Cambridge (Mass.)--Social conditions

Records of the Cambridge Homes, a nonprofit home for elderly people, include board of directors minutes and reports; by-laws, histories, and brochures; files on residents including birth and citizenship documents and cemetery deeds; and oral histories of residents.

Project files, clippings, minutes, photographs, and correspondence of a committee of Radcliffe alumnae dedicated to ending sex discrimination at Harvard.

Papers of Frances Hovey Howe document the creation of child care centers at Radcliffe and Harvard in the 1970s.

Correspondence, minutes, financial records, etc., of Margaret Earhart Smith, educator.

Records include correspondence, minutes, financial accounts, student project proposals, and reports of Radcliffe College's Education for Action, which supported student work in community service and social action.

Correspondence, financial records, minutes, etc., of the Window Shop (Cambridge, Mass.), established to offer employment to and raise money for refugees from Germany and Austria during World War II.

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.

Administrative and subject files, primarily about women's issues and events, of Cambridge Women's Center.