A Guide to the Women's History Archives
A GUIDE TO THE WOMEN'S HISTORY ARCHIVES Special Collections and University Archives Rutgers University Libraries June 1990 A GUIDE TO THE WOMEN'S HISTORY ARCHIVES Special Collections and University Archives Rutgers University Libraries - '11 WOMEN'S HISTORY ARCHIVES The Women's History Archives collects, preserves, and makes available for use, research materials which document the lives of women in New Jersey and the nation. The Archives reflects the University's profound commitment to preserve women's history sources, and to support teaching and research in women's studies. Currently, the Women's History Archives has more than 200 collections of personal and family papers, and institutional and organizational records relating to the public and private lives of women. These collections document the social, political, religious, cultural and family activities of women from colonial times to the present. They include the papers of Millicent Fenwick, Mary Norton, and the Roebling family, as well as the records of the scholarly feminist journal SIGNS, the New Jersey Division of the American Association of University Women, the Women's Caucus for Art, and Douglass College. The records of the Women's Project of New Jersey, Inc., will be added in the near future. The types of material collected include: diaries and journals, correspondence, minutes, proceedings, financial and legal documents, case files, literary works, printed materials, genealogical compilations, scrapbooks, maps, broadsides, ephemera, photographs and other pictorial material. The Women's History Archives is part of Special Collections and Archives, Alexander Library, which collects primary sources of a rare, unique or specialized nature, and supports advanced study in the humanities and social sciences, New Jersey history and culture, and the history of Rutgers Uni- versity.
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