Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Much of the material in this category relates to the lives and actions of individual women as writers, laborers, protesters, advocates, organizers, philosophers, and philanthropists. However, material included under this topic also illustrates notions of gender and sexuality as defined by the individual and society.
American Left Ephemera Collection
A wide-range of primary source textual and visual material documents left-wing organizations in the U.S. during the 20th century.
Elsie H. Hillman Papers
Public speeches delivered by Elsie H. Hillman to a variety of audiences and gatherings.
Jennie Bradley Roessing Papers
The Papers of Jennie Bradley Roessing document her role as an active participant in the women's suffrage movement in the early 1900s and various Pittsburgh-area civic, labor, and community organizations through the late 1950s
Mary Roberts Rinehart Papers
Papers document the career of Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958), who was a popular and prolific American author in the first half of the 20th century. Best known for her mysteries, Rinehart published poems, short stories, plays, articles, essays, memoirs, romances, and novels.
National Organization for Women (NOW) Newsletters
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is a grassroots activist women's organization that operates on national, state, regional, and local levels. This collection is comprised mainly of newsletters and flyers from various Pittsburgh Area NOW chapters, primarily from the 1970s.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Wilkinsburg, Pa. Records
Collection contains a constitution and by-laws, a directory, reports, minute books, a membership roll book (1911), programs, memorabilia, and published histories regarding organizational operations and activities of the Woman's Temperance Union of Wilkinsburg from 1885-1955.
