes, newsletters, printed material, and ephemera.

Overview: The Miriam F. Menkin papers, 1919-2003 (inclusive), are the product of Menkin's activities as laboratory assistant and researcher at the Free Hospital for Women in Brookline, Mass.

Overview: Correspondence, diaries, case studies, reports, and photographs of penologist Miriam Van Waters.

Overview: Records of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, a non-profit women's health education, advocacy and consulting organization that grew out of a small discussion group in 1969, and first became known for their pioneering handbook, Our Bodies, Ourselves.

Overview: Records of the Women's Community Health Center, a women-owned and women-controlled health center which provided medical services, primarily gynecological exams and abortions, and educational programs advocating the concept and practice of self-help, the sharing of skills and information to assist women in gaining control of their own health care.

Overview: Consisting of 385 educational films produced for classroom use between the 1930s and 1980s, the Somerville High School Collection provides a representative sample of the subjects and genres of educational media used in classrooms during this period. Though collected by Somerville High School, the films are aimed at students from primary grades through high school and cover a variety of subjects including art, math, music, science, health, and social studies. A highlight of the collection is the...