The Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson Papers consist of one linear foot and are primarily related to her professional and public life, dating from 1901 to 1993. Types of materials include correspondence; writings; photographs; press releases; reports; journal and newspaper articles; transcripts of interviews; and memorabilia.

The bulk of the papers date from 1922 to 1955 and focus on Copenhaver Anderson's work for the YWCA of the U.S.A. Included among the Biographical Materials in SERIES I is a fairly extensive file of clippings giving a sense of Anderson's busy travel schedule as well as a copy of her 1933 Columbia masters thesis on working women in San Francisco. The correspondence in SERIES II is revealing of Anderson's intensely religious family background. Of particular note in the YWCA materials in SERIES III. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES is a small amount of revealing behind-the-scenes correspondence between YWCA staff members. SERIES IV. consists of a small amount of Sherwood Anderson scholar Charles Modlin's research materials on Eleanor.

This collection is organized into four series:

• I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
• II. CORRESPONDENCE
• III. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
• IV. RESEARCH FILES OF CHARLES MODLIN