List of Women's Studies Museums, Archives, and Research Centers


This list was created by Robin Masi in 1995 for Salem Press's reference book Ready Reference: Women's Issues

Activist Organizations
National Organization for Women (NOW) Action Center Library
425 13th Street, N.W., No. 1048
Washington DC 20004
202-347-2279
Subjects: Women's issues. Special Collections: History of National Organization for Women; history of women's movement. Holdings: 650 books and bound periodical volumes; 18 VF drawers of clippings, reports, statistics; 40 videotapes. Subscriptions: 130 journals and other serials; 7 newspapers.

African-American
Bennett College
Thomas F. Holgate Library
Special Collections
Greensboro, NC 27420
919-273-4431
Holdings: 386 Books and 2 VF Drawers

Bethune Museum and Archives for Black Women's History
1318 Vermont Ave., NW
Washington DC 20005
202-332-1233
Subjects: Black women's history.

Prudence Crandall Museum
PO Box 47
Routes 14 & 169
Canterbury, CT 06331
203-546-9916
Site of New England's first black female academy. Permanent and changing exhibits include themes on African-Americans in pre-Civil War Connecticut. Research Library open to public.

Aging
National Center for Women and Retirement Research
Long Island University
Southampton Campus
Southampton, NY 11968
Subjects: Aging.

Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW)
University of Arizona
102 Douglass Bldg.
Tucson, AZ 85721
602-621-7338
Subjects: women, women in Southwest, elderly women.

Architecture
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
International Archive of Women in Architecture
Special Collections Department
University Libraries
PO Box 90001
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
703-231-9215
Subjects: women in architecture. Special Collections: 107 collections of architectural drawings, photographs, specifications, brochures, and articles, including those of the Association for Women in Architecture, Sena Sekulic, Elsa Leviseur, Susana Torre, and Diana Lee-Smith.

Aviation
Ninety-Nines, Inc. - Library
Will Rogers World Airport
Box 59965
Oklahoma City, OK 73159
405-685-7969
Subjects:
Women in aviation. Special Collections: Archives of the Ninety-nines; records from the Powder Puff Derby. Holdings: 300 books.

California
California Historical Society
Schubert Hall Library
2099 Pacific Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94109
415-567-1848
Subjects: Women in California

Canada
Canada - Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women - Documentation Centre
Sta. B., Box 1541
Ottawa, ON, Canada K1P 5R5
613-995-8284
Subjects: Women. Special Collections Newsletters of Canadian women's groups; briefs and reports on status of women's issues. Holdings: 500 books; 1000 reports and briefs; 15 drawers of clippings, manuscripts and dissertations. Subscriptions: 100 journals and other serials.

Coalminers
Coal Employment Project (CEP) - Archives
Box 3403
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
615-482-3428
Subjects: Women coalminers. Holdings: 100 clippings, 1978 to present, 15 videotapes, 3 audiotapes; 20 photographs.

Feminism
California Sate University, Northridge - Women's Center
18111 Nordhoff
Northridge, CA 91330
2213-885-2780
Subjects: Feminism, women in history, psychology, parenting, child development, sociology, employment and career development for women. Holdings: 1000 books; 700 bound periodical volumes; 500 reports and clippings.

Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
6120 S. Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90044
213-759-6063
Subjects: Women's Liberation movement

Temple University - Central Library System - Contemporary Culture Collection
13th & Berks Sts.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215-787-8667
Subjects: Feminism. Special Collections: Early second wave feminist publications and liteary chapbooks.

University of Maryland, College Park - Libraries - Women's Studies Pamphlet Collection
Reference Department
McKeldin Library
College Park, MD 20742
301-454-5704
Subjects: Women's studies, feminism, women's liberation movement. Holdings: 1000 items.

Washington Area Women's Center - WAWC FEminist Library & Archives
1519 P St., NW
Washington D.C. 20005
202-347-5078
Subjects: Feminism, lesbianism, sexism. Special Collections: Lesbian Heritage Archives, 1960-present. Holdings: 1123 books; oral histories and Feminist Radio Network tapes.

Women's Center of Southeastern Connecticut - Library
120 Broad St.
Box 572
New London, CT 06320
203-447-0366
Subjects: Feminism, violence against women, health, women's issues Holdings: 500 books; 25 bound periodical volumes; vertical files. Subscriptions: 15 journals and other serials.

Women's Movement Archives
Women's Educational Center, Inc.
46 Pleasant St.
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-354-8807
Houses archives on Boston-area women's organizations: Bread & Roses (1969-1971), Female Liberation (1970-1974), Cell 16 (1968-1975), and the The Women's Center (1971-present).

Women's Resource and Action Center - Sojurner Truth Women's Resource Library
130 N. Madison
Iowa City, IA 52242
319-353-6265
Subjects: Feminism. Special Collections: Complete holdings of Ain't I A Woman, feminist priodical publiched 1970-1973. Holdings: 700 books. Subscriptions: 25 journals and other serials.

General
Alverno College - Research Center on Women
3401 S. 39th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53215
414-671-5400
Subjects: Women - careers/professions, education, religion, life styles, employment; women's movement. Holdings: 2300 books; 50 bound periodical volumes; 113 microfiche; 12 VF drawers of clippings and pamphlets; 80 AV items. Subscriptions: 104 journals and other serials.

American Association of University Women Educational Foundation Library and Archives
111 16th St. NW
Washington DC, 20036
202-785-7763
Subjects: education, women's activities and achievements, and the status of women. Holdings: archival material relating to history and formation of the association; work done on research education topics; biennial reports for association, 1933 to present, and foundation, 1958 to present; 158 reels of microfilm of archival materials, 1881-1976.

American Foundation for the Blind
Helen Keller Archives
15 W. 16th St.
New York, NY 10011
212-620-2157
Subjects: work on blind and deaf, deaf-blind; children and women in factories; planned parenthood; labor movements; peace; suffrage. Holdings: Helen Keller; Anne Sullivan Macy; John Albert Macy; Polly Thomson.

Barnard College Women's Center - Birdie Goldsmith Ast Resource Collection
100 Barnard hall
3001 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
212-280-2067
Subjects: Sex roles and sex differences, women's movement, education, employment, legal status, health, violence and sexual exploitation. Holdings: 1000 volumes; 5000 journal articles, reports, clippings, fact sheets, pamphlets, conference proceedings, handbooks, directories, special issues of journals. Subscriptions: 80 periodicals, newspapers and newsletters.

Birmingham Southern College - Charles Andrew Ruth Learning Center/Library - Special Collections
800 8th Avenue, W.
Birmingham, AL 35254
205-328-5250
Subjects: Branscomb Collection For, By, and About Women (189 Volumes).

Boston University's Women's Center
775 Commonwealth Avenue, North Tower
Boston, MA 02216
617-353-4240
Subjects: Women's studies, sociology, health, fiction, poetry. Holdings: 150 books; 300 unbound periodicals; 200 issues of MS Magazine, 1970s; 3 drawers of clippings and archives. Subscriptions: 16 journals and other serials.

Business and Professional Women's Foundation - Marguerite Rawalt Resource Center
2012 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington D.C. 20036
202-293-1200
Subjects: Women, with special emphasis on economic issues of importance to working women: jobs, careers, occupatinal segregation, comparable worth, sexual harassment, displaced homemakers and women's legal status. Holdings: 5000 books; 650 dissertations on microfilm (ataloged); 12,000 VF items; archival material. Subscriptions: 113 journals and other serials.

Centennial College of Applied Arts & Technology - Warden Woods Campus Resource Centre
Sta. A, P.O. Box 631
Scarborough, ON, Canada M1K 5E9
416-694-3241
Subjects: Women's Studies

Center for Women's Studies and Services - CWSS Library
908 E Street
San Diego, CA 92101
714-233-8984
Subjects: Women's movement, women's fiction, biographies, nonsexist children's literature, radical movements. Special Collections: Women's liberation newspapers, 1969-present. Holdings: 200 books.

Chicago Public Library
Central Library
400 N. Franklin St.
Chicago, IL 60602
312-269-2900
Subjects: women and women's organizations in general. Special Collections: Mrs. Harlan Ward Cooley Papers.

Claremont Colleges - Ella Strong Denison Library
Scripps College
Claremont, CA 91711
714-621-8000
Subjects: Macpherson (women)

Duke University - Special Collections Department - Library
344 Perkins Library
Durham, NC 27706
919-684-3372
Subjects: Women's studies

Duke-UNC Center for Research on Women
University of North Carolina
03 Caldwell Hall
CB 3135
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3135
919-684-6641
Subjects: Women's studies

Hartford Feminist Library
350 Farmington Ave.
Hartford, CT 06105
203-232-7393
Subjects: Women - fiction, literature, political issues, health. Holdings: 900 books.

Know, Inc.
Box 86031
Pittsburgh, PA 15221
412-241-4844
Subjects: Feminist literature. Holdings: 40 file drawers of feminist publications and newsletters.

Loretto Heights College - May Bonfils Stanton Library
3001 S. Federal Blvd.
Denver, CO 80236
303-936-8441
Subjects: Role of women in today's world.

Los Angeles Public Library - Social Science Department
630 W. Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071
213-626-7461
Subjects: Women's movements.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Humanities Library
Room 14S-200
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-5683
Subjects: Women's studies

Montclair State College - Women's Center Library
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
201-893-5106
Subjects: Women - legal rights, career information, health, literature. Holdings: 550 books; 5 VF drawers of clippings.

Montreal Young Women's Christian Association - Library
1355 Dorchester Blvd. W.
Montreal, PQ, Canada H3G 1T3
514-866-9941
Subjects: Social group work, roles of women in society (emphasis on education and employment).

National Women's Christian Temperance Union - Frances E. Willard Memorial Library
1730 Chicago Ave.
Evanston, IL 60201
312-864-1396
Subjects: History of women's movement.

Newark Public Library - Social Science Division
5 Washington St.
Box 630
Newark, NJ 07101-0630
201-733-7782
Subjects: Women's studies.

Northeast Minnesota Historical Center - Library
Library 375
University of Minnesota, Duluth
Duluth, MN 55812
218-726-8526
Subjects: Women's Collection

Ohio State University - Women's Studies Library
220 Main Library
1858 Neil Ave. Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
614-292-3035
Subjects: Women's studies. Holdings: 15,000 volumes, 2500 pamphlets and newsletters, and 50 microform collections.

Ontario - Ministry of Labour - Library
400 University Avenue
Toronto, ON Canada M7A 1T7
416-965-1641
Subjects: Women

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Undergraduate Library
Morris Library
Carbondale, IL 62901
618-453-2818
Subjects: Women's studies.

Swarthmore College Friends Historical Library
500 College Ave.
Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399
215-328-8496
Subjects: Quaker social concerns, women's rights. Holdings: Lucretia Mott manuscripts.

University of Missouri - Western Historical Manuscript Collection/State Historical Society of Missouri
23 Ellis Library
Columbia, MO 65201
314-882-6028
Subjects: Women's Collection

University of Missouri, St. Louis - Women's Center
107A Benton Hall
8001 Natural Bridge Road,
St. Louis, MO 63121
314-553-5380
Subjects: Women - politics, psychology, medicine; male sex roles. Holdings: 450 books, 500 unbound periodicals; 8 VF drawers of clippings and reports.

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Library
2401 E. St., N.W.
Washington D.C., 20506
202-634-6990
Subjects: Women

University of California, Davis - Women's Resources & Research Center - Library
Women's Center
Davis, CA 95616
916-752-3372
Subjects: Women's issues, concerns and research. Special Collections: Native and Pioneer Women in Yolo and Solano Counties, California (oral history collections; 28 tapes and 2 photograph albums). Holdings: 1600 books; 4800 vertical file materials; 375 tapes. Subscriptions: 65 journals and other serials.

Wesleyan Women's Coalition - Library
281 High St.
Wesleyan Station, Box WW
Middletown, CT 06457
203-347-9411
Subjects: Women - health, history, sports, fiction and poetry. Holdings: 300 books; 3 drawers of subject files; directories. Subscriptions: 15 journals and other serials.

Western Michigan Universith
Women's Center Library
A-331 Ellsworth Hall
Kalamazoo, MI 49008
616-387-2990
Subjects: Health, financial status, careers, discrimination, displaced homemakers, nontraditional students and jobs, and equal pay for equal work. Special Collections: local history of women's groups and causes, local history of women in education.

Women's Action Alliance, Inc. - Library
370 Lexington Ave.
New York, N.Y. 10017
212-532-8330
Subjects: Women, child care, sex discrimination, marriage, divorce, family. Special Collections: Maintains a card file of women's organizations and their programs. Holdings: 1500 books; 40 VF drawers. Subscriptions: 250 journals and other serials.

Working Women's Institute - Library
593 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10003
212-838-4420
Subjects: Sexual harassment, sex discrimination, working women, women's movement, violence against women, unions. Holdings: 100 books; 15 bound periodical volumes; 50 newsletters; clippings and reprints; legal papers. Subscriptions: 21 journals and other serials.

Young Women's Christian Association - National Board Library
135 W. 50th St.
New York, N.Y. 10020
212-753-4700
Subjects: women, racism, sexiam, civil rights, women's health. Special Collections: Woman's Press Publications, 1918-1952 (2500 volumes). Holdings: 10,000 books; 25 VF drawers of subject files, clippings, pamphlets, reports, catalogs. Subscriptions: 175 journals and other serials.

Government
Center for the American Woman & Politics - Library
Eagleton Institute, Rutgers University
Wood Lawn, Neilson Campus
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
201-932-9384
Subjects: Women and American politics and government. Holdings: 500 books; 2000 papers, pamphlets, clippings. Subscriptions: 50 journals and other serials.

Ellis County historical Society - Archives
100 W. 7th Street
hays, KS 67601
913-628-2624
Subjects: Miscellaneous papers of former U.S. Congresswoman Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy

Health
Alliant Health System Library/Media Services
Box 35070
Louisville, KY 40232
502-629-8125
Subjects: women's health
Boston Women's Health Book Collective
240 A. Elm St., 3rd Floor
Somerville, MA 02144
617-625-0271
Subjects: women's health. Holdings: books, periodicals, and clippings.

Jersey Shore Medical Center
Ann May School of Nursing Library & Media Center
1945 Route 33
Neptune, NJ 07754
201-776-4195
Subjects: Women's health Special Collections: National League for Nurses' and American Nursing Association publications.

Medical College of Pennsylvania Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine
3300 Henry Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19129
215-842-7124
Subjects: Women physicians, health care for women, Medical College of Pennsylvania, education, medicine. Special Collections: Women in Medicine; Black Women Physicians Collection; Asian american Women Physicians Project; Oral History Project; American Women's Hospitals Records; Medical Women's International Association Records.

New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center, Medical Archives
1300 York Ave.
New York, NY 10021
212-746-6072
Subjects: Women's health. Special Collections: Manhattan Maternity and Dispensary records, 1905-1939; Nursery for the Children of Poor Women and Nursery and Child's Hospital records, 1854-1910; New York Asylum for Lying-In Women records, 1823-1899; Women's Medical assn of New York City records, 1902-present; American Medical Women's Association Archives, 1915-present.

Radcliffe College - Henry A. Murray Research Center
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-8140
Subjects: Women's life patterns, self-esteem, work and family life, sex role attitudes, developmental issues, mental and physical health. Special Collections: Archival materials dealing with data sets of raw and computer-accessible social science research studies. Holdings: 95 data sets; 50 books; 300 boxes of raw data; 35 dissertations; 150 unpublished reports; 100 boxes of computer data cards; 25 computer magnetic tapes.

Washington University - George Brown School of Social Work
Library and Learning Resources Center
Campus Box 1196
St. Louis, MO 63130
314-935-6633
Subjects: Women, women's issues.

Hispanic
National Association of Cuban-American Women of the U.S.A.
2119 S. Webster
Ft. Wayne, IN 46802
219-745-5421
Subjects: Hispanic and minority women. Holdings: 2000 volume library.

History
Brown University, Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives
John Hay Library
Box A
Providence, RI 02912
401-863-2148
Subjects: history of women at Brown University and Pembroke College; history of Brown alumnae; women in Rhode Island; women's higher education, literature, and social history. Holdings: manuscripts; organizational records; photographs; ephemera; correspondence, memorabilia, films, and scrapbooks.

Boston Public Library Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copley Sq.
PO Box 286
Boston, MA 02117
617-536-5400
Holdings: Galatea Collection of History of Women (5200 volumes)

Bowling Green State University Center for Archival Collections
Library, 5th Floor
Bowling Green, OH 43403-0175
419-372-2411
Subjects: Women's history

Chicago Historical Society Library and Archives
Clark St. at North Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
312-642-4600
Subjects: Women's history, women in various professions and occupations; women's societies and clubs; women's rights; social service; suffrage and the temperance movements; biographies of leading Chicago women. Special Collections: Papers of the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Exposition (1893); archives of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union.

College of St. Catherine - Library - Woman's Collection
2004 Randolph Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105
612-690-6648
Subjects: Sociological and economic studies on women published in the ealy 20th century; psychological liberation of women; history, education, status of women in aoll phases of public and private life. Special Collections: Herstory: microfilm collection of 300 women's journals, newspapers and newsletters, 1956-1971 (23 reels); U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau Bulletin, 1918-1954 (microfiche). Holdings: 3850 books; 20 bound periodical volumes; 8 VF drawers of pamphlets and clippings.

Eastern Washington State Historical Society
Research Library and Special Collections
Cheney Cowles Museum
W. 2316 1st Ave.
Spokane, WA 99204
509-456-3931
Subjects: Women's history

Emory University
Special Collections Department
Woodruff Library
Atlanta, GA 30322
404-329-6887
Subjects: Manuscript Sources for Women's History, a Descriptive List of Holdings in the Special Collections Department, revised 1978

Oberlin College Library Archives
420 Mudd Center
Oberlin, OH 44074-1532
216-775-8014
Subjects: 19th century women's history.

Library of Congress
Public Service and Collections
Management II
Microform Reading Room
10 First St. SE
Washington DC, 20540
Subjects: Women's history and literature

Mills College - F.W. Olin Library - Special Collections
5000 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94613
510-430-2047
Subjects: Women's history

National Women's History Project
7738 Bell Road
Windsor, CA 95492-8518
707-838-6000
Subjects: Women's history, primarily U.S. Holdings: 4000 books, 12 VF drawers of clippings, photos on individuals and topics. Remarks: by appointment only, information and referral resource.

New York Public Library
Microforms Division
Fifth Ave. & 42nd St.
New York, NY 10018
212-930-0838
Subjects: Women's history collection

Pioneer Woman Museum
701 Monument
Ponca City, OK 74604
405-765-6108
Exhibits collections from pioneer homes.

Princeton University Rare Books and Special Collections
Firestone Library
Princeton, NJ 08544
609-258-3184
Subjects: Women's history.

Radcliffe College - Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-8647
Subjects: Women's Suffrage, medicine, education, law, social service, labor, family, organizations; history of American women in all phases of public and private life. Special Collections: Beecher - Stowe; Woman's Rights; Blackwell Family; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Somerville - Howorth; Dr. Martha May Eliot; Jeannette Rankin; National Organization for Women; Black Women Oral History Project; cookbooks; etiquette books; picture collection (40,000 items). Holdings 23,000 books and bound periodical volumes; 400 major collections of papers on individual American women, families and women's organizations; 1800 reels of microfilm; 800 magnetic tapes; 40 VF drawers. Subscriptions: 310 journals and other serials.

Rockefeller University
Rockefeller Archive Center
15 Dayton Ave.
Pocantico Hills
North Tarrytown, NY, 10591
914-631-4505
Subjects: Women's history

Sangamon State University - Oral History Office - Library
Brookens Library
Springfield, IL 62708
217-786-6521
Subjects: Women's History

Seneca Falls Historical Society - Library
55 Cayuga Street
Seneca Falls, NY 13148
315-568-8412
Subjects: Women's Rights Collection (documents from 1848 to present)

Simmons College Archives
300 The Fenway
Boston,MA 02115
617-738-3141
Subjects: Women's history

Smith College - Sophia Smith Collection - Women's History Archive
Northampton, MA 01063
413-584-2700
Subjects: Women's intellectual and social history - retropsective, contemporary and world-wide emphasis; social reform; suffrage; birth control; professions; women's rights. Special Collections: 149 major collections including Margaret Sanger (200 document boxes); Blanch Ames Ames (suffragist, artist; 120 document boxes_; hale Family (150 document boxes); Clara Barton (4 document boxes); Garrison Family (extensive); Ellen Gates Starr (19 document boxes); Holdings: 85,000 books; 2100 linear feet of document boxes Subscriptions: 62 journals and other serials.

Smithsonian Institution
Museum of American History
Division of Political History
National Women's History Collection
Washington, DC 20560
202-357-2008
Subjects: Women in politics and society. Special Collection: National American Women Suffrage Association materials. Holdings: Includes collection of material objects, political images of women.

State University of New York at Buffalo University Archives
420 Capen Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260
716-636-2916
Subjects: Women's history

Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences Archives and Library
75 Stuyvesant Place
Staten Island, NY 10301
718-727-1135
Subjects: Women's history

Swarthmore College - Friends Historical Library - Peace Collection
McCabe Library
Swarthmore, PA 19081
215-447-7557
Subjects: Women and peace and justice. Special Collections: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Women's Strike for Peace.

Texas Woman's University - Special Collections
Brailley Memorial Library
TWU Sta., Box 23715
Denton, TX 76204
817-566-6415
Subjects: Women's biography, history and literature; cookery. Special Collections: Woman's Collection (14,200 books and bound periodical volumes, including the Madeleine Henrey Collection and the LaVerne Harrell Clark Collection); Cookbook and menu Collection (6500 books and bound periodical items, 1027 menus, including the julie Bennell Cookbook Collectiion and the Margaret Scruggs Cookbook Collection); play collection (1800 books); Genevieve Dixon Collection (1051 books); University archives (7500 items). Holdings: 35,000 books and bound periodical volumes; 28,400 microforms; 450 media items.

University of Kansas - Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center
218 Strong Hall
Lawrence, KS 66045
913-841-7611
Subjects: Career planning; women in history, literature, politics and law; women - education, minorities, health, sexuality. Special Collections: Woman's World Encyclopedia (39 volumes); History of Woman Suffrage (6 volumes). Holdings: 1000 books; 900 bound periodical volumes; 152 career planning resources; 144 topical notebooks; 125 film, tapes and sound recordings; 30 financial aid sources. Subscriptions: 43 journals and other serials.

University of Missouri, St. Louis - Western Historical Manuscript Collection/State Historical Society of Missouri
Thomas Jefferson Library
8001 Natural Bridge Road
St. Louis, MO 63121
314-453-5143
Subjects: Women. Special Collections: League of Women Voters of Missouri (59 boxes); Women's Historical Collections.

University of North Dakota - Department of Special Collections
Chester Fritz Library
Grand Forks, ND 58202
701-777-4625
Subjects: Women's History

University of North Carolina, Greensboro - Woman's Collection
Jackson Library, Special Collections
Greensboro, NC 27412
919-379-5246
Subjects: Women - education, history, suffrage; women authors; manners and morals; child raising and family life. Special Collections: Women in the 17-19th centuries. Holdings: 4000 books, 254 bound periodical volumes.

University of Rochester - Government Documents and Microtext Center
Rush Rhees Library
Rochester, NY 14627
716-275-4484
Subjects: History of women.

University of Waterloo - Dana Porter Arts Library
Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L3G1
519-885-1211
Subjects: Rare materials from Lady Aberdeen Library of the History of Women

University of Wisconsin, Green Bay - Lucy Stone Center - Resource Library
LC 750
Green Bay, WI 54302
414-465-2136
Subjects: Women's history, women's movement, biography, resources available to women. Holdings: 200 books; 50 bound periodical volumes; information files. Subscriptions: 15 journals and other serials.

Women's Heritage Museum
1509 Portola Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94306
415-321-5260
Maintains a "Museum-Without-Walls" to increase awareness of global women's history.

Women's Heritage Museum
University of Kentucky
c/o Mackelene G. Smith
404 King Library S.
Lexington, KY 40506-0391
Developing women's history museum.

Women's History Research Center, Inc. - Women's History Library
2325 Oak Street
Berkeley, CA 94708
510-548-1770
Subjects: Women's health and mental health, women and law, black and Third World women, female artists, children, films by and/or about women, Soviet women. Special Collections: International Women's History Archive (850 titles on microfilm on health and law); 90 reels of microfilm of women's periodicals in Herstory Collection.

Women's History Museum
Box 209
West Liberty, WV 26074
304-335-7159
Mobile museum featuring seven women from U.S. history with performances about each woman.

Home
Strong (Margaret Woodbury) Museum - Library
One Manhattan Square
Rochester, NY 14607
716-263-2700
Subjects: 19th century women in the home

International
Population Council Library
1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
New York, NY 10017
212-644-1620
Subjects: Population, demography, family planning, contraception, statistics, public health, and economic, social, agricultural development.

Salem State College
Library of Social Alternatives
Salem, MA 01970
508-741-6000
Subjects: Alternative lifestyles, Third World, social change, ecology, gays/lesbians, health care, women.

Jewish
Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America
50 W. 58th St.
New York, NY 10019
212-355-7900
Holdings: 4,000 volume library on Judaism and Zionism.

Lesbian
Alternative Press Center - Library
Box 7229
Baltimore, MD 21218
301-243-2471
Subjects: Women's, Gay

Salem State College
Library of Social Alternatives
Salem, MA 01970
508-741-6000
Subjects: Alternative lifestyles, Third World, social change, ecology, gays/lesbians, health care, women.

Literature
Lambada, Inc., Barnes Library
516 S. 27th St.
Birmingham, AL 35233
205-326-8600
Subjects: Gay and lesbian literature. Special Collections: Alabama Gay Archives; Lady B.J. Memorial Collection (gay and lesbian books and records from the entertainment world).

Library of Congress
Public Service and Collections
Management II
Microform Reading Room
10 First St. SE
Washington DC, 20540
Subjects: Women's history and literature

Naiad Press, Inc.
Gay and Lesbian Archives
Box 10543
Tallahassee, FL 32302
904-539-5965
Subjects: Lesbian, gay, and feminist literature.

National League of American Pen Women
1300 17th St. NW
Washington DC, 20036
202-785-1997
Subjects: writers, composers, artists, and professional women in the creative arts. Holdings: 3,000 books, and computerized database.

Oakland University - Library - Special Collections and Archives
Kresge Library Building
Rochester, MI 48063
313-377-2492
Subjects: Hicks Collection of Women in Literature, 17th and 18th centuries

Pforzheimer (Carl & Lily) Foundation, Inc. - Carl H. Pforzheimer Library
41 E. 42nd Street, Rm 815
New York, N.Y. 10017
212-697-7217
Subjects: Women Writers, 1790 - 1840

University of North Carolina, Greensboro - Women Detectives Fiction Collection
Jackson Library, Special Collections
Greensboro, NC 27412
919-379-5246
Subjects: Women detectives in American fiction, 1890 to present. Holdings: 300 books.

University of Tulsa
Research in Women's Literature
600 S. College
Tulsa, OK 74104
918-631-2503
Subjects: researches women's literature, with an emphasis on literary history, criticism, and bibliography.

Women Writers Archive
Sonoma State University - Special Collections
Ruben Salazar Library
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
707-664-2861
Subjects: women writers Holdings: articles, student papers, and clippings on several hundred women writers.

Military
National Women's Military Museum
c/o Isobel Van Lom
PO Box 68687
Portland, OR 97268
503-292-4046
Museum honors women who served in all branches of the military

Minority
Memphis State University Center for Research on Women
Clement Hall - 339
Memphis, TN 38152
901-678-2770
Subjects: Southern women; women of color; working class women in the South.

Music
American Women Composers
1690 36th St., NW, Suite 409
Washington DC, 20007
202-342-8179
Subjects: composers, performers, musicologists. Holdings: 3000 scores of women's music and biological archives.

Library of Congress Public Service and Collections Management I
Music Division
10 First St. SE
Washington DC, 20540
Subjects: Women composers.

Women's Music Archives
208 Wildflower Lane
Fairfield, CT 06430
203-255-1348
Subjects: women's music. Holdings: Collects, preserves, and shares materials relating to women's music (records, tapes, songbooks, periodicals, concert programs, and posters). Also maintains and collects all varieties of women's music memorabilia.

Religion
Lutheran Deaconess Association - Deaconess Hall Library
Deaconess Hall, E. Union St.
Valparaiso, IN 46383
219-464-5033
Subjects: Women in the church

Multnomah School of the Bible - John and Mary Mitchell Library
8435 N.E. Glisan Street
Portland, OR 97220
503-255-0332
Subjects: Women's ministries

National Sisters Vocation Conference - Library
1307 S. Wabash Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
312-939-6180
Subjects: Church-related careers for women. Special Collections: Brochures that are specific to the various religious communities of women in the United States. Holdings: 8 VF drawers of pamphlets; 50 statistical studies and research. Subscriptions: 13 journals and other serials.

St. Walburg Convent of Benedictine Sisters of Covington, Kentuck - Archives
2500 Amsterdam Rd.
Covington, KY 41016
606-331-6771
Subjects: History and records of the Benedictine Sisters of Covington. Holdings: 150 square feet of archival material, peculiar to religious women. Subscriptions: 12 newspapers.

Sisters of St. Mary of Namur - Mount St. Mary Research Center
3756 Delaware Avenue
Kenmore, N.Y. 14217
716-875-4705
Subjects: History of Sisters of St. Mary

Regional
Birmingham Public and Jefferson County Free Library
Linn-Henley Library for Southern Historical Research
Department of Archives and Manuscripts
2100 Park Place
Birmingham, AL 35203
205-226-3645
Subjects: Women's history. Special Collections: Southern Women's Archives.

Emory University
Special Collections Department
Woodruff Library
Atlanta, GA 30322
404-329-6887
Subjects: Southern Women

Kentucky Women's Heritage Museum
108 Paddock Dr.
Nicholasville, KY 40356
Subjects: Establish a permanent, visible display honoring/recognizing the achievements of Kentucky women.

Memphis State University Center for Research on Women
Clement Hall - 339
Memphis, TN 38152
901-678-2770
Subjects: Southern women; women of color; working class women in the South.

University of Illinois at Chicago, University Library, Midwest Women's Historical Collection
Box 8198
801 N. Morgan
Chicago, IL 60680
312-996-2742
Subjects: 19th and 20th century Chicago and Midwestern women active in literature, education, social welfare and social work, design, the arts, health sciences, politics and social reform. Special Collections: papers of Emma Goldman; records of the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago, the League of Women Voters of Chicago, the Chicago Urban League, and the Women's Advertising Club of Chicago; Jane Addams Memorial Collection; Gutter Collegion of Chiganoana; Swallo Press ARchives; Society of Midland Authors Collection.

Suffrage
Austin Public Library
Austin-Travis County Collection
810 Guadalupe
Austin, TX 78701
512-472-5433
Subjects: Women's Suffrage

Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library
215 E. Third St.
Dayton, OH 45402-2103
513-227-9500
Subjects: Women's suffrage

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site Library
1411 W. St. SE
Washington DC, 20020
202-426-5962
Subjects: Women's suffrage Special Collections: A History of Women's Suffrage; Executive Documents, 1820-1895

Missouri Historical Society - Archives and Manuscripts
Jefferson Memorial Bldg.
Forest Park
St. Louis, MO 63112
314-361-1424
Subjects: Women's Suffrage Movement

Southern Regional Council, Inc.
Reference Library
60 Walton St. NW, 2nd Floor
Atlanta, GA 30303-2199
404-522-8764
Subjects: Women's suffrage

Stowe-Day Foundation Library
77 Forest St.
Hartford, CT 06105
203-728-5507
Subjects: Women's suffrage Special Collections: Suffrage papers of Isabella Beecher Hooker; Katharine S. Day Collection; literary manuscripts of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

University of Missouri, St. Louis - Western Historical Manuscript Collection/State Historical Society of Missouri
Thomas Jefferson Library
8001 Natural Bridge Road
St. Louis, MO 63121
314-453-5143
Subjects: League of Women Voters of Missouri (59 boxes); Women's Historical Collections

Third World
New Transcentury Foundation - Secretariat for Women in Development - Documentation Center
1789 Columbia Road, N.W.
Washington DC, 20009
202-328-4400
Subjects: Women - in developing countries, law and politics, rural development, culture and society, and socioeconomic participation. Holdings: 1300 documents. Subscriptions: 100 journals and other serials.

Violence
Center for Women Policy Studies - Family violence Project - Library
2000 P St., N.W., Suite 508
Washington D.C., 20036
202-872-1770
Subjects: Family violence, spouse abuse, child sexual abuse, battered women.

Visual Art
California Institute of the Arts - Library
24700 McBean Pkwy.
Valencia, CA 91355
805-255-1050
Subjects: Slide Collection of Women Artists

College of St. Catherine Library
Ade Bethune Collection
2004 Randolph Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55105
612-690-6650
Subjects: Ade Bethune and women artists.

National Museum of Women in the Arts - Museum, Library and Research Center
1250 New York Avenue
Washington DC, 20037
202-783-5000
Subjects: women artists. Special Collections: personal library of Irene Rice Pereira; Archives of the International Conference of Women Artists in Copenhagen. Holdings: 6,500 books and exhibition catalogues, 50 subscription periodicals, and over 13,000 files on women artists of all periods and nationalities.

Rutgers University Special Collections and Archives
Alexander Library
College Ave. & Huntington St.
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
908-932-7006
Subjects: Visual Arts Holdings: includes the records of SIGNS and the Womens Caucus for Art. E-mail BECKER@ZODIAC.RUTGERS.EDU(BITNET)

Southwestern University Center for Texas Women in the Arts
Georgetown, TX 78626
512-863-6511
Subjects: Specializes on Texas women in the Visual and Performing Arts.

Women Artists Library
Fulham Palace, Bishops Avenue
London, England SW6 6EA
071-731-7618
Subjects: women artists; Special Collections: A Women of Colour/Black Women Artists Index; The Society of Women Artists archive and the Women's International Art Club (1900-1978); Archival photographs from Dame Laura Knight's private collection. Holdings: 24,000 slides, Black and White print section, audio/video collection, cuttings

Women Artists Archive - Archive
Sonoma State University - Special Collections
Ruben Salazar Library
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
707-664-2861
Subjects: 1,000 women artists from Middle Ages to present. Holdings: 15 VF drawers, 5000 slides, 6 slide sets, and visual image database of research collection. World Wide Web page (http://www.sonoma.edu/waa/)

Women Artists News - Archives
Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163
212-666-6990
Holdings: 24 VF drawers of archival material on women in the arts primarily from the 1970s to present. Subscriptions 25 journals and other serials. PublicationsWomen Artists News, bimonthly; Guide to Women's Art Organizations, biennial; Boices of Women (criticism, poetry, graphics).

West
University of Nevada, Reno - Special Collections Department/University Archives
University Library
Reno, NV 89557
702-784-6538
Subjects: Women in the trans-Mississippi West, Women in the West

Witchcraft
University of Nevada, Reno - Special Collections Department/University Archives
University Library
Reno, NV 89557
702-784-6538
Subjects: Witchcraft