Collections by Subject: Women's Studies
A Selected List of Holdings in the Archives and Manuscripts Department, University of Maryland Libraries
For more information about how to access materials in this guide, please visit the Maryland Room web page or fill out an information request.
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Cyrilly Abels papers, 1950-1975. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Cyrilly Abels was the managing editor of Mademoiselle magazine from 1945 to 1960, where she published the work of Katherine Anne Porter and others. She became Porter's friend in the 1950s and her literary agent in 1962 after establishing her own agency. The collection consists of letters, postcards, and notes to and from Miss Porter concerning publishing efforts, travel, gardening, fashion, and politics.
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American Association of University Women (AAUW), Bowie Branch archives, 1968-2007. 1.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The Bowie Area Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), orginially named the Lanham Area Branch, was founded in Seabrook, Maryland and granted National Association recognition in January 1960. These records include materials relevant to the function and mission of the Bowie Branch, including its participation in various community, state, and national organizing efforts and events.
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American Association of University Women, College Park Branch (AAUW) archives, 1929-1990. 10.25 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The College Park, Maryland Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) was founded in 1929 by Adele H. Stamp, Dean of Women at the University of Maryland. Beyond working to support women college students, branch activities have included advocating jury service for women, working with county officials on such issues as the Equal Rights Amendment, and implementation of Title IX programs. The branch also recommends qualified women for appointment to local and state boards and commissions. The archives reflect activities and interests of the branch and its relationship with local and national AAUW branches. Branch documents include annual reports, bylaws, budgets, membership directories, minutes, and treasurers' reports. Branch, state, national, and international (International Federation of University Women) newsletters are also included as well as extensive documentation of Educational Foundation Program (EFP) fellowships and graduate prize awards.
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American Association of University Women (AAUW), Kensington Branch archives, 1947-2002. 18.0 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The American Association of University Women (AAUW), Kensington Branch, was organized in 1947 as a local chapter of the AAUW, the largest and oldest national organization of women, founded in 1882. The collection contains the operating records of the Kensington branch and addresses such topics as the Educational Foundation Program, arts, community affairs, education, county government, various social and economic issues, local and national legislation, the status of women. The collection also contains a branch history and records of social functions.
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Maryland Division of the American Association of University Women archives, 1935-2006. 46.00 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The Maryland Division of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) was organized in 1942 to unite the Baltimore City, College Park, Carroll County and Frederick County branches. Its current objectives are to assist in the formation of new branches in the state, to give and receive suggestions from other state branches, and to provide backing for programs of individual Maryland chapters. The Division is involved with community, educational, and cultural projects and is active in promoting international relations and legislative issues. The archives of the Maryland Division of the AAUW consist of correspondence, publications, reports, minutes, charters, bylaws, financial materials, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia. Also included are program and project files and records from a number of the Division's presidents. Subjects covered include division history and operation, legislative concerns, programs, projects, branch activities, and relationships with the Middle Atlantic Region and Educational Foundation of the AAUW.
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American Association of University Women, Metropolitan Area Mass Media Committee archives, 1959-2004. 1.50 linear feet, 190 photographs, 3 audio-visual.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The Metropolitan Area Mass Media Committee, (MAMM), which was composed of representatives from each of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) branches in the Washington metro area, presented annual awards to local television and radio programs meriting recognition. Included in this collection are materials documenting the activities of the committee and past award winners.
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American Association of University Women (AAUW), Rockville Branch archives, 1957-2002. 6.0 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The American Association of University Women (AAUW), Rockville Branch, was organized c. 1957 as a local chapter of the AAUW, the largest and oldest national organization of women, founded in 1882. The collection contains the operating records of the Rockville branch and addresses such topics as community affairs, arts, education, county government, various social and economic issues, and the status of women. The collection also contins records of social functions.
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American News Women's Club archives, 1932-2001. 46.50 linear feet and 1 oversize folder.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The Archives of the American News Women's Club (ANWC) documents the history of the ANWC from its founding in 1932 until the present and contains scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, issues of newsletters, membership information and directories, event files, photographs, and several audiotapes and videotapes. Also included are records documenting the operation of the clubhouse. Membership in the ANWC was initially limited to women reporters and writers employed by newspapers. Membership later expanded to include women from all areas of communications.
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Associated Women Students records, 1957-1967. 5.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
This collection contains scrapbooks of publications, clippings, official group documents, and photographs documenting the activities of the Associated Women Students (AWS). The AWS, a governing organization for the university's female students, sponsored social events, coordinated relations with students at other colleges and universities, and served as a disciplinary body when the co-eds violated campus rules and regulations.
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Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) archives, 1807-1986. 118.25 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Originally established in 1892 as the International Kindergarten Union (IKU), the Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) is the oldest professional association of its type in the United States. Primarily an organization of educators, the association's current goals include promoting the inherent rights, education, and well-being of all children in home, school, and community. The collection provides a continuous history of the organization, which evolved from the International Kindergarten Union, the National Council of Primary Education, and the Association for Childhood Education. Material in the collection includes correspondence; reports; bulletins; research for a book, Dauntless Women in Childhood Education 1856-1931; minutes; conference proceedings; legal documents; flyers; newsletters; bibliographies of children's reading and reference materials; a complete run of the journal Childhood Education 1924 to 1983; audio-visual materials; and memorabilia. Many important women educators were involved in the association, including Winifred Bain, Mary Leeper, and Agnes Snyder, and their work is well documented in the archives. A reading file of historical material (1890 to 1950), including 700 rare and semi-rare children's books and landmark works in childhood education, was also donated with the archives.
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Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) archives, 1967-1983. 411.25 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women was established in 1971 to assure standards of excellence and educational soundness in women's intercollegiate athletics. The AIAW archives consist of championship files for sports sponsored by the AIAW, which have been fully processed, and unprocessed materials, for which a preliminary inventory is available. The unprocessed portion of the archives includes membership lists, eligibility records, procedures, manuals, proceedings, programs, publications, handbooks, and administrative records.
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Barnes Family Papers, 1880-1985. 18.00 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
The Barnes family collection consists of the papers of Djuna Barnes's grandmother, Zadel Barnes Gustafson; her father, Brian Barnes; her half-sister, Muriel; and her half-brother, Duane. Zadel Barnes was a journalist, poet, and women's rights activist, and her papers consist of poems, a short story, two scrapbooks, correspondence, and legal documents. The family papers also contain ninety-one photographs, spanning four generations of the family.
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Djuna Barnes papers, 1820-1982. 102 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Djuna Barnes was an avant-garde American writer and artist. She began her career as a freelance journalist and illustrator, then turned to poetry, plays, short stories, and novels. Her full length works include The Book of Repulsive Women, Ladies Almanack, Ryder, Nightwood, and The Antiphon. Her papers consist of family and personal materials, correspondence, publications, manuscript drafts, newspaper clippings, serials, photographs, and original art work.
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Saxon Barnes papers, 1889-1990. 1.75 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Saxon Barnes was the brother of Djuna Barnes and a successful banker. The collection includes photographs, correspondence, clippings, and printed matter. Most of the correspondence relates to the estate or literary works of Djuna Barnes.
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Clara Barton papers, 1887-1918. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Clara Barton is best remembered as the "Angel of the Battlefield," because she provided nursing care and supplies to the wounded and dying on sixteen Civil War battlefields. Following the war, her efforts toward achieving American affiliation with the International Red Cross were realized when President Chester Arthur signed the Geneva Treaty on March 1, 1882. The papers of Clara Barton consist of correspondence by and about her. Additionally, Women's Relief Corps materials in the collection highlight their efforts to urge Congress to pass a bill granting pensions to women nurses of the Civil War.
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Isabel Bayley papers, 1900-1993. 39 linear feet and 13 items.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Isabel Bayley (1911-1993) met Katherine Anne Porter at the Kansas University Seminar, where Porter was teaching, in 1948. They became good friends, and Porter encouraged Bayley to write professionally. Her first published story, "The Great White Owl," appeared in Accent in 1954. In 1953, Porter authorized Bayley to work on the marginalia in her personal library for possible publication, a project that was never completed. In 1974, Porter named Bayley trustee of her literary estate; she assumed this position in 1983. Bayley selected and edited the Letters of Katherine Anne Porter, published on May 15, 1990, by the Atlantic Monthly Press. Bayley's papers include correspondence, manuscripts, legal documents, memorabilia, photographic materials, publications, videotapes, and work papers. Her correspondence with Porter dates from July 16, 1948, to September 3, 1980.
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Georgia Benjamin papers, 1943-1953. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Georgia K. Benjamin, a Hyattsville, Maryland, resident, was associated with the League of Women Voters of Maryland and involved in a number of other local civic organizations. Her papers consist of speeches, pamphlets, and notes and address such issues as human rights, Planned Parenthood, and practical democracy for women.
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Marion Theresa (M. T.) Biddle papers, 1858, 1861. 6 items.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Six letters, all datelined "Hispaniola," postmarked at Chesapeake City or Elkton, Maryland, addressed to Miss Maggie R. Thompson, Oxford, Pennsylvania, by "Prof. M. T. (Marion Theresa) Biddle." The correspondence is between two women and they talk of beaux , visiting relatives, education, weddings, and brief mentions of the Civil War.
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Bock Ark papers, 1938-1972. 1.00 linear foot, 15 memorabilia items, and 24 photographic prints.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
A Chinese immigrant to the United States in 1911, Bock Ark settled in Baltimore where he became active in Chinese-American organizations. Bock's papers include documentation on his wife, Sue Bock, former president of the Chinese Women's Association of Baltimore and active member of other Chinese women's organizations. Subjects covered include the March 1910 Chinese revolution, Refugee Relief Act, war orphans, immigration law, communism, and the new life movement. Also included is some correspondence with Madame Chang Kai Shek.
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Mary Boergers papers, 1980-1996. 28.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Mary Boergers was a delegate and senator to the Maryland General Assembly representing the 17th and 18th Districts of Montgomery County. During her legislative career, Mary Boergers focused on the issues of education, drugs and crime, environment, labor, and women's concerns. She was president of the Women Legislators of Maryland from 1990-1991. In 1994, Boergers ran for Governor of Maryland. The files consist of correspondence, agenda, newspaper clippings,press releases, and subject files.
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Mary Eliza Bradbury papers, January 8, 1855-November 26, 1855. 1 linear inch.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Glimpses of everyday life in mid-19th century Maryland can be found in the correspondence of Mary Eliza Bradbury. Originally from Maine, Bradbury spent several years in Elkton in Cecil County, Maryland, where, in 1855, she established and taught at a school, and taught African-American children on Sundays. Friendship and courtship with Lewis H. Jackson of Wilmington, Delaware, whom she later married, is also revealed in her correspondence.
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Brooke Family papers, 1750-1980. 13.00 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The Brookes, a prominent family of landowners, and their extended network of Farquhar, Hallowell, Thomas, Hopkins, and Snowden families were active in the Quaker community near Sandy Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland. The papers include diaries and day books across several generations of women in the Brooke family. The diaries and correspondence reflect local and plantation life during the years 1815 to 1954. Topics addressed include family ties, Quaker religion, courtship, marriage, housewife and mother roles, women's and girls' work on the farm, education, health concerns, local social gatherings, holidays, and travel.
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James Bruce papers, 1734-2002. 65.00 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The Papers of James Bruce provide glimpses into the lives of prominent women, primarily through the correspondence between James Bruce and his female family members, including his mother, Louise Este Bruce, and his wife, Ellen Keyser Bruce. In addition, the collection contains diaries kept by both of these women. One series of the collection consists of the consists of correspondence, diaries, newspaper clippings, auction catalogs, and other materials that document the interests and activities of James Bruce's second daughter, Louise. Louise Este Bruce, named for her paternal grandmother, spent most of her formative years in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and New York City. She attended Miss Hall's School, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and Greenwood School, Ruxton, Maryland, from which she graduated in 1943. In 1979, Ms. Bruce received an ABE degree through Harvard University Extension School, and in 1984 received her BA from Hunter College in New York City. She completed two MA degrees at New York University: one in Liberal Studies in 1986, and the other in Middle Eastern Studies in 1996. An avid traveler, Ms. Bruce has been active in Democratic activities, journalism, and organizations such as the National Society of Colonial Dames. Correspondence included in the series consists primarily of thank-you letters and family-related notes from relatives and friends and associates of Louise Bruce and her family. Correspondents of note include Brooke Astor, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, and Senator Joseph Tydings. Auction catalogs feature furnishings and artwork owned by the Bruce and Keyser families. The series also contains some of Ms. Bruce's academic work, including her 1996 master's thesis from New York University, and informational files, which contain material Ms. Bruce has both collected and written on family members, friends, and associates. Also included are copies of newspaper columns Louise wrote for the Westminster, Maryland, Democratic Advocate in the 1950s.
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Mary Lee Bundy papers, circa 1987. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Mary Lee Bundy (1927-1987) was a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, College of Library and Information Services. She was also one of the officers of Urban Information Interpreters, Inc., a non-profit organzation that sought to make information services accessible to the urban poor. Her papers consist of a manuscript of the book Activism in American Librarianship, 1962-1973, which Bundy co-edited with Frederick J. Stielow.
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Bureau of Business Practice Collection, 1944-2002. 4.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The publishing company that eventually became the Bureau of Business Practice (BBP) began as a small, private venture, the National Foreman's Institute (NFI), in Essex, Connecticut, in 1915. For the first thirty-five years of its existence, NFI was exclusively a publisher of training materials for the first line of industrial supervision. The collection consists of publications dating from the years when the BBP was known as the National Foreman's Institute to just prior to the closing of the BBP Branch of Aspen Publishers. Publications such as the "Better Secretaries Series" from the early 1960s focus on training for office employees through instruction in secretarial principles, such as accounting or letter writing. Topics range from labor issues in Labor Relations Bulletin to common concerns of the secretary in such publications as Just Between Office Girls and Office Guide for Working Women.
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Ruth Lawless Busbey papers, 1922-1990. 1.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
This collection documents the career of Ruth Lawless Busbey, who received her B.S. (1930) and M.S. (1931) in chemistry from the University of Maryland and a second M.S. in languages (Russian) from Georgetown University in 1964. Ruth Busbey was a chemist for the United States Department of Agriculture throughout her career. Starting work part time while still a student, she rose to the position of Assistant to the Branch Chief, Pesticide Chemicals Research Branch, Bureau of Entomology. Her papers consist of academic records, personnel files, correspondence, biographical information, and publications.The collection also includes a journal account of Busbeys 1966 USDA-sponsored trip to the USSR, photographs, a map, and ephemera.
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Chancellor's Commission on Women's Affairs records, 1971-1988. 1.00 linear foot.
Location: University of Maryland
The commission was established by University of Maryland Chancellor Charles E. Bishop on December 3, 1973 to address the needs and concerns of women on the University of Maryland campus. Among the commission's goals were to maintain systematic contact with organizations on campus concerned with women's affairs and to identify unique problems faced by women at the university, including safety, implementation of Title IX in women's athletics, and the needs of campus working women. The commission's records include correspondence, minutes, commission-sponsored publications, and newsletters.
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Chapman Family papers, 1816-1895. 2.00 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The personal records of a family of politicians and landowners in Charles County, Maryland. Contains a notebook belonging to Nannie Kent Chapman which contains her notes from Henderson College in Henderson, North Carolina, from 1892 - 1895, as well as a diary and personal account book.
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Marilyn Church Collection, 1909-1960. 1.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Marilyn Church came to the University of Maryland in 1969 where she was an Assistant Associate Professor in the Head Start Regional Office, the Department of Early Childhood Elementary Education, and the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She also served as director of the Center for Young Children. The Church collection consists in part of notebooks, scrapbooks, a photograph of a kindergarten class, and a toy which originally belonged to Esther G. Cristy, an early twentieth-century kindergarten teacher.
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Claude-Gray-Hughes-Tuck-Whittington Family papers, 1793-1938. 13.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The Claudes, Grays, Hughes, Tucks, and Whittingtons, all Annapolis families, were related by marriage. Their papers date from 1793 to 1938 and represent a mixture of correspondence from family, friends and business associates; deeds; ledgers; literary writings; school notebooks; and receipts. Items relating to women's history can be found in the correspondence of the female members of the various families and provide insights into religion, family relationships, nineteenth-century medical practices, and attitudes towards blacks and slavery.
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College Park Girls' Club archives, 1960-1992. 1 linear foot.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The College Park Girls' Club was founded in 1960 in College Park, Maryland, with an objective to "teach all girl members understand and practice the principles of sportsmanship, fair play, and good citizenship." The archives of the Club include minutes of executive board and membership meetings; information pertaining to activities such as bowling, softball, drill team, and horsebackriding; documentation of the annual awards banquest; membership lists; the newsletter of the group; correspondence by officers; and photographs.
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Charles Wallace Collins papers, 1915-1972. 13.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The papers of Charles Wallace Collins's wife, Sue Spencer Collins, include correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, and pamphlets generated or collected by Mrs. Collins. All deal with the social lives of elite women in Washington, D.C. during the mid-twentieth century. Topics covered include food, fashion, flower arrangement, a nd women's clubs such as the Colonial Dames and the Washington Club.
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Leon Washington Condol papers, 1864-1931. 0.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The story of Leon Condol's great-grandmother, Mary Ann "Auntie" Cord--her life as a slave, her separation from her children, surprising reunion with her youngest son, and eventual employment with the Samuel Langhorn Clemens family--was captured by Clemens in his sketch, "A True Story. Related Word For Word As I Heard It." A rare copy of Sketches Old and New (1875), autographed by the author, in which Auntie Cord's story appears, was handed down through the Condol family and is included in this collection.
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Carolyn Davis Collection of Louisa May Alcott, 1863-1998. 301 books and 10 folders.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
The Carolyn Davis Collection consists of more than 300 books by and about Louisa May Alcott. This collection has representative examples of almost all of Alcott's most popular works as well as a number of her lesser-known writings. Among these titles are her first book Flower Fables (1854), early to modern printings of Little Women, and a number of other works such as Little Men, Jo's Boys, and Under the Lilacs. The collection also encompasses some biographies of Alcott, books about Concord, Massachusetts, magazine articles, newspaper articles, and ephemera
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Leonidas Dodson papers, 1842-1889. 1.00 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Leonidas Dodson (1822-1889) was among the prominent citizens of Easton, Maryland, in the nineteenth century. As a young man he taught for several years in the Female Department of the primary school in St. Michael's before moving to Easton in 1854. Included in his journals are rolls for his school classes, and essays written by some of his students.
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Mary Louis Doherty papers, 1920-1982. 1.75 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Mary Louis Doherty was an expatriate American journalist who lived most of her life in Mexico, working for Mexican government officials as well as private institutions and individuals. She corresponded with Katherine Anne Porter after they met in Mexico City in 1921. Doherty served as one of the models for the character "Laura" in Porter's short story "Flowering Judas." The collection consists of correspondence, biographical materials, publications, legal documents, and photographs.
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Edmondson/Jacobs Family papers, 1836-1954. 1.75 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The bulk of the Jacobs Family papers consists of correspondence between Emma Edmondson Jacobs and her brother, William V. E. Jacobs, her mother, and her sisters. Emma Edmondson Jacobs lived in various locations throughout Maryland, including New Market, Easton, and Church Creek. Also included is a diary belonging to Emma Edmondson Jacob's mother, Emma V. E. Jacobs, dated 1854, and describing her life and how her beau asked her father for her hand in marriage. Other items in the collection include receipts, invoices, manuscripts, photographs, financial records, and ephemera. This collection is unprocessed, but a detailed inventory is available.
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Donald Elder papers, 1940-1963. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Donald Elder was an editor with Doubleday, Doran and Co., which published the English translation of Jos Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi's The Itching Parrot in Katherine Anne Porter's name. The collection consists of correspondence between Elder and Porter. Important subjects include writers and writing and Porter's personal interests and opinions.
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Feminist Studies records, 1972-2007. 70.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Feminist Studies is an active, independent, scholarly journal serving as an important source of significant writings on issues that are important to all classes and races of women. Feminist Studies has published works related to feminist scholarly research, activism, art, and creative writing. The records of Feminist Studies consist of contributor's files, correspondence, business files, board meeting minutes, and publications.
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Jennie M. Forehand papers, 1972-2008. 60 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Jennie M. Forehand was a member of the Maryland Senate from 1995-2007, a democrat representing Montgomery County's seventeenth district. Prior to that, she was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1978-1994. She is a founding member of the National State Legislative Advisory Board on Women and Bioethics. Her papers include documentation pertaining to bills that she supported in areas such as genetics and bio technology, education, health care, transportation, and women's issues.
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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven papers, 1917-1933. 4 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was an avant-garde artist and poet associated with Djuna Barnes and the Dada movement. Her papers consist of correspondence, poetry, and biographical and autobiographical notes and manuscripts documenting her life and literary career. Among the significant correspondents are Djuna Barnes, Peggy Guggenheim, and Berenice Abbott.
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Gahan Family papers, 1905-2003. 1.00 linear foot and 55 items.
Location: University of Maryland
Arthur B. (Burton) Gahan (1880-1960) received a master's degree from the Maryland Agricultural College in 1906, and remained in the Department of Entomology as Assistant Entomologist until 1913. He also coached the first basketball team at the Maryland Agricultural College. His daughter Winifred Gahan (1910-2002), was also a University of Maryland graduate and was active in local civic and church affairs, and was named "Prince Georgian of the Year" in 1993. Winifred E. Gahan (Arthur B. Gahan's sister) is represented in the collection by a commemorative book of letters assembled by her co-workers upon her retirement from the university in 1953, entitled "Our Miss Gahan."
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Esther Gelman papers, 1973-1986. 1.00 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Esther P. Gelman served as a member of the Montgomery County Council, representing District 2 from 1974 to 1987. She was also the first female Council President, December 1983 to December 1984. Throughout her political career, Gelman advocated the rights of sexual assault and spousal abuse victims and helped improve human services to residents of Montgomery County. Her papers include correspondence, testimony, transcripts, resolutions, bills, and official reports.
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Reuben Gilder papers, 1815-1827. 1 linear inch.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The papers of Reuben Gilder consist of twenty-six letters written by Gilder to his former military comrade, Isaac Dutton Barnard, between 1815 and 1822. Subjects covered in the correspondence include: former military comrades, acquaintances, and experiences related to the War of 1812 in Canadian territory; military conflict with the Creek tribes of Native Americans; a variety of contemporaneous political matters and figures, including those in the local, national, and international arenas; and family, business, and health matters. Another, separate letter included in the papers was written by Reuben Gilder's wife, Eliza M. Gilder, in 1823. This letter is an urgent appeal to Isaac D. Barnard for his written recommendation for a military disability pension on behalf of her husband, Reuben Gilder. Court records show that Reuben Gilder and his wife were granted a divorce on February 12, 1836.
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Leacy-Naylor Green-Leach papers, 1877-1936. 1.50 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Poet and editor Leacy Naylor Green-Leach was born in Culpepper County, Virginia, in 1862. She was educated in private schools in Virginia until she was enrolled in Hellmuth Ladies College in London, Ontario, from which she graduated with honors at age sixteen. Green-Leach was the great-great-granddaughter of George Mason, one of the authors of the Bill of Rights. Her literary activities include the founding and editing of a Baltimore-based literary magazine called The Circle, which ran from 1923 until 1938; also in 1923, Green-Leach established the Baltimore literary group, the American Poetry Circle. Spanning the dates between 1877 and 1936, the Green-Leach papers consist of manuscripts, publications, correspondence, memorabilia, art work, and photographs.
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Hamilton Family papers, 1803-1923 and undated. 1.25 linear feet (109 items).
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The papers pertain to family members as well as to other prominent nineteenth-century Charles County, Maryland, leaders. Covering the period 1803 to 1883, the collection consists primarily of correspondence and addresses such topics as tobacco, agriculture, family matters, slavery, Catholic schooling, the Civil War, and development of the West.
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Charles Fleetwood Hanna papers, 1873-1925. 0.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Charles Fleetwood Hanna worked for the Customs Service in Baltimore, Maryland. His papers contain his unpublished autobiography, dating from 1913, correspondence and other writings, financial and legal documents, and photographs. His autobiography discusses the employment of women in the U.S. Treasury in mid 1860s.
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Susan Harman papers, 1914-1972. 4.25 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Susan Emolyn Harman was an author and professor of English at the University of Maryland from 1920 to 1961. At the university, Harman founded Alpha Lambda Delta, an honorary society; was a charter member of the Maryland chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, a teacher's honorary society; and was adviser to a social sorority, Kappa Delta. She was also co-founder of the English Club of Prince George's and Montgomery counties. As president of the University of Maryland chapter of the American Association of University Professors, she worked to restore Social Security benefits for all university faculty. Her papers include correspondence, biographical materials, manuscripts, and memorabilia documenting her career as an author and educator.
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Isabella Hayes papers, 1941-1971. 17.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Isabella Hayes was the librarian in charge of the Maryland Room in McKeldin Library at the University of Maryland, College Park, campus from 1949 to 1968. Her papers consist of correspondence and other records pertaining to the operation of the Maryland Room. Major topics include the Prince George's County League of Women Voters, the Maryland Room, the Health and Welfare Council of the National Capitol Area.
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Ann Heintze papers, 1945-1976. 0.50 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Ann Heintze was a professional dancer and ballet instructor and a niece of Katherine Anne Porter. She danced with the San Carlo Opera Ballet, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and at Radio City Music Hall before her marriage to Walter Heintze in 1950. She maintained a close relationship with Miss Porter and traveled with her to Europe and Mexico in the 1960s. The collection consists of letters and postcards to Mrs. Heintze and her family from Porter.
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Hendricks and Hamilton families papers, 1845-1961. 244 items.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Several women members of the Hendricks family were professional seamstresses and dressmakers during the early nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The collection contains ledgers documenting the work the women used to support themselves and their families. Women's everyday life is documented in correspondence, calling cards, and other ephemera included in the collection.
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Celia Holland papers, 1861-1993. 12.50 linear feet, 3012 slides, 338 photographs.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Celia M. Holland (1911-1993), a Baltimore, Maryland, native, was a local history writer who became, through her research, the unofficial historian of Howard County, Maryland. Her most important work was the monograph entitled Old Homes and Families of Howard County, Maryland. She also produced numerous newspaper and magazine articles on Maryland history topics and conducted an extensive correspondence with many individuals sharing similar local history interests. Celia Holland's papers consist of correspondence and biographical information, writings and publicity, property documentation, county subject files, and research materials concerning historic personages and other historical topics.
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Marjorie Sewell Holt papers, 1972-1986. 17.25 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Congresswoman Holt represented the Fourth District in Maryland from 1973 to 1987. She was noted for her leadership in writing national legislation for urban homesteading, in fighting to conserve the Chesapeake Bay, and in curtailing government expenditures. During her career in the House of Representatives, Mrs. Holt also played a nationally significant role in the Republican Party, serving as vice chair of the Platform Committee of the Republican National Conventions in 1976 and 1980. In addition, she served as chairwoman of the Reagan-Bush campaign in Maryland for the 1984 election. Mrs. Holt's papers include correspondence, speeches, legislation, reports, photographs, political cartoons, and one videotape. Subjects documented include the Chesapeake Bay, federal budget, and the Urban Homestead Program.
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Charles Hosmer papers, 1855-1991. 30.00 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Charles Hosmer is widely regarded as the foremost historian of the historic preservation movement. Throughout his career, he interviewed many prominent individuals in the historic preservation field. This collection largely consists of tape recordings and transcripts of these interviews, including those with female preservationists such as St. Clair Wright and Helen Duprey Bullock.
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Ann R. Hull papers, 1964-1978. 21.5 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Ann R. Hull, a Democrat, served as a state delegate from the Second District of Prince George's County in the Maryland General Assembly from 1966 to 1978 and as Speaker Pro Tem of the House of Delegates during the 1975-1976 session. She was also a member of the National Order of Women Legislators, League of Women Voters of Prince George's County, League of Women Voters of Maryland, and the University of Maryland's Board of Regents. Delegate Hull's papers include reports, studies, minutes, and correspondence relating to her position as a state delegate. Important topics discussed include education, civil rights, mental health, public health facilities, and women's issues.
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Anne G. Ingram papers, 1977. 0.75 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
The collection consists of tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews with women employees of the University of Maryland's College Park campus. This collection is unprocessed.
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Laura Riding Jackson papers, 1938-1966. 0.75 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Laura Riding Jackson was an American poet, critic, and editor. She was closely associated with the Fugitive group, a cluster of American Southern writers centered at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, which included John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. Jackson is generally acknowledged to have influenced the work of Robert Graves, the New Zealand filmmaker Len Lye, and the writers James Reeves, Norman Cameron, T. S. Matthews, Jacob Bronowski, and W. H. Auden. The collection consists of correspondence between Jackson and Robert Nye, a British author, editor, and playwright, as well as manuscripts, newspaper and magazine clippings, and photographs.
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Cheryl C. Kagan papers, 1994-2002. 13.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Cheryl Kagan was a delegate (Democrat) to the Maryland General Assembly representing the 17th District of Montgomery County. During her legislative career, Cheryl Kagan made women's rights, consumer protection, education and ethics some of her top priorities, and sponsored bills focusing on election law, emergency care for survivors of rape, health insurance for in-vitro fertilization, privacy, and condominiums. The files consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, press releases, and subject files. This collection is unprocessed.
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Helen L. Koss papers, 1970-2002 and undated. 6.00 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Helen L. Koss, Democrat, represented the 18th District, Montgomery County, Maryland, in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1971 to 1987. She was the first woman appointed to chair a standing committee: the Constitutional and Administrative Law Committee (1979-1987). Among the legislation that Koss sponsored during her time in office is the Displaced Homemaker's Bill, which established the first multipurpose center to counsel homemakers and train them for transition to economic independence. Her papers include documentation pertaining to women's rights, election laws, and the Displaced Homemakers Bill.
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Mollee Coppel Kruger papers, 1934-2010. 24.50 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Mollee Coppel Kruger (b. 1929) is a Maryland poet, journalist, playwright, and humorist. She attended the University of Maryland, College Park, from 1946 to 1950 and received her degree in Education. From 1967 to 1983, she authored a weekly poetry column, entitled Unholy Writ, which was syndicated nationally in several Jewish periodicals. Kruger has also published six poetry collections under the Maryben Books imprint. Kruger's papers include correspondence, drafts, notes, scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper and magazine clippings, published materials, video tapes, and memorabilia. Notable correspondents in the collection include Cynthia Ozick and Joseph Brodsky. Of particular interest are Kruger's bi-weekly letters home during her time as a student at the University of Maryland. An unpublished guide to this collection is available.
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Helen Bradley Lang papers, 1931-1984. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Helen Bradley Lang was an undergraduate at the University of Maryland during the early 1930s. Her collection contains a trophy and scrapbooks documenting her college days.
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Isaiah and Martha Lang papers, 1858-1928. 0.5 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The papers span the period 1858 to 1928 and consist of correspondence to Lang and his wife from various relatives, as well as a small number of business records. The Langs were a farming family first in New Hampshire and later in Minnesota. Their cousin David M. Sanborn of Baltimore was their primary correspondent; other correspondents included several women in the Lang and Sanborn families. The Lang papers provide insights into domestic and economic concerns of early settlers as well as social conditions in Baltimore during the Civil War.
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Seymour Lawrence papers, 1955-1980. 3.75 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Seymour Lawrence was Katherine Anne Porter's publisher, first at Atlantic Monthly Press and later with Seymour Lawrence, Inc., his independent imprint. As editor-in-chief at Atlantic Monthly Press, Lawrence oversaw the publication of Porter's novel Ship of Fools. The collection consists of correspondence, galley proofs, editing notes, and clippings documenting Lawrence's editorial projects and interactions with various authors.
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Lewis Lawson papers, 1963-1967. 0.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Lewis A. Lawson, a literary critic and editor, taught English at the University of Maryland from 1963 to 1997. His particular scholarly interest is Southern American fiction, especially Walker Percy and Flannery O'Connor. He edited The Added Dimension: The Art and Mind of Flannery O'Connor with Melvin J. Friedman. His papers consist of correspondence, interviews, and the manuscript of his Greek translation of O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away.
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League of Women Voters of Maryland archives, 1910-1985. 32.25 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
In 1921, the Women's Suffrage League of Maryland affiliated itself with the recently formed League of Women Voters of the United States. This non-partisan organization has, throughout its history, focused on a number of causes including social welfare, child welfare, women's rights, world peace, and education. Among the controversial areas in which the League has been active are child labor, collective bargaining, food and drug legislation, housing, the merit system in civil service, disarmament, civil rights, and the Equal Rights Amendment. The League's archives include correspondence, reports, minutes, newsletters, printed materials, and newspaper clippings and address such areas as elections and voting, legislation, state and local government, domestic and foreign policy, child welfare, and public welfare.
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League of Women Voters of Prince George's County archives, 1921-1997. 41 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Founded in 1921, the League of Women Voters of Prince George's County was the first local league in the state. The League has supported establishment of juvenile correctional facilities, charter government, open occupancy, balanced local development, and improvement of health services. The archives include minutes, annual reports, correspondence, publications, and news clippings and address such subjects as busing, public health and safety, planning and zoning, voter services, and reapportionment.
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Catherine Mackin papers, 1956-1980. 18.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Catherine Mackin's career as a pioneer woman journalist in television network broadcasting spanned two decades and included numerous distinctions, among them two Emmy awards. She was one of the few women to receive a Neiman Fellowship to Harvard University and was the first woman floor reporter at the Democratic and Republican presidential conventions. A tough-minded, tenacious interviewer, she traveled the country both as reporter and anchorwoman, covering politics and politicians. The papers of Catherine Mackin reflect her interests and responsibilities as a political correspondent and reporter. Along with correspondence, notes, appointment books, and general articles are articles on major political figures such as Richard M. Nixon and Lyndon B. Johnson. The later material concerns the 1972 presidential race and Senator Edward M. Kennedy's 1980 presidential campaign. Audio cassettes of speeches and interviews, videotapes of her broadcasts, and photographs are also included.
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Louise Malloy papers, 1894-1944. 2.00 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Hired as the first woman news-writer for the Baltimore American, Louise Malloy specialized in women's interest stories but also contributed editorial, dramatic, humor, and feature articles. Her papers consist of manuscripts of plays, poems, short stories, articles, and miscellaneous personal records documenting her life and literary career.
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Adrienne Mandel papers, 1994-2006. 27 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Adrienne A. Mandel, Democrat, represented the 19th District, Montgomery County, Maryland, in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1995 to 2006. She was a member of the Joint Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, and the chair of the Joint Committee on Health Care Delivery and Financing. Her papers include documentation pertaining to bills that she supported, primarily relating to health care. Other topic areas covered include Jewish issues, action items of importance to Montgomery County, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, and the Intercounty Connector (ICC).
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Maryland Association for Family and Community Education (MDAFCE) Achives, 1912-2001. 12.75 linear feet, 2881 items.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Formally organized in March 1938, the Maryland State Council of Homemakers changed its name in 1968 to the Maryland Extension Homemakers Council. The Council is particularly noted for its development and implementation of the Rural Women's Short Course by Venia Kellar in June 1923. The Short Course program brought women in rural areas to the University of Maryland for seminars and continuing education. The Council was also actively involved with such groups as the 4H Club, National Women's Civil Defense, and the National Home Demonstration Council and currently serves as an umbrella organization for more than twenty-four extension groups. The records of the Maryland Extension Homemakers Council consist of reports, programs, and courses offered by the Council, financial documents, slides, photographs, and clippings and cover the period 1924 to 1984.
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Maryland Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc. archives, 1940-2005. 248.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The organization was founded in 1929 as part of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women, a nonpartisan, nondenominational, and nonsectarian organization for working women. The collection consists of committee and club files, charters, minutes, correspondence, convention records, scrapbooks, and memorabilia. The MFBPWC records are unprocessed, but a partial preliminary inventory is available.
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Maryland Home Economics Association archives, 1913-1998. 27.00 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The association was founded in 1917 at Hood College and is now part of the National Future Homemakers of America. Its purpose is to enlighten the public on the value of home economics through formal education in secondary schools, colleges, and universities. The collection includes reports, correspondence, newsletters, manuals, clippings, radio scripts, and minutes. Subjects addressed include the home economics movement, Pure Food and Drug Act legislation, and the Mary Faulkner Scholarship, a scholarship established by the group for women with an interest in pursuing careers affiliated with home economics.
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Lucille Maurer papers, 1942-1995. 133.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Lucille Maurer served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1969 to 1987. In January 1987, she was elected as the first woman to serve as the Treasurer of Maryland, and she was reelected in 1991. Her papers include correspondence, clippings, minutes, publications, reports, speeches, and working papers. The major topics covered are bills introduced, campaigns, task forces, and committee work. The Maurer papers are unprocessed, but a partial preliminary inventory is available.
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Dorothy McKnight papers, 1969-2000. 1.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Dorothy B. McKnight is a former executive director of the United States Women's Lacrosse Association and was a professor and the Coordinator of Women's Athletics at the University of Maryland from 1971 to 1976. This collection consists of books relating to Title IX and sex equity in athletics; some of the books include chapters authored by Dorothy McKnight. Also included are teaching materials used by Dorothy McKnight in workshops about Title IX and women's athletics.
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Pauline Menes papers, 1970-1986. 3.00 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Pauline H. Menes has represented the Twenty-First District of Prince George's County, Maryland, in the Maryland General Assembly since 1966. During her tenure in the legislature, she has focused on education, health care, the criminal justice system, juvenile justice, aging, the arts, and women's issues. Pauline Menes's papers include professional correspondence, agendas, minutes, newspaper clippings, studies, and reports and address such subjects as abortion, battered spouse and divorce legislation, rape, and the National Women's Conference.
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Hope Mirrlees papers, 1920-1960. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Hope Mirrlees was an author of novels, poems, and translations. However, she is best remembered for her circle of literary friends, which included T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Lady Ottoline Morrell. She published two novels, Lud-in-the-Mist and Counterplot, and a book of poetry, Moods and Tensions: Poems. Her papers consist solely of correspondence; significant correspondents include Eliot, Woolf, and Morrell.
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Constance A. Morella papers, 1948-2003. 214.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Congresswoman Constance (Connie) A. Morella (Republican) served eight terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 8th District of Maryland (Montgomery County). During her legislative career, Congresswoman Morella focused her legislative efforts on such issues as scientific research and development, education, the federal workforce, equity for women, and the environment. The files consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, press releases, photographs, memorabilia, awards, and subject files. This collection is unprocessed.
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Lady Ottoline Morrell papers, 1916-1934. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Lady Ottoline Morrell was a British-born literary hostess of the World War I era. Her group of friends was known as the Bloomsbury Group and included D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Siegfried Sassoon, and Virginia Woolf. The collection includes correspondence and publications documenting Lady Morrell's literary interests.
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National Extension Homemakers Council Voices of American Homemakers Archives, 1980-1986. 2.5 linear feet, 366 items.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The records of the National Extension Homemakers Council consist of audio tapes and oral history transcripts of interviews with homemakers conducted in preparation for the publication Voices of American Homemakers. These files are unprocessed.
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National Organization for Women, Maryland Chapter archives, 1966-2008. 36.25 linear feet and 250 items.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The National Organization for Women, Maryland Chapter, formed in the early 1970s as an organization devoted to action for women in areas such as equal rights and responsibilities in all aspects of citizenship, public service, employment, education, and family life, and it includes freedom from discrimination because of race, ethnic origin, age, marital status, sexual preference/orientation, or parenthood. The files consist of administrative and research files, correspondence, minutes, photographs, and press releases.
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National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) archives, 1970-2005. 208.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The records of the National Women's Studies Association consist of profiles of women's studies programs from colleges and universities across the United States. Individual profiles generally consist of brochures, syllabi, course descriptions, degree requirements, newsletters, and correspondence from program administrators to the National Women's Studies Association. The NWSA archives are unprocessed, but a partial preliminary inventory is available.
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New Ventures, Inc. Collection, 1978-1991. 0.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
New Ventures, Inc. was a non-profit organization founded in 1977 for the purpose of providing counseling and training to women experiencing changes in family, career and lifestyle. The organization specialized in providing support to former homemakers entering or re-entering the work force.
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Mary L. Nock papers, 1959-1974. 24 items.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Mary Layfield Nock (1903-1987) was a politician (Democrat) who served in the Maryland State Legislature from 1947 through 1974. Nock was an advocate for women's issues, higher education, and the use of television as an educational tool. In addition to serving on various councils, committees, and commissions, Nock was also an honorary member of Soroptimists International, the Maryland Congress of Parents and Teachers, the Delta Kappa Gamma Society, and many others. During her tenure, Mary Nock interacted with such notable figures as John F. Kennedy, Hubert H. Humphrey, George McGovern, and several of Maryland's governors. The collection consists of materials related to her political career, including speeches and addresses, correspondence, clippings, a brochure, a newsletter, and a certificate from the 1960 Democratic National Convention.
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Off Our Backs archives, 1970-2009. 45.00 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Off Our Backs was a non-profit feminist news journal by, for, and about women, published from 1970 until 2008. It was the longest continuously published feminist newspaper in the United States. The paper was run by a collective where all descisions were made by consensus. Although based out of Washington, D.C., the news journal covered local, national, and international topics pertaining to women's, feminist, and lesbian issues and culture.
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Jo-Ann Orlinsky papers, 1953-1976. 11.00 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Jo-Ann Orlinsky has been heavily involved in politics in the state of Maryland for many years. Among other positions, she served as Special Assistant to U. S. Senator Joseph D. Tydings and on the Mikulski Commission of the Democratic National Committee. Orlinsky has also volunteered her assistance to numerous local, state, and national women's and children's advocacy groups, political organizations, and Jewish charities and associations. The Orlinsky papers include correspondence, memoranda, schedules, speeches, press releases, and newspaper clippings. The files document her service as Joseph Tydings' administrative assistant and her involvement in his two campaigns for United States Senator.
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Overseas Education Fund archives, 1947-1991. 393.00 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The Overseas Education Fund was established in 1947 by the League of Women Voters to help women organize themselves to solve their problems and overcome barriers to their full participation in the social, political, and economic lives of their societies. They have worked worldwide to empower women by promoting women's leadership abilities, enhancing their abilities to use or changes laws, developing their entrepreneurial skills, and strenthening organizations that work on women's issues. The archives consists of correspondence, reports, minutes, subject files, photographs, and memorabilia of the organization throughout its history. The collection is unprocessed, but a preliminary inventory is available.
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Harry C. Perry, Jr. papers, 1958-1966. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Harry C. Perry was Katherine Anne Porter's tax accountant for approximately five years in the early 1960s. His papers consist of correspondence, financial records, and newspaper clippings related to Porter.
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Louise Phillips scrapbooks, 1977-1988. 1.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Two scrapbooks compiled by Louise Phillips, a University of Maryland Alumna. She graduated with a Bachelor's of Science in Early Childhood Education in 1960 and with an Med. in Curriculum and Instruction in 1991. Phillips was a Montgomery County public school teacher and is the author of children's books. In 1986 she made a documentary about her teaching experiences. The scrapbooks include statements of her philosophy on teaching, vacation photographs, and correspondence. Also included are her two books, The Bald Eagle's Flying Shadow: A Fourth of July Celebration and The First Snowflake of Winter.
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Katherine Anne Porter papers, 1842-1980. 174.5 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Katherine Anne Porter is known mostly for her short stories and novel, Ship of Fools, but also published nonfiction. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1966 for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter. Her personal papers reflect her interests in writing, travel, politics, and current events and also document her private life. The collection consists of correspondence, notes and drafts for her works, publications, legal documents, and financial records. It also includes photographs, memorabilia, and her personal library. Many of the memorabilia objects and a portion of her library are housed in the Katherine Anne Porter Room in Hornbake Library.
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Paul Porter papers, 1903-2009. 8.75 linear feet and 226 items.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Harrison Paul Porter is a nephew of Katherine Anne Porter and was her legal guardian from 1977 to 1980. His papers contain correspondence, guardianship records, published materials and notes, audio tapes, and photographs documenting the literary career of Miss Porter and their relationship.
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President's Commission on Women's Issues records, 1973-1993. 21.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
This campus-wide group is a successor to the Chancellor's Commission on Women's Affairs. The commission's records contain minutes, committee files, reports, publications, budgetary materials, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Issues addressed in the files include athletics, violence, minority relations, and the treatment of women faculty and undergraduates. The commission's records are unprocessed, but a preliminary inventory is available.
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Preston Family papers, 1799-1916. 3.75 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The Preston Family was an upper-middle-class Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland. The papers, primarily correspondence, provide insights into Catholic and domestic life in Baltimore and discuss girls' boarding school, country life, social entertainments, fashions, indictment of the Sisters of Charity, bank theft, smallpox, dropsy, food, the Civil War, and spousal abuse. Diaries in the collection belonging to Madge and May Preston cover the 1860 to 1893 period.
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E. Barrett Prettyman papers, 1962-1984. 1.25 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr., was Katherine Anne Porter's lawyer and close friend from the mid-1960s until her death in 1980. His papers include personal letters and business correspondence relating to Porter.
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Mr. and Mrs. John A. Prince papers, 1957-1978. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
John Prince developed friendships with several artists and writers during and after World War II. He met Katherine Anne Porter in the 1950s through his association with Marcella Coms Winslow, a Washington artist. He was Porter's friend and neighbor in Georgetown from 1959 to 1962, and he and his wife corresponded regularly with Porter for several years after that. The collection contains correspondence, financial and legal documents, photographs, and published copies of Porter's books.
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Mary Carter Roberts papers, 1940-1977. 11.25 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr., was Katherine Anne Porter's lawyer and close friend from the mid-1960s until her death in 1980. His papers include personal letters and business correspondence relating to Porter.
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Scrapbooks, 1913-1970. 7.50 linear feet (11 items).
Location: University of Maryland
This collection is composed of scrapbooks assembled by students, administrators, and campus groups at the University of Maryland, a number of which focus on women on campus. One scrapbook, compiled in 1970, documents the activities of Gamma Sigma Sigma, a service sorority. Another belonged to Minnie Hill, a student at the university during the early 1920s. A third is the personal scrapbook kept by Adele Stamp, the first Dean of Women, which includes her opinions on college women. Another scrapbook, dated 1938-1939, is composed entirely of newspaper clippings about women at the university; highlights of this grouping include articles about the campus's first co-ed chemical engineer, a beauty contest, women on the honor roll, and the faculty ban on women wearing shorts.
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David and Elizabeth Scull papers, 1958-1981. 10.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
David and Elizabeth Scull were an influential and dynamic couple who served Montgomery County and the state of Maryland from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Both served at different times on the Montgomery County Council. Mrs. Scull was vice president of the Montgomery County Council during the 1970s. A biography, correspondence, financial reports, speeches, and correspondence comprise her papers. Local and state politics, constituent services, housing, and capital improvements are among the subjects covered.
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Sellman Family papers, 1828-1908. 1.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The Sellman Family Papers span the years 1828 through 1908 with the bulk of the material dating between 1850 and 1865 and document the lives of a landowning family in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The collection contains family and business correspondence; bills and receipts; guardianship documents; handwriting exercises; and household and farm account books and diaries. Subjects covered include daily life; farm management; the cholera epidemic in Grand Gulf, Mississippi; treatment of slaves; sale of crops in Baltimore; and the education of the Sellman children at home and at St. John's College in Annapolis.
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Mary S. Shorb papers, 1910-1971. 16.75 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Dr. Mary S. Shorb, former research professor at the University of Maryland (1949-1972) and professor emeritus (1972-1990), was known for her work in designing assays to allow for the commercial production of Vitamin B12. Dr. Shorb's papers consist of correspondence, grant reports, and applications documenting such subjects as B12; L. lactis; L. bifidus; Trichomonas; chickens; animal nutrition; and pernicious anemia.
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Silver Spring Nursery School archives, 1942-1993. 1.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Newsletters and assorted clippings documenting the activities of the Silver Spring Nursery School, Inc., a cooperative nursery school in Silver Spring, Maryland. The Silver Spring Nursery School was started in 1941 by a group of mothers active in the Montgomery County League of Women Voters who expanded their children's play group into a nursery school.
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Naomi Duff Smith papers, 1928-1859. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Naomi Duff Smith was a poet, author of short stories and radio scripts, and owner of a Baltimore, Maryland, public relations firm. Her collection consists of poems, short stories, correspondence, and awards documenting her literary output and business and civic achievements.
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Jean Spencer papers, 1963-1973. 8.00 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
During the tenure of Spiro T. Agnew as governor of Maryland and vice president of the United States, Dr. Jean Spencer served on his staff. Her papers relate to these responsibilities and are comprised of correspondence, speeches, minutes, clippings, publications, press releases, photographs, and memorabilia.
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Grace Delafield Day Spier papers, 1928-1931. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Grace Delafield Day Spier was a social activist, a friend of Katherine Anne Porter, and the sister of Dorothy Day, editor of the Catholic Worker. She became active in the literary and intellectual circles of Greenwich Village in the second decade of the twentieth century. The collection consists of correspondence from Katherine Anne Porter about mutual acquaintances and personal matters.
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Adele H. Stamp papers, 1922-1983. 14.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Adele H. Stamp was the first dean of women at the University of Maryland, a position she held from 1922 to 1960. Miss Stamp participated in many groups beyond the university campus on the state and national levels, where she held numerous positions in such civic organizations as the State Association of Deans of Women, the League of Women Voters, and the Advisory Committee for the WACs during World War II. Miss Stamp's papers include correspondence, reports, organization constitutions, minutes, rules, and publications. Her papers also document posthumous honors she received and memorial fund activities to honor her.
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Papers of Gertrude Stein and Her Circle, 1927-1938. 0.50 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Gertrude Stein was an American-born poet, novelist, and playwright who lived for a time in Baltimore, Maryland, but spent most of her life in France and England. This collection consists of correspondence, biographical materials, work papers, and photographs and is mostly in French.
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Sterling Family papers, 1862-1864. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
These letters, written during the Civil War between "Tillie" Sterling, her soldier-husband "Will" Sterling, her mother A. V. Farquhar ("Ma"), and Will's father, provide a glimpse into family life during the years 1862 to 1864 when the Sterlings resided in Annapolis, Maryland. The letters are mainly accounts of day-to-day events combined with expressions of affection. Topics include military affairs, travel and lodging, entertaining, slaves, slavery, disease, and vaccination.
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James Stern papers, 1940-1986. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
James Stern was an Irish- born author of more than fifty short stories, nonfiction, and translations. His papers consist primarily of correspondence he received relating to Djuna Barnes, both from her and from others. The papers also include newspaper and magazine articles about Miss Barnes.
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Mary W. Stewart papers, 1902-1941. 0.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Mary W. Stewart was the postmistress of Oxford, Maryland from 1877 to 1940. The collection consists of correspondence to and from Mary Stewart and her family, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia relating to her tenure as postmistress. It also includes a blueprint of Mary Stewart's home and post office in Oxford, Maryland.
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Frederick Stone papers, 1864-1903, 1985. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Frederick Stone (1820-1899) was a lawyer, U. S. Congressman, Maryland Delegate, and judge of the Court of Appeals of Charles County, Maryland. This collection consists of correspondence to Frederick Stone from his wife, Jennie, and his daughters, especially his daughter Bessie Brown, who wrote to him from New Orleans, and who died after a long illness in 1889.
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Dorothy Sucher Collection, 1970-1981. 4.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Publications, newsletters, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, course syllabi, and reports collected by Dorothy Sucher, an active member of local women's organizations, documenting the women's movement of the mid-to-late 1970s in Maryland. Local organizations represented include the Washington Area Women's Center, the Women's Equity Action League, the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press, Marylanders for the Right to Choose, and the National Abortion Rights League (NARAL). Topics covered include feminist press, feminist theater, women in business, women in sports, abortion, and the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Swann-Mason Family papers, 1751-1930. 0.75 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Thomas Swann (1806-1883) was governor of Maryland from 1866 to 1869. These are the papers of his son and include correspondence by the women in the family during the nineteenth century. Subjects addressed are Loudoun and Prince William County, Virginia, indentures; Thomas Swann; and the Thompson F. Mason and Clapham families.
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Committee on Undergraduate Women's Education records, 1982-1989. 0.50 linear feet (67 items).
Location: University of Maryland
Chaired by Dr. Sandra Greer, the committee consisted of senior University of Maryland College Park administrators and faculty members charged with evaluating and implementing recommendations presented in "The Education of Women Students at UMCP: Issues and Opportunities." The records cover the period 1982 to 1989 and consist of documents generated in the course of the committee's work, in particular their final report, commonly known as the "Greer Report."
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United States Women's Lacrosse Association archives, 1924-2000. 46.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The United States Women's Lacrosse Association (USWLA) was formed in the early part of the twentieth century to provide opportunities for girls and women to participate in the sport of lacrosse. The collection consists of awards, publications, correspondence, memoranda, constitutions, photographs, and memorabilia. The files document the operations of the USWLA, rules development, and camps, clinics, and tournaments run by the organization, among other topics. The USWLA archives are unprocessed, but a preliminary inventory is available.
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Hubert Kelly Waldron papers, 1815-1962. 6.75 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
This family's papers provide insights into Irish social life and customs during the years 1815 to 1962 and address such subjects as the potato famine, the Fenian Uprising, Anglo-Irish relations, the murder of Hubert Kelly Waldron, and money for passage to America. The collection includes legal papers, letters, financial reports, poems, recipes, and funeral memoriams. Many correspondents are Waldron family women.
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Thomas Walsh papers, 1887-1992. 11.00 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Thomas F. Walsh was an American literature professor at Georgetown University beginning in 1956. He met Katherine Anne Porter in 1960 and subsequently published several scholarly works on her writing. Walsh also became acquainted with Porter's friend Mary Louis Doherty during his frequent visits to Mexico, where Porter had lived sporadically between 1920 and 1931. The Walsh papers include biographical materials, correspondence, publications, work papers, legal documents, audio tapes, and photographs.
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Weems-Reynolds Family papers, 1713-1940. 1.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The Weems Family, one of the oldest families in Maryland, traces its ancestry to the conflict between Malcolm and Macbeth for the crown of Scotland. The Weems family estate, "Marshes Seat," founded near Herring Creek in Anne Arundel County in the eighteenth century by a descendant of John Macduff, provided the backdrop against which successive generations of Weems and Reynolds played out their lives. The collection includes correspondence by several Victorian-era women, including Hattie Reynolds, an early environmentalist and the first woman game warden of Maryland.
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Glenway Wescott Collection, 1932-1977. 29.25 linear feet.
Location: Literature and Rare Books
Glenway Wescott was the author of novels, poetry, short stories, and essays. He met Katherine Anne Porter in Paris in the 1930s, and they remained friends for many years. Wescott's papers include several versions of the manuscript for a never-completed edition of some of Porter's letters. Originals of some of the letters are included in the manuscript collection, along with notes and miscellaneous published materials by and about Porter.
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Carol Wharton papers, 1942-1958. 6.00 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Carol Wharton was a staff correspondent for the Baltimore Evening Sun from 1942 to 1956, where she covered art and politics. Her papers consist of "stringbooks" containing her articles.
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Ruth S. Wolf papers, 1955-1976. 5.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
Ruth S. Wolf was a member of the Prince George's County Board of Education from 1968 to 1973, serving as board president during the 1970-1971 school year. The papers document the activities of the Prince George's County Board of Education and the desegregation of the county public schools. The collection consists of clippings, correspondence, court documents, maps, memoranda, minutes, press releases, publications, reports, statements, statistical information, and working papers.
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Woman's Suburban Democratic Club archives, 1956-2011. 20.00 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The Woman's Suburban Democratic Club is a political organization for women in Montgomery County, Maryland. The archives document the group's fundraising, educational, organizing, social, and civic activities. Included are administrative records that record the club's efforts to assist Democratic candidates in winning elections, and to encourage Montgomery County voters to elect Democratic leaders at the local, state, and federal level. The meeting minutes in this collection cover such topics as the club's mission, educational programs, voter registration efforts, luncheon presentations featuring nationally prominent speakers, and campaign activities.
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Women in Development Collection, 1944-1990. 39.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
This collection consists of pamphlets, government documents, and reports published by international organizations like the United Nations and World Bank and by government agencies in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Indonesian that facilitate research on women and women's issues in third world or developing countries. The collection contains "working or "occasional" papers sponsored by organizations in developed or developing countries, unpublished papers and speeches, and journal offprints. Also included are published conference papers, monographs, annual reports, bibliographies, brochures, news clippings, newsletters and journal issues. Among the major topics addressed are agriculture; education; employment; project design and evaluation; and water, health, and sanitation. Additional addenda to the collection are unprocessed.
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Women's Action Coalition of Prince George's County archives, 1975-1985. 0.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The Women's Action Coalition of Prince George's County is an organization that works to prevent discrimination against women. Subjects documented in the files include the International Women's Year, equality, Title IX, multi- cultural issues, education, and domestic violence. The Coalition's records contains minutes, bylaws, newsletters, and the history of the organization.
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Women's League records, 1934-1941. 0.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
The Women's League, formerly the Women's Student Government Association, was formed in 1935 to promote leadership development and to encourage scholarship, self-reliance, and high standards of conduct among female students of the University of Maryland. Although mainly concerned with the formulation, administration, and interpretation of the rules of social conduct for women, the Women's League also played an active role in student government. The records of the Women's League consist of two minute books, dated 1934-1940 and 1940-1941, and printed rules from academic year 1940-1941.
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Women's Studies Pamphlet Collection, 1846-1987. 12.50 linear feet.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The Women's Studies Pamphlet Collection was established in the early 1970s by Susan Cardinale, Associate Librarian for Special Collections at the University of Maryland. The pamphlets provide perspectives on the women's movement, particularly during the 1970s, and cover such issues such as abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment, homeworkers, Maryland women, returning students, Title IX, and women around the world. Also included are "working" papers, reports, brochures, and newsletters documenting women's studies issues in the United States and abroad.
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Bertha (Gerneaux) Davis and Albert Fred Woods papers, 1878-1944. 3.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Of interest to students of women's history in this collection are the manuscript notebooks of Bertha Woods, wife of Albert Woods, president of the University of Maryland from 1917 to 1926, which contain poems and children's stories written for Young Peoples's Weekly and The Girls Companion.
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John and Margaret Hood Zug papers, 1837-1851. 1.50 linear feet (83 items).
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
The collection consists of the couple's correspondence with each other and with various friends and family members during the period 1837 to 1851. Subjects addressed include religious beliefs, the temperance movement, family matters, children, health and medicine, education, and abolitionists.
Maryland Manuscripts
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The Maryland Manuscripts grouping consists of a diverse array of materials such as letters, diaries, printed ephemera, and legal records, many of which relate to women's social, political and historical development during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. These documents include family letters, lecture notes on women's topics, records of religious groups, slave manumissions, military bounties, court proceedings, oral history transcripts, and widows' pension records.
There are also items of special interest:
MDMS 5411--Diary kept by Susan Howell, a teenage girl in Baltimore, from January 1-July 31, 1853. This diary contains entries that document in great detail the everyday activities of an average middle-class young woman of the era. Walks, school, and music and dancing lessons are frequently noted by Miss Howell. Also mentioned are the death of a sister and the wedding of a friend.
MDMS 5440--Diary kept by Susan Mathiot Gale, a young widow and mother in Anne Arundel County, spanning 1859, with a special addendum in 1868. Mrs. Gale discussed her day-to-day activities, attendance at social functions, and her many suitors. She talks frankly on the topics of men, marriage, and slavery.
MDMS 5498--Diary kept by Mary Elizabeth Barnes, a student at Dr. and Mrs. Rivers's private boarding school in Govanstown, Baltimore County, Maryland. Mary Elizabeth Barnes was approximately twelve to fourteen years of age at the time the diary was written. Described are lessons, religious services, interactions with schoolmates, and weather conditions.
Photographs
Among the departmental holdings are scenes and individual portraits of women from the early part of the 20th century onward. The photographs illustrate women's activities and development in the domestic, social, cultural, industrial, and educational spheres. Depicted are advertisements in which women appear; clubs, churches, hospitals, schools, and orphanages which they founded, administered, and supported; homesteads they helped build; Works Projects Association projects and labor unions in which they participated; social affairs they organized; and artistic interests they pursued. Photographs of women students, faculty, and administrators of the University of Maryland also figure prominently in the collection.
Memorabilia
The memorabilia collection consists of more than 900 individually described pieces of realia. Among the items relating to women are embroidery; commemorative plaques, trophies, pennants and awards; posters; theatrical programs; dance cards; needle-point pins; and a 1920s style gymsuit used at the University of Maryland.