Selections from the Garrison Family Papers can be viewed in the Web exhibit Across the Generations: Exploring U.S. History through Family Papers.

The following materials from the Garrison Family Papers are available on microfilm: Series I. Biographical Materials; Series II. Diaries; Series III. Correspondence; Series IV. Writings and Speeches; Series V. Financial matters; Series VI. Subject files; Series VIII. Memorabilia; and Series XI. Scrapbooks. The microfilm is available in the Sophia Smith Collection and in the circulating collection of Neilson Library. The latter is available on interlibrary loan. A reel index is also available. (Contact the SSC for more information).

Also on microfilm:

• Diaries of Agnes and Ellen W. Garrison are available on the History of Women microfilm series (New Haven: Research Publications)
• Letters of William Lloyd Garrison (1805) were included in The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison edited by Walter M. Merrill and Louis Ruchames (1971-1981). Merrill donated a microfilm copy of these letters to the Sophia Smith Collection.
• Letters of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton have been microfilmed for The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers project, edited by Patricia Holland and Ann Gordon (1992).

The Garrison Family Papers were donated to the Sophia Smith Collection by Eleanor Garrison (Smith 1904) beginning in 1948, and continued by Frank Wright Garrison. The major growth of the collection can be traced in the Friends of the Smith College Library Reports, 1948-1965. Since then additional donations were made by various friends and family members: Mrs. Hendon Chubb, James Gould, Lucretia Wells, Otelia Cromwell, Lucia Norton Valentine, Edna Stantial, Agnes Garrison, and William Lloyd and Edith Stephenson Garrison. The most recent donation was made in 2001 and 2002 by Edith Garrison Griffin.

Periodic additions to collection are expected.

Reprocessed in 2003 by Susan L. Boone, Sarah Keen, Kara McClurken, Jessica Petocz, and Meredith Van Dyke. Processing funded by the Bodman Foundation.