Womens Studies Collections

Women's Studies: Selected Modern Manuscript and Archival Collections

Print versions of finding aids for the following collections are available in the Special Collections Research Center.
Finding aids that have been converted to digital form can be searched in the online finding aids database.

For more detailed information on holdings, please contact the Special Collections Research Center.

• Edith and Grace Abbott. Papers. Finding Aid
• Mary Aldis. Papers.
  
• Archival Biographical Files. HTML Guide
• Archival Photographic Files. HTML Guide
• Archival Serials. HTML Guide
• Mary Atkinson. Writing and Arithmetic Exercise Book. [Ms. 685]
  
• Celia and Delia Austrian. Papers.
  
• Anna Belli. Il Paradiso Terrestre. [Ms. 1259]
  
• Marjorie Berger. Papers.
  
• Walter and Carol Blair. Oral History Interview.
  
• Amy Bonner. Papers.
  
• Blanche B. Boyer. Papers.
  
• [Elizabeth Mann Borgese] World Movement for World Federal Government. Records.
  
• Dorothy Bradbury. The Children's Advocate.
  
• Mary Bowen Brainerd. Papers. Finding Aid
• Sophonsiba Breckinridge. Papers. Finding Aid
• Ramona Bressie. Papers.
  
• Frieda S. Brown. Papers. Finding Aid
• Rachel F. Brown. Notebooks.
  
• Sarah Radcliffe Buckley. Commonplace Book. [Ms. 745]
  
• Ernest W. Burgess. Papers. Finding Aid
• Demia Butler. Diary. Finding Aid
• Butler-Gunsaulus Collection.
  
• Gladys Campbell. Papers.
  
• Beatrice Stella (Mrs. Patrick) Campbell. Letters.
  
• Carmelite Sisters of Flanders. Relation de la suppression des Carmelites de Flandre. [Ms. 278]
  
• Carnegie Council on Children. Records.
  
• Dorothy Crowder Chessman. Papers. Finding Aid
• Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess Chesterfield. Letters to Martha, Lady Gifford. [Ms. 910]
  
• Chicago Committee of Fifteen. Crime in Chicago. Research Data. [Ms. 1028]
  
• Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey. Records.
  
• Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. Records.
  
• Elizabeth Church. Commonplace Book. [Ms. 757]
  
• Civic Disarmament Committee for Handgun Control. Records.
  
• Cleaner Air Committee of Hyde Park-Kenwood. Records.
  
• Margaret Cooper. Treatise on Religion...Written for Her Children. [Ms. 865]
  
• Helen I. Dennis. Papers.
  
• Sophie Dixon. Poems. [Ms. 613]
  
• Zella Allen Dixson. Papers.
  
• Charlotte E. Dodge. Commonplace Book. [Ms. 744]
  
• Stephen A. Douglas. Papers.
  
• Helen Drew. Papers.
  
• Reuben T. Durrett Collection. Durrett Miscellaneous Manuscripts.
  
• Dorothy Eggan. Papers.
  
• English Actors and Actresses. Correspondence. [Ms. 623]
  
• Lloyd A. Fallers. Papers.
  
• Shirely Farr. Papers. Finding Aid
• Laura Fermi. Papers.
  
• General Archival Files. HTML Guide
• Rachel Goetz. Papers.
  
• Adelaide Eunice Goodrich. Papers.
  
• Charlotte C. Gray. Papers. Finding Aid
• Sarah Gregory. Commonplace Book. [Ms. 523]
  
• Paolina Secco-Suardo, Countess Grismondi. Lettre d'illustri letterati. [Ms. 456]
  
• Eleanor P. Hammond. Papers.
  
• Gertrude Epstein Harris. Papers. Finding Aid
• Sarah Harward. Commonplace Book. [Ms. 548]
  
• Helen Heller. Family Papers.
  
• Julius Hays Hess. Papers.
  
• Annie McClure Hitchcock. Recollections of Lake and Cook Counties in 1837. [Ms. 1087]
  
• Mrs. Holms, Alabama. Diary. [Ms. 1611]
  
• Frances Hooper. Papers.
  
• Leila Houghteling. Cost of Living Schedules-Unskilled Laborers [Chicago]. [Ms. 1011]
  
• Maude Phelps Hutchins. Christmas Cards.
  
• Ella May Jones. Papers. [Ms. 1084]
  
• Lucile L. Keck. Papers.
  
• Helen L. Koch. Papers.
  
• Vida A. Latham. Papers.
  
• Lady Leona Leslie. Correpondence.
  
• Letters of a Father to His Daughter. [Ms. 884]
  
• Alice Lloyd. Diary.
  
• Adele Gleim Locke. Travel Journal. [Ms. 1053]
  
• Hedwig L. Loeb. Papers. Finding Aid
• Faye Millard MacFarland. Student Notes.
  
• Marie Louise, Empress Consort of Napoleon I. Compte rendu pour l'annee 1812. [Ms. 307]
  
• Eleanor B. Martin. Papers.
  
• Soia Mentschikoff. Papers.
  
• Miscellaenous Manuscripts Collection
  
• Modern Poetry Collection of Miscellaneous Manuscripts
  
• Modern Poetry Photograph Collection
  
• Harriet Monroe. Papers.
  
• Harriet Brainard Moody. Papers.
  
• Motion Picture Stills Collection.
  
• Fanny Murdock. Correspondence.
  
• Eleanor Castle Nef. Papers.
  
• Ida E. S. Noyes. Papers.
  
• Ida E. S. Noyes. Photograph Album.
  
• Elizabeth H. Paepcke. Papers
  
• Mary Pembroke. Commonplace Book. [Ms. 525]
  
• Anna Gwin Pickens. Papers.
  
• Bessie Louise Pierce. Papers.
  
• Playbills and Programs Collection.
  
• Poetry Magazine. Papers. 1912-1936.
  
• Poetry Magazine. Papers. 1936-1953.
  
• Poetry Magazine. Papers. 1954-1961.
  
• Ruth Vale Randall. Diary. [Ms. 154]
  
• Margaret Park Redfield. Papers. Finding Aid
• Margaret G. Reid. Papers.
  
• Edith Rickert. Papers.
  
• Martha Routh. Journal. [Ms. 235]
  
• Julius Rosenwald. Papers.
  
• Eva Watson Schutze. Photographs.
  
• Martin Schutze. Paeprs.
  
• Emil Schwarzhaupt Foundation. Records.
  
• Maud Slye. Papers.
  
• Maurine Smith. Papers.
  
• Sophia Snow. Santa Claus. [Ms. 644]
  
• Gitel P. Steed. Papers.
  
• Marion Talbot. Papers.
  
• University of Chicago. Beecher House. Records. Finding Aid
• University of Chicago. Board of Trustees. Minutes.
  
• University of Chicago. Chicago Alumnae Club. Records. Finding Aid
• University of Chicago. Chicago Lying-In Hospital. Records.
  
• University of Chicago. College of Education. Records.
  
• University of Chicago. Department of Buildings and Grounds. Records.
  
• University of Chicago. Faculty Wives' Dinner. Records. Finding Aid
• University of Chicago. Ida Noyes Hall. Guest Register.
  
• University of Chicago. Laboratory Schools. Records.
  
• University of Chicago. Laboratory Schools. Work Reports.
  
• University of Chicago. School of Social Service Administration. Records.
  
• University of Chicago. Student Ephemera. Collection. Finding Aid
• University of Chicago. Presidents' Papers.
  
• University of Chicago. Presidents' Papers. 1889-1925. Finding Aid
• University of Chicago Press. Records.
  
• University of Chicago Service League. Records.
  
• Carl Van Vechten Photographs [ff PS 3543.A28Z8A4 Rare]
  
• Margit Varro. Papers.
  
• Thorstein B. Veblen. Papers.
  
• Ilza Veith. Papers.
  
• Elizabeth Wallace. Papers.
  
• Madeleine Wallin. Papers.
  
• Nella Fermi Weiner. Papers.
  
• Harriet Welling. Papers.
  
• Ida B. Wells. Papers. Finding Aid
• Anna Wheelwright. Commonplace Book. [Ms. 526]
  
• Joshua Lacy Wilson. Papers.
  
• Mary Bolton Wirth. Papers.
  
• Edith Franklin Wyatt. Las Casas: Adventures in a New World.