From the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College and other sources

History of Women was produced from two renowned collections--The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College and The Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College -- providing thousands of printed and manuscript sources amassed from women's individual and corporate activities. Other sources for this collection include the Jane Addams Hull House Library (for coverage of the settlement house movement, and activities of women in social reform in the late 19th and 20th centuries); the private collection of Miriam Y. Holden, a participant in the struggle for equality of women (for sources on Medieval and Western European women); the Ida Rust Macpherson Collection from Scripps College (for coverage of the role of women in the westward movement); and the holdings of the New York Public Library, the Galatea Collection of the Boston Public Library, the Widener Library at Harvard University and the Yale University Libraries.

A wealth of research material on numerous topics in women's history is provided, including:

• Colonial women
• Early European women
• History of women in domestic employment
• The education of women
• The family and childcare
• The wages and employment of women
• Women and crime
• Women and the anti-slavery movement
• Women and the law
• Women in the humanist tradition
• Women in the westward movement
• Women in Western Europe
• Women's rights
• Women's suffrage--American and foreign

Access to this comprehensive collection is facilitated by a printed guide: History of Women: Guide to the Microfilm Collection, which includes a reel guide summary for monographs, pamphlets and photographs; an alphabetical main-entry list; an alphabetical periodicals title list; a subject/added entry index; and a name index to photographs.

Complete Collection: 1,248 reels

Units 1-19: Monographs
934 reels

Unit 20: Pamphlets, Photographs and Manuscripts
61 reels

Units 21-25: Periodicals
253 reels

Machine-Readable Cataloging: OCLC WorldCat; 9,458 titles