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Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Collection
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Aged and aging
Alcoholism
Anarchism
Censorship: material from Arizona Schools and State Board of Education 1967-68
Charity organizations
Citizenship
Cartoons and comics: feminist and lesbian comic books circa 1972-2006
Cookery
Costume
Fascism
Friendship
Girls
Jury duty
Literature, women in
Nazism
Physically handicapped
Postage stamps
Recovery (from abuse or addiction): Women's Recovery Network Newsletter 1992
Rural women
Sex
Sexual harassment
Sexuality, female
Single women
Taxation
Tobacco: effects on women
OVERSIZE MATERIALS (Flat file)
BOOKS ON SHELF [also listed under subjects above]
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Miscellaneous Subjects Collection, 1856-2000
Finding AidFinding aid prepared by mnsss.Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.2003
| | | | | Title: | Miscellaneous Subjects Collection | | Dates: | 1856-2000 | | 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.
| | Extent: | 9 boxes; 12 volumes(2.5 linear ft.) | | Language: | English. | | Identification: | MS 392 |
"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. Return to the Table of Contents
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Box |
Folder |
| | 1 | 1 | Aged and aging |
Box |
Folder |
| | 1 | 5 | Censorship: material from Arizona Schools and State Board of Education
1967-68 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 1 | 6 | Charity organizations |
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| Citizenship case: Rebecca Shelly
1938 |
Box |
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| | 1a |
| Cartoons and comics: feminist and lesbian comic books
circa 1972-2006 |
| 3 | Salmon, Lucy M. (from Vassar Quarterly)
1926 |
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| Mrs. Winslow's Domestic Receipt Book for 1874
1873 |
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| Mrs. A.L. Webster's Improved Housewife
1850 |
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| Mrs. Beeton's Every Day Cookery
1907 |
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| The American Housewife and Kitchen Directory
1869 |
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| A Thousand Way to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles Lecron
1917 |
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| The Seducer's Cookbook by Mimi Sheraton
1958 |
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| Our Grandmother's Gowns by Mrs. Alfred W Hunt
1884 |
Box |
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| | 3a |
| A Century of Fashion by Ella Matson Andrews [oversize]
1909 |
Box |
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| | 3b |
| Paper dolls, circa early [oversize box]
1900s |
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| Costumes and Styles by Henny Harald Hansen
1956 |
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| Eleanor King's Guide to Glamour
1957 |
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| ABC of Millinery by Mme. Eva Ritcher
1950 |
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| 400 Outstanding Women of the World and Costumology of Their Lifetime by Minna Schmidt
1933 |
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| Women's Shoes in America: 1795-1930 by Nancy Rexford
2000 |
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| The Friendship of Women by William Rounseville Alger
1872 |
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| Brooks, Elbridge Streeter. Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times
1890 |
Box |
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| | 4 |
| Leaders of Girls by Clara Ewing Espey
1915 |
| 2a | Girl Life in America by Henrietta R. Walter
1927 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 4 | 4 | Literature, women in |
| 6 | Letter from William E. Dodd to U.S. Secretary of State (on the position of women under Hitler)
1934 |
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| "Commemorating the Harvard Final Exam for Admission to Radcliffe College": souvenir
1899 |
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| Women on Stamps: pamphlet
1995 |
| 10 | Commemorative stamps and envelopes |
Box |
Folder |
| | 5 | 1 | Recovery (from abuse or addiction): Women's Recovery Network Newsletter
1992 |
| 3a | Sex Education in the Schools by Dr. Gordon V. Drake (pamphlet)
1968 |
| 4 | The Sex Side of Life: An Explanation for Young People by Mary Ware Dennett
1928 |
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| Clippings and correspondence between Dennett and Alice Park; Dennett and Margaret Sanger
1925-31 |
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| Factors in the Sex Life of 2200 Women by Katharine Bement Davis
1929 |
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| A Marriage Manual by Hannah and Abraham Stone (2 editions)
1935 and 1953 |
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| The Sexual Responsibility of Women by Maxine Davis
1956 |
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| Sexual Reform Congress by Norman Haire
1930 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 5 | 5 | Sexual harassment |
| 8 | Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS) |
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| On Women by Clare M. Thompson
1964 |
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| Live Alone and Like It by Marjorie Hillis
1930 |
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| Reflections of a Bachelor Girl by Helen Rowland
1909 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 5 | 10 | Bowditch, William I., Taxation of Women in Massachusetts
1875 |
| 11 | Smith, Julia E., Abby Smith and her Cows [re: Suffrage and tax]
1877 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 5 | 12 | Tobacco: effects on women |
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| OVERSIZE MATERIALS (Flat file) |
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| Sheet music: "The Bloomer's Complaint: a very pathetic song for the piano forte" (Philadelphia, A. Fiot, and New York, Hall & Son
1851 |
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| BOOKS ON SHELF [also listed under subjects above] |
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| Alger, William Rounseville, The Friendship of Women
1872 |
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| Andrews, Ella Matson, A Century of Fashion
1909 |
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| Brooks, Elbridge Streeter. Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times
1890 |
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| Davis, Katharine Bement, Factors in the Sex Life of 2200 Women
1929 |
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| Davis, Maxine, The Sexual Responsibility of Women
1956 |
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| Eleanor King's Guide to Glamour
1957 |
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| Espey, Clara Ewing, Leaders of Girls
1915 |
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| Haire, Norman, Sexual Reform Congress
1930 |
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| Hansen, Henny Harald, Costumes and Styles
1956 |
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| Hillis, Marjorie, Live Alone and Like It
1930 |
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| New England Historical Series, The Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692
1971 |
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| Rexford, Nancy,
Women's Shoes in America: 1795-1930
2000 |
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| Ritcher, Mme. Eva, ABC of Millinery
1950 |
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| Rowland, Helen,
Reflections of a Bachelor Girl
1909 |
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| Schmidt, Minna, 400 Outstanding Women of the World and Costumology of Their Lifetime
1933 |
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| Sheraton, Mimi, The Seducer's Cookbook
1958 |
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| Stone, Hannah and Abraham, A Marriage Manual (Two editions)
1935, 1953 |
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| Thompson, Clare M, On Women
1964 |
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| Weaver, Louise Bennett and Helen Cowles Lecron, A Thousand Way to Please a Husband
1917 |
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