Part 1: Sources from the Bodleian Library, Oxford & the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine Online Guide

Part 2: Romantic friendships & lesbian relationships in literature and history  Online Guide
Part 3-4: Erotica, 1657-1908 from the Private Case Collection at the British Library  Online Guide
Film No.  1012

Selected materials on women before 1920 from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe College, the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, and other collections.  Role of women throughout history. Printed books, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, manuscripts. Covers all subjects/topics in women's history.
955 reels. Titles are individually cataloged by Title.
Online guide to titles

284 reels. Brings together some of the most important political, professional and popular periodicals written by and for women across Europe during the critical period of the women's movement (1840-1940). Taken from the holdings of the International Archive of the Women's Movement (IIAV)
Title list    Description
Film No. 3619

German language publications (600 titles), 1880 – 1932, reflecting the discourse on sexual experience and body culture. Online description.
Micro fiche No. C 3235

Reflects the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. Considered the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world, with materials spanning 4 centuries and 15 languages.
Film No. 3037
See The Gerritsen Collection of Women's History 1543-1945 Online for the complete collection.

Series 1: Mattachine Society of New York, Inc.  Online Guide (title list) Film No. 3558
Series 2: Gay Activists Alliance 1970-1983.   Online Guide  (title list)  Film No. 3381
Series 3: ACT UP: The AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power.  Online Guide  (title list)  Film No. 3548
Series 4: The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force records, 1973-2000.   Film No. 3586
Series 5: Gay activism in Britain from 1958.   Online Guide (title list)  Film No. 1380
Series 6: Atlanta lesbian feminist alliance archives, ca. 1972-1994. Film No. 3676
Series 7: Lesbian herstory archives subject files.
Contains information on every conceivable aspect of lesbian life and concerns, from abortion to African-American lesbians, lesbian mothers, gay civil rights, women's liberation movement, domestic partnership, older lesbians, and Native American lesbians, to name just a few of the important subjects. The materials consist of clippings, flyers, brochures, conference materials, reports, correspondence, and other printed ephemera. A strength of the collection is its vast scope and national coverage. Film No. 3723
Series 8: Gay and Lesbian Politics and Social Activism: selected newsletters and periodicals from Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Historical Society. Newly acquired

Part 1: Manuscripts from the British Library. A broad perspective on medieval women writers: includes Margery Kempe, Christine de Pisan, Katherine Parr. Online Guide
Part 2: Household books, correspondence, & manuscripts owned by women, from the British Library. Recipe books, accounts, household books, medical recipes, religious texts, family correspondence.  Online Guide
Film No. E 1031

Part 1: Sources from the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1600-1800  Online Guide
Part 2: 1800-1918  Online Guide
Part 3: 1800-1918  Online Guide
Film No. 3565

Part 1: Early travel accounts by women, and women's experiences in India, Africa, Australasia and Canada  Online Guide
Parts 2 and 3: Women and "the Orient"  Online Guide
Part 4: Women, the Americas and world travel  Online Guide
Film No. 3520

Documents the social and political hitory of women and their place in society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Covers every aspect of women's emancipation and suffrage. Description
Series 1: Radical and reforming periodicals for and by women.
Series 2: Popular magazines
Titles are cataloged individually. Do a Series Title search to see lists.

Part 1: Lydia Becker and the Manchester Society for Women's Suffrage
Part 2: The Papers of Millicent Garrett Fawcett : sections on women's Suffrage, Education, Employment, Welfare, the First World War and other Women's Issues  Online Guide for both parts
Film No. 3373

See also the Gerritsen Collection of Women's History for women's suffrage periodicals. 

Part 1: Early women's journals, c1700-1832, from the Bodleian Library. Online Guide
Part 2: Advice books, manuals, almanacs and journals, c1625-1837 from the Bodleian Library. Online Guide
Parts 3-4: The Lady's Magazine, 1770-1832 Online Guide
Part 5: Women's writing and advice, c1450-1720. Includes Marie de FRance and Christine de Pisan, Marguerite de Valois. Online Guide
Film No. E 162

Part 1: The Correspondence of Jemima, Marchioness Grey (1722-97) and her circle from the Bedfordshire County Record Office  Online Guide
Part 2: The Correspondence and diaries of Charlotte Georgiana, Lady Bedingfeld (formerly Jerningham) c1779-1833, together with the letters of Anna Seward, c1791-1804 and Lady Stafford, c1774-1837 ; from the Birmingham University Library.  Online Guide
Film No. E 888

Detailing the lives of 140 women between 1500 and 1940.   Online Guide
Film No. E 673

Prescriptive literature and journals aimed at women in the period from 1837 to 1910.  Online Guide
Film No. E 891

Arthur Joseph Munby (1828-1910) was a poet, barrister and civil servant. However, his greatest legacy was the record that he kept of his private passion - an obsession with the circumstances, habits and aspirations of working women.Munby recorded what he saw in sketches and photographs and - most importantly - in a massively detailed written record. He filled sixty-four diary volumes (averaging at least 200 pages each) and twelve notebooks with descriptions of these women and their places of work, accounts of their hours of work and wages, and excerpts from their conversations with him concerning their views on male/female working relationships, industry and exploitation, child-rearing, marriage and other issues.

Hannah Cullwick (1833-1909) was not only Munby’s servant, she was also his wife. They were married secretly in 1873. Hannah’s own hand-written autobiography and 16 volume diary provide Hannah’s story in her own words. These are complemented by her letters to Munby (c.850 in all).   Online Guide
Film No. 3162

Collection of 100 tracts written by Quaker women mainly between 1647 and 1682.
Film No. 3320

In 1778 Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby eloped to set up a new life together in Plas Newydd in Llangollen Vale. The move met with strong opposition from their respective families but their new Gothic residence soon became a magnet for writers and intellectuals. Wordsworth, Madame de Genlis, Edmund Burke and Anna Seward all visited, and the 'Ladies of Llangollen' (as Butler and Ponsonby soon became known) established a vigorous correspondence network. The papers of the Ladies of Llangollen held at the National Library of Wales are a vital source to study this important partnership and the literary circle that they created.   Online Guide
Film No. 3324

Suffragette and leading international socialist Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) was at the forefront of the social struggles at the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1906, she moved to London and became actively involved with the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) founded by Emmeline Pankhurst, and Sylvia herself founded the East London Federation of the Suffragettes. Her personal archive is reproduced in full in the microfilm edition along with Minute Books and Records of the East London Federation of Suffragettes 1913-1920 and Minute Books of the Executive Committee of the Women’s Franchise League 1896-1897.  Online Guide
Film No. 3317

Maria Edgeworth occupies an important place in the history of women’s writing. A pioneer of social realism, her novels represent a significant contribution to the literature of class, race and gender. She is also an important figure in the History of Education, particularly concerning the education of women. This project provides scholars with immediate access to the original manuscript letters, notebooks and manuscripts and will facilitate a deeper examination of all aspects of Maria Edgeworth’s life and work from her education and upbringing to her reading and her creative works. It brings together the two major Edgeworth collections at the Bodleian Library and the National Library of Ireland as well as further important manuscripts from scattered collections.
Part 1:  from the Bodelian Library. Part 2: from the National Library of Ireland. Part 3: from  other libraries  Online Guide
Film No. E 392

Author, journalist, social commentator and leading feminist intellectual in the second half of the nineteenth century, Harriet Martineau is most noted for her economic, social and political contributions to the theories of her day. She is also well known for her feminist writings in the Daily News, the Cornhill Magazine, the Edinburgh Review, the London and Westminster Review and the Chambers Journal, and for her exemplary work as a journalist. Online Guide
Film No. 3025

Eve, 1919-1929. A marvellous source for the exploration of popular culture. There are regular features on the Cinema, the Theatre and the Musical Theatre. There are articles on movie stars and musicians, and reviews of the Diaghalev Ballet, the entertainments of Nol Coward and the Ziegfield Follies. Profusely illustrated throughout, Eve is the embodiment of the "Roaring Twenties".   Online Guide
Film No. 3568

Reproduces the clipping files maintained by the Gay Men's Health Crisis organization at the New York Public Library
Microfiche C 2873

Series A: Holdings of the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.
Film No. E223  

Series B: Holdings of Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, the Carter family papers.
Film No. 3202

Series C: Holdings of the Earl Gregg Swem Library, the College of William and Mary.
Film No. 3203

Series D: Holdings of the Virginia Historical Society.
Film No. E 234

Series E: Holdings of the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collection, Louisiana State University Libraries.
Film No. 3313

Series F: Holdings of the Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
Film No. 3341

3 collections that offer firsthand accounts of the lives, contributions, and innermost thoughts of women from the colonial period through the turn of the 20th century. Perspectives on many topics including daily life and the struggle to survive, religion, childbirth and child rearing, education, social issues, war and peace, and personal strengths of women from diverse ethnic and social backgrounds. The collection is divided into three geographic segments, each supporting an important historical period
New England Women:
Film No. 3035

Southern Women:
Film No. 3036

Western Women: Collection of over 500 published and unpublished works by and about women in the Western U.S. during the 18th and 19th centuries, including: diaries; autobiographies; biographies; personal histories; transcriptions of oral interviews; and transcriptions of Pioneer Personal History Questionnaires.
Film No. E 414

See description above.

Arranged in three series -- historical records, correspondence, and serial publications -- and reproduces original documents housed at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, a research archive devoted to collecting, preserving, and making accessible materials on non-governmental efforts toward peace.
Film No. 2857

Founded in 1915 at a national conference called by Jane Addams and Carrie Chapman Catt. Some 3,000 members of various local women’s peace organizations gathered in Washington, DC, and established the WPP on a platform calling for a conference of neutral nations, limitation of armaments, opposition to militarism in the United States, democratic control of foreign policy, and extension of the vote to women. In 1919 the WPP became the U.S. Section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Divided into two chronologically arranged series: Historical Records and Correspondence. These include annual meeting minutes, executive council minutes, membership lists, literature, speeches, letters, clippings, releases, reports, and resolutions.
Film No. 2858

Correspondence, subject files, etc. relating chiefly to state and local suffrage organizations and leaders in the movement, scrapbooks prepared by Ida Porter Boyer documenting activities in the women's rights movement (1893-1912), and miscellaneous printed matter.
These manuscripts are housed in the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
Film No. 3251

Comprehensive overview of the birth control movement in America and the career of Sanger. Includes diaries, correspondence, records of the American Birth Control League and other organizations, scrapbooks, speeches, and printed works.
Film No. 3027

American suffragism, as well as connectuions with antislavery, temperance, free thought, and marriage and divorce reform movements. Collection spans 1831 through 1906, and includes: legislative testimony, correspondence, diaries, speeches, meetings, articles, legal papers, and financial papers.
Film No. 2853

Orator and writer, Goldman became the most well-known anarchist in the USA, propagating anarchist views as well as birth control and women's rights; involved in the Free Speech Movement; founder and editor of the libertarian-cultural review Mother Earth 1906-1917; assisted at the International Anarchist Congress in 1907; imprisoned for antiwar propaganda in 1917 and deported to Russia in 1919; disillusioned about the revolution, she left Russia in 1921; in exile in Germany, England, France, she undertook lecture tours in Europe, the USA and Canada. She wrote many pamphlets, essays and several books including her memoirs `Living my life', published in 1931. Description of content
The Emma Goldman Papers Online Project
Film No. E 887

M. Carey Thomas is considered a pioneer in women's education, for her commitment and work in building Bryn Mawr as an institution of excellence in learning, as well as for her very life which served as a model for other women.  Description and link to extensive biographical information
Film No. 3216

One of only 2 American women to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Balch played a leading role in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Collection includes family correspondence, articles about Balch, diaries, journals, notes, manuscripts for articles and speeches.
Film No. 2852

Spanning the period from Cuban independence to the end of the Batista regime, the collection sheds light on Cuban feminism, women in politics, literature by Cuban women, and the legal status of women. Includes works by feminists about feminists and their causes, works by men on the status of women, and literary works by feminist writers that illustrate or discuss the condition of women.
Film No. 3026

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