General
Named to honor the founder of Smith College in 1946, today the Collection consists of over 8,000 feet (2,400 m) of material documenting the historical experience of women in the United States and abroad from the colonial era to the present.
Subject strengths include birth control and reproductive rights, women's rights, suffrage, the contemporary women's movement, U.S. women working abroad, the arts (especially theatre), the professions (especially journalism and social work), and middle-class family life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New England. Many of these collections are rich sources of visual, as well as manuscript and printed material.
Open to the public free of charge, the Collection does not circulate but is available to everyone, can be visited online, or requested as photocopies. The Sophia Smith Collection shares facilities with the Smith College Archives on the college’s campus in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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