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The New England Regional Fellowship Consortium includes 30 research institutions. Collections at the participating institutions are broadly representative of the New England region and span the period from pre-contact to the present day. They include personal papers, organizational records, and printed works (both primary and secondary), as well as paintings, engravings, furniture, maps, photographs, architectural drawings, and materials in many other areas of collecting. Many of the organizations own and exhibit important historic houses.

NERFC requires applicants to discuss their projects with staff of the repositories they plan to visit before submitting their proposals; online catalogs, while useful, cannot replace talking to a knowledgeable staff member.

American Ancestors

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Founded in 1845, American Ancestors has been a pioneer in the study of family history for 180 years. The Brim-DeForest Library at American Ancestors contains a vast collection of published genealogies, local histories, and maps encompassing 200,000 volumes. The R. Stanton Avery Special Collections at American Ancestors is one of the country’s most comprehensive collections of rare family papers, diaries, account books, Bibles and church records ranging from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Digital resources include more than 10 billion indexed names. American Ancestors is also the home to the Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center whose archival collections specialize in Boston, Massachusetts, and New England Jewish History, containing more than four million documents.

Please contact Meaghan Siekman regarding the holdings of our collections: meaghan.siekman@americanancestors.org.

Archives and Special Collections, Northeastern University

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The Archives and Special Collections at the Northeastern University Library holds a diverse and growing collection of historical records relating to Boston’s fight for social justice. Our charge is to preserve the history of Boston’s social movements, including civil and political rights, access to education, immigrant rights, homelessness, and urban and environmental justice. We focus on the history of Boston’s African American, Asian American, LGBTQ, Latinx and other communities, as well as Boston’s public infrastructure, neighborhoods, and natural environments. Contact archives@northeastern.edu to learn more.

Baker Library, Harvard Business School

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While the resources of Baker Library cover a wide range of dates, geographical locations, and subject areas, they are particularly strong in documenting the growth of American business and industry from the late 18th-century through the early 20th-century. Researchers will find extensive manuscript collections as well as significant holdings of trade catalogs, trade cards, industrial photographs, and corporate reports. These research materials are furthermore supported by comprehensive book collections, which are especially rich in trade publications, government documents, corporate histories and publications, and business directories. Baker Library also houses the Kress Collection of Business and Economics, an expansive collection of rare books published before 1850, as well as the official archives of the Harvard Business School.

Boston Athenæum

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Founded in 1807, the Boston Athenaeum is a unique combination of library, museum, and cultural center in a magnificent landmark building, and one of the country’s oldest and most distinguished independent libraries, with a circulating collection of over half a million books from works published in the 1800s to the latest best sellers. Special collections include active research holdings of 100,000 rare books, maps, and manuscripts, and 100,000 works of art, from paintings and sculpture to prints and photographs.

The library has narrowed its focus from being encyclopedic in the 19th century to its current focus on the humanities, especially strong in art and architecture, biography, book arts and bibliography, general interest, history, and literary fiction. Special collections include early American imprints; 18th and 19th century tracts; early American broadsides; publications in Native American languages; early Boston newspapers, imprints of the Confederate States of America, and portions of personal libraries (most notably George Washington); the King’s Chapel Collection; a modest manuscript collection, an extensive collection on the art of the book including bookbinding, fine printing and contemporary artists’ books; as well as a nationally recognized collection of prints, photographs, and drawings dating from the eighteenth century to the present. Finally, the institutional archive provides records highlighting library and reading history. For more information, please contact the Boston Athenaeum at reference@bostonathenaeum.org.

Boston Public Library & Norman B. Leventhal Map Center

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The Boston Public Library's Research & Special Collections includes an estimated 19.5 million items covering rare books, manuscripts, photographs, prints, paintings, music, government documents, newspapers, archival collections, architectural drawings and more. Strengths include Boston and Massachusetts history, with a particular focus on colonial Boston history, anti-slavery movements in Boston, Massachusetts newspapers, Boston music making, Massachusetts community cookbooks, and Boston press photography. Other areas of strength include early printed music; anarchist writings and radical movements; 19th-century American abolitionism; prints related to entertainment, advertising, war and social unrest; early European printed books and manuscripts; and archival collections related to artists and theaters in Boston. The BPL is also a depository of federal documents and has one the largest collections of government documents in the country. Please note that not all collections have descriptions online; we highly encourage researchers to contact us to inquire if we have material related to your project.

With over 200,000 maps, 5,000 atlases, and various other material relating to historical geography, the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library is one of the nation’s preeminent collections for cartographic and geographic research. Collection strengths include Boston and New England; the American Revolution; maritime charts and atlases; and urban maps and bird’s eye views. An emerging collections strength comprises material relating to the computer revolution in cartography, geospatial data, and critical cartography.

The Boston Public Library encourages research projects that focus on cultural and social movements within Boston area history, including Boston's musical history, anti-slavery movement, and urban development. The Leventhal Map & Education Center particularly welcomes research projects that link cartographic representation together with urban and environmental history, landscape studies, the history of science and technology, and the study of communities and regions.

To contact the BPL and LMEC, please email specialcollections@bpl.org and identify yourself as a potential NERFC applicant. Please note that our reference staff typically need two to three weeks to fully assist in research inquiries.

John J. Burns Library, Boston College

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The John J. Burns Library is Boston College’s archives, rare books, and special collections library. Burns Library holds over 200,000 volumes and over 700 archival collections that span a wide breadth of subject areas. Particular collections strengths include: Irish and Irish diaspora literature, politics, culture, history, and music; Catholic studies; Jesuit studies; American social movements; 20th century American politics; Caribbean history; early Latin American history; nursing history, theory, and practice; and Boston history.

For more information, contact Burns Library Head of Public Services, Marta Crilly at crillyma@bc.edu.

Colonial Society of Massachusetts

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Since its founding in 1892, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts has dedicated itself to advancing the study of early America, especially the colonies of New England. Scholars of the colonial and Revolutionary periods have long considered the Society's published documentary collections essential to their research. The Society also sponsors conferences, panels, forums, and educational programming for its members and others. Finally, through individual prizes and fellowships, the Society promotes outstanding research in the study of early America. Toward this end, the Society is pleased to offer a Colonial Society of Massachusetts Regional Fellowship each year that underwrites a NERFC Fellow undertaking research on the history of New England before the American Revolution. Candidates for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts Regional Fellowship will be considered without special application; potential candidates do not need to contact the Colonial Society.

The Congregational Library & Archives

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The Congregational Library & Archives' physical collection of some 225,000 books, pamphlets, periodicals, and archival sources and digital collection of 130,000 images documents the growth and development of this important religious tradition. The collections begin with the English Reformation and run through the current day. Particular strengths include British and American puritan sources, seventeenth through twenty-first century church records and town meetings from across the country, books and manuscripts documenting the missionary movement around the world, one of the nation's largest sermon collections, and a full archive of Congregational social and political activism from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries.

Potential applicants can view digitized materials at www.congregationallibrary.quartexcollections.com. Applicants are encouraged to reach out to the CLA's Head of Reader Services at ref@14beacon.org if they have questions about the collection.

Connecticut Museum of Culture and History

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Founded in 1825, the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History (formerly the Connecticut Historical Society) is a non-profit museum, library, research and education center. The Connecticut Museum brings the state’s culture and history into focus, sparking curiosity, deepening understanding, and strengthening connections that bring communities together across generations. Services include onsite and remote research assistance, exhibitions, public and behind-the-scenes tours, and programming for all ages.

The Museum’s vast collection includes over 4 million documents, 312,000 photographs, prints and drawings, 138,000 printed volumes, 40,000 objects and paintings, 14,400 broadsides, posters and maps, and 10,000 architectural drawings.

Highlights from the collection include the first (1764) issue of America’s oldest continuously running newspaper, cased photographs produced by photographer Augustus Washington, a dress worn to President Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural ball, post-WWII clothing, papers and photographs owned by a local WAVES (United States Women’s Naval Reserve) member; letters written during Reconstruction by Hartford schoolteacher and namesake of the Primus Institute, and the earliest known (ca. 1756) view of a Connecticut town, painted by a Haddam woman, among many others.

The Museum’s collection spans the colonial period through present day and is an essential resource for documenting the history and development of Connecticut and New England. Consult the online catalogs to browse the collection.

Email sdixon@connecticutmuseum.org and/or call 860.236.5621 x 228 for staff assistance.

Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

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Countway Library's Center for the History of Medicine is one of the world's leading resources for the study of the history of health and medicine. Our holdings reflect nearly every medical and public health discipline, including anatomy, anesthesiology, dentistry, internal medicine (and medical specialties), medical jurisprudence, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, pharmacy and pharmacology, psychiatry and psychology, and surgery, as well as a wide array of public health subjects, including industrial hygiene, nutrition, tropical medicine, and medical activism throughout the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The Center’s archives and manuscripts include the personal and professional papers of prominent American physicians, Harvard faculty and biomedical researchers, the records of medical organizations and health care institutions, and the institutional records of Harvard Medical School (founded 1782), Harvard School of Dental Medicine (founded 1867), and Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (founded 1922).

Applicants should send questions to chm@hms.harvard.edu.

Mary Baker Eddy Library

The Mary Baker Eddy Library provides public access and context to original materials and to educational experiences about Eddy’s life, ideas, achievements, and legacy. Our collections center on her papers as well as records documenting the history of the Christian Science movement. Relevant areas of research include the fields of women’s history, spirituality and health, religious studies, nineteenth-century history, cultural and social history, architecture, and journalism. A select list of resources include: Eddy’s scrapbooks and copybooks; household account ledgers and receipts; a fully-indexed file of newspapers clippings that date to the late-nineteenth century; Eddy’s sermons and lectures; an extensive historic photograph collection; architectural records; a collection of more than 460 historic Bibles, Bible reference, devotional, and related books; and Eddy’s correspondence and manuscript material, which offer opportunities for new analysis of her life and ideas. Our records also include This is an active, growing body of material documenting many activities of The Mother Church and The Christian Science Publishing Society, including religious publications and The Christian Science Monitor. Please contact us at fellowships@mbelibrary.org with any questions.

Harvard Divinity School Library

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The Harvard Divinity School Library supports the study of multiple religious traditions and their relation to other disciplines and practices, such as politics, ethics, women’s studies, gender studies, social sciences, philosophy, history, literature, the arts, pastoral care, and ministry. Historical collections from the 15th through the 19th centuries are particularly strong in early printed Bibles; the literature of the Protestant Reformation; materials related to Arminianism, Unitarianism, Universalism, and other American liberal and nonconformist religious traditions; publications of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM); and illustrated family and imperial Bibles from the 18th and 19th centuries. Harvard Divinity School Library serves as the official archive for the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Beacon Press, and their predecessor bodies; collects administrative and financial records, letters, diaries, photographs, video footage, and more from a variety of other institutions and traditions; and holds personal papers and records of many noted theologians, scholars, and religious leaders, such as William Ellery Channing, Caspar René Gregory, Kirsopp and Silva Lake, George Ernest Wright, Paul Tillich, H. Richard Niebuhr, Gordon Kaufman, and Anandamayi Ma. For more information, please contact the Harvard Divinity School Library at research@hds.harvard.edu.

Harvard Law School Library – Historical & Special Collections

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With nearly 8,000 linear feet of manuscripts, approximately 300,000 rare books, and more than 70,000 paintings, prints, photographs, and other visual materials, the Harvard Law School Library’s Historical & Special Collections houses one of the world's most comprehensive collections of research materials for the study of the history of the law in general and of Anglo-American law in particular. Particularly noteworthy are its comprehensive collections of English and American statute books, case reporters, and legal treatises; more than 10,000 volumes, spanning the last five centuries, of the accounts of civil and criminal trials; English execution broadsides; legal manuscripts dating from the thirteenth century; extensive holdings of the papers of Joseph Story; Simon Greenleaf; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; Louis Brandeis; Felix Frankfurter; Roscoe Pound and other jurists and legal educators; and important manuscript collections relating to such organizations and events as the New England Watch and Ward Society, the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, and the Alger Hiss case. The legal art collection, by far the best anywhere of its type, has portraits and photographic images of lawyers and judges as well as of famous trials, and legal controversies.

The Harvard Law School library is currently only open to Harvard affiliates for in-person research, and we are unable to predict when the library will be open to outside researchers. NERFC applicants for the 2022-2023 cycle should be prepared to work with digitized materials, including HLS’s digital collections. The library is able to offer limited reproduction services for NERFC fellows. Please reach out to Historical & Special Collections with additional questions regarding access: specialc@law.harvard.edu

Harvard University Archives

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The Harvard University Archives, the oldest and largest academic archives in the United States, documents the University’s evolution from a small college to a modern research university of international scope and the community of people over four centuries responsible for that change. In addition to documenting teaching, research, and other work undertaken at Harvard, the collections record the University’s involvement in national and world events. From 17th-century property deeds and wills to 21st-century web sites, the collections comprise over 51,000 feet of University records and publications, personal and faculty archives, and related historical materials that include paper correspondence, minutes and reports, photographs, film, audio and video recordings, and electronic files. The collections support research by scholars of social, intellectual, cultural, and local history as well as the history of higher education in the US and abroad.

John Hay Library, Brown University

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With millions of rare and unique codices, manuscripts, broadsides, maps, prints, photographs, stamps and pieces of sheet music, the John Hay Library contains one of the most diverse arrays of Special Collections in Rhode Island. Alongside signature collections in American poetry and military iconography, its holdings include under-appreciated strengths in the global history of science, pseudo-sciences and science fiction; literary, religious and popular histories of magic, magical performance and the occult; gay and lesbian literature; 20th-century extremist and dissenting printed propaganda; alcoholism from temperance reform to AA; women’s history and feminist theory; Latin American history and politics; as well as the book arts from papermaking to early printing and literary realia. University Archives, housed in within the Library, comprises the extant records of Brown University from its founding in 1764 to the present.

Historic Deerfield

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Internationally recognized collections of furniture, early American silver, English ceramics and Chinese export porcelain, textiles, needlework, and costume are complemented by important holdings of manuscripts, printed works, and microform. The Memorial Libraries, comprising the collections of Historic Deerfield and the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, feature extensive holdings of family papers from the Deerfield area, hundreds of diaries and account books, church records and manuscript sermons, as well as major collections of secondary sources in local history and the decorative arts. For more information, please contact Jeanne Solensky at jsolensky@historic-deerfield.org.

Houghton Library, Harvard University

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Founded in 1942, Houghton Library is the principal rare book and manuscript repository of Harvard College Library and one of the preeminent academic research libraries in the Unites States. Holding approximately 600,000 books and more than 10 million manuscripts, Houghton is recognized as a leading center for the study of American, English, and Continental history and literature, with special emphasis in printing, graphic arts, theatre history, and New England history and culture. Please direct queries about library holdings relative to your project to the reference services team at Houghton_Library@harvard.edu.

Maine Historical Society

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Maine Historical Society holds the most comprehensive collection of manuscript and printed materials documenting what is today the state of Maine. Collection strengths include maps and treaties which illustrate the shared Wabanaki and Colonial experience; European exploration, settlement, and land-use; personal and organizational records reflecting economic, religious, social, and political history; family history collections; the maritime history of Maine, New England, and the Canadian Maritimes; and exceptional photography, cartographic, newspaper, architecture, and engineering records. The library also provides research access to MHS’s museum and three-dimensional object collections. For more information, please contact Katie Alleman, Research & Administrative Librarian at research@mainehistory.org.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Manuscripts form the heart of the collections at the Massachusetts Historical Society. The Society houses more than 14 million pieces in 3,500 separate collections of personal papers and institutional records. The Society's collections also include several hundred thousand books, more than 20,000 broadsides, 30,000 18th- and 19th-century pamphlets, 5,000 maps, 150,000 microforms, and 200,000 historic photographs. The Society offers about 20 four-week grants through a separate competition, and applicants who would like to use its holdings for more than two weeks are referred to its program of short-term fellowships. For more information, please contact the Massachusetts Historical Society at fellowships@masshist.org.

Mystic Seaport Museum

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The Museum's collections record the American maritime experience. Mystic Seaport holds more than 2 million items, including vessels, photographs, film and video footage, manuscripts, imprints, art, tools, and artifacts dating from the 18th century to the present. At the G. W. Blunt White Library, researchers will find 1,000,000 manuscript pieces, 75,000 volumes of books and periodicals, 2,000 rolls of microfilm, 1,000 ships registers, 1,300 logbooks, 700 audiotape oral history interviews, 200 videotape interviews, and 9,000 maps and charts. For more information, please contact the Mystic Seaport Museum at collections@mysticseaport.org or 860-572-5367.

New Hampshire Historical Society

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The New Hampshire Historical Society houses the finest collections anywhere of printed, manuscript, and pictorial materials relating to New Hampshire history. Printed collections—about 40,000 volumes—include thousands of genealogies, town histories, and biographies as well as more than 1,000 maps. Manuscript holdings comprise 1,700 linear feet of personal papers and institutional records. There are 800,000 pages of New Hampshire newspapers from 1756 to 1900 and 200,000 negatives and photographic images. The library also holds a unique card index that provides biographical information on about 30,000 "New Hampshire Notables." Museum collections include works of the "White Mountain School" of landscape artists, New Hampshire furniture, and materials associated with the lives and careers of many noteworthy New Hampshire residents.

Newport Historical Society

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The Newport Historical Society holds significant collections encompassing the five centuries of social and cultural diversity that makes Newport County unique. The archives and special collections include merchants’ records from the 18th to the 20th century, church records for fourteen congregations, log books for dozens of ships, family papers for hundreds of Newporters, an extensive collection of African-American history, town and city records, diaries, and journals. NHS’ object collection includes fine and decorative arts, furniture, musical instruments, textiles and clothing, artifacts of everyday life, and architectural fragments, with particular strength in the 18th century; NHS also has an extensive photograph collection dating from the 1840s to the present, including many images and scrapbooks from the gilded age period, as well as urban renewal and historic preservation efforts of the mid-20th century.

Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine

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The Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education (OML) at the University of Southern Maine is home to over 1.5 million items related to cartography and map history. Our collections range from 1475 to the present day and include a combination of maps, atlases, globes, rare books, manuscript material, and ephemera. Our collections focus on objects and items related to the history of cartography, the Holy Land, the history, growth, and development of the New England region, Westward expansion and land dispossession, and wars of the 20th century. OML has extensive collections of geographic board games, ocean liner ephemera, travel guides and literature, road maps, and materials related to the history of textile mills. We also have an extensive collection of American and European geography textbooks (1700s-1950s) and educational materials created by students (both male and female) and educators dating back to the 1700s. Our contemporary reference library (circulating) includes over 9000 volumes related to geography, history and cartography (broadly conceived).

The Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum

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The Phillips Library is the research library of the Peabody Essex Museum. Our collections include several hundred thousand printed volumes, over a linear mile of manuscripts, thousands of logbooks, account books, diaries, printed ephemera, photo albums, and photographs. Our subject strengths are Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Oceanic, Native American, and other art and cultures; maritime; natural history; popular and reform literature; religious life and doctrine; and subjects related to Salem and Essex County art, architecture, history, and culture. These demonstrate the impact of local residents in pre-20th century New England politics, economics, religion, reform movements, and transportation. In addition, our holdings document the role of New Englanders in national history, their involvement in the Revolutionary War, westward expansion, the Civil War, and the growth of global trade. Please contact us at research@pem.org and browse our catalog here.

Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College

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Rauner Special Collections Library is the primary repository for Dartmouth’s rare book, manuscript, and archival holdings. The collections reflect the long and rich history of Dartmouth and the surrounding regions. Special Collections holds extensive manuscript and published material related to Robert Frost and Daniel Webster, the Stefansson Collection on Polar Exploration, and the White Mountains. Collections related to the history of New Hampshire and Vermont include the papers of Sherman Adams, Winston Churchill, Charles Tobey, and the E. H. Young Eisenhower Campaign. The papers of Maxfield Parrish and Augustus Saint-Gaudens are part of a series of related collections documenting the history of New Hampshire’s Cornish Colony, which also includes the MacKaye Family papers (Steele, Percy, Hazel, and Benton). There are dozens of book collections centered on authors like Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Melville, along with an extensive New Hampshire Imprints collection, the Edward P. Sine ‘51 Collection of Illustrated Children’s Books, and a Presses collection that chronicles the history of printing from the 15th century to the present. Students make regular use of the pre-1600 manuscripts for course work, a collection that includes a small but very rich trove of books of hours, a 15th-century prose Brut Chronicle, a 14th-century Roman de la Rose, and a strong collection of early musical manuscripts.

For more information about the collections, contact Rauner’s Reference Department (rauner.reference@dartmouth.edu). To discuss NERFC proposals, contact Morgan Swan, Special Collections Librarian for Teaching and Scholarly Engagement (morgan.swan@dartmouth.edu).

Rhode Island Historical Society

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The library and museum collections of the Society are vital to the study of Rhode Island's history. The library's printed collection includes local, military, economic, social, political, and ecclesiastical histories; municipal and corporate publications; and large holdings of Rhode Island newspapers and early imprints. The library's genealogy section is among the largest in New England. Manuscript collections date from 1652 to the present. Researchers will find personal papers and organizational records. The graphics collection includes photographs, prints, broadsides, maps, watercolors, drawings, engravings, and ephemera. Important museum holdings include collections of Rhode Island furniture, works of local artists, and historical objects.

Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute

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The Schlesinger Library is a leading center for research on the history of women and gender in the United States. In addition to its strengths in the study of women’s rights and feminisms, women’s health, activism, education, work, family life, and culinary history, the Library’s collections document the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class in American history. The Library’s holdings date from the founding of the United States to the present and include more than 4,500 manuscript collections, 150,000 volumes of books and periodicals, 200,000 photographs, and audiovisual materials.

Part of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, the Schlesinger Library fosters innovative interdisciplinary research and supports students, scholars, and community members through its fellowships, grants, and public programs. Open to all, the Library welcomes visitors to explore its collections and discover resources that deepen understanding of the history of women, gender, and society.

For more information, please contact Becky Morin, Head of Research Services: becky_morin@radcliffe.harvard.edu.

Silver Special Collections Library, University of Vermont

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Special Collections at the University of Vermont holds Vermont research materials, rare books, and the historical records of the University. Strengths of the Vermont materials include papers relating to Euro-American settlement and statehood (Allen Family, Stephen R. Bradley, and others), family/social history, letters of hundreds of Vermont Civil War soldiers, literature (Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Hayden Carruth, Howard Frank Mosher, and many more), notable Vermonters such as George Perkins Marsh, and Congressional and gubernatorial collections, including papers of most of Vermont’s governors and members of Congress in the 20th century. Other Vermont materials include maps, photographs, broadsides, and ephemera. The Rare Book collection includes medieval manuscripts, early printed books, a notable collection of illustrated editions of Ovid from 1480 to the 21st century, accounts of explorations of the Americas, and artists’ books. Archival collections document the University presidents, trustees, and other executive offices, administrative and curricular matters, and student life, from the early 19th century to the present. For more information, please contact Prudence Doherty, Public Services Librarian, at uvmsc@uvm.edu.

Vermont Historical Society

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The Vermont Historical Society collects, preserves, and makes available a wide variety of materials documenting the history and people of Vermont. The Society's manuscript collection is particularly strong in family history, agriculture, manufacturing, tourism, railroads, religion, military (especially the Civil War), immigration and emigration, government and politics, and early crafts and trades. Books and pamphlets date from the 1770s to the present and address all aspects of Vermont history. Other important library collections include maps, broadsides, periodicals, photographs, and genealogy. The Society's museum holds more than 20,000 artifacts of Vermont history, including paintings, furniture, and decorative-arts objects. For more information, please contact the Vermont Historical Society at library@vermonthistory.org.

Williams Special Collections, Williams College

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Williams Special Collections includes the College Archives and Chapin Library. Our collections feature rare and unique imprints, including incunabula, early Americana, English and American literature, classical literature, and the history of science, as well as a growing collection focused on the arts of the book in Asia. Our archival holdings document the history of Williams College and support research into American higher education, the liberal arts, 19th century missionary movements, and 20th century social history. For more details about our collections please visit our library catalog and ArchivesSpace interface. For more information, please contact the Williams Special Collections at specialcollections@williams.edu or 413-597-4200.

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