Topical Collections of Primary Sources

American Immigrant Autobiographies.: CALL NUMBER: M6638, guide available.
Compiled as part one of a project by the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. The collection includes every substantive manuscript autobiography (as well as rare printed autobiographies) collected before 1900. Many of these stories are told by women, from farm laborers to women's rights activists, who emmigrated from countries in eastern as well as western europe. microfilm: 7 reels.
Brazil's Popular Groups.: CALL NUMBERS: M6646 and M6768
A collection of materials issued by socio-political, religious, labor and minority grass-roots organizations from 1966-1986 with a supplement (1987-1989) including materials on human and minority rights and women's issues. microfilm: 32 and 43 reels.
Herstory. 1956-1974.: CALL NUMBER: M7340. Guide Available
The only comprehensive collection of materials produced by and about the women's movement. Assembled from the holdings of the International Women's History Archive at the Women's History Research Center (WHRC), this collection includes newsletters, journals, and newspapers on women's issues produced by civic, professional, religious, and political groups. microfilm: 90 reels.
Sex Research: Early Literature from Statistics to Erotica.: CALL NUMBER: M7200, guide available.
Filmed from the holdings of the Institute for Sex Research Library, Indiana University, including titles from 1700-1860. Section one deals with sexual behavior and attitudes, section two with sex, law and medicine, section three with sex and literature, and section four with sex and the humanities. microfilm: 120 reels.
Voices from Ellis Island an Oral History of American Immigration.: CALL NUMBER: S201.733, guide available.
From 1892-1954, Ellis Island, a small tract of land in New York Harbor, served as the point of entry for over 12 million immigrants. The National Park Service and the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, in an effort to document this significant piece of history, sponsored an oral history project to interview surviving immigrants and former Ellis Island employees. The end result is a collection of 185 interviews-many with women-who entered the U.S. between 1904 and 1929. microfiche: 185 sheets.
What Women Wrote: Scenarios, 1912-1929.: CALL NUMBER: M7047, guide available.
A collection of writings by twelve women screenwriters of the silent motion picture era including Alice Guy Blaché, Clara Beranger, Lois Weber, Olga Printzlau, Beulah Marie Dix, Frances Marion, Bess Meredyth, June Mathis, Jeanie MacPherson, and Josephine Lovett. Complete with indexes for author, title, and date. microfilm: 2 reels.
Women and Gender Issues in Brazil.: CALL NUMBER: M7098
From the Princeton University Latin American Pamphlet Collection. Documents social conditions as well as health and hygiene of Brazilian women between 1978 and 1986. microfilm: 3 reels.
Women and Gender Issues in Peru.: CALL NUMBER: M7096
Also from the Princeton University Library, materials in this collection provide unique insights on the history of the women's movement in Peru. Materials include pamphlets, broadsides, fliers, and posters. microfilm: 2 reels.
Women in Ecuador, 1983-1988.: CALL NUMBER: M7229
Another item from the Princeton University Pamphlet Collection, this collection documents employment, family violence, and abuse of women in Ecuador. microfilm: 1 reel.
Women's Studies Manuscript Collections From the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Series 1. Women's suffrage.: CALL NUMBER: M6667, guide available.
Duke holds Part C: The South. Part C is an effort to document patterns by which Southern women worked their way towards taking a public stand for suffrage. microfilm: 8 reels.

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