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.

The Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, CUNY Hunter College

Entity type: Repository

The Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora is the only archival repository in the United States committed to documenting the Puerto Rican communities living in the United States. The archives have over 300 collections of personal papers from prominent Puerto Ricans, including artists, elected officials, social activists, writers, and community-based organizations. There is an extraordinary amount of information regarding Puerto Rican migrants and the government institutions established to support them.

New Museum Digital Archive

Entity type: Repository

 The New Museum Digital Archive contains documentation of the New Museum’s program and institutional history in the form of images, video, audio, publications and printed matter.

Internet Archive

Entity type: Repository

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.

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Entity type: Repository

The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States. More than 20 million items of original material are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washington, D.C., and New York City. As a research center within the Smithsonian Institution, the Archives houses materials related to a variety of American visual art and artists. 

Center for Curatorial Studies Archives, Bard College

Entity type: Repository

The Archives serve as the institutional repository for the Center for Curatorial Studies and as a collecting repository which actively acquires, preserves, and provides access to a wide range of primary materials documenting the history of the contemporary visual arts and the institutions and practices of exhibition-making since the 1960s. The Archives are committed to collecting the physical and digital manifestations and documentary traces in their original formats, including archives and manuscripts, artifacts, books and publications, and other analog and digital media.

National Archives for Black Women's History

Entity type: Repository

The National Archives for Black Women's History documents the legacy of Mary McLeod Bethune. The archives collects materials about and illustrating Mary McLeod Bethune, the National Council of Negro Women, other African American women's organizations, and individuals associated with those organizations. The archives also documents the ongoing preservation and interpretation of the Bethune legacy. The archives collects information in all media with a special focus on the years of Mary McLeod Bethune's life, 1875-1955.

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.  

University Archives and Special Collections, California State University, Fullerton

Entity type: Repository

Established in 1967, University Archives and Special Collections preserves and provides access to the library’s rarest and most valuable original materials, supports curriculum, and preserves the University’s history.

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.

Friedman Feminist Press Collection, Colorado State University

Entity type: Repository

The most extensive collection of books in the Rocky Mountain West published by feminist presses, the FFPC includes books and periodicals published by the Women's Press Collective, Shameless Hussy Press, Diana Press, Daughters, Inc., Naiad Press, and Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, Spinsters Ink, The Feminist Press, Seal Press, and Firebrand Press.  Providing unique sources in feminist/lesbian literature and second-wave feminism, the collection archives multi-genre works of fiction, poetry, memoirs, and essays by feminist publishers of the 1960s through the 1980s that brought women and women's words out into the world. The feminist press movement not only pushed the edge of mainstream publishing to reflect feminist and lesbian lives in print but also formed an essential arm of the growing women's liberation movement, furthering activism committed to the larger political and social changes that advanced women's lives

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.  

Women’s Liberation Movement Print Culture, Duke University

Entity type: Repository

The Women’s Liberation Movement Print Culture collection contains manifestos, speeches, essays, and other materials documenting various aspects of the Women's Movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. The Women's Liberation Movement refers to a series of campaigns for reforms on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, and equal pay. Feminist print culture, such as the examples provided in the collection, supported and sustained the Women¹s Movement and connect it to other movements for social justice. The original version of this digital collection was produced in 1997 by then Duke Women's Studies Archivist, Ginny Daley along with then Duke professor Anne Valk to support assignments in her class on the Social History of American Women. Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon also contributed to material selection in conjunction with their publication of their book, Dear Sisters: Dispatches From The Women's Liberation Movement (Basic Books, 2001). The newly launched collection includes image scans of all documents and is full-text searchable. Photographs, flyers, planning documents, and responses to the 1968 and 1969 Miss America pageant protests, which launched Women's Liberation in the public consciousness, have been added to the collection.

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.

Fales Library And Special Collections, New York University

Entity type: Repository

The Fales Library and Special Collections comprises over 350,000 volumes of books and other printed materials; more than 11,000 linear feet of archives, and over 100,000 individual and unique media elements.

Rise Up! Feminist Archive

Entity type: Repository

Rise Up! is a digital archive of feminist activism in Canada from the 1970s to the 1990s. They were part of a worldwide wave of liberation and anti-oppression movements that won some victories, changed some attitudes, and radically altered the gendered and political landscape. The site is dedicated to documenting and sharing these histories.

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.

June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives

Entity type: Repository

The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives is a vital force in collecting, preserving, and uplifting lesbian, feminist, and queer women's history. The Mazer provides academics, researchers, creatives, and the community a space to access and explore the past while paving the way for future generations to understand and create their own legacy.  The Archive includes personal papers, organizational papers, photographs, periodicals, subject files, books, audiovisual materials, and ephemera spanning decades creating a living record of community activism, creativity, resilience, and love.

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.

The Women and Leadership Archives, Loyola University Chicago

Entity type: Repository

The Women and Leadership Archives (WLA) collects, preserves, and makes available permanently valuable records of women and women's organizations, which document women's lives, roles, and contributions. The WLA is part of the Gannon Center for Women and Leadership and Loyola University Chicago Libraries. We are proud to serve the greater Loyola community, external scholars, and the general public.

Native American Women Playwrights Archive, Miami University

Entity type: Repository

The Native American Women Playwrights Archive is a collection of original materials by Native women playwrights of the Americas. NAWPA hopes to identify playwrights, collect and preserve their work, try to make it widely known, and encourage performances and continued creativity. Plays in manuscript, disk, videotape, or other format are cataloged, given appropriate preservation treament, and made available to anyone who wishes to read them in the library. NAWPA welcomes playwrights at any level of development.

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.