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Welcome to Archival Sites for Women's Studies, part of WSSLinks,
developed and maintained by the
Women's Studies
Section of the Association
of College and Research Libraries.
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- Alverno
College Archives
- Guide to the archives of this Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Catholic College for women.
http://depts.alverno.edu/archives/archome/
- American
Association of Nurse Anesthetists Archives
- Guide to holdings of records of
this archive in Park Ridge, Illinois, and to records related to nurse
anesthetists or to other
organizations.
http://www.aana.com/Resources.aspx?ucNavMenu_TSMenuTargetID=59&ucNavMenu_TSMenuTargetType=4&ucNavMenu_TSMenuID=6&id=212
- American
Library
Association Archives
- Guide to the non-current ALA Archives
maintained by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Includes
some records of the Women's Studies Section and Committee on Status of
Women in
Librarianship.
http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/ala/
- Archives
of Women in Theological
Scholarship at Union Theological Seminary, New York
- Collection of personal papers, oral histories, and
scholarly work of feminist scholars,
clergy, and laywomen including faculty and alumnae of the Seminary.
http://www.uts.columbia.edu/projects/AWTS/
- University
of Baltimore Archives
- Archives pertaining to women's studies in Special
Collections.
http://archives.ubalt.edu/women.htm
- Barnard
College
- Includes the Barnard Archives and a collection of
manuscripts by and about American women authors.
http://www.barnard.edu/archives/
- Clara
Barton
National Historic Site, Glen Echo, Maryland
- Contains archives
relating to the formation of the American Red Cross.
http://www.nps.gov/clba/index.htm
- Bentley
Historical Library
- Includes
index to topics in Women's Studies at the Bentley Historical Library at
the University of
Michigan.
http://bentley.umich.edu/research/guides/women/
- Bowling
Green State
University Center for Archival Collections
- Bibliography of women's studies
manuscripts which document women's activities in northwest Ohio.
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/womenbb1.html
- Brown
University Archives
- Archives document the history of women at Brown
including administration of the Women's College, Pembroke College,
which merged with
Brown in 1971.
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/collections/archives/arch.html#manu"
- Bryn
Mawr Library
Manuscript
Collections
- Guide to the library's manuscript collections useful
for women's studies.
http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/index2.shtml
- Carlow
University Archives
- Guide to the archives of this
Catholic women's university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
http://archives.carlow.edu/index.html
- Center
for
the Study of the History of
Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania
- Description of the collections of this
extensive archive of records of hospitals, nursing schools, and
personal papers of nurses.
http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/history/collections.htm
- University
of Chicago
- Guide to numerous personal papers and women's
organizational papers.
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/women.html"
- College
of New Rochelle
- Archives of this Catholic college for women, founded
in 1904, in New Rochelle,
New York.
http://www.cnr.edu/home/library/new/resources_archives.htm
- College
of Saint Elizabeth
- Archives of this Catholic college for women, founded
in 1899, in Morristown, New Jersey
http://www.cse.edu/about_archives.htm
- Columbia
University Special Collections
- Brief guide to collections
relating to women. Includes papers of Bella Abzug.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/womenstudies/archiv1.html
- Congregational
Library
and
Archives
- Collections relating to women in the archives,
located in
Boston,
Massachusetts, which documents the Congregational Church throughout the
world.
http://www.congregationallibrary.org/resources/archives/archives-intro
- Connecticut
State
Library
- Finding aid to women's history archival resources.
Lists
major subject categories, such as religious or professional
organizations
or family papers, and briefly describes one collection in each
category.
http://www.cslib.org///women.htm
- Cornell
University Library
- Guides to women's studies manuscripts in the
library's Rare and Manuscript Collections.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/ws.html
- Dayton
&
Montgomery County Public Library
- Finding aid for the Women's
Suffrage Association and League of Women Voters Collection for the
Dayton,
Ohio area.
http://home.dayton.lib.oh.us/archives/wsuff/wsalvwtoc1.html
- University
of
Delaware
- Guide to the Library's women's literary papers and
manuscripts.
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/guides/wmnlit.htm
- Drexel
University College of Medicine
- Guide to archives, including predecessor institutions
such the Woman's Medical College of Pennyslvania and the
Female Medical College of Pennsylvania.
http://med.library.drexel.edu
- Foundation
Center
for History of Nursing, Guilderland, New York
- Records and
manuscript collections documenting nursing in New York State.
http://www.foundationnysnurses.org/history.htm
- Framingham
State
College, Framingham, Massachusetts
- College archives and alumna
personal papers of this college that was single-sex until the 1960s.
http://www.framingham.edu/wlibrary/archives/index.htm
- Goucher
College
- Archives of this historically woman's college,
including college
records and papers of alumnae.
http://www.goucher.edu//x9159.xml
- Hadassah
Archives
- Archives document the work of
the organization from 1912 with manuscripts, publications, audio tapes,
and
photographs.
http://www.hadassah.org/pageframe.asp?section=about&page=archives.html&header=archives&size=50
- Harvard
Business School Baker Library
- Survey of the Baker Library manuscripts collections
for the role of women in business,
1700-1920.
http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/wes/
- Harvard
University Library Open Collections Program:
Women Working, 1800-1930
- Digitized historical, manuscript, and image
resources from the Harvard library and
museum collections, including at least 7,500 pages of manuscripts and
1,200 photographs.
Focuses on women's role in the U.S. economy.
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/
- Historical
Society of
Pennsylvania
- Includes guides to the society's women's history
resources for women during the Civil War and
during the American Revolution.
http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=4
- History
of Nursing Archives at Boston
University
- Established in 1966, these archives contain the
personal and
professional papers of nursing leaders, records and histories of
nursing schools,
and records of nursing organizations.
http://www.bu.edu/archives/holdings/historical/nursing.html
- Hood
College
- Archives of this historic woman's college,
established in 1897 in Frederick, Maryland.
http://www.hood.edu/library/services.cfm?pid=services_specialCollections.html
- University
of Illinois at Chicago
- The Midwest Women's Historical Collection documents
the history of women and women's issues in
the Midwest in the 19th and 20th centuries.
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/mwhc.shtml
- Immaculata
University
- Archives of this Catholic
liberal arts university for women, founded in 1920 in Pennsylvania.
http://library.immaculata.edu/General_Information/Archives.html
- Indiana
Historical
Society
- Guide to the Society's individual and organizational
papers
relating to women.
http://www.indianahistory.org/library/manuscripts/collection_guides/womens_history.html
- Jewish
Women in America
- Contains an "Annotated Bibliography and Guide
to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America,"
compiled
by Phyllis Holman Weisbard, University of Wisconsin System Women's
Studies
Librarian.
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/jewwom/jwmain.htm
- Jewish
Women's Archive
- Information from this Brookline, Massachusetts
center for public programs and research
on the accomplishments of Jewish women.
http://www.jwa.org/index.html
- Kent
State University
- Choose
"Women's Collections" for guides to papers of several prominent Ohio
women and of Queen
Marie of Romania.
http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/collections.html
- Lesbian
Herstory
Archives, New York
- A guide to records of lesbian organizations as well
as biographical and
subject files and unpublished papers
http://www.datalounge.net/network/pages/lha
- Lilly
Library, Indiana University
- Women-related collections in the Lilly Library
Manuscripts Department.
http://www.indiana.edu:80/~liblilly/lilly/mss/subject/women.html
- University
of
Maine
- Search under "women" in the archives data base
collections for records of Maine women's groups.
http://130.111.64.3:82/
- Maine
Women Writers
Collection
- Collection of literary, cultural, and history
sources
by and about women authors, either native or residents of Maine. At the
Westbrook College campus of the University of New England.
http://www.une.edu/mwwc/
- Marquette
University Archives
- Listing of manuscript collections and university
archives of
importance to
Catholic women's history.
http://www.marquette.edu/library/collections/archives/women.html
- Maryknoll
Mission Archives, Maryknoll, N.Y.
- Guide to the collections of this official
repository of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America and the
Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic.
http://www.maryknoll.org/ABOUTUS/ARCHIV/arvhiv.htm
- University
of Maryland
- Guide to the Library's personal papers and
organizational records useful for women's studies. Organizational
records
are chiefly from Maryland; personal papers include national literary
figures such as Djuna Barnes and Katherine Anne Porter.
http://www.lib.umd.edu/archivesum/rguide/women.jsp
- Marymount
Manhattan College
- Includes archives of this New York college, orginally
for women, from 1936, and papers of
Geraldine A. Ferraro.
http://marymount.mmm.edu/study/resources/library/archives.html
- University
of
Michigan William L. Clements Library
- Guide to the library's
manuscripts concerning women, especially abolitionists and writers.
http://www.clements.umich.edu/Gurls/Gurl.html
- State
Archives of Michigan
- Guide to records relating to women in
the Archives, arranged in alphabetical order by personal or
organizational
name.
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mhc_sa_circular35_50019_7.pdf
- Milwaukee
Urban
Archives
- Guide to women's history collections in the
Archives.
http://www.uwm.edu/Library/arch/womenak.htm
- Modern
Language Association of America Women's Caucus
- Maintained at
DePaul University Archives and Special Collections, Chicago, Illinois.
Includes
correspondence and memoranda, 1970-1993.
http://www.lib.depaul.edu/speccoll/guides/womenmla.htm
- Mount
Holyoke College Library Manuscript Collections
- Guide to the
library's collections of personal papers of the college's presidents,
faculty, alumnae, and trustees.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/arch/
- National
Archive of Lesbian
and Gay History, New York
- Archive preserves personal papers and
organizational records of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
individuals and organizations.
http://www.gaycenter.org/resources/archive/index_html/view?searchterm=archive
- National
First Ladies' Library, Canton,
Ohio
- A virtual library highlighting contributions of the
United States First Ladies. The
Bibliography
section lists relevant manuscript collections in different
repositories.
http://www.firstladies.org/bibliography/
- Native
American Women
Playwrights Archive, Miami University of Ohio
- Collection of
original materials by Native American women.
http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/nawpa/
- New
Hampshire
Historical Society Library
- Includes papers of outstanding people of New
Hampshire,
includeing Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science.
http://www.nhhistory.org/libraryexhibits/manuscriptcollection/manuscript.html
- New
York Public Library
- Guide to collections relating to women.
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/resguides/women/index.html
- New
York State Archives
- Overview of records in the archives relating to
women.
http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/research/res_topics_pgc_women.shtml
- New
York University Bobst Library Wagner/Tamiment Archives
- Guide to
personal papers and organizational records concerning the history of
American women and the labor movement.
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/women/manscrpt.html
- New
York Weill Cornell Medical Center
Archives
- Includes records of the Lying-In Hospital and
documentation about
women doctors, patients, administrators, and philanthropists.
http://www.med.cornell.edu/archives/
- State
University of New York at Albany
- Guide to personal and organizational papers
concerning women.
http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/women.htm
- Northwestern
University
- Women's Collection includes material generated by
people active in the the women's liberation movement, and guide
includes list of
other women's archival collections.
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/pdf/womenscollection.pdf
- Oberlin
College Archives
- Guide to the women's history sources in the Oberlin
College
Archives.
http://www.oberlin.edu/archive/resources/women/index.html
- Ohio
Lesbian
Archives, Cincinnati
- Archives collects personal papers, letters,
photographs, flyers from lesbian events in the tristate area, and
periodicals.
http://www.geocities.com/ohiolesbianarchives/
- Penn
State
Harrisburg
- Guide to the Alice Marshall Women's History
Collection,
a comprehensive private collection of women's history materials,
including literary, graphic, and manuscripts materials concerning
women's
history
from the 15th century to the 1980s.
http://www.hbg.psu.edu/library/speccoll/
- Princeton
University
- Guide to primary materials for women's studies in
the Department
of Rare Books and Special Collections.
http://libweb2.princeton.edu/rbsc2/aids/subject/womenst.htm
- Regis
College Archives
- Archives of this women's college, founded in 1927,
in Weston, Massachusetts
http://regisnet.regiscollege.edu/library/libinfo/archives.html
- University
of Rochester's Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement
Exhibition
- Text and images from an exhibition, including letters
by Elizabeth Cady
Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/rbk/women/women.htm
- Rutgers
University Archives
- Highlights of manuscript collections
documenting women's activities in many spheres.
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/womens_fa/womenhomepage.shtml
- Saint
Joseph College, Connecticut
- Archives of this Catholic college for women, founded
1932.
http://www.sjc.edu/content.cfm/pageid/4066
- Arthur
and Elizabeth
Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe
College
- Guide to collections and finding aids for the
library's manuscript collections
documenting women's lives in the 19th and 20th centuries.
http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/
- Simmons
College Archives and Manuscript Collections
- Listing of college's archives and faculty
and student personal papers.
http://my.simmons.edu/library/collections/college_archives
- Sisters
of
Providence Archives
- Documents the life and mission of this religious
order.
http://www.spsmw.org/cgi-bin/site.pl?3208&dwContent_contentID=57
- Smith
College
Archives
- Description of this important resource for the study
of the history of Smith
College, women's education and student life, and subjects such as
women's war work.
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/archives/
- Sophia
Smith Collection
at Smith College
- This collection has over 400 manuscript
collections and organizational archives documenting the historical
experience of women in the U.S. and abroad from colonial times to the
present. Strengths include suffrage, birth control, contemporary
women's
movement, arts and the professions, and New England family life.
Includes
papers of Margaret Sanger, Ellen Gates Starr, and Gloria Steinem among
others.
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/index.html
- Society
of
American Archivists Lesbian and Gay Archives Roundtable
- Contains
descriptions of a variety of large and small repositories with
collections for lesbian and gay studies. Sponsored by SAA,
headquartered
in Chicago.
http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/lagar/index.html
- Society
of
American Archivists Women's Collection Roundtable
Directory
- Contains descriptions of a variety of
large and small repositories with collections for women's studies.
Sponsored by SAA
headquartered in Chicago.
http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/womenscoll/index.asp
- Society
of Women
Engineers Collection, Wayne State University, Reuther Library
- Records of the Society and a major source of
information about women in
engineering.
http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/collections/sweguide.html
- Soroptimist
Archives,
Philadelphia
- Request form for the official repository for records
of Soroptimist
International of the Americas, a volunteer service organization for
business and professional women.
http://www.soroptimist.org/SIA/Content/NavigationMenu/AboutUs/Archives/default.htm
- Swarthmore
College Peace
Collection
- Guide to the library's organizational and personal
papers, including those
of Jane Addams and Belva Lockwood.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/
- Temple
University Libraries Urban Archives
- Choose section about women for
records of women's organizations, chiefly in the Philadelphia area.
http://library.temple.edu/collections/urbana/overview.jsp?bhcp=1
- University
of Toledo Canaday Center
- Guide to organizational records and
personal papers, chiefly of Ohio residents.
http://www.utoledo.edu/library/canaday/guidepages/women.html
- Vassar
College Libraries
- Descriptions of archival collections of
value for women's history.
http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/collections/manuscripts/MssSub/MssSubList.html#women3
- Vigo
County
Public Library, Terre
Haute, Indiana
- Local history resources on women from the community
archives
collection.
http://www.vigo.lib.in.us/vcplarchive/inventories/women/index.htm
- Wellesley
College
Archives
- Institutional archives and papers of alumnae of this
college in Wellesley,
Massachusetts.
http://www.wellesley.edu/Library/Archives/homepage.html
- Wisconsin
Historical Society
- Includes links to primary sources for the history
of Wisconsin women.
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/topics/womenshistory/
- University
of
Wisconsin-Madison, Memorial Library
- The William B. Cairns Collection of
American Women Writers contains manuscripts as well as printed titles
by women,
1650-1920.
http://memorial.library.wisc.edu/collections/cairns.html
- Women
and Leadership
Archives
- Description of this part of the Ann Ida Gannon, BVM
Center for Women in Leadership at Loyola University Chicago. The WLA
collects, preserves,
organizes, describes and makes available materials to advance research
on women,
especially as leaders. Includes Gannon's papers and records of the
former
Mundelein College.
http://www.luc.edu/gannon/archives/
- Women
and Social Movements in the
United States, 1600-2000
- Organized around projects at the State
University of New York at Binghamton. Shows primary documents
concerning
topics such as temperance, suffrage, peace, and racial issues.
http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/
- Women
Artists
Archives National Directory (WAAND)
- Developed by Rutgers University, this
is an online directory to archival materials about women visual artists
and artists' organizations in the U.S.
http://waand.rutgers.edu/
- Women's
Rights
National Historical Park
- Personal objects and archival materials
associated with the first Women's Rights Convention at Senaca Falls,
N.Y.
http://www.nps.gov/wori/index.htm
- Wright
State
University, Dayton, Ohio
- Guide to personal and organizational papers of women
in
the Dayton area.
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/manuscripts/women.html
- Yale
University Library Manuscripts and
Archives
- Search under Women in the Finding Aid Database for
over 200 citations.
http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa
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- Alabama
Department
of Archives and History
- Detailed guide to record groups useful for
women's history, including suffrage and civil rights issues.
http://www.archives.state.al.us/referenc/cover.html
- University
of Alabama at
Birmingham
- List of personal and organizational papers for
Alabama
women's history.
http://www.uab.edu/historical/social.htm
- Arlington
County, Virginia Public Library
- Guide to organizational
records and personal papers concerning women in the Arlington area.
http://www.co.arlington.va.us/Departments/Libraries/history/LibrariesHistoryArcwomen.aspx
- Auburn
University Archives and Manuscripts Department
- Guide to women's
historical collections in the department, including personal papers and
organizational records of Alabama women.
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/find-aid/women.htm
- Mary
McLeod
Bethune Council House, Washington, D.C.
- National Archives for Black Women's
History, which collects materials about Bethune, the National Council
of
Negro Women, and other African American women's organizations,
especially
the period 1875-1955.
http://www.nps.gov/mamc/historyculture/mamc_nabwh.htm
- Birmingham,
Alabama Public Library
- Guide to archival collections relating to women's
history in Alabama.
http://www.bham.lib.al.us/Archives/collections/womenshistory.asp
- Davidson
College
- Guide to manuscripts collections with information
about
women at Davidson College and in Davidson, North Carolina.
http://www.davidson.edu/administrative/library/archives/manuscripts_bysub.asp#Women
- Delta
State
University
- Select "women" for listing of papers of 19th and 20th
century Mississippi
women.
http://www.deltastate.edu/pages/1201.asp
- Duke
University Guides to
Women's Studies Resources
- Includes Women's Collections on Microform,
African-American Women's History, Women's Studies Resources in the
Special Collections
Library, Women and the Civil War, and Guide to Women's Archival
Materials in North Carolina.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/bib.html
- East
Tennessee State
University Archives of Appalachia
- Guide to personal papers and
organizational archives concerning Appalachian women, chiefly in
Tennessee.
http://www.etsu.edu/cass/Archives/Subjects/women.asp
- Emory
University
- Guide to manuscript sources for women's history in
the Emory University
Special Collections.
http://marbl.library.emory.edu/Guides/guides-women.html
- University
of
Florida
- Guide to collections, including the papers of Zora
Neale
Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/mnscrpt.html
- Florida
State Archives
- Guide to collections in Florida public records
pertaining to women's history and women's issues. Includes personal
papers
and organizational archives.
http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/barm/fsa/womensguide.html
- General
Federation of Women's
Clubs
- Guide to the Women's History and Resource Center,
founded by the GFWC in
Washington, D.C. in 1984. The archives of GFWC contain hundreds of
linear
feet of records of the organization, from 1890 to the present.
http://www.gfwc.org/section_21.cfm
- Georgia
College and State University
- Special Collections holds archives of this
university that was for women only,
1889-1967. Also includes manuscripts of Flannery O'Connor.
http://www2.gcsu.edu/library/sc/archives.html
- Georgia
State University
- Highlights for research on women in the Georgia State
University Special Collections Department. Includes the National
Domestic
Workers Union records, and records documenting the Georgia women's
movement since 1969.
http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/pages/pages.asp?ldID=105&guideID=0&ID=4011
- Hollins
University Archives
- Summary of the institutional archives of this
women's college which was founded in Virginia in 1842.
http://www.hollins.edu/academics/library/services/archives.htm
- International
Archive of Women in
Architecture at Virginia Tech
- Guide to collections of papers of
women architects,
historians, and urban planners.
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/iawa/guide.html
- Kentucky
Department for Libraries and Archives
- Catalog of Kentucky Archival
and Manuscript Collections and Catalog of Kentucky State Archives
Holdings. Includes nearly 300 Kentucky repositories. Search under Women
in
index.
http://www.kdla.ky.gov/
- University
of Kentucky
- Listing of papers of many prominent Kentucky women.
http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/libpage.php?lweb_id=84&llib_id=13<ab_id=263
- Library of
Congress
Manuscripts
- Guide to manuscripts for the study of women's history
in the Library of
Congress Manuscripts Division.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/guide/women.html
- University
of Louisville
University
Archives and Records Center, Women's Manuscript Collections Project
- Guide to collections of eight notable women
including civil rights activist Lois Morris.
http://www.louisville.edu/library/uarc/wommsspr.html
- Meredith
College Archives.
- Archives of this women's college, chartered in 1891,
in Raleigh, North Carolina.
http://www.meredith.edu/library/archives/index.htm
- Moorland-Spingarn
Research Center at Howard University, Washington, D.C.
- Guide to resources on
women in the processed
manuscript collections. Highlights contributions of women to the Black
experience.
http://www.founders.howard.edu/moorland-spingarn/Wom.htm
- National
Archives and
Records Administration Library
- Pathfinder for women's history research in the
United
States National Archives and Records Administration Library.
http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/women.html
- National
Museum of Women
in the Arts
- Library and Research Center in Washington, D.C.,
includes over 17,000 files on
women artists of all periods and nationalities.
http://www.nmwa.org/library/archives.asp
- National
Society, Daughters
of the American Revolution
- Special Collections includes records for the study
of women's history.
http://www.dar.org/library/speccol.cfm
- North
Carolina
Women's Studies Archives and Collections
- Directory of
repositories with women's studies archives in North Carolina.
http://library.uncg.edu/depts/ref/bibs/wms/womenarchives.asp
- University
of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Guide to manuscripts and archives
in the Woman's Collection; includes subject areas such as arts,
domestic
life, librarianship, social reform, and science.
http://library.uncg.edu/depts/speccoll/woman.html
- North
Carolina Women Artists
Archives at the Sloane Art Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
- Guide to this collection of material about women
artists in North Carolina,
ca. 1900-1950.
http://www.lib.unc.edu/art/womenartists.html
- Old
Dominion
University
Library
- Guide to the library's collections about women's
history. Includes records of
a home for unwed mothers and a women's interracial organization.
http://www.lib.odu.edu/special/manuscripts/women.htm
- Peace
College
- Archives
of this woman's college established in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1857.
http://faculty.peace.edu/library/Archives/geninfo.htm
- Queens
University
at Charlotte
- Guide to university archives at this North Carolina
institution that was only for women from 1857 to 1948.
http://www.queens.edu/archives/
- Randolph-Macon
Woman's College
- Special collections
include some papers of Pearl S. Buck and the archives of this woman's
college, founded in 1893.
http://www.rmc.edu/Offices/library/specialcollections/special.aspx
- Eleanor
Roosevelt Papers
- A project based at George Washington University to
collect, annotate, and publish
her political writings in print and electronic format.
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/
- Saint
Mary's School Archives
- Archives of this 160-year old girls'
preparatory school in Raleigh, North Carolina.
http://www.saint-marys.edu/pages/sitepage.cfm?page=54688
- Salem
College Archives
- Archives of this North Carolina women's college with
roots in the 18th century.
http://www.salem.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=847&Itemid=648
- Agnes
Scott College
- Archives of this Decatur, Georgia college for women,
founded in 1889.
http://library.agnesscott.edu/collections/spec_coll/index.htm
- University
of Tennessee
Knoxville Library
- Search manuscript finding aids under "women" for
records of
women's organizations and collections about individual women, including
the author Evelyn
Scott.
http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/f/fa/
- University
of Virginia
Special Collections Department
- Search guides by "women" for
personal papers and organizational records concerning women in Virginia
repositories.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/vhp/
- Virginia
Historical Society
- Search under Women in the online catalog for
organizational and personal
papers of Virginia women.
http://www.vahistorical.org/research/main.htm
- Women
Activists of
Virginia Collection in the Virginia Commonwealth University Library
- Papers of individuals and organizations significant
to the history of women's
rights in Virginia, from the late nineteenth century to the present.
http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/women.html
- Manuscript
Sources for Women's History in Special Collections Department of the
Virginia Tech Libraries
- Guide to the library's manuscript
collections containing materials for women's history research.
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/women/wmnunidx.htm
- Wesleyan
College, Macon, Georgia
- Archives of this women's college, chartered in 1836.
http://www.wesleyancollege.edu/Academics/Library/ArchivesandSpecialCollections/tabid/182/Default.aspx
- Winthrop
University Archives and Special Collections
- Archives of this
historically women's college and organizational records and personal
papers of South Carolina women.
http://www.winthrop.edu/dacus/about/Archives/aboutarchives.htm
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- University
of
Arkansas Archives
- Includes
personal papers of women involved in civil rights work.
http://libinfo.uark.edu/specialcollections/findingaids/indexnew.html
- California
State University Northridge, Urban Archives Center
- Search under Women in the index for collections,
including the YWCA of Los
Angeles.
http://library.csun.edu/spcoll/urban_archives/hbrestop.html
- University
of California at Los Angeles
- Summary of material for the study of
women in the UCLA Special Collections Department. Includes papers of
several California officials, among others.
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/subject.htm#women
- University
of
California, Santa Barbara
- Within the California Ethnic and Multicultural
Archives are the archives of the National Network of Hispanic Women, a
national
resource center that links professional women together. The records
show the
accomplishments of Chicanas in education, politics and the arts.
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/cema/nnhw.html
- Claremont
Colleges
- Listing of collections relevant to women's studies
in several of the Claremont Colleges in Califorrnia.
http://voxlibris.claremont.edu/sc/subject.html#women
- Colorado
College, Tutt Library
- Guide to major manuscript collections pertaining to
women, including papers of Helen Hunt Jackson.
http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Library/SpecialCollections/Manuscript/Women.html
- University
of Colorado at Boulder
- Guide to selected collections to women's
history in the library's archives.
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/archives/collections/women_list.htm
- University
of Denver Colorado Women's College Archives
- Archives of this women's college, founded
in 1888 and merged with the University of Denver in 1982.
http://library.du.edu/About/collections/SpecialCollections/cowomen.cfm
- Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender
Historical Society Archives
- This organization collects personal and
organizational
papers documenting gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender life in
Norther California.
http://www.glbthistory.org/research/index.html
- Emma
Goldman Papers at the University of
California at Berkeley
- Guide to documentary sources for the study of
feminist and
political activist Emma Goldman (1869-1940).
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/
- Gulf
Coast Archive and Museum of Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender History
- Recently formed Houston
organization formed to collect, preserve, and provide access to
historical
items from this community in the gulf coast Texas area.
http://www.gcam.org/
- Hormel
Gay and Lesbian Center at the
San Francisco Public Library
- Preserves records of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender community, especially in the San Francisco area.
http://sfpl4.sfpl.org/librarylocations/main/glc/glc.htm
- University
of Houston Women's Archives
- Established in 1996, the Archives focuses on the
history of
women's organizations in the Houston
area.
http://www.class.uh.edu/WS/warc.asp
- Huntington
Library
- Guide to women's studies resources, including
manuscripts
collections documenting women's achievements, 18th-20th century, in
suffrage, literary activities, women's club movement, and religious
leadership.
http://huntington.org/ResearchDiv/WomenRes.html
- The
Lambda Archives
of San Diego
- Formerly the Lesbian and Gay Historical Society
of San Diego. A guide to organizational papers and personal papers of
San Diego lesbians
and gays.
http://www.lambdaarchives.org/
- Lesbian
Legacy Collection - ONE
Institute/International
Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, California
- Sponsored by ONE Institute
(founded 1952) and
the International Gay & Lesbian Archives (founded 1942), which
merged in 1994. Archives
center on lesbians
in Southern California.
http://www.onearchives.org/lesbian_legacy
- Loma
Linda
University, Loma Linda, California
- The Ellen G. White collection
has published and unpublished letters and manuscripts of Mrs. White,
concerning the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
http://www.llu.edu/llu/library/heritage/white.html
- Louisiana
State
University
- Select Women from the Subjects for Guide to
manuscript
resources on women's history in
the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, Hill Memorial
Library, LSU.
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/frames/llmvc.html
- June
L. Mazer Lesbian
Archives
- Based in
Los Angeles, this repository includes, along with published materials,
lesbian personal and
organizational papers.
http://mazerlesbianarchives.org/
- Mills
College
- Based in
Oakland, California and founded in 1852, this liberal arts college for
women is the
repository for the college archives and papers of Aurelia Henry
Reinhardt,
president of the college, 1916-1943.
http://www.mills.edu/academics/library/special_collections/sc_coll.php
- Nevada
Women's Archives,
University of Nevada,
Reno
- Northern depository for the archives project.
Description of archival materials
resulting
from Nevada women's activities in political, social, cultural,
religious, commercial, and
economic life.
http://www.library.unr.edu/specoll/women.html
- University
of
New
Mexico, Center for Southwest Research
- Search under Women for
personal and organizational collections pertaining to New Mexico women.
http://elibrary.unm.edu/oanm/search.html
- Newcomb
College Center for Research on
Women
- Overview of archives of 19th and 20th century
documents from the
Women's
College of Tulane.
http://www.tulane.edu/~wc/
- Oklahoma
State University Women's Archives
- Guide to records of over twenty women's
organizations and individuals.
http://www.library.okstate.edu/scua/collect/women.htm
- Southern
Methodist
University Archives of Women of the Southwest
- Personal papers and
organizational records documenting experience of women in Texas, New
Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Spanish Borderlands.
http://www.smu.edu/cul/degolyer/aws.htm
- Stanford
University Special Collections
- Finding aids by subject;
check especially Gender Studies.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/findaids.html
- Texas
Tech
University Southwest Collection
- Guide to personal and organizational papers
concerning
women in Texas
http://swco.ttu.edu/Reference/Collections/Bibliographies/women.htm
- Texas
Woman's University Libraries: The Woman's
Collection
- Description of the library's organizational archives
and
personal papers
for
the the study of women's history.
http://www.twu.edu/library/wom/wm_index.htm
- Archives
for Research on Women
and Gender at
the
University of Texas at San Antonio
- Listing of collections documenting Texas
women's
accomplishments. Some links to finding aids. Also links to collections
in
many other states.
http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Archives/WomenGender/
- University
of
Utah
- Finding aids for organizational records and personal
papers
of Utah women.
http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/mss/subject.html
- Women
in Photography
International Archive
- Collection holds over 8,000 works by, and
biographical material about more than 500 women photographers, most
with a
connection to California and the American West.
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/WAAW/Palmquist/index.htm
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- University
of
Alaska, Anchorage
- Guide to archival collections relating to women in
Alaska.
http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/archives/ResHighlights/10-WOMN3.html
- College
of St. Catherine
- Archives of this large Catholic college for women
with two locations in Minnesota.
http://www.stkate.edu/library/spcoll/index.html#arch
- Concordia
Historical
Institute
- Search under Women for manuscripts relating to
Lutheran women in the
Department of Archives and History of the Lutheran Church --Missouri
Synod.
http://chi.lcms.org/collections/search.asp
- University
of Idaho
- Guide to materials about women in Special
Collections.
http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/women.htm
- Iowa
Women's Archives
- Guide to
personal and organizational papers of Iowa women, especially 20th
century.
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/
- Kansas
State
University Archives and Manuscripts
Department
- A guide to selected women's holdings in the
University Archives and Manuscripts Department.
Includes
information on notable women in university history, and an index.
http://www.lib.ksu.edu:80/depts/spec/women/
- Minnesota
Historical Society
- Guide to the Society's 19th and 20th century
Minnesota women's personal papers and records of Minnesota women's
organizations.
http://www.mnhs.org/collections/manuscripts/women.htm
- Montana
Historical Society
- Guide to archival collections created by women
living in
Montana in the 19th century.
http://www.his.state.mt.us/research/library/pamphlets/women.asp
- Florence
Nightingale letters
- Text of a small collection of Nightingale
letters owned by the Clendening Medical Library at the University of
Kansas Medical Center.
http://clendening.kumc.edu/dc/fn/
- North
Dakota
State University Institute for Regional Studies
- Search under Women or Women's
Organizations for late 19th and 20th century personal and
organizational papers of North Dakota women.
http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndirs/collections/index.html
- University
of North Dakota
- Search under women for personal and
organizational records of North Dakota women of the 19th and 20th
centuries
http://www.library.und.edu/Collections/oglmain.html
- University
of Oregon
- Guide to manuscripts documenting women in
society in the Special Collections and University Archives. Indexed by
occupation.
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll/guides/women/index.html
- Providence
Archives
- Archives of the Sisters of Providence documenting
their work in the western United States and the Providence
Health System.
http://www.providence.org/phs/archives/default.htm
- Seattle
Municipal Archives
- Records of Seattle city agencies and
officials. Search under Women in the subject files.
http://www.seattle.gov/CityArchives/
- South
Dakota
State Archives
- Guide to resources in the archives which document
South Dakota women's history.
http://www.sdhistory.org/arc/arc_womn.htm
- Western
Historical Manuscript Collection
- Guide to resources on women at the
State Historical Society of Missouri and the University of Missouri
branches. Includes the National Women and the Media Collection,
containing
records of professional organizations and personal papers of
journalists
and editors.
http://www.umsystem.edu/whmc/tl-women.html
- Wichita
State University Ablah Library Special
Collections and University Archives
- Guides to collections of women in various
walks of life,
especially women in Kansas. Use subject index under Women.
http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/index.html
- Women
in Science and Engineering
Archives
- Iowa State University Library archives documenting
the history of women in engineering and the
physical,
earth, life, and computational sciences.
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/wise/wise.html
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- Archiv
der deutschen
Frauenbewegung e.V.
- Archives of the German women's movement, including
books, manuscripts, and pictures documenting women's history in
Germany, 1800-1967.
http://www.uni-kassel.de/frau-bib/navigation.htm
- Archives
du Feminisme
- French organization collecting, preserving, and
making available feminists' personal and organizational papers
concerning women's rights.
http://www.archivesdufeminisme.fr/
- Archives
Network of Alberta
Database
- Search the index under Women for personal papers and
organizational
records
from Alberta, Canada's archival institutions.
http://www.archivesalberta.org/general/database.htm
- Australian
Lesbian and Gay Archives
- Stored in Melbourne, this is the largest repository
of materials about homosexuals and
homosexuality in Australia.
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~alga/
- Australian
Women's Archives Project
- Contains links to Australian repositories with
archival collections of individual women and women's organizations.
http://www.womenaustralia.info/
- Gertrude
Bell Papers
at Newcastle University
- Chiefly letters and diaries of this
traveler, best known for her Middle Eastern voyages.
http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/
- University
of
Bristol Women's Theatre Collection
- Guide to this English
collection dedicated to preserving a record of women's work in the
theatre; holds international historical and contemporary material.
http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/women.html
- Canadian
Lesbian and Gay Archives
- Guide to over 1,800 archival accessions from
Canadian individuals
and organizations.
http://www.clga.ca/
- Canadian
Women's Movement Archives
- Collection of the records of the
contemporary Canadian women's movement, including photographs and
ephemera
as well as textual records.
http://www.biblio.uottawa.ca/content-page.php?g=en&s=archives&c=src-cwma-acmf
- University
of Cape Town
- Guide to archival collections featuring South
African women, including Olive Schreiner.
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/index.php?action=showsubjects&subjid=18
- Lucy
Cavendish College
Archive at the University of Cambridge
- This archive holds institutional records of this
women's college,
founded in 1965 for women twenty-one and over, and personal papers
of former members and associated individuals.
http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/pages/the-college/library/archive.php
- Centre
des Archives du
Féminisme
- Based at the library at the University of Angers,
this repository
preserves papers of French feminists and feminist organizations of all
periods.
http://bu.univ-angers.fr/EXTRANET/CAF/frame1.htm
- University
of
Dundee Archives
- Source lists for records in the Archives relating
to Scottish women; chiefly personal correspondence, diaries, etc., from
the 18th through the 20th centuries.
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/slwomentop.htm
- The
Feminist Archive, Bristol,
England
- Began in 1978. Houses national and international
material
including diaries, letters, photographs, posters, and ephemera, chiefly
from 1960's but including records about the 1958 Women's Peace Caravan.
http://www.femarch.freeserve.co.uk/home.htm
- Frauenforschungs-,
-bildungs- und -informationszentrum, Berlin (Women's
Research,
Education, and Information Center)
- Information in German and English on collections,
including German women's
personal papers and records of German women's groups.
http://www.ffbiz.de/htdocs/content/offerin.htm
- Gay
and Lesbian Archives of
South Africa
- Established in 1997, the GALA houses personal and
organizational records, artifacts,
legal records, memorabilia, and life histories of South Africans.
http://web.wits.ac.za/library/gala
- Genesis
- Consists of
a database of descriptions of women's history collections in
repositories in the
United Kingdom, and a guide to sources for international resources for
women's history.
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/genesis/
- Girton
College
Archive at the University of Cambridge
- This British women's
college archive holds institutional records and personal papers
documenting feminism, women's higher education and social history from
the
early 19th century to the present.
http://www-lib.girton.cam.ac.uk/archive/index.html
- Glasgow
Women's
Library
- Contains resources for women, including archives of
Scottish women's organizations, and the Lesbian Archive &
Information
Centre, documenting lesbian lives and histories in the United Kingdom.
http://www.womenslibrary.org.uk/
- Gosteli-Fondation
- Archive for the history of the Swiss women's
movement:
records of Swiss women's organizations for the past 100 years.
http://www.gosteli-foundation.ch/html/archiv_e.html
- Göteborg
University Library, Sweden, Women's History Collections
- Collections founded in 1958, including manuscripts of
Swedish women and
women's organizations from the first half of the 20th century.
https://intra.ub.gu.se/kvinn/
- Hall-Carpenter
Archives
- Founded in 1982, a source for the study of lesbian
and gay activism in
Britain. Main archives now reside in the Archives Division of the
London School of
Economics Library.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/archive/gutoho/hall_carpenter_archives.htm
- University
of
Huddersfield (England) Sources in Women's History
- Includes archives of the
Huddersfield Female Educational Institute and Labour Party material.
http://wwwcls.hud.ac.uk/cls-bin/cls.pl?c=88/89
- University
of Hull
- Guide to archival collections and individual
manuscripts in the Brynmor Jones Library which relate to women's
studies.
http://www.hull.ac.uk/arc/collection/womensstudies/index.html
- International
Homo/Lesbian Informationcenter and Archives (IHLIA)
- Archive of organizational papers, periodicals, books,
videos, posters, and ephemera, chiefly from Holland but also some from
other countries, documenting current gay and lesbian life.
http://www.ihlia.nl/
- International
Informationcentre and Archives for the Women's
Movement
- Based in the Netherlands, contains Dutch and foreign
collections, including archives of
women's
organizations and individual women, documenting the Dutch women's
movement
http://www.iiav.nl/
- International
Institute of Social History
- Based in the Netherlands, contains archives of women
involved in labor or other social
movements.
http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/womarc.php
- Library
of Women's History
- Located at the National and
University Library, Reykjavik, Iceland, holds Icelandic women's history
sources such as personal
and organizational papers, literary manuscripts, and photographs.
http://kona.bok.hi.is/Enska/english.html
- Mass-Observation
Archive at the University of Sussex
- An archive of
writings of ordinary English people, more women than men, chiefly
1937-1949, with some later additions. Search under Women in the Topic
Collection Search.
http://www.massobs.org.uk/index.htm
- Melbourne
University Archives, the University of Melbourne
- Guide to collections concerning women and women's
organizations.
http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/archives/collections/women.html
- Murdoch
University (Perth, Western Australia) University Library
Special
Collections
- Includes records on suffrage, women's politics, and
abortion law reform.
http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/find/special/
- New
Hall
Archive at the University of Cambridge
- This archive holds institutional records of this
women's college,
founded in 1954.
http://www.newhall.cam.ac.uk/facilities/archives/
- New
Zealand National
Register of Archives and Manuscripts
- From the search screen search under subject Women for
a
list of New Zealand archives (with links to locations) relating to
women
and women's organizations.
http://www.nram.org.nz
- Newnham
College
Archives at the University of Cambridge
- This archive holds institutional and personal records
of this women's college.
http://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/archive/
- NONA
Women's Archives
- Collects documentation about women's lives in
Croatia, especially experiences
of refugees and displaced women.
http://www.videodocument.org/nona/archiv.htm
- University
of Ottawa,
Canada, Centre de recherche en civilisation
canadienne-française
- List of finding aids by topic. Search under "Femmes"
for collections
concerning Canadian women.
http://www.crccf.uottawa.ca/recherche_documentaire/domlst.html
- Perdita
Project, from Nottingham Trent
University
- Catalog of about 400 manuscripts
compiled by British women in the 16th and 17th centuries.
http://human.ntu.ac.uk/perdita
- PICMAN
- Pictures and
manuscripts data base from the State Library of New South Wales,
Australia; chiefly about
New South Wales. Search under
"Women" for pictures and manuscripts concerning women.
http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/picman/
- Presbyterian
Ladies' College
- Archives of this girls' school in Burwood, Victoria,
Australia,
founded in 1875.
http://www.plc.vic.edu.au/plc-community_plc-archives.aspx
- Register
of Australian Archives and
Manuscripts
- Search under subject Women under all indexed terms
for
a list of several hundred collections about women in different
Australian
repositories.
http://www.nla.gov.au/raam
- Royal
College of Nursing Archives
- Preserves materials relating to the professional and
social history of nursing
in the United Kingdom. Includes organizational records, personal
papers, oral
histories, and photographs.
http://www.rcn.org.uk/resources/historyofnursing/collections.php
- Royal
College of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Historical records about the
organization and its working papers on topics such as abortion,
contraception, childbirth and maternity services in the United Kingdom.
http://www.rcog.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=95
- John
Rylands
University Library of Manchester
- Sources for women's studies in the Methodist
Archives at the John Rylands University in Manchester, England.
http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/specialcollections/collections/methodist/manuscriptsandarchives/
- St.
Hilda's
College Archives, Oxford
- Includes organizational records and
personal papers of administrators of the last Oxford University
college open only to women. In June 2006 its governing body voted to
accept men.
http://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/information/history/archive.php
- St.
Hugh's
College Archives, Oxford
- Includes organizational records and
personal papers of this Oxford University college that was
only for women, 1886-1986.
http://www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/The_Library/Library_Archives/index.php
- Stichwort
- Based in Vienna, this repository houses archives of
the women's and lesbians' movements in Austria since 1970.
http://www.stichwort.or.at/english/frames-e/index-e.htm
- Jessie
Street National Women's Library
- Australia's Women's Library, collects and preserves
the literary and
cultural heritage of Australian women. Chiefly organizational records.
http://203.147.135.214/about.html/
- Trent
University Archives, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
- Search subject
guides under Women's Studies.
http://www.trentu.ca/library/archives/
- Unione
Femminile
Nazionale
- Archives of Italian women and women's groups, formed
by the Unione Femminile Nazionale, based
in Milan, and includes the organization's records.
http://www.unionefemminile.it/un/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=86&Itemid=127
- Victoria
Women's Movement Archives
- Archives of documents concerning women's
movement groups in Victoria, Canada. A collaborative effort of feminist
groups in Victoria, the University of Victoria Archives, and the
Department of Women' Studies.
http://gateway.uvic.ca/archives/featured_collections/vwma/index.html
- Wellcome
Library for the History and Understanding of
Medicine
- Search under "women" for collections of women
doctors,
women researchers, and records of medical associations.
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk
- University
of Western Ontario Hudler Archives
- Includes several collections on gays and lesbians in
Ontario.
http://www.uwo.ca/pridelib/archives.html
- Women's
Archive, Moscow
- The first archives in Russia specializing in women,
founded 1993. Documents Russia's
modern woman.
http://www.owl.ru/eng/women/aiwo/arhive.htm
- Women's
History in Ireland
- Directory
of over 14,000 collections in over 250 repositories for women's history
in the Republic
of Ireland and in Northern Ireland
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/wh/
- The
Women's Library,
formerly the Fawcett Library, London Guildhall University
- The United Kingdom's oldest research library
on all aspects of women in society. Contains over 250 archival
collections
of individual women and women's organizations, some concerning women's
suffrage.
http://www.thewomenslibrary.ac.uk/
- Women's
Library and
Information Center Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey
- This first women's library
in Turkey contains books and articles as well as paper archives of
prominent
Turkish women and visual materials documenting the history of Turkish
women.
http://www.archimac.org/Organizations/KEK.spml
- Yukon
Archival Union List
- Do a Word search for "women" for personal
papers and organizational records about women in the Yukon. http://aabc.bc.ca/WWW.yca.archyu/
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Originally created by: Mary Faith Pankin
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