This page provides an overview of selected collections held in the Archives Center that are relevant to the study of women's history. These resources include materials that were created by women and those that demonstrate important aspects of women's historical experiences. To view the entirety of the Archives Center's collections, you can also browse the Collections page.
Advertising
- Alka-Seltzer Oral History and Documentation Project
- Syntex Collection of Pharmaceutical Advertising
- Priscilla of Boston Collection, 1940-1994
- Gladys Reid Holton Ephemera Collection
- Cover Girl Make-Up Advertising Oral History and Documentation Collection
- Maidenform Collection
- Breck Girls Collection, ca. 1936-1995
- The Joseph Magnin Poster Collection, ca. 1963-1968
- Marion Harper Papers, ca. 1916-1994
- Estelle Ellis Collection, 1944-1981
- Men & Women: Costume and Gender TV Commercials Collection
- Revlon, Incorporated Advertising Collection
- Caroline R. Jones Papers
- Dolores Valdes-Zacky Papers
- Shirley Polykoff Oral History Interview
Cover Girl Make-Up Oral History Documentation Project
Featuring twenty-two oral history interviews, advertisements, photographs, personal papers, scrapbooks, business records, and related material, this collection seeks to document the history and development of advertising for Cover Girl since its inception in 1959.
Business, Technology, Science, and Mathematics
Grace Murray Hopper Collection
The collection includes technical notes, operating instructions and descriptions relating to Hopper's work. Photographs document both equipment and Hopper with her colleagues at work and on social occasions. Also included are published articles and memoranda by Hopper and others on various technical aspects of computers, clippings of newspaper and magazine articles relating to computers and their development, and periodicals and brochures. A "humor file" contains jokes and anecdotes collected by Hopper.
Museum of Menstruation Collection
The collection features advertisements, product packaging, educational materials and pamphlets, correspondence, photographs, and videotapes that document one of the most important topics in health experienced by half of the world's population, menstruation.
Innovation, Industry, and Manufacturing
Ella Fitzgerald Papers
The Ella Fitzgerald Papers document the performing and personal life of the "First Lady of Song." Containing music manuscripts, sheet music, photographs, scripts, correspondence, clippings, business records, sound recordings and video, the collection primarily details Fitzgerald's career as a performer.
Sports and Leisure
Bracero History Archive
The Bracero Program allowed millions of Mexican men to come to the United States between 1942 and 1964 as short-term laborers on farms in the United States but women's stories are also relevant to this history. Available in English and Spanish, most of the women interviewed as a part of the Bracero History Archive were relatives of Braceros and farmers who participated in this guest worker program.
