mnsss105 Miscellaneous Subjects Collection, 1856-2000 Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by mnsss. Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
Northampton, MA
2003

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 Finding aid encoded using Perl scripts and edited in XMetal 2.0. Encoded by Laura Cutter. 2003-06-12 Finding aid written in English. 2005-09-23 mnsss105 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02-5c.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Sophia Smith CollectionSmith College Miscellaneous Subjects Collection, 1856-2000 Finding Aid MS 392 Revised 2002 Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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 Collection Overview Miscellaneous Subjects Collection1856-2000 MS 392 9 boxes; 12 volumes (2.5 linear ft.) Sophia Smith Collection
Smith College Northampton, MA
Includes small amounts of mostly printed material on subjects related to women, including aging and aged women, alcoholism, anarchism, costume, fascism, friendship, girls, Nazism, physically handicapped women, postage stamps, rural women, sex, sex education, female sexuality, single women, taxation, tobacco, and witchcraft. Material includes printed material, books, cassette tapes, correspondence, position papers, questionnaires, reports, memorabilia, and stamps. English. Scope and Contents of the Collection

"Godey's Fashions for June 1871" from A Century of Fashion by Ella Matson Andrews

The Miscellaneous Subjects Collection consists of material from several disparate topical areas that were viewed as too small or too esoteric to constitute their own subject collections. Subjects include aging and aged women, alcoholism, anarchism, costume, fascism, friendship, girls, Nazism, physically handicapped women, postage stamps, rural women, sex, sex education, female sexuality, single women, socialism, taxation, tobacco, and witchcraft. The collection spans the period from 1856 to 1980. Types of material include articles, books, cassette tapes, correspondence, leaflets, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, periodicals, position papers, questionnaires, reports, memorabilia, and stamps. The costume files include a collection of early nineteenth century paper dolls and books on women's fashion. Other particularly interesting material includes documents relating to Mary Ware Dennett's approach to sex education for children and the obscenity charges she faced in 1929-30; the N.O.W. questionnaire on sexuality that Shere Hite used as the basis for her book on women's sexuality in the 1970s; and postage stamps featuring women.

 Information on Use Terms of Access and Use

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Material in this collection may be protected by copyright. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy all copyright holders. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.

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Miscellaneous Subjects Collection, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

 Additions to the Collection

Periodic additions to collection are expected.

History of the Collection

Materials in this subject collection were either purchased or given to the Sophia Smith Collection by various donors.

Finding aid revised in 2002 by Katie Kowinski, intern. Introductory text by Kate Weigand. Recent additions may not be reflected in the finding aid.

Search Terms Aged women--History--Sources Fashion--History--19th century--Sources Fashion--History--20th century--Sources Female friendship--History Girls--History--Sources Handicapped women--History--Sources Women--Comic books, strips, etc. Postage stamps Rural women--History--Sources Sex instruction--History--Sources Single women--History--Sources Socialism--History--Sources Witchcraft--History--Sources Women anarchists--History--Sources Women--Sexual behavior--History--Sources Women--Taxation--United States--History--Sources Dennett, Mary Ware, 1872-1947 Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 Sophia Smith Collection 1 1 Aged and aging 1 2 Alcoholism Anarchism 1 3 General 1 4 French 1 5 Censorship: material from Arizona Schools and State Board of Education 1967-68 1 6 Charity organizations Citizenship 1 7 General 1 Citizenship case: Rebecca Shelly 1938 1a Cartoons and comics: feminist and lesbian comic books circa 1972-2006 Cookery 2 1 Miscellaneous 2 2 Mrs. Beeton's: articles 2 3 Salmon, Lucy M. (from Vassar Quarterly) 1926 2 3 Mrs. Winslow's Domestic Receipt Book for 18741873 2 Choice Recipes 1912 2 Frigidaire Recipes1928 2 Mrs. A.L. Webster's Improved Housewife 1850 2 Mrs. Beeton's Every Day Cookery 1907 2 The American Housewife and Kitchen Directory 1869 A Thousand Way to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles Lecron 1917

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The Seducer's Cookbook by Mimi Sheraton 1958

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Costume 3 1 General 3 2 Bloomers Costume

[see also Oversize materials]

 3 3 Mini-Midi-Maxi (skirts) 3 4 Dress Reform 3 Our Grandmother's Gowns by Mrs. Alfred W Hunt1884 3a A Century of Fashion by Ella Matson Andrews 1909 [oversize] 3b Paper dolls, circa early 1900s [oversize box] Costumes and Styles by Henny Harald Hansen 1956

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Eleanor King's Guide to Glamour 1957

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ABC of Millinery by Mme. Eva Ritcher 1950

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400 Outstanding Women of the World and Costumology of Their Lifetime by Minna Schmidt 1933

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Women's Shoes in America: 1795-1930 by Nancy Rexford 2000

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4 1 Fascism Friendship 4 2 General 4 The Friendship of Women by William Rounseville Alger 1872

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Girls Brooks, Elbridge Streeter. Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times1890

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 4 Leaders of Girls by Clara Ewing Espey 1915

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4 2a Girl Life in America by Henrietta R. Walter 1927 4 3 Jury duty 4 4 Literature, women in Nazism 4 5 General 4 6 Letter from William E. Dodd to U.S. Secretary of State (on the position of women under Hitler) 1934 Physically handicapped 4 7 General Keller, Helen 4 8 General 4 "Commemorating the Harvard Final Exam for Admission to Radcliffe College": souvenir 1899 Postage stamps 4 9 General 4 9 Women on Stamps: pamphlet1995 4 10 Commemorative stamps and envelopes 4 11 Foreign 5 1 Recovery (from abuse or addiction): Women's Recovery Network Newsletter 1992 5 2 Rural women Sex 5 3 General 5 3a Sex Education in the Schools by Dr. Gordon V. Drake (pamphlet)1968 Mary Ware Dennett 5 4 The Sex Side of Life: An Explanation for Young People by Mary Ware Dennett 1928 5 4 Clippings and correspondence between Dennett and Alice Park; Dennett and Margaret Sanger1925-31 Factors in the Sex Life of 2200 Women by Katharine Bement Davis 1929

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A Marriage Manual by Hannah and Abraham Stone (2 editions) 1935 and 1953

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The Sexual Responsibility of Women by Maxine Davis 1956

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Sexual Reform Congress by Norman Haire 1930

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5 5 Sexual harassment Sexuality, female 5 6 General 5 7 N.O.W. questionnaire 5 8 Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS) 5 On Women by Clare M. Thompson 1964

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Single women 5 9 General 5 Live Alone and Like It by Marjorie Hillis 1930

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5 Reflections of a Bachelor Girl by Helen Rowland 1909

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Taxation 5 10 Bowditch, William I., Taxation of Women in Massachusetts 1875 5 11 Smith, Julia E., Abby Smith and her Cows 1877 [re: Suffrage and tax] 5 12 Tobacco: effects on women OVERSIZE MATERIALS (Flat file) Flat file Sheet music: "The Bloomer's Complaint: a very pathetic song for the piano forte" (Philadelphia, A. Fiot, and New York, Hall & Son1851 BOOKS ON SHELF [also listed under subjects above] Alger, William Rounseville, The Friendship of Women 1872 Andrews, Ella Matson, A Century of Fashion 1909 Brooks, Elbridge Streeter. Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times 1890 Davis, Katharine Bement, Factors in the Sex Life of 2200 Women 1929 Davis, Maxine, The Sexual Responsibility of Women 1956 Eleanor King's Guide to Glamour 1957 Espey, Clara Ewing, Leaders of Girls 1915 Haire, Norman, Sexual Reform Congress 1930 Hansen, Henny Harald, Costumes and Styles 1956 Hillis, Marjorie, Live Alone and Like It 1930 New England Historical Series, The Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692 1971 Rexford, Nancy, Women's Shoes in America: 1795-1930 2000 Ritcher, Mme. Eva, ABC of Millinery 1950 Rowland, Helen, Reflections of a Bachelor Girl 1909 Schmidt, Minna, 400 Outstanding Women of the World and Costumology of Their Lifetime 1933 Sheraton, Mimi, The Seducer's Cookbook 1958 Stone, Hannah and Abraham, A Marriage Manual (Two editions) 1935, 1953 Thompson, Clare M, On Women 1964 Weaver, Louise Bennett and Helen Cowles Lecron, A Thousand Way to Please a Husband 1917