Preliminary Inventory of the Anne Firor Scott Papers, 1939-2003
[top]Descriptive Summary
TitleAnne Firor Scott Papers,
1939-2003
Creator
Scott, Anne Firor
Extent
19 Linear Feet
10,900 Items
Repository
10,900 Items
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke
University
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
Access RestrictionsCollection is restricted.
In addition, some of the materials in this
collection are not immediately accessible, because they require further
processing before use.
Patrons must sign the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibility and Privacy Rights form before using this collection.
Also, all or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. Consequently, there may be a 24-hour delay in obtaining these materials.
Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection.
Use Restrictions
The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred
to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the
Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Anne Firor Scott Papers, Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Anne Firor Scott Papers was received by the Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a gift in 1985-2008.
Processing Information
Processed by Ruth E. Bryan, Paula Jeannet, Lisa Stark, Tim West, and
other RBMSCL staff.
Completed July 1, 1985-October 31, 2000.
Encoded by Ruth E. Bryan.
Finding aid updated by Meghan Lyon, May 2009.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
This collection is unprocessed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
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Biographical Note
Professor emerita of history at Duke University, Durham, N.C.
[top]Collection Overview
The collection contains writings of Anne Firor Scott and materials
relating to her academic work in Southern and women's history. The materials
primarily refer to her scholarly activities, and include her dissertation,
occasional papers, articles, speeches and lectures, book reviews, contracts,
conference proceedings and schedules, course materials, newspaper clippings,
and other activities related to academia. There is also a file of
correspondence written by Anna Lord Strauss (then president of the League of
Women Voters) in 1949 and mailed to all members the league. Notes by Scott in
this file explain her connection to Strauss, and the circumstances of the
correspondence. In addition, there are newspaper articles related to the first
and second editions of Scott's book,
The Southern Lady. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham
Center for Women's History and Culture.
Preliminary container lists exist for only parts of the
collection.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- Scott, Anne Firor, 1921-
- Scott, Anne Firor, 1921- The Southern Lady.
- Strauss, Anna Lord, 1899-1979
- Duke University--Faculty.
- Duke University. Dept. of History--Faculty.
- League of Women Voters (U.S.)
- Women--History.
- Women--History--Congresses.
- Women--United States--History.
- Education, Higher--North Carolina.
- Women historians--United States.
- History--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
- Southern States--History.
- Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
Preliminary Description of Unprocessed Collection
Accession (2000-0293)
Some of the materials in this collection are not immediately accessible, because they require further processing before use. Technical Services staff need to copy clippings onto acid-free paper. Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection.
Box 1
Final Lectures Over the Years,
1957-1992
Teaching Introductory Course from
Documents
Clippings
1960s
(2 folders)
1970s
1990s
Outside Lectures-Clippings,
1980s
Box 2
League of Women Voters Connection (correspondence
included)
Notes for Class Discussion in Introductory
Course
Reviews of
Making the Invisible Woman Visible
Accession (2000-0335)
Some of the materials in this collection are not immediately accessible, because they require further processing before use. Technical Services staff need to reformat the newsprint in the folder of Harvard paper. Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection
Attention: The first folder contains restricted material.
Contact a Reference Archivist.
Box 1
The Southern Lady 25th Anniversary
Edition
(RESTRICTED)
Includes correspondence, newspaper articles, and
contracts
Speech and article for Virginia Foundation for the
Humanities,
1983,
1988
Article on William Bacon Evans,
1995
Comments: Southern Association of Women Historians,
1988 Juneand OAH Panel,
1998
Book review, Janet Browne,
Charles Darwin: Voyaging,1995
Harvard paper on Veblen
Duke speeches,
1979,
1990,
1998
Miscellaneous speeches,
1974-2000
Accession (2001-0120)
Addition (2001-0120) (2 items, 0.1 lin. ft.; dated 1986-2001) includes two rolls of microfilm negatives containing Scott's diaries, dating 1986-2001 and 1987-2000.
Accessions (2003-0060), (2003-0092), and (2003-0104)
1 Box
Addition (2003-0060) (26 items, 0.4 lin. ft.; dated 1968-1998) includes chiefly issues of periodicals (1968-1995), and her calendars/appointment books (1981-1998).
Addition (2003-0092) (2 items, 0.1 lin. ft.; dated 1939, 2000) comprises two programs, one, with ephemera inserted, for the 125th anniversary celebration of the Emma Willard anniversary celebration of the Emma Willard School in Troy, NY (October 6-8, 1939); the otherfor the Southern Association of Women Historians Fifth Southern Conference on Women's History, held June 15-17, 2000.
Addition (2003-0104) (8 items, 0.1 lin. ft.; dated 1974-2002) consists of programs from the second (1974), third (1976), seventh (1987), and twelfth (2002) Berkshire Conferences on the History of Women.
Accession (2003-0236)
9 Boxes
Addition (2003-0236) (2500 items, 4 lin. ft.; dated 1950-1999) consists primarily of Scott's personal and professional correspondence. Also includes subject files related to writing projects, lectures, research, and various professional organizations.
Accession (2004-0330)
13 Boxes
Addition (2004-0330) (4300 items, 7.2 lin. ft.; dated 1932-2003 (bulk [1980s]-2002)) contains primarily correspondence, both personal and professional. Also includes writings and speeches by Scott and others; subject files; research files; and teaching materials, including student papers.
Accessions (2007-0178) and (2007-0211)
2 Boxes
Additions (2007-0178 and 2007-0211) (700 items, 1.2 lin. ft.; dated 1951-2000) contain correspondence, research files, grant proposals, drafts and published writings including Teaching Parallel Lives, Virginia Women, and Georgia Women.
Accession (2008-0236)
2 Boxes
Addition (2008-0236) (900 items; 1.2 lin. ft.; 1965-1995) includes correspondence, research files, and master's theses from students that Scott supervised at Duke. Also included are two boxes of 5.25" floppy disks.
Box 1
Master's theses
(4)
Correspondence
Examples of devices for teaching American history
Correspondence in California at the Center for Advanced Study in Social Science, 1986-1987
Correspondence, 1985
Correspondence with Marnta Ragland
Creation of Sallie Bingham Center for women's papers
5.25" Floppy disks
(21 disks)
Box 2
Texas Women
Greer diary (unpublished)
Data on Southern Women
Life of Virginia Gearhart Gray (longtime archivist at Duke)
Life of Julia Chevy Sprull
Life of Guion Griffis Johnson
Unheard Voices
Oscar Handlin Retirement Tribute
Eleanor Boatwright file
Unheard Voices: Data
Searching for Eleanor Boatwright (Data M.A.)
Muriel Beadle's History of Fortnights
Julia Flesch
Accession (2009-0142)
(2 boxes)
Addition (2009-0142) (900 items; 1.2 lin. ft.) includes correspondence, including a file of letters from Sacvan Berkovitch; Jane Addams subject files; files on awards, conferences, and remarks; League of Women Voters documents; Duke appointment materials; and essays and research on women's studies and women's history. Two files are restricted until 2010 and 2020.
Duke University Libraries, vol. 3, n. 1, 1989
Letters from Sacvan Bercovitch, 1995-1996
AHA award/OHA award
Transition from rural to urban society
Syllabi and notes: Slavery
"Tell the South,"
Furman University, 1996
UNC panel on co-eds
Southern ladies and some other
Letters from Dick and Jing(?) Lyman
Report on the provost (Philip Griffiths), 1987
Advice to freshmen women, 1970
Whose history are we talking about anyway?
Radcliffe conference, 1985
Unclassified
Georgia women
France
Correspondence with historians, 2006
Benjamin Franklin's sister
Origin of Women's Studies
A 1975 analysis
Duke appointment, 1961-1991
Southern women after suffrage
Learning to write
Macaffrey(?) Lecture at Harvard
Political campaigns
Duke women: two lectures
"Alternatives to Futility,"
1984
"Mormon Women Other Women,"
1985
Box 2
Letters from the 1940s and interview with James Reston
Looking Back from 1998: History of Duke
Harvard paper, 1948
Taking issue
Graduate student concerns
Jane Addams documents
More Jane Addams
Thinking about Jane Addams
Writings from 1960s
Life of Guion Griffis Johnson
Correspondence, 1982-1990
Writing
"St. Janet and the Ward Boss"
Memoir of Celestia Parrish,
"Georgia's Greatest Woman"
Harvard newspapers
Judith Harlow Spearing
League of Women Voters rare documents, 1933-1995
2 files: closed until 2010 and 2020, respectively
