Guide to the One Hundred Years of Women at Brown records, 1984-1992


John Hay Library , Special Collections
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

Published in 2013

Collection Overview

Title: One Hundred Years of Women at Brown records
Date range: 1984-1992
Creator: Brown University.
Extent: 1.25 Linear feet
Abstract: The One Hundred Years of Women at Brown records include correspondence, minutes, photocopies of exhibited material, photographs, flyers, exhibit labels, grant proposals, and a report. The material dates from 1984 through 1992.
Language of materials: English
Repository: John Hay Library , Special Collections
Collection number: OF.1E.6

Scope & content

The One Hundred Years of Women at Brown records include correspondence, minutes, photocopies of exhibited material, photographs (of which some were included in the exhibit, some were used for publicity, and some were not used at all), flyers, exhibit labels, grant proposals, and a report. The material dates from 1984 through 1992.

The records are organized in three series: Series I. Transcending Boundaries: Women, Power And Leadership, contains programs, excerpts, address transcripts and a playscript entitled "Going a Hundred" from the October, 1991, conference held at Brown University. The convocation speaker was Mary Robinson, President of Ireland.

Series II. A Matter Of Simple Justice: One Hundred Years Of Women's Higher Education In Rhode Island, 1988-1992, contains a proposal, correspondence, photographs, catalogs, and planning materials for various elements of the exhibit which was mounted in 1992 at Brown University. Also included are lectures by Mari Jo Buhle and Todd S. Gemes.

Series III. Other Events And General Planning, 1984-1992, includes minutes, correspondence, flyers. and programs for various related events overseen by the Pembroke Center for Research and Teaching on Women and the Brown Corporation's Ad Hoc Committee on the centennial year of women's study. Also included is a paper by Martha Nussbaum

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Arrangement

Administrative history

The events commemorating the founding of the Women's College of Brown University fell under the rubric One Hundred Years of Women at Brown but were organized and sponsored by several groups on and off campus. An ad hoc committee of the Brown University Corporation primarily was responsible for "Transcending Boundaries: Women, Power and Leadership, A Centennial Symposium Celebrating 100 Years of Women at Brown." The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women took part in the ad hoc committee's work and sponsored a lecture series funded by Cynthia Lee Jenner (1961). The center helped coordinate the production of The Search for Equity: Women at Brown University, 1891-1991, which was directed by Polly Welts Kaufman (1951) and includes articles written by alumnae and others. With the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, the Pembroke Center cosponsored an exhibit, lecture series, and dramatic revue ("Going A Hundred," written by Professor Lowry Marshall and Colby Moss).

Access & Use

Access to the collection: There are no restrictions on access, except that the collection can only be seen by prior appointment. Some materials may be stored off-site and cannot be produced on the same day on which they are requested.
Use of the materials: Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. Researchers should note that compliance with copyright law is their responsibility. Researchers must determine the owners of the literary rights and obtain any necessary permissions from them.
Alternate form: Negatives were made of some John Hay Library material for the exhibit of the exhibit catalog. These are filed under OF-1E-6 in the negatives file. See also oversize photographs in OF oversize drawer.
Preferred citation: One Hundred Years of Women at Brown records, OF-1E-6, Brown University Archives.
Contact information: John Hay Library , Special Collections
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION  
ABOUT THE FINDING AID  
Author: Finding aid prepared by Brown University Library staff
Encoding: This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013 January 28
Descriptive rules: Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
Sponsor: Processing funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Additional Information

Related material: Related materials can be found in the following collection:
  • Search for equity : women at Brown University 1891-1991 records, OF.1E.7, Brown University Archives
Separated material:
  • Kaufman, Polly Welts. (Ed.) (1991) The Search for equity : women at Brown University, 1891-1991. Providence, R.I.: Brown University Press. 1-ZP Se27 Archives
Location/Existence of copies: Negatives were made of some John Hay Library material for the exhibit of the exhibit catalog. These are filed under OF-1E-6 in the negatives file. See also oversize photographs in OF oversize drawer.

Inventory


Series I. Transcending Boundaries: Women, Power And Leadership, 1991-1992

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Publicity
Contents Note: Flyers

1991
Box 1, Folder 2 Convocation: Mary T.W. Robinson, President of Ireland
Contents Note: Program

1991
Box 1, Folder 3 Excerpts from a centennial symposium
Contents Note: Booklet of transcripts of four addresses, includes addresses by Kathryn Scott Fuller, Joan W. Scott, Mary Robinson, Mary Gluck, and Martha Nussbaum

1991
Box 1, Folder 4 Visions: An Alumni Cabaret
Contents Note: Program

1991
Box 1, Folder 5 Going a Hundred
Contents Note: Program, The play was written by Lowry Marshall and Colby Moss and performed by Marshall, Moss, Breinin Bryant, Aunjanue Ellis, Larissa Kokernot, Nurit Monacelli, and Arianna Zukerman

1991
Box 1, Folder 6 Going a Hundred
Contents Note: Script used for October performance

1991

Series II. A Matter Of Simple Justice: One Hundred Years Of Women's Higher Education In Rhode Island, 1988-1992

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Lamoree, Karen, Pembroke Center
Contents Note: Proposal draft, proposal to Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities

1988, 1991
Box 1, Folder 2 Startup, Hetty
Contents Note: Correspondence

1990-1991 January
Box 1, Folder 3 Startup, Hetty
Contents Note: Correspondence

1991 September-1992 March
Box 1, Folder 4 Startup, Hetty
Contents Note: Correspondence

1992 March-April
Box 1, Folder 5 Startup, Hetty
Contents Note: Notes, lists

1991-1992
Box 1, Folder 6 Startup, Hetty, and Elizabeth Weed
Contents Note: Final report to Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, includes "exhibit checklist" describing every item in exhibit

1992
Box 1, Folder 7 Publicity
Contents Note: Flyers

1991-1992
Box 1, Folder 8 Publicity
Contents Note: Articles, press releases

1992
Box 1, Folder 9 Exhibit
Contents Note: Catalog

1992
Box 1, Folder 10 Exhibit
Contents Note: Visitors register, photocopy of book kept at Annmary Brown Memorial

1992
Box 1, Folder 11 Exhibit
Contents Note: Layout of exhibit

1991-1992
Box 1, Folder 12 Exhibit: Sarah Doyle Portrait
Contents Note: Label, calendar page

1991-1992
Box 1, Folder 13 Exhibit: timeline
Contents Note: Photographs of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 1, Folder 14 Exhibit: timeline
Contents Note: Storyboards, 4 folders

1992
Box 1, Folder 15 Exhibit: Building on Equality
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 1, Folder 16 Exhibit: Women's Infinite Sphere
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 1, Folder 17 Exhibit: Design Education
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 18 Exhibit: Education for All
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 19 Exhibit: Women's College
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 20 Exhibit: Temperance and Education
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 21 Exhibit: Founding of URI
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 22 Exhibit: Founding of URI
Contents Note: Photographs not used in exhibit

1992
Box 2, Folder 23 Exhibit: Student Dress
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 24 Exhibit: Separate Life Together
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 25 Exhibit: Reinventing College Tradition
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 26 Exhibit: Teaching Teachers and Children
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 27 Exhibit: Suffrage and the Great War
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 28 Exhibit: In Fitness and in Health
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 29 Exhibit: "True Daughters Are We..."
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 30 Exhibit: Teaching Women
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 31 Exhibit: War and Reconversion
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 32 Exhibit: Student Unrest
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 33 Exhibit: quilt, banner
Contents Note: Locations, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 34 Exhibit: "Uppity Women"
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 35 Exhibit: Coeducation
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels, for oversized photograph see oversize photograph drawer

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 36 Exhibit: Happy Millennium
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 37 Exhibit: Sisters of Education
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 38 Exhibit: Building of Difference
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 39 Exhibit: case 1, Anne Emery Allinson
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, title did not appear on exhibit case

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 40 Exhibit: case 2, women in the Civil War
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, title did not appear on exhibit case

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 41 Exhibit: case 3, designing for women's education
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, title did not appear on exhibit case

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 42 Exhibit: case 4
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 43 Exhibit: case 5, Rhode Island in the 1940s and 1950s
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, title did not appear on exhibit case

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 44 Exhibit: case 6, Jewish education
Contents Note: Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, title did not appear on exhibit case

1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 45 Exhibit: publicity
Contents Note: Photographs of objects and photographs in exhibit

1992
Box 2, Folder 46 Exhibit: items not exhibited
Contents Note: Photocopies, photographs

Box 2, Folder 47 Exhibit
Contents Note: Call numbers of some items from Brown.

Box 3, Folder 48 Exhibit
Contents Note: Designer's resume

1991
Box 3, Folder 49 Exhibit
Contents Note: Draft of labels

1992
Box 3, Folder 50 Lectures
Contents Note: Vitaes, Startup's introduction, flyers

1991-1992
Box 3, Folder 51 Lecture by Mari Jo Buhle
Contents Note: The Dawning Light of a New Era: Women's Quests for Learning in the Gilded Age, 1970-1900

1992 April 15
Box 3, Folder 52 Lecture by Todd S. Gernes
Contents Note: Houp La! Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Martha Luther Lane, and Young Women's Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century Providence

1992 April 30

Series III. Other Events And General Planning, 1984-1992

Container Description Date
Box 3, Folder 1 Anton, Barbara
Contents Note: Corporation's Ad Hoc Committee on the Centennial, other Pembroke Center planning for centennial, Three folders. Second folder includes paper by Martha Nussbaum

1984-1991
Box 3, Folder 2 Lamoree, Karen
Contents Note: Minutes, correspondence, material from other institutions, some minutes are of Ad Hoc Corporation Committee

1987-1990
Box 3, Folder 3 Pembroke Center for Research and Teaching on Women
Contents Note: Cynthia Lee Jenner (1961) lecture series flyers, also includes invitation to "The Sporting Woman: InSights from her Past", an exhibition, and letter

1991-1992
Box 3, Folder 4 Commencement forums
Contents Note: Program

1992
Box 3, Folder 5 Brown Learning Community, Brown Bookstore
Contents Note: Flyers

1991-1992