This guide lists and describes major research collections in microform, housed for the most part in the Microform Reading Room in Sterling Memorial Library. Excluded from this listing are works by single individuals, library catalogs, and collections too narrow in scope to be considered major. All the microform materials described here should be listed in the Microform Reading Room card catalog as well as in Orbis or the Sterling public card catalog; unless labeled otherwise, they can be found in the Microform Reading Room.

The collections are listed by main entry, and each description includes place of publication, publisher, and date, the number of reels, fiche, or microprints, and the film, fiche, or microprint call number. An annotation accompanies most records, as well as a note identifying available guides or indexes and providing their locations and call numbers.

To identify materials not included in this guide or to find newly acquired materials, researchers should seek assistance from a reference librarian.

• American biographical archive
• American periodical series
• American Women's Diaries
• Church Missionary Society
• Cornell University. Libraries
• Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
• Gerritsen Collection of Women's History
• Guide to the Scholarly Resources Microfilm Edition of Papers of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment and the Women's Organization for National Prohibition
• Herstory
• Historische Quellen zur Frauenbewegung und Geschlecterproblematik
• National American Woman Suffrage Association Records, 1839-1961 (inclusive), 1890-1930 (bulk)
• National Woman's Party Papers: The Suffrage Years, 1889-1940 (inclusive), 1913-1920 (bulk)
• National Woman's Party Papers: The Suffrage Years, 1913-1920: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition
• National Woman's Party Papers, 1913-1974
• New England women and their families in the 18th and 19th centuries
• NewsBank
• Papers of the Women's Trade Union League and Its Principal Leaders, 1855-1964
• Quaker Women's Tracts
• Radical and Reforming Periodicals for and by Women
• Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs,1895-1992
• Records of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, Part 1, 1918-1965 (inclusive)
• The Social and Cultural Construction of Girls
• Social and political status of women in Britain, 1870-1928
• Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries, 1785-1923
• Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries
• Women in Argentina: Pamphlets
• Women in Peru: A Collection of Pamphlets
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Papers, 1915-1978
• Women's studies manuscript collections from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College



 

American biographical archive. (Gerry Easter. London; New York: K.G. Saur, 1986. 850 microfiches)

Fiche B1209 in Starr Main Reference Room

This collection reproduces, in a single alphabetical sequence, the complete biographical entries on 350,000 individuals, cumulated from 400 sources dating from he 17th to the early 20th century. It covers Canada as well as the United States. The first several fiche contain the biographical sources used to compile the collection.

GUIDE: No index is necessary; all the entries for an individual appear together, and eye-legible fiche headers provide access.

 

American periodical series. (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1979. 287 reels)

Film S1

Series I: 1741-1800. The 88 titles in this series document the origins of American magazine journalism. Yale owns all of Series I.

Series II: 1800-1850. This comprehensive series of 923 titles illustrates the burgeoning of periodical publication after 1800 and includes virtually all the significant magazines of the time. Yale holds Series II through unit 6, No. 253.
Series III: 1850-1900. Yale does not own Series III.

GUIDE: Hoornstra, Jean. American periodicals, 1741-1900: an index to the microfilm collections.

Ref Z6951 +H65 (LC)

 

American Women's Diaries. (New Canaan, CT: Readex Film Products. 84 reels)

Film Misc 1160

The collection consists of the diaries of American women living in New England, the South, and the West during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

 

Church Missionary Society. (Church Missionary Society Archive. Marlborough : Adam Matthew Publications, 1996. 217+ reels.)

Divinity Film Ms109

Section II, Missions to Women consists of 3 parts: 1. Society for Promoting Female Education in China, India & the East (or Female Education Society) 1834-1899; 2. India's Women & China's Daughters, 1880-1939, and Looking East at India's Women & China's Daughters, 1940-1957; 3. Homes of the East, 1910-1948, Daybreak, 1889, 1893-94, 1906-1909, The Indian Female Evangelist, 1872-1880.

GUIDE: Typescript reel list is available.

 

Cornell University. Libraries. (Cornell University collection, women's rights pamphlets. Wooster, OH: Bell & Howell, 1974. 117 microfiches).

Fiche B898

Authors of the pamphlets in this collection include John Stuart Mill, Lucretia Mott, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Max Eastman. Pamphlets both for and against women's rights are included. Fifty of the pamphlets are from conventions, committees, and various state bodies. Specific subjects represented include suffrage, marriage and family relations, socialism, women in industry, moral reform, and women's education. The collection is focused primarily on women's rights in the United States, but there is some material on England and France as well.

GUIDE: The Cornell University collection of women's rights pamphlets on microfiche: contents guide.

Ref Z7963 S9 +C67 (LC)

 

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). (Washington, DC: ERIC Document Reproduction Service, 1966- . 151,000 microfiches)

For access inquire at microtext desk.

ERIC is a national information system for the dissemination of all kinds of educational documents. This collection contains unpublished materials not easily available elsewhere: research studies, curriculum guides, bibliographies, project repots, conference proceedings, and miscellaneous writings related to education. Commercially published materials, government documents, and dissertations are not included in this collection.
Yale's holdings of ERIC extend from 1981 to the present and may be accessed through various indexes, including one available on compact disk. Researchers should consult a reference librarian for assistance.

 

Gerritsen Collecton of Women's History. (Glen Rock, NJ: Microfilming Corp. of America, [1975]. 17,556 microfiches and 241 microfilm reels.)
Fiche B4174

Film B18295

GUIDE: The Gerritsen Collection of Women's History, 1543-1945: A Bibliographic Guide to the Microform Collection.

SML Microtexts Desk HQ1121 +G47 2000 (LC)
SML Reference HQ1121 +G47 1983 (LC)

 

Guide to the Scholarly Resources Microfilm Edition of Papers of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment and the Women's Organization for National Prohibition. (Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 1982)

SML HV5098 +G84 1982 (LC) 

Herstory. (Wooster, OH: Bell & Howeel, 1972. 23 reels)

Film S850

This collection, from the Women's History Research Center in Berkeley, California, comprises 821 newsletters, journals, and newspapers published by and about wome's liberation, civic, professional, religious and peace groups. Most of the material included was published between 1968 and 1974, generally, but not always, in the United States.

GUIDE: Herstory: microfilm collection: table of contents.

Ref HQ1101 H472 (LC)

 

Historische Quellen zur Frauenbewegung und Geschlechtproblematik. (Erlangen: H. Fischer.)

Fiche S997

33. Dokumente der Frauen, (36 microfiche)

Fiche In process

30. Nachlass Schirmacher [microfiche]: die Dr.-Käthe-Schirmacher-Schenkung an der Universitätsbibliothek Rostock. (2271 microfiches)

Fiche S996

37. Die Frau im gemeinnützigen Leben, (17 microfiche)

Fiche On Order (CRL)

40. Bibliothek der Frauenfrage in Deutschland nach Sveistrup.

 

National American Woman Suffrage Association Records, 1839-1961 (inclusive), 1890-1930 (bulk). (National American Woman Suffrage Association. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1981. 73 reels)

Film Misc 954

Arranged in three series: Correspondence (1839-1961), Subject File (1851-1953), and Miscellany. The records include correspondence, subject files, printed matter, and scrapbooks. Most of the correspondents are women and many of the leaders in the woman's rights movement are represented.

GUIDE: Published finding aid available in Microform Reference.

 

National Woman's Party Papers: The Suffrage Years, 1889-1940 (inclusive), 1913-1920 (bulk). (National Woman's Party. Sanford, NC: Microfilming Corporation of America, 1981)

Film Misc 961

 

National Woman's Party Papers: The Suffrage Years, 1913-1920: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition. (Sanford, NC: Microfilming Corporation of America, 1981)

SML Z7965 +N373 (LC)

 

National Woman's Party Papers, 1913-1974. (Sanford, NC: Microfilming Corp. of America, 1979.

Film Misc 959

GUIDE: SML Z7965 +N37 (LC)

 

New England Women and Their Families in the 18th and 19th Centuries. (Bethesda, Md. : University Publications of America, c1997- . 33 Reels).

Film B16319

Personal papers, letters, and diaries. Series A, Manuscript collections from the American Antiquarian Society; consulting editor, Ellen K. Rothman. pt. 1. Selected New England collections (33 reels) -- pt. 2. The Dewey-Bliss family collections (17 reels) -- pt. 3. Maine and Massachusetts family collections (16 reels)

 

NewsBank. (New Canaan, CT: NewsBank Inc., 1970. microfiches)

Inquire at Microform Reading Room desk for access.

NewsBank consists of reports from local newspapers, organized by general topic and issued in the following parts: business and economic development, consumer affairs, education, employment, environment, government structure, health, housing and urban renewal, law and order, political development, social relations, transportation, welfare and poverty.

 

Papers of the Women's Trade Union League and Its Principal Leaders, 1855-1964. (Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, 1981)

Film Misc 1103

 

Quaker Women's Tracts. (Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, [1994]. 4 reels.)

Film B14661

Collection of 100 tracts written by Quaker women mainly between 1647 and 1682. The tracts were collated from the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pa., the Quaker Collection of Haverford College in Haverford, Pa., and the Lilly Library of Earlham College in Richmond, Ind. "These documents represent Quaker values and ideas during England's period of civil war and Restoration."

GUIDE: Microform Reference Z7845.F8 Q35 1994 (LC)

 

Radical and Reforming Periodicals for and by Women. (Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press Microform Publications, 1983.)

Film S2662

 

Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1992. (Bethesda, MD : University Publications of America, 1993-1994. 41 reels.)

Film B16630

Part1. Minutes of national conventions, publications, and president's office correspondence (26 reels); Part 2. President's office files, 1958-1968 (15 reels).

GUIDE: A Guide to the microfilm edition of Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1992.

Microform Reference E185.86 +G85 1994 (LC)

 

Records of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, Part 1, 1918-1965 (inclusive). (United States. Women's Bureau. Frederick, Maryland: University Publications of America, 1986)

Film Misc 1128

 

The Social and Cultural Construction of Girls. (Primary Source Media. 17 Reels.)

Film In Process

A derivative based on the History of Women collection.

GUIDE: In Process

See also The Social and Cultural Construction of Girls (PDF)

 

Social and political status of women in Britain, 1870-1928. (Brighton, Sussex, England: Harvester Press, 1983. 17 reels)

Film B4446

The periodicals included here from the Newspaper Library of the British Library and cover every aspect of the surge of emancipationist activities in Britain between the passing of the Married Women's Property Act in 1870 and the gaining of full, universal suffrage in 1928. They also reflect the dramatic impact upon women's lives of the First World War. There is a wide range of political viewpoints represented on such subjects as education, work, religion, temperance and social reform; the periodicals, although sharing a common interest in women's suffrage, range from the evangelical and strongly pacifist Free Church Suffrage Times (1913-15), to the highly political Women's Franchise (1907-1911) and the Internationalist journal published by the Communist Party of Great Britain, Woman Worker (1926-1927). Contributors include Beatrice Webb, Millicent Fawcett, Philip Snowden, H.N. Brailsfird and many others.

GUIDE: A list of contents appears at the beginning of each reel giving the full title, dates, and issue numbers of each periodical included in the program.

 

Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries, 1785-1923. (Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1991- . 185 reels).

Film MISC 1268

The papers document the life of Southern women through diaries, correspondence, and business records. The primary focus is on home life. Frequently discussed topics include courtship, education, marriage, child rearing, & religion.

GUIDE: Microtexts Desk, Misc 1268 Guide

 

Women in Argentina I-IV: Pamphlets. (Argentina : various publishers, 1978-1991.)

I: Film B14564

II: Film B14565

III: Film B14566

IV: Film B14567

Women in Peru: A Collection of Pamphlets. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1984)

Film B455

 

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Papers, 1915-1978. (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Ann Arbor, MI: Microfilming Corporation of America, 1983. 115 reels.)

Film Misc 1211

Read more about this collection at http://www.umi.com/hp/Support/Research/Files/208.html.

Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Series 3, Sexuality, sex education, and reproductive rights. (Bethesda, MD : University Publications of America, 1994. 39 reels.)

Part. A. Family planning oral history project (3 reels); Part. B. The papers of Mary Ware Dennett (and the Voluntary Parenthood League (36 reels).

GUIDE: Microtext Ref. HQ766 +G85 1994 (LC)