Digital Archive

Digital Feminist Archives, Barnard College

Entity type: Repository

This archive offers a snapshot of feminist history in the 1960s and 1970s, the institutionalization of women’s centers and women’s studies as an academic discipline, and feminist struggles taking place at colleges and universities, in healthcare and social service centers, in political organizations and neighborhood meetings across the country.

Lesbian Herstory Archives

Entity type: Repository

The Lesbian Herstory Archives exists to gather, preserve and provide access to records of Lesbian lives and activities. Doing this also serves to uncover and document our herstory previously denied to us by patriarchal historians in the interests of the culture that they served. The existence of the Archives will thus enable current and future generations to analyze and reevaluate the Lesbian experience.

Special Collections, Bryn Mawr College

Entity type: Repository

Special Collections manages Bryn Mawr College’s holdings of rare books, manuscripts, art works, cultural artifacts, rock and mineral collection, and the College’s archives within the framework of the overall College mission. Special Collections promote teaching and learning with the collections through class visits, research project support, internships, public programs, and exhibitions.  

Dorothy Burkhart

Entity type: Individual

Dorothy Pallante Burkhart was an American art writer, critic, and educator whose career was closely tied to the development of contemporary art in Northern California. After earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in art from San José State University, she began writing for ARTWEEK and contributed to publications including ARTnews and Visions Art Quarterly. She later served as a staff art writer for the San Jose Mercury News for over a decade, where she played a key role in documenting and promoting regional artists and institutions. In addition to her journalism, Burkhart wrote exhibition catalogue essays, curated shows for institutions such as the Triton Museum of Art and the Bolinas Museum, and taught at the San Francisco Art Institute as well as Foothill and De Anza Colleges.

Francine Coeytaux

Entity type: Individual

Francine Coeytaux is a women’s health advocate and public health specialist with extensive experience in the development and evaluation of reproductive health programs. She is a Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor of Plan C and is best known for her work on new reproductive technologies, including emergency contraception, medical abortifacients, and microbicides. 

Hunter College

Entity type: Organization

Spelman College Archives

Entity type: Repository

As one of two remaining historically, Black colleges founded to specifically educate women of the African Diaspora, Spelman College has a rich archival legacy going back to its founding. The Spelman College community has had an ongoing and strong interest in documenting the history of the College. This interest has manifested itself in a continuing commitment to the preservation of its administrative records as well as collecting letters, photographs, audio, documents, personal papers, monographs, and other material created by Spelman College graduates, faculty, staff and affiliates. The campus remains an integral part of Atlanta’s educational landscape, and the archives document the crucial history of one of the nation’s foremost educational institutions. The Spelman college archives and special collections serve as a microcosm of activities in Atlanta’s Black communities and facilitate a deeper understanding of the activities and issues affecting Black communities and internationally.

The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

Entity type: Repository

The Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Columbia University’s principal repository for special collections. We collect, preserve, describe, promote, and provide access to the material evidence of diverse individuals and activities in alignment with the University’s research and teaching mission. We build and steward deep collections in select subject areas and connect them to a global audience through reference, teaching, exhibitions, publications, and public programs.  

Downtown Community School

Entity type: Organization

The Downtown Community School was an American experimental, cooperative, racially integrated school located at 235 East 11th Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, New York. The school was founded in 1944 and waa closed in 1971.[1] Its mission was described as being to train children to “live and work together in understanding.”[2] This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History & Culture, Duke University

Entity type: Repository

The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture acquires, preserves, and makes available to a large population of researchers published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women past and present. 

David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke Unviersity

Entity type: Repository

The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library builds distinctive collections of original materials and preserves them for use on campus and around the world. In support of Duke University’s mission of “knowledge in service to society,” we collect a diversity of voices in a wide range of formats, with a focus on our signature areas of strength. Our innovative use of technology, expert description and cataloging, tailored reference and instructional services, and engaging public programming provide a variety of ways to discover our holdings. We invite students, scholars, and the general public to explore the world through our unique collections.

Women Working, 1800-1930 - CURIOSity Digital Collections, Harvard University

Entity type: Repository

The Women Working, 1800-1930 - CURIOSity Digital Collectionsis an exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression. Working conditions, workplace regulations, home life, costs of living, commerce, recreation, health and hygiene, and social issues are among the issues documented.

Catherine King

Entity type: Individual

The Women’s Library, London School of Economics and Political Science

Entity type: Repository

The Women’s Library is the oldest and largest library in Britain devoted to the history of women’s campaigning and activism. It was officially inaugurated as the Library of the London Society for Women’s Service in 1926 and it had two aims: to preserve the history of the women’s suffrage movement, and to provide a resource for newly-enfranchised women to take their place in public life. The books and archives deposited in the early decades bear witness to the activities of the London Society and to the interests of its members, both as participants in the campaigns of the women’s movement of their day, and as individuals following their own professional pursuits.

Amy Merrill

Entity type: Individual

Amy Merrill is the Digital Director and Co-Founder of Plan C, an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. She is an artist and activist working at the intersection of creative communications, technology, and social change. Her design studio, Eyes Open, leads digital communications, strategy, and design for purpose-driven individuals and organizations.

Amalia Mesa-Bains

Entity type: Individual

Amalia Mesa-Bains is a Chicana curator, author, visual artist, and educator. She is best known for her large-scale installations that reference home altars and ofrendas. Her work engages in a conceptual exploration of Mexican American women's spiritual practices that addresses colonial and imperial histories of display, the recovery of cultural memory, and their roles in identity formation. In her writing, she examines the formation of Chicana identity and aesthetic practices, the shared experiences of historically marginalized communities in the United States, especially among women of color, and the role of multiculturalism within museums and cultural institutions. Her essay, "Domesticana: The Sensibility of Chicana Rasquache," theorized domesticana as a set of aesthetic strategies that use spaces and experiences historically associated with Mexican American women as sites for Chicana feminist reclamation. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Masum Momaya

Entity type: Individual

Julie Nelson

Entity type: Individual

New York Public Library

Entity type: Repository

The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second-largest public library in the United States behind the Library of Congress and one of the largest public libraries in the world. It is a private, non-governmental, independently managed, nonprofit corporation operating with both private and public financing.

Linda Nochlin

Entity type: Individual

Linda Nochlin was an American art historian, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor Emerita of Modern Art at New York University Institute of Fine Arts, and writer. As a prominent feminist art historian, she became well known for her pioneering 1971 article "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" published by ARTnews. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries

Entity type: Repository

Rutgers University Special Collections and University Archives collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources of a rare, unique, or specialized nature to support advanced study and research in the humanities and social sciences. The collections focus on the social, cultural, economic, and political life of New Jersey. There are also significant holdings of broadsides and ephemera, genealogical resources, maps, newspapers, photographs, and prints documenting many aspects of American history. Source

Special Collections & Archives, San Jose State University

Entity type: Repository

SJSU Special Collections & Archives acquires, preserves, arranges, describes, and provides access to its rich, diverse holdings of rare and unique books, manuscript collections, institutional records, and other primary sources to support the diverse teaching and research needs of students, faculty, staff, and the larger SJSU community. The Department is the central repository for the history of San José State University and has a large collection of university, faculty, and student publications, administrative records, photographs, and ephemera. Of particular interest are materials of archival value pertaining to California State Politics, Social Activism, Chicano History and Culture, Women’s Studies, LGBTQ Studies, California and U.S. History, and other holdings of local, regional, and national significance.

Schlesinger Library

Entity type: Organization

Schlesinger Library, Harvard University

Entity type: Repository

The Schlesinger Library illuminates the lives of American women past and present through its collections, research support, public programming, and exhibitions. One of the special collections libraries within the Harvard Library—the oldest library system in the United States—the Schlesinger Library is considered the leading center for scholarship on the history of women in the United States, with collections that span civil rights and feminism, health and sexuality, work and family life, education and the professions, and culinary history and etiquette. The Library is committed to expanding its holdings by and about women of all ethnicities, political philosophies, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Open to the public, the Library welcomes all visitors.