Miscellaneous Subjects Collection, 1856-2000
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Sophia Smith Collection Smith CollegeNorthampton, MA
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Miscellaneous Subjects Collection
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Time of Creation of Miscellaneous Subjects Collection
Scope and Contents of the Collection "Godey's Fashions for June 1871" from A Century of Fashion by Ella Matson Andrews The Miscellaneous Subjects Collection consists of material from several disparate topical areas that were viewed as too small or too esoteric to constitute their own subject collections. Subjects include aging and aged women, alcoholism, anarchism, costume, fascism, friendship, girls, Nazism, physically handicapped women, postage stamps, rural women, sex, sex education, female sexuality, single women, socialism, taxation, tobacco, and witchcraft. The collection spans the period from 1856 to 1980. Types of material include articles, books, cassette tapes, correspondence, leaflets, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, periodicals, position papers, questionnaires, reports, memorabilia, and stamps. The costume files include a collection of early nineteenth century paper dolls and books on women's fashion. Other particularly interesting material includes documents relating to Mary Ware Dennett's approach to sex education for children and the obscenity charges she faced in 1929-30; the N.O.W. questionnaire on sexuality that Shere Hite used as the basis for her book on women's sexuality in the 1970s; and postage stamps featuring women.
Aged women--History--Sources
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Fashion--History--19th century--Sources
Fashion--History--20th century--Sources
Female friendship--History
Girls--History--Sources
Handicapped women--History--Sources
Women--Comic books, strips, etc.
Postage stamps
Rural women--History--Sources
Sex instruction--History--Sources
Single women--History--Sources
Socialism--History--Sources
Witchcraft--History--Sources
Women anarchists--History--Sources
Women--Sexual behavior--History--Sources
Women--Taxation--United States--History--Sources
Dennett, Mary Ware, 1872-1947
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Keller, Helen, 1880-1968
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Aged and aging
Alcoholism
Anarchism
General
French
Censorship: material from Arizona Schools and State Board of Education 1967-68
Charity organizations
Citizenship
Citizenship case: Rebecca Shelly 1938
Cartoons and comics: feminist and lesbian comic books circa 1972-2006
Cookery
Miscellaneous
Mrs. Beeton's: articles
Salmon, Lucy M. (from Vassar Quarterly) 1926
Mrs. Winslow's Domestic Receipt Book for 18741873
Choice Recipes 1912
Frigidaire Recipes1928
Mrs. A.L. Webster's Improved Housewife 1850
Mrs. Beeton's Every Day Cookery 1907
The American Housewife and Kitchen Directory 1869
A Thousand Way to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles Lecron 1917
The Seducer's Cookbook by Mimi Sheraton 1958
Costume
Bloomers Costume
Mini-Midi-Maxi (skirts)
Dress Reform
Our Grandmother's Gowns by Mrs. Alfred W Hunt1884
A Century of Fashion by Ella Matson Andrews 1909 [oversize]
Paper dolls, circa early 1900s [oversize box]
Costumes and Styles by Henny Harald Hansen 1956
Eleanor King's Guide to Glamour 1957
ABC of Millinery by Mme. Eva Ritcher 1950
400 Outstanding Women of the World and Costumology of Their Lifetime by Minna Schmidt 1933
Women's Shoes in America: 1795-1930 by Nancy Rexford 2000
Fascism
Friendship
The Friendship of Women by William Rounseville Alger 1872
Girls
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter. Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times1890
Leaders of Girls by Clara Ewing Espey 1915
Girl Life in America by Henrietta R. Walter 1927
Jury duty
Literature, women in
Nazism
Letter from William E. Dodd to U.S. Secretary of State (on the position of women under Hitler) 1934
Physically handicapped
Keller, Helen
"Commemorating the Harvard Final Exam for Admission to Radcliffe College": souvenir 1899
Women on Stamps: pamphlet1995
Commemorative stamps and envelopes
Foreign
Recovery (from abuse or addiction): Women's Recovery Network Newsletter 1992
Rural women
Sex
Sex Education in the Schools by Dr. Gordon V. Drake (pamphlet)1968
Mary Ware Dennett
The Sex Side of Life: An Explanation for Young People by Mary Ware Dennett 1928
Clippings and correspondence between Dennett and Alice Park; Dennett and Margaret Sanger1925-31
Factors in the Sex Life of 2200 Women by Katharine Bement Davis 1929
A Marriage Manual by Hannah and Abraham Stone (2 editions) 1935 and 1953
The Sexual Responsibility of Women by Maxine Davis 1956
Sexual Reform Congress by Norman Haire 1930
Sexual harassment
Sexuality, female
N.O.W. questionnaire
Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS)
On Women by Clare M. Thompson 1964
Single women
Live Alone and Like It by Marjorie Hillis 1930
Reflections of a Bachelor Girl by Helen Rowland 1909
Taxation
Bowditch, William I., Taxation of Women in Massachusetts 1875
Smith, Julia E., Abby Smith and her Cows 1877 [re: Suffrage and tax]
Tobacco: effects on women
OVERSIZE MATERIALS (Flat file)
Sheet music: "The Bloomer's Complaint: a very pathetic song for the piano forte" (Philadelphia, A. Fiot, and New York, Hall & Son1851
BOOKS ON SHELF [also listed under subjects above]
Alger, William Rounseville, The Friendship of Women 1872
Andrews, Ella Matson, A Century of Fashion 1909
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter. Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times 1890
Davis, Katharine Bement, Factors in the Sex Life of 2200 Women 1929
Davis, Maxine, The Sexual Responsibility of Women 1956
Espey, Clara Ewing, Leaders of Girls 1915
Haire, Norman, Sexual Reform Congress 1930
Hansen, Henny Harald, Costumes and Styles 1956
Hillis, Marjorie, Live Alone and Like It 1930
New England Historical Series, The Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692 1971
Rexford, Nancy, Women's Shoes in America: 1795-1930 2000
Ritcher, Mme. Eva, ABC of Millinery 1950
Rowland, Helen, Reflections of a Bachelor Girl 1909
Schmidt, Minna, 400 Outstanding Women of the World and Costumology of Their Lifetime 1933
Sheraton, Mimi, The Seducer's Cookbook 1958
Stone, Hannah and Abraham, A Marriage Manual (Two editions) 1935, 1953
Thompson, Clare M, On Women 1964
Weaver, Louise Bennett and Helen Cowles Lecron, A Thousand Way to Please a Husband 1917