Miscellaneous Subjects Collection, 1856-2000

9 boxes; 12 volumes (2.5 linear ft.)

Collection number: MS 392

Abstract:

Includes small amounts of mostly printed material on subjects related to women, including 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, taxation, tobacco, and witchcraft. Material includes printed material, books, cassette tapes, correspondence, position papers, questionnaires, reports, memorabilia, and stamps.

Terms of Access and Use:

Restrictions on access:

The collection is open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.

Restrictions on use:

Material in this collection may be protected by copyright. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy all copyright holders. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.

Sophia Smith Collection
Smith College
Northampton, MA

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.

Information on Use

Terms of Access and Use

Restrictions on access:

The collection is open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.

Restrictions on use:

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

Miscellaneous Subjects Collection, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

History of the Collection

Materials in this subject collection were either purchased or given to the Sophia Smith Collection by various donors.

Accruals:

Periodic additions to collection are expected.

Processing Information

Finding aid revised in 2002 by Katie Kowinski, intern. Introductory text by Kate Weigand. Recent additions may not be reflected in the finding aid.

Additional Information

Contact Information

Sophia Smith Collection

Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063

Phone: (413) 585-2970
Fax: (413) 585-2886

Email Reference Form: http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/emailform.html
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Language

English.

Anarchism

General			Box 1: folder 3

French			Box 1: folder 4

Citizenship

General		Box 1: folder 7

Citizenship case: Rebecca Shelly	1938	Box 1

Cookery

Miscellaneous		Box 2: folder 1

Mrs. Beeton's: articles		Box 2: folder 2

Salmon, Lucy M. (from Vassar Quarterly)	1926	Box 2: folder 3

Mrs. Winslow's Domestic Receipt Book for 1874	1873	Box 2: folder 3

Choice Recipes	1912	Box 2

Frigidaire Recipes	1928	Box 2

Mrs. A.L. Webster's Improved Housewife	1850	Box 2

Mrs. Beeton's Every Day Cookery	1907	Box 2

The American Housewife and Kitchen Directory	1869	Box 2

A Thousand Way to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles Lecron [See Books on Shelf]	1917

The Seducer's Cookbook by Mimi Sheraton [See Books on Shelf]	1958

Costume

General		Box 3: folder 1

Bloomers Costume [see also Oversize materials]		Box 3: folder 2

Mini-Midi-Maxi (skirts)		Box 3: folder 3

Dress Reform		Box 3: folder 4

Our Grandmother's Gowns by Mrs. Alfred W Hunt	1884	Box 3

A Century of Fashion by Ella Matson Andrews [oversize]	1909	Box 3a

Paper dolls, circa early [oversize box]	1900s	Box 3b

Costumes and Styles by Henny Harald Hansen [See Books on Shelf]	1956

Eleanor King's Guide to Glamour [See Books on Shelf]	1957

ABC of Millinery by Mme. Eva Ritcher [See Books on Shelf]	1950

400 Outstanding Women of the World and Costumology of Their Lifetime by Minna Schmidt [See Books on Shelf]	1933

Women's Shoes in America: 1795-1930 by Nancy Rexford [See Books on Shelf]	2000

Friendship

General		Box 4: folder 2

The Friendship of Women by William Rounseville Alger [See Books on Shelf]	1872	Box 4

Censorship: material from Arizona Schools and State Board of Education	1967-68		Box 1: folder 5

Cartoons and comics: feminist and lesbian comic books	circa 1972-2006		Box 1a

Girls

Brooks, Elbridge Streeter. Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times [See Books on Shelf]	1890

Leaders of Girls by Clara Ewing Espey [See Books on Shelf]	1915	Box 4

Girl Life in America by Henrietta R. Walter	1927	Box 4: folder 2a

Nazism

General		Box 4: folder 5

Letter from William E. Dodd to U.S. Secretary of State (on the position of women under Hitler)	1934	Box 4: folder 6

Physically handicapped

General		Box 4: folder 7

Keller, Helen

General		Box 4: folder 8

"Commemorating the Harvard Final Exam for Admission to Radcliffe College": souvenir	1899	Box 4

Postage stamps

General		Box 4: folder 9

Women on Stamps: pamphlet	1995	Box 4: folder 9

Commemorative stamps and envelopes		Box 4: folder 10

Foreign		Box 4: folder 11

Recovery (from abuse or addiction): Women's Recovery Network Newsletter	1992		Box 5: folder 1

Sex

General		Box 5: folder 3

Sex Education in the Schools by Dr. Gordon V. Drake (pamphlet)	1968	Box 5: folder 3a

Mary Ware Dennett

The Sex Side of Life: An Explanation for Young People by Mary Ware Dennett	1928	Box 5: folder 4

Clippings and correspondence between Dennett and Alice Park; Dennett and Margaret Sanger	1925-31	Box 5: folder 4

Factors in the Sex Life of 2200 Women by Katharine Bement Davis [See Books on Shelf]	1929

A Marriage Manual by Hannah and Abraham Stone (2 editions) [See Books on Shelf]	1935 and 1953

The Sexual Responsibility of Women by Maxine Davis [See Books on Shelf]	1956

Sexual Reform Congress by Norman Haire [See Books on Shelf]	1930

Sexuality, female

General		Box 5: folder 6

N.O.W. questionnaire		Box 5: folder 7

Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS)		Box 5: folder 8

On Women by Clare M. Thompson [See Books on Shelf]	1964	Box 5

Single women

General		Box 5: folder 9

Live Alone and Like It by Marjorie Hillis [See Books on Shelf]	1930	Box 5

Reflections of a Bachelor Girl by Helen Rowland [See Books on Shelf]	1909	Box 5

Charity organizations			Box 1: folder 6

Jury duty			Box 4: folder 3

Taxation

Bowditch, William I., Taxation of Women in Massachusetts	1875	Box 5: folder 10

Smith, Julia E., Abby Smith and her Cows [re: Suffrage and tax]	1877	Box 5: folder 11

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 & Son	1851	Flat file

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

Eleanor King's Guide to Glamour	1957

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