subj25. Holdings related to Women

Processing Information This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services award MH-245560-OMS-20. Content Description Senga Nengudi papers compile records reflecting more than fifty years of Nengudi’s career and personal life. The papers of Senga Nengudi mainly document her artistic career as a sculptor and performance artist encompassing correspondence, ephemera and photographs. Images and documentation for Nengudi’s...

Content Description The papers include correspondence, photographs, financial records, and collected items. One group of letters are those written by Perry from New York where she attended one of Madame C. J. Walker's schools. Also of interest are letters written from Augusta, Georgia, when she was a teacher at Haines Institute, directed by Lucy Laney. Several items of correspondence relate to her work with the Race Relations Department at Fisk University. Correspondents include Thelma Allison, Lewis Copeland,...

Content Description The papers of Mary Morehead Richardson measure approximately 2.3 linear feet. They include correspondence, writings, newspaper clippings, photographs, and collected items. The collection is arranged in chronological order and date from 1917-1990. The correspondence consists of letters, telegrams, cards, and notes, including some written to Ira Foster Lewis in 1941 pertaining to his election as president of the Pittsburgh Courier.Newspaper clippings...

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The Margarett Scott papers contain correspondence, newspaper clippings primarily containing aritlces about Scott, and other collected ephemera. The papers also contain photographic slides of Talledega, Alabama. Other materials include the story of early Richland County, Wisconsin, written by Scott and published weekly in "The Richland Observer" in 1975 and, an article on Lone Rock Congregational Church in the area.

Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, speeches, notes, photographs and other documents, mostly related to the Cincinnati Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs and its parent organizations—the Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs and the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs. Notable materials include drafts of the History of the Cincinnati Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs which gives a detailed history of the organization and information about the member organizations. Other items of...

Scope and Contents This collection pertains to the nursing career of Mabel Keaton Staupers. It includes correspondence, clippings, speeches, programs, invitations, and photographs. Correspondence of note includes several telegrams sent when she was named as a recipient of the Spingarn Medal in 1951, including notes of congratulations from Grace Nail Johnson and Lillian Smith. Also included are programs of events for which Staupers was commencement speaker, conference discussant, or honoree. Event programs of...

Content Description Dorothy Sterling is a scholar of African American history and has authored many books including Forever Free, Tear Down the Walls!, It Started in Montgomery, Speak Out in Thunder Tones, The Trouble They Seen. Collected items are research and documentary material accumulated for several of her books including those above, as well as Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of...

Acknowledgement This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MH-245560-OMS-20]. Content Description The papers of Dorothy Mae Taylor are approximately 3.2 linear feet of material dating 1971-2000. The bulk of the papers are in the form of speeches Taylor presented 1986-1990 at various religious functions, high school graduations and civic events. Taylor spoke to many organizations, including: the New Orleans...

Scope and Contents The Lillian Welch Voorhees papers consist of 21.7 linear feet of items typical of the life of a 20th century educator. The collection also reflects Voorhees's literary and theatrical interests with examples of her own writings, as well as those of her students. Correspondence, 1900-1973 (ca. 8450 items), comprises the largest part of Voorhees's papers. Her literary efforts, 1907-71, are another large section. These include bibliographies; articles; a fragmentary autobiography and...

Scope and Contents The papers of African American artist Ruth G. Waddy document her career, particularly the founding of Art West, an African American artists collective in Los Angeles, California, as well as her collaboration with Samella Lewis on the two-volume Black Artists on Art. The collection includes correspondence, catalogs, invitations, programs for plays and musical events, biographical information on Waddy, collected periodicals, news clippings, photographs, and...