Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Women's Studies:
Microforms: Selected List
The following is a selected list of microform collection held by Rutgers
Libraries in the area of women's studies. It is arranged alphabetically
by title, excluding the initial articles. The list does not include
newspapers. For more information on each title, and for additional
titles, please search IRIS.
Advice Literature in America.
Part I: The Schlesinger collection of etiquette and advice books, from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
DOUGLASS M/film 73, 15 reels
GUIDE: DOUGLASS REF BJ1571.A47 2001 pt.1
American Civil Liberties Union Archives, 1950 - 1990. Series 3.
(Women's rights).
Douglass M/film 2863, 4 reels (nos. 316-320)
GUIDE: No Guide available
American Women's Diaries. New England Women.
Douglass M/film 102, 21 reels
GUIDE: DOUGLASS, ALEXANDER HQ1412.G84 1984
______. Southern Women.
DOUGLASS M/film 22, 34 reels
GUIDE: DOUGLASS REF HQ1412.G85 1990
______. Western Women.
DOUGLASS M/film 21, 29 reels
GUIDE: DOUGLASS REF HQ1412.G85 1991
Bureau of Social Hygiene Project and Research Files 1918-1940: a Collection of the Rockefeller Archives Center of the Rockefeller U.
ALEXANDER M/film 2249, 31 reels
GUIDE: ALEXANDER REF HV99.N6B853 1980
The Bureau sponsored research in the fields of prostitution, birth control, and other areas relating to social welfare. The files contain unpublished reports, case histories, research studies, educational material, correspondence, and other reports.
Campaign for Women's Suffrage, 1895-1920: papers of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, the National Union of Woman's Suffrage Societies, the Parliamentary Committee for Woman's Suffrage, and the Manchester Men's League for Woman's Suffrage from the John Rylands University Library, Manchester.
DOUGLASS M/film 25, 31 reels
GUIDE: DOUGLASS REF JN976.C36 1990
Church Missionary Society Archives, Section II, Missions to Women.
Douglass M/film 77, 35 reels
GUIDE: Douglass REF BV2500.A2C48 1997
Colonial Discourses. Series one, Women, Travel, & Empire, 1660-1914.
Pt. 1. Early travel accounts by women, and women's experiences in India, Africa, Australasia and Canada
DOUGLASS M/film 72, 25 reels
GUIDE: DOUGLASS REF G463.C6925 1998
Part 1 features the development of women's travel writings where the travel accounts by women reveal the role of women in the Empire to their perception of the lives the women from other cultures. It includes 11 pioneers of the genre, such as Katharine Evans (d1692) and Celia Fiennes (1662-1741). Part 2. Part 3
The Diaries of Constance Maynard.
DOUGLASS M/film 15, 14 reels
GUIDE: DOUGLASS REF LA2375.G72M39 1987
It includes diaries, writings and unpublished autobiography of Constance Maynard.
Elizabeth Glendower Evans [Papers].
DOUGLASS M/film 2, 11 reels.
GUIDE: DOUGLASS REF HN49.W6E93 1991
Holographs and typescript. Each reel includes biographical information, a chronology, an index to correspondents, a general table of contents for the part, and a detailed table of contents for the reel.
Emma Goldman Papers.
DOUGLASS M/film, 69 reels
GUIDE TITLE: Emma Goldman; a Guide to her life and documentary sources, correspondence, writings, and government documents.
DOUGLASS REF HX843.7.G65E55
ELECTRONIC ACCESS: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/
Fannie Lou Hamer, 1917-1977: Papers, 1966-1978.
Douglass M/Film 101, 17 reels
GUIDE: No guide available
Gerritsen Collection of Women's History, 1543-1945.
DOUGLASS M/fiche 376, 17,000 fiches; M/film 100, 240 reels
GUIDE: DOUGLASS, ALEXANDER REF HQ1121.G43 1983
4,500 book titles and periodical runs on 17,000 microfiche, 240 reels of microfilm. About half are in English. Guide provides broad category and name access. Individual title records are also accessible through IRIS.
The Gertrude Tuckwell Collection, 1890-1920.
Alexander M/film 2247 V.1-17
GUIDE: No Guide available
Godey's Lady's Book, 1830-1898.
ALEXANDER, CAMDEN, SPCOL/UA FLMPER (partial holdings at each location)
First successful American journal for women in 19th century. It includes essays, book reviews, how-to articles, biographical sketches, history and travel articles, clothing patterns, and poetry.
ELECTRONIC ACCESS: http://www.accessible.com/accessible/preLog
RU Restricted
Herstory.
DOUGLASS M/film 19, 90 reels
GUIDE: DOUGLASS REF HQ1426.G85 1990z
800 periodicals by and about the women's movement, and civic, professional, religious and peace groups. Also Supplements I and II
History of Women.
ALEXANDER M/film, 1248 reels.
GUIDE: ALEXANDER, Dana, CAMDEN HQ1121.R474 1983
ONLINE GUIDE: http://www.gale.com/psm/ searchable, follow link "Free access to PSM online guides."
Coverage through 1920 of books, periodicals, manuscripts, and photographs from the Sophia Smith Collection and the Schlesinger Library, as well as additional early imprints from other collections. Broad subject access is provided in the guide. The library catalogs of both collections are available in DOUGLASS Library:
Smith Collection: REF HQ1121.S65 1975, 7 v.
Schlesinger Library: REF Z7965.A78 1973, 3 v.
Jane Addams Papers, 1860-1960.
ALEXANDER M/film 2431, 90 reels
GUIDE: ALEXANDER REF HV28.A35 1984
Personal documents, 1873-1935, organization files, 1889-1935, reference files, 1889-1935, and writing files.
Legal Status of Women, 1800-1900.
DOUGLASS M/fiche, 152 fiches (Currently In-Process)
GUIDE: No Guide available
Lillian Wald Papers.
ALEXANDER M/film 2834, 112 reels
GUIDE: Alexander REF HQ1413.W34L55 1992
Margaret Sanger.
DOUGLASS M/film 6, 16 reels
GUIDE: DOUGLASS REF HQ764.S3536 1991
Diaries, correspondence, conference files, lectures and speeches. Each reel includes biographical information, a chronology, an index to papers, a general table of contents for the part, and a detailed table of contents for the reel.
ELECTRONIC ACCESS: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/
Methodist Missionary Society Archives.
ALEXANDER M/fich 524, 24281 fiches
GUIDE: ALEXANDER REF BV2550.A427W4 1981
This collection includes the part entitled: Women's work collections. It consists of minutes, reports, correspondences, and finance of women in missionary work.
National Woman's Party Papers, 1913-1974.
ALEXANDER M/film 2179, 179 reels
GUIDE: ALEXANDER REF Z7963.S9 P371
Correspondences, minutes, legal papers, financial records, printed materials and photographs. Also includes World Women's Party Papers, 1938-1958.
Nightingale, Public Health and Victorian Society: from the British Library, London.
Part 1.
Douglass M/Film 78, 22 reels
GUIDE: No Guide available
Notes of Evidence Taken by the Commission of Inquiry Appointed to Inquire into the Disturbance in the Calabar and Owerri Provinces, December, 1929.
ALEXANDER M/film 2850
Igbo women political activity and revolt in Nigeria.
Norton: the Collected Writings of Caroline Norton (1808-1877).
DOUGLASS M/Film 71, 7 reels
GUIDE: DOUGLASS REF PR5112.N5 1999
Pamphlets in American History. Group I.
ALEXANDER M/fiche 378
GUIDE: ALEXANDER REF E173.P35 1979
Group I: section on "women" (646 titles). Guide includes names, titles, organizations, and detailed subject index.
Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945.
ALEXANDER M/film 2614, 20 microfilm reels
GUIDE: ALEXANDER REF E807.1.R48A21 1986
Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
DOUGLASS M/film 5, 45 reels
GUIDE: DOUGLASS, ALEXANDER, Dana, CAMDEN REF HQ1413.S689P37 1992
Complete set of The Revolution, 1,680 letters and postcards, arranged by sender's state and town, and personal papers.
Papers of Emily Greene Balch, 1875-1961.
ALEXANDER M/film 2623, 26 reels
GUIDE: ALEXANDER REF JX1962.B34P36 1988
Organized into three series: (1) biographical, (2) correspondence, (3) diaries, journal, notes, etc. Guide is a listing only.
The Papers of Emma Hart Willard, 1787-1870.
Douglass M/film 106, 25 reels
Guide: Douglass REF LA2317.W5P37 2005
Papers of the League of Women Voters, 1918-1974.
ALEXANDER M/film 2558, 64 reels
GUIDE: ALEXANDER REF JK1881.P36 1985 v.1-2
Minutes of meetings, transcripts and records of national conventions.
Papers of the Women's Trade Union League and Its Principal Leaders.
ALEXANDER M/film 2621, 131 reels
GUIDE: ALEXANDER, CAMDEN REF HD6079.2.U5P36 1981
President's Commission on the Status of Women.
Alexander M/film 2842, 13 reels
GUIDE: ALEX REF HQ1421.U55 2001
Part of the Research Collections in American Politics, the report covers issues on employmennt, government policy and legislation on women.
Quaker Women's Tracts.
ALEXANDER M/film 2757, 4 reels
GUIDE: no guide available
Writings of Quaker women.
The Queen.
Douglass M/film Vol. 1-78
GUIDE: Douglass REF TT500.Q3 1861/85
Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1992.
DOUGLASS M/film 23, 26 reels (pt.1), 115 reels (pt.2)
GUIDE: DOUGLASS REF E185.86.N38R43 1994 pt.1-2
Minutes of conventions, publications, and correspondence, including local affiliates, and histories of clubs.
Records of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, 1918-1965. Part II, Women in World War II, Series A, Unpublished Studies and Community Surveys.
DOUGLASS M/film 18, 10 reels
GUIDE: DOUGLASS REF HD6095.H93 1991 pt.2, Ser.A
Sex and Gender: Manuscript Sources from the Public Record Office.
Part 1, 2: Empire and Suffrage. Part 3: Equal Opportunities and Pay
Douglass M/film 79, 18 reels (pt.1), 18 reels (pt.2), 21 reels (pt.3)
GUIDE: Douglass REF HQ1587.S489 pt.1/2
Sexual Politics in Britain.
DOUGLASS M/fich 132
GUIDE: DOUGLASS REF HQ76.8.G7S49 1976, 1977/78
Feminist, gay and lesbian alternative press publications of 1976-78.
Social and Political Status of Women in Britain, 1870-1928: Radical and Reforming Periodicals for and by Women.
ALEXANDER M/film 2628, 17 reels
GUIDE: No Guide available.
The periodicals are from the collection of the Newspaper Library, British Library.
Southern Women and their Families in the 19th century: Papers and Diaries. Series A. Holdings of the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill. Part 3.
ALEXANDER M/film 2710, 6 reels
GUIDE: No Guide available
Consists of papers from Louisiana and Mississippi collections.
Western Americana.
Section 20: Women of the West
DOUGLASS M/fich 134, 191 fiches
GUIDE: ALEXANDER F 591.W47 (Section 20: Women and the West)
Also at Douglass Library Reference Desk
Collection of 1012 books, including personal writings and documents, from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century.
The Virginia Woolf Manuscripts from the Monks House Papers at the University of Sussex.
Alexander M/film 2522, 6 reels
GUIDE: No Guide available
Voices of the Women's Movement, 1850-1900: the Helen Blackburn Collection from Girton College, Cambridge.
Alexander M/film 2625, 29 reels
GUIDE: No Guide available
What Women Wrote: Scenarios, 1912-1929.
ALEXANDER M/film 2660, 2 reels
GUIDE: ALEXANDER REF PN1997.A1W5 1987
Part of cinema history microfilm series, lists motion picture plays by women authors.
Women Advising Women.
Douglass M/film 80; pt.1,17 reels; pt.2, 20 reels; pt.3, 15 reels; pt.4, 32 reels; pt.5, 22 reels;
pt.6, 25 reels; pt.7, 20 reels.
GUIDE: Douglass REF PN5124.W6W6 pt.1, pt.2/4, pt.5, pt.6, pt.7
Women and/in Health.
Douglass M/film 98, 14 reels
GUIDE: Douglass REF RA564.85.W663 1993
Women and Law.
DOUGLASS M/film 7, 5 reels (Sections 5-6 only)
ALEXANDER M/film 1070-1110, 10 reels
GUIDE TITLE: Guide to the microfilm edition of the Women's Law Library of the Women's History Research Center, Women and law.
DOUGLASS REF KF477.A1W6 v.5-6; ALEXANDER REF KF477.A1W6 1974 v.1/7; CAMDEN REF KF477.A1W6 1992
Guide arranged by personal name and subject, research papers, and "Special Issues" of journals.
The Women Composers Collection: from the Holdings of the Women Composers Collection, the Music Library, University of Michigan.
MUSIC M/film 208, 28 reels
GUIDE: MUSIC REF ML136.A55M538 1998
Women, Industry and Trades Unionism: the Gertrude Tuckwell Collection, 1890-1920.
ALEXANDER M/film 2247, 17 reels
GUIDE: No guide available.
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, United States Section, 1919-1959.
ALEXANDER M/film 2661, 97 reels
GUIDE: ALEXANDER, CAMDEN REF JX1965.W4594 1983
League's correspondence, official records, and serials publications. Listing only.
Women's Labour League, 1906-1918.
DOUGLASS M/fich 133, 38 microfiche
GUIDE: No guide available
Archives of the British Labour Party. General correspondence and political records
Women, Writing and Travel
Douglass M/film 105 10 reels
Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Series 1, Women's Suffrage. Parts A, B, C, D, E.
DOUGLASS M/film 50, 141 reels.
GUIDE: DOUGLASS REF JK1896.W664
Includes material on women's suffrage movement and other social movements from different regions in the U.S., from 1870-1920. Pt.A: National Leaders; Pt.B: New York; Pt.C: The South; Pt.D: New England: Pt.E: Midwest and Far West.
Woman's Work: a Foreign Missions Magazine.
Douglass M/film 5, 6 (In Process)
GUIDE: No Guide Available
