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Library opening hours, Easter Term 2013
25 Apr 2013
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23 Jan 2013
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FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARCHIVE
Hannah Westall
Archivist
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FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Jenny Blackhurst
Assistant Librarian
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A guide to the Archive
Overview of our archival collections
Catalogues
Historical reference
Personal Papers
Institutional Papers
See also:
A subject guide to the Archive
Overview of our archival collections
The Archive's main aim is to build a record of the institutional history of the College reflecting its unique history. Records of the executive, administrative and academic College bodies, College offices, College Officers and individuals employed by the College are all held in the Archive. The Archive also aims to build a record of the lives and careers of individuals and groups associated with Girton College from its foundation to the present day. As a result the Archive includes rich and varied collections of personal papers. In addition the Archive also collects records associated with the history of women's higher education and women's history generally.
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GCGB Governing Records |
This section includes the College's charter and statutes, ordinances and regulations, grant of arms, deeds, trusts etc., the papers of College Council (previously Executive Committee), the Governing Body, and standing committees of Council. |
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GCAR Administrative Records |
This section includes the papers of the offices of the Mistress, the Bursar, and the Steward/Domestic Bursar. It includes papers relating to the College's finances, appeals and fundraising (latterly Development Office), the Chapel, Wolfson Court, and 'named rooms' within the College. |
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GCAC Academic and Library |
This section includes the papers of the Admissions and Tutorial Office, the Praelector and the Library. |
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GCAS Clubs, Societies and Associations |
This section includes the papers of the Roll (previously Association of Certificated Students), the JCR, the MCR, and the papers of the various sports, dramatic and musical societies. |
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GCCP College Publications |
This section includes complete runs of the Annual Report (to 1969), the Girton Review (1882-1993), the Newsletter (1993-99), Annual Review (from 2000), as well as various information guides, College songs, and occasional publications. |
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This is a subject-oriented section including special events/celebrations, press cuttings and journal articles, memoirs and reminiscences, drawings and artefacts, and miscellaneous correspondence collections. It also includes records relating to women's history generally and the suffrage movement in particular. |
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GCPH Photographs |
This is a large collection of photographs dating from the College's foundation to present day showing the College buildings (exterior and interior), individual students and student groups, Fellows, Mistresses and staff, and special events. |
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GCOH Oral History |
This section consists of interviews with those who had a lifelong connection with Girton, or who had come up to College in the 1920s or earlier. |
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Some of the major collections in this section are the papers of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827-1891), Helen Cam (1885-1968), Emily Davies (1830-1921), Jane Catherine Gamble (1810-1885), Dorothy Needham (1896-1988), Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829-1925), Bertha Phillpotts (1877-1932), Chrystabel Procter (1894-1982), Eugénie Sellers Strong (1860-1943), and Barbara Wootton (1897-1988). |
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This section includes the papers The Society for Promoting the Training [formerly Employment] of Women (SPTW), the Girton College Working Women's Summer School and the Cambridge Women's Liberation Archive. |
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Catalogues
A large proportion of the catalogues for GCRF Historical Reference, GCPP Personal Papers and GCIP Institutional papers are available to search on the Janus website. For the direct links to the catalogues please see below.
The catalogue for the remaining sections of the archive is currently not available to researchers. There is an ongoing project to upload the rest of the catalogue onto the Janus website. In the meantime the Archivist can undertake searches on your behalf - please see our Staff and contact details webpage.
Historical reference
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Memoirs and reminiscences |
1883-2012 |
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Drawings and sketches |
1860–2012 | |
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Artefacts |
circa 1850–2007 | |
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Memorabilia |
1872–2008 | |
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Women's history |
1859–2009 | |
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Miscellaneous correspondence collections |
1799–2009 | |
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Deposited collections with no direct connection with Girton College |
1799-2008 |
Personal Papers
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Personal Papers of Annie Abram, 1869-1930, medieval historian. 1 volume and 1 bundle. |
1912-1913 |
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Personal Papers of Nanda Ball, 1929-, née Hulton. 1 file. |
1947-2000 |
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Personal Papers of Dorothy Banks, 1865-1937 née Alford and Margaret Alford, 1868-1951. 2 files |
1886-1998 |
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Personal Papers of Joan Bennett, 1896-1986, née Frankau, scholar and lecturer in English literature. 1 item. |
1 February 1924 |
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Personal Papers of Daisy Bickley, b 1942, née Hurn. 1 file. |
October 1962-May 2008 |
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Personal Papers of Marion Greenwood Bidder, 1862-1932, née Greenwood, physiologist. 8 files. |
1880-1999 |
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Personal Papers of Rosemary Bishop, 1936-2003, civil servant. 5 boxes. |
1944-2004 |
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Personal Papers of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, 1830-1891, née Smith, artist and women's activist. 10 boxes. |
1801-2000 |
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Personal papers of Judith Margaret Brown, 1944-, historian. 4 boxes. |
1962-1965 |
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Personal Papers of Viviane Bryant, 1921-1983, née Hindmarsh. 1 file. |
1943-1972 |
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Personal papers of Winifred Bryers, 1880-1910, lecturer in modern languages. 1 box. |
1909-1911 |
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Personal papers of Georgina Grenfell Buckler, 1863-1953, née Walrond, classicist. 4 files. |
1889-1891, 1928, 1993 |
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Personal Papers of Helen Maud Cam, 1885-1968, Medieval Historian. 54 boxes. |
circa 1895-1995 |
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Letters to Frances Cave-Brown-Cave, 1876-1965, mathematician. 1 file. |
1940-1960 |
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Personal Papers of Maud Chapman, 1880-?, née Reep. 1 file. |
1898-1905 |
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Personal Papers of Dorothy Clark, 1911-1999, teacher. 1 file. |
1931-1933 |
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Personal Papers of Kay Clay, 1913-2007, née Cambell, lecturer. 1 file. |
1946-2007 |
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Personal Papers of Cynthia Mary Crews, 1906-1969, née Jopson, linguist. 21 boxes. |
1901-1979 |
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Personal Papers of Sarah Emily Davies, 1830-1921, pioneer for women's education. 25 boxes. |
1856-1978 |
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Personal Papers of Stella Courtenay Dawson, 1885-1970, née Dawson. 2 files and 1 album. |
1905-1998 |
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Personal Papers of Margaret Diggle, b 1905, lecturer in education. 1 file. |
1923-1999 |
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Personal Papers of James Duff, 1860-1940, classicist and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. 1 file. |
1934 |
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Personal Papers of Dorothy Dufton, 1894-1983, née Dufton, wife of Lord Moran of Manton. 3 items. |
1916-1950 |
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Personal Papers of Alison Duke, 1915-2005, classicist. 19 boxes. |
1875-2005 |
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Personal Papers of Ethel Fegan, 1877-1975, librarian. 7 boxes. |
1908-1961 |
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Personal Papers of Sylvia Fletcher-Moulton, 1902-1989, magistrate. 3 boxes. |
1878-1989 |
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Personal Papers of Ann Franklin, 1936- , née Glossop. 1 file. |
1954-1957 |
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Personal Papers of Gwendolen Freeman, b 1908, author and journalist. 5 files. |
1925-2001 |
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Personal papers of Lilian Renee Furst, 1931-2009, literary scholar. 2 boxes. |
circa 1925–2012 | |
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Personal Papers of Jane Catherine Gamble, 1810-1885, writer. 6 boxes, I volume and 1 wooden box. |
1783-1884 |
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Personal Papers of Winifred Gaukroger, 1900-2003, née Trenholme. 1 file. |
1918-1919 |
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Personal Papers of Alethea Graham, 1908-1980, missionary worker. 4 boxes. |
circa 1913-1980 |
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Personal Papers of Agatha Graham, 1910-1935. 2 boxes. |
1923-circa 1930 |
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Personal papers of Helen Frances Grant, 1903-1992, née Newsome, Spanish lecturer. 5 boxes. |
1926–1993 |
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Personal Papers of Dorothy Howard, 1881-1968, née Howard, wife of 6th Baron Henley. 1 box. |
1901-1955 |
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Personal Papers of P D James, b 1920, Baroness James of Holland Park, author. 19 boxes. |
1967-2003 |
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Personal papers of Bertha Jeffreys, 1903-1999, née Swirles, mathematician, wife of Sir Harold Jeffreys. 4 boxes. |
1893–2007 |
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Personal Papers of Edith Johnston, 1886-1925, missionary. 1 file. |
1917-1925 |
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Personal papers of Betty Jones, 1912-1971, librarian. 2 files. |
1904–1963 |
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Personal papers of Queenie Dorothy Leavis, 1906-1981, née Roth, literary scholar. 5 boxes. |
1895–2009 |
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Personal Papers of Beryl Lewis, 1896-1992. 1 box. |
1916-1995 |
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Personal Papers of Isabella May Lewis, 1870-1967, schoolmistress. 1 roll. |
21 June 1892-5 May 2006 |
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Personal Papers of Jean Lindsay, 1910-1996, née McLachlan, historian and educationalist. 3 volumes. |
1927-1938 |
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Personal Papers of Shirley Littler, b 1932, née Marsh, civil servant. 25 boxes. |
1953-2006 |
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Personal Papers of Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 1861-1944, social reformer. 6 boxes. |
circa 1864-1995 |
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Personal papers of Mary Gwyneth Lloyd Thomas, 1899-1978, literary scholar. 1 box. |
1936–1948 |
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Personal papers of Elsa Care Malik, 1905-2005, née Barker, playwright. 2 boxes. |
circa 1935–2005 |
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Personal Papers of Dorothy Marshall, 1900-1994, historian. 11 boxes. |
1910-1991 |
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Personal Papers of Mary Mather, 1926- . 1 file. |
1947 |
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Personal Papers of Christine McKie, 1931-, née Kelsey, crystallographer. 6 files. |
1963-1969 |
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Personal Papers of Helen McMorran, 1898-1985, librarian. 3 boxes. |
1869-1967 |
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Personal papers of Helen Dick Megaw, 1907-2002, crystallographer. 33 boxes. |
1919-2002 |
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Personal Papers of Margaret Alice (known as Meta) Muir, 1862-1943. 1 box. |
1877-1994 |
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Personal papers of Needham, Dorothy Mary Moyle, 1896-1987, née Moyle, biochemist. 31 boxes. |
1907-1988 |
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Personal Papers of Sheila Nevell, b 1916. 1 file. |
1936-2003 |
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Personal Papers of Lyn Newman, 1901-73, née Irvine, literary journalist. 1 file. |
1925-2001 |
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Personal Papers of Bessie Rayner Parkes, 1827-1925, writer and journalist. 18 boxes. |
1812-1984 |
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Personal Papers of Kathleen Mary Peace, 1904-1974, secretary to Girton College, Cambridge. 4 boxes. |
1910-1971 |
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Personal Papers of Joyce Penny, 1912-1988, writer and translator. 16 files. |
1948-1985 |
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Personal Papers of Bertha Phillpotts, 1877-1932, Scandinavian scholar. 8 boxes. |
1863-2002 |
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Personal Papers of Beryl Power, 1891-1974, civil servant. 5 boxes. |
1909-1949 |
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Personal Papers of Eileen Power, 1889-1940, economic historian, wife of M M Postan. 4 boxes. |
1835-1994 |
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Personal Papers of Rhoda Power, 1890-1957, broadcaster and children's writer. 1 box. |
1917-1947 |
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Personal Papers of Chrystabel Procter, 1894-1982, horticulturist. 7 boxes. |
1822-1986 |
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Personal Papers of Dora Pym, 1890-1980, née Ivens, classicist. 1 box. |
1890-1998 |
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Personal Papers of Kathleen Raine, 1908-2003, poet. 1 item. |
1998-1999 |
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Personal Papers of Constance Ryley, 1898-1976. 1 file. |
1916-1921 |
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Personal Papers of Ethel Sargant, 1863-1918, botanist. 4 boxes. |
1871-2008 |
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Personal papers of Margaret Smith, 1884-1970, orientalist. 2 boxes. |
1900-1963 |
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Personal papers of Margaret Shirley Stanley, b 1931, née Wright, teacher. 1 file. |
1950-1952 | |
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Personal Papers of Barbara Stephen, 1872-1945, née Shoresmith, later Shore Nightingale, wife of Sir Harry Stephen, educationist. 4 files. |
1925-1945 |
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Personal Papers of Eugenie Strong, 1860-1943, née Sellers, classical archaeologist and art historian. 33 boxes. |
1877-1965 |
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Personal Papers of Sarah Tebbutt, 1860(?)-1928, née Mason. 1 file. |
1878-1870 |
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Personal Papers of M B Thomas, 1873-1954,lecturer in chemistry. 1 volume. |
1936 |
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Personal Papers of Aelfrida Tillyard, 1883-1959, writer. 20 boxes. |
1868-1959 |
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Personal Papers of Ottilie von Goethe, 1796-1872, née von Pogwisch, writer and daughter-in-law of Goethe. 1 volume. |
1859 |
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Personal Papers of Flora Wallace, 1931-, née MacLeod. 1 file. |
1919-1954 |
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Personal Papers of Margaret Valerie Wallace, 1903-1989. 1 box. |
1974-1988 |
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Personal Papers of Dorothy Ward, 1888-1972. 2 items. |
1930 |
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Personal Papers of Phyllis Jeanne Ward, 1909-2000, lecturer in modern languages. 2 files. |
1929-1997 |
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Personal Papers of Sarah Weston, b 1855. 1 file. |
1868-1869 |
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Personal Papers of Florence Roma Wilson, 1891-1930, novelist. 1 volume and 1 file. |
26 July 1915-October 1920 |
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Personal Papers of Helen Marion Wodehouse, 1880-1964, philosopher. 4 boxes. |
1895-1993 |
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Personal Papers of Barbara Wootton, 1897-1988, née Adam, Baroness Wootton of Abinger. 14 boxes. |
1897-1994 |
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Personal Papers of Diane Worzala, 1934-2007, née Chase, historian. 3 boxes. |
1972-1994 |
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Personal Papers of Charlotte Yonge, 1823-1901, novelist. 2 boxes. |
1857-1997 |
Institutional Papers
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Links to the catalogues on the Janus website |
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Cambridge Women's Liberation Group Archive. 27 boxes. |
1954-1988 |
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Society for Promoting the Training of Women. 41 boxes. |
1859-1991 |
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Working Women's Summer School. 4 boxes. |
1944-1956 |