US-RPB-of1E.6 Guide to the One Hundred Years of Women at Brown records1984-1992 Finding aid prepared by Brown University Library staff Processing funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Brown University Archives
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English 1.25 Linear feet 1984-1992 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. Brown University. One Hundred Years of Women at Brown records 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).

 Transcending Boundaries: Women, Power And Leadership Series I 1991-1992 Publicity 1 1 1991 Scope and Contents note

Flyers

 Convocation: Mary T.W. Robinson, President of Ireland 1 2 1991 Scope and Contents note

Program

 Excerpts from a centennial symposium 1 3 1991 Scope and Contents note

Booklet of transcripts of four addresses, includes addresses by Kathryn Scott Fuller, Joan W. Scott, Mary Robinson, Mary Gluck, and Martha Nussbaum

 Visions: An Alumni Cabaret 1 4 1991 Scope and Contents note

Program

 Going a Hundred 1 5 1991 Scope and 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

 Going a Hundred 1 6 1991 Scope and Contents note

Script used for October performance

 A Matter Of Simple Justice: One Hundred Years Of Women's Higher Education In Rhode Island Series II 1988-1992 Lamoree, Karen, Pembroke Center 1 1 1988, 1991 Scope and Contents note

Proposal draft, proposal to Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities

 Startup, Hetty 1 2 1990-1991 January Scope and Contents note

Correspondence

 Startup, Hetty 1 3 1991 September-1992 March Scope and Contents note

Correspondence

 Startup, Hetty 1 4 1992 March-April Scope and Contents note

Correspondence

 Startup, Hetty 1 5 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Notes, lists

 Startup, Hetty, and Elizabeth Weed 1 6 1992 Scope and Contents note

Final report to Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, includes "exhibit checklist" describing every item in exhibit

 Publicity 1 7 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Flyers

 Publicity 1 8 1992 Scope and Contents note

Articles, press releases

 Exhibit 1 9 1992 Scope and Contents note

Catalog

 Exhibit 1 10 1992 Scope and Contents note

Visitors register, photocopy of book kept at Annmary Brown Memorial

 Exhibit 1 11 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Layout of exhibit

 Exhibit: Sarah Doyle Portrait 1 12 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Label, calendar page

 Exhibit: timeline 1 13 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photographs of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: timeline 1 14 1992 Scope and Contents note

Storyboards, 4 folders

 Exhibit: Building on Equality 1 15 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: Women's Infinite Sphere 1 16 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: Design Education 1 17 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: Education for All 2 18 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: Women's College 2 19 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: Temperance and Education 2 20 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: Founding of URI 2 21 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: Founding of URI 2 22 1992 Scope and Contents note

Photographs not used in exhibit

 Exhibit: Student Dress 2 23 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: Separate Life Together 2 24 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: Reinventing College Tradition 2 25 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: Teaching Teachers and Children 2 26 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: Suffrage and the Great War 2 27 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: In Fitness and in Health 2 28 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: "True Daughters Are We..." 2 29 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: Teaching Women 2 30 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: War and Reconversion 2 31 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: Student Unrest 2 32 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: quilt, banner 2 33 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Locations, labels

 Exhibit: "Uppity Women" 2 34 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: Coeducation 2 35 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels, for oversized photograph see oversize photograph drawer

 Exhibit: Happy Millennium 2 36 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, labels

 Exhibit: Sisters of Education 2 37 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: Building of Difference 2 38 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, labels

 Exhibit: case 1, Anne Emery Allinson 2 39 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, title did not appear on exhibit case

 Exhibit: case 2, women in the Civil War 2 40 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, title did not appear on exhibit case

 Exhibit: case 3, designing for women's education 2 41 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, title did not appear on exhibit case

 Exhibit: case 4 2 42 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit

 Exhibit: case 5, Rhode Island in the 1940s and 1950s 2 43 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, title did not appear on exhibit case

 Exhibit: case 6, Jewish education 2 44 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of exhibited items, photographs in exhibit, title did not appear on exhibit case

 Exhibit: publicity 2 45 1992 Scope and Contents note

Photographs of objects and photographs in exhibit

 Exhibit: items not exhibited 2 46 Scope and Contents note

Photocopies, photographs

 Exhibit 2 47 Scope and Contents note

Call numbers of some items from Brown.

 Exhibit 3 48 1991 Scope and Contents note

Designer's resume

 Exhibit 3 49 1992 Scope and Contents note

Draft of labels

 Lectures 3 50 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Vitaes, Startup's introduction, flyers

 Lecture by Mari Jo Buhle 3 51 1992 April 15 Scope and Contents note

The Dawning Light of a New Era: Women's Quests for Learning in the Gilded Age, 1970-1900

 Lecture by Todd S. Gernes 3 52 1992 April 30 Scope and Contents note

Houp La! Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Martha Luther Lane, and Young Women's Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century Providence

 Other Events And General Planning Series III 1984-1992 Anton, Barbara 3 1 1984-1991 Scope and 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

 Lamoree, Karen 3 2 1987-1990 Scope and Contents note

Minutes, correspondence, material from other institutions, some minutes are of Ad Hoc Corporation Committee

 Pembroke Center for Research and Teaching on Women 3 3 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Cynthia Lee Jenner (1961) lecture series flyers, also includes invitation to "The Sporting Woman: InSights from her Past", an exhibition, and letter

 Commencement forums 3 4 1992 Scope and Contents note

Program

 Brown Learning Community, Brown Bookstore 3 5 1991-1992 Scope and Contents note

Flyers

 Collection information

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.

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.

Please note: Brown University does not own copyright on all of the photographs in this collection. Please see the back of the photographs in this collection; some are from the Rhode Island Historical Society, others are from the University of Rhode Island--these photographs cannot be used without permission from those institutions.

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

One Hundred Years of Women at Brown records, OF-1E-6, Brown University Archives.

 Administrative information

Additional information

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

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

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.

 Names Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. Brown University--History. Pembroke College (Brown University)--Students. Startup, Hetty Subjects Education Women in higher education Women's colleges--Rhode Island Women--Education Occupations

Types of Materials Correspondence Fliers (Printed matter) Minutes Photocopies Photographs Plays Programs Proposals Reports Transcripts RIAMCO Browsing Term Education