Papers, 1915-1958.

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Papers, 1915-1958.

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Papers include correspondence, published articles, manuscripts, notes, photographs, clippings, and books relating primarily to the organization and dissolution of the World Center for Women's Archives, the founding of bothe the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College and the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College, both women's history archives. Additional material pertains to Beard's book, Woman as Force in Japanese History (1953). Correspondants include Dorothy Brush; Ethel Weed; prominent Japanese activist and Diet member, Shizue Kato; Sophia Smith Collection founder, Margaret Grierson; and Grierson's companion, Marine Leland.

2.25 linear ft. (2 boxes; 13 v.)

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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World Center for Women's Archives (New York, N.Y.)

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Sophia Smith Collection. Smith College--History.

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Grierson, Margaret.

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Katō, Shizue, 1897-

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Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958

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Beard, Charles Austin, 1874-1948

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Brush, Dorothy Hamilton, 1894-1968

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Birth control advocate; Women's rights advocate; Author. Dorothy Hamilton Brush (1894-1968) began working with Margaret Sanger as a volunteer at her clinic in the 1930s. Brush joined Sanger as a birth control missionary to Europe and the Far East. She helped found International Planned Parenthood Federation and started and edited its first newsletter. She researched and wrote on birth control, sex education, Margaret Sanger and her work, Japanese women, and menopause. Brush was married 3 times t...