Guide to The search for equity: Women at Brown University, 1891-1991, records, 1987-1992

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:	The Search For Equity: Women at Brown University records
Date range:	1987-1992
Creator:	Brown University.
Extent:	1.25 Linear feet
Abstract:	The Search for Equity: Women at Brown University, 1891-1991, records include correspondence, clippings, surveys filled out by alumnae and women volunteers, Karen Lamoree's research material on alumnae and other women volunteers, and drafts of articles. The material dates from 1987 through 1992.
Language of materials:	English
Repository:	John Hay Library , Special Collections
Collection number:	OF.1E.7

Scope & content

The Search for Equity: Women at Brown University, 1891-1991, Records contain promotional and source material for the collection of essays by the same name which was published during the centennial year of women's education at Brown University. These records include correspondence, clippings, surveys filled out by alumnae and women volunteers, Karen Lamoree's research material on alumnae and other women volunteers, and drafts of articles. The material dates from 1987 to 1992.

The collection is arranged in two series. Series I, Correspondence, Promotional and Administrative Material, contains records kept by Barbara Anton, Director of Alumnae Affairs at Pembroke College, and records kept by Karen Lamoree, Christine Dunlap Farnham Archivist at the time of the centennial.

Series II, Alumnae Surveys, contains completed surveys returned by graduates from the Classes of 1930 through 1985 (quinquennial classes only). Use of these surveys is restricted; see the folder Scope and Contents note for guidelines.

Access Points

Subject Names

• Anton, Barbara, 1926-2007
• Kaufman, Polly Welts, 1929-
• Lamoree, Karen M.
• Kaufman, Polly Welts, 1929-

Subject Organizations

• Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women.
• Brown University--Alumni and alumnae.

Subject Topics

• Education
• Women--Education

Document Types

• Clippings
• Correspondence
• Drafts (Documents)
• Questionnaires
• Research notes

Subject Topics

• Education

Arrangement

The Search for Equity: Women at Brown University 1891-1991 records are organized in two series:

• I. Correspondence, promotional, administrative
• II. Alumnae surveys

Administrative history

In preparation for the centennial of women's education at Brown University, the university commissioned a collection of essays. Polly Welts Kaufman (1951) edited and wrote the introduction to the collection of ten articles. Kaufman and Karen Lamoree (then Christine Dunlap Farnham Archivist) distributed surveys to 14 classes of alumnae celebrating reunions in May 1990. Charlotte Lowney Tomas (1957) used the alumnae surveys for "A Wider World: Careers of Brown Alumnae" (309-345). Lamoree used other surveys for her article "A network of Women: Alumnae Volunteerism in Rhode Island" (279-307).

The Search for Equity: Women at Brown University, 1891-1991, was edited by Polly Welts Kaufman and published by the Brown University Press in 1991.

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:	None of the reunion surveys are to be quoted, nor names used, without permission from the individual, regardless of which agreement she signed on the survey. They may be used ONLY for factual biographical information or aggregate analysis until the alumnae's death or 80 years after the graduation of her class. The agreement pertained only to the use of the surveys for the book. The rest of this collection is unrestricted.
Preferred citation:	The Search For Equity: Women at Brown University, 1891-1991, Records, OF-1E-7, 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
Acquisition:	The surveys were donated to the John Hay Library in October 1991 by editor Polly Welts Kaufman via Christine Love, director of Alumni Relations. Karen Lamoree's records were in the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archivist's files. One folder of correspondence was donated by the Pembroke Center in 1992.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID
Author:	Finding aid prepared by Brown University 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.

Additional Information

Related material:	"One Hundred Years of Women at Brown" records, OF.1E.6, Brown University Archives.
Other information:	Kaufman, Polly Welts (Ed.). (1991) The Search for Equity : Women at Brown University, 1891-1991. Providence, RI: Brown University Press. Leatherbound Hay Archives copy: 1-ZP Se27. Rockefeller stacks and Annex copies: LD638 .S43 1991.

Inventory

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