Guide to the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive records, circa 1973-1993

John Hay Library , Special Collections
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

Published in 2013

Collection Overview

Title:	Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive records
Date range:	circa 1973-1993
Creator:	Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive.
Extent:	2.25 Linear feet
Abstract:	The Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive contains office files arranged by topic and correspondence, which is arranged alphabetically. The topical files include materials related to women's history sources, oral histories, various women's organizations and conferences, newsletters and reports. The files are dated from circa 1973 to 1993.
Language of materials:	English
Repository:	John Hay Library , Special Collections
Collection number:	OF.1X.22

Scope & content

The Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive records comprise topical files and correspondence. Materials include letters, disserations, diaries, manuscripts, photographs, museum objects, newspapers, scrapbooks, and oral histories of Pembroke College Alumnae and Rhode Island women. The collection is organized in two series: The first series, Topical files, includes materials related to oral histories and women's organizations such as Women for a Non-Nuclear Future and the Pembroke Center Associates, newsletters, and numerous women's history sources. The second series comprises correspondence related to the archive. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically.

Access Points

Subject Organizations

• Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive.
• Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women.

Subject Topics

• Education
• Women in higher education
• Women's rights--United States.
• Women--Societies and clubs--Rhode Island

Document Types

• Letters (Correspondence)
• Office files

Subject Topics

• Education

Arrangement

The Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive records are organized in two series:

• 1. Topical files
• 2. Correspondence

Administrative History

A Pembroke College alumna, class of 1948, and founding board member of the Pembroke Associates, Christine Dunlap Farnham had long envisioned an archive chronicling the history of women at Pembroke College and Brown University and of women in Rhode Island. Upon her untimely death in 1984, Farnham's friends and associates honored her commitment to the Pembroke Center by helping to bring her archival project to fruition. The first stage of the project, funded by the Farnham Memorial, expanded Brown's collection of materials on Brown and Rhode Island women and organized and catalogued the wide-ranging documents on women's history already in the University Archives. Karen Lamoree’s Research Guide to the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive (1989) marks this effort through a detailed catalogue of the contents of the Farnham Archive, as well as other documents pertaining to women in Brown’s special collections.

The Pembroke Center has long pursued the archiving of the history of Brown and Rhode Island women, who have been extraordinary agents for social change on multiple fronts, in the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive. Housed primarily in the John Hay Library, this collection focuses on 19th- and 20th-century Brown and Rhode Island women and their organizations.

Access & Use

Access to the collection:	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.
Use of the materials:	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.
Preferred citation:	Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive records, OF-1X-22, Brown University Archives.
Contact information:	John Hay Library , Special Collections Box A Brown University Providence, RI 02912 Tel: 401-863-2146 email: hay@brown.edu

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION
ABOUT THE FINDING AID
Author:	Finding aid prepared by Brown Universtiy Library staff
Encoding:	This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013 January 28
Descriptive rules:	Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
Sponsor:	Processing funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

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