Society of Woman Geographers records, 1925-1998. 

 - 17,000  items. 51  containers. 20.2  linear feet. 
<br/><br/> Open to research.  Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. 
<br/><br/> Inactive membership files containing completed nomination and application forms, biographical and professional files,  correspondence pertaining to membership status, yearly summary sheets noting research activities, travel, and fieldwork, printed material, newspaper articles, obituaries and memorial tributes, and photographs.  Information about the founding and operation of the society appears in the files of the following members who served on the executive council or as officers of regional chapters: Harriet Chalmers Adams, Dorothy M. Andrews, Mary Hastings Bradley, Berta N. Briggs, Edna Fay Campbell, Frances Carpenter, Mary McRae Colby, Mabel Cook Cole, Elizabeth Derr Davisson, Nordis Adelheid Felland, Alice Foster, Florence Page Jaques, Muna Lee, Florence de L. Lowther, Reba Forbes Morse, Ruth Crosby Noble, Mary A. Nourse, Elizabeth Fagg Olds, Marie Ahnighito Peary, Isabelle F. Story, Helen M. Strong, Helen Damrosch Tee-Van, Mildred G. Uhrbrock, and Mary Chamberlain Vander Pyl.  Other women represented include: geographers Elina Gonzáles Acha de Correa Morales, Elsie May Grosvenor, and Helen B. Smith; anthropolgists and ethnologists Frances Densmore, Theodora Kroeber, Mary D. Leakey, and Margaret Mead; explorers and adventurers Delia J. Akeley, Muriel Agnes Eleanora Talbot Brown, Sally Clark, Hettie Dyhrenfurth, and Annie S. Peck; environmentalists Rachel Carson and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas; aviators Louise Arner Boyd and Amelia Earhart; artist Lucille Sinclair Douglass; archaeologists Margaret Alice Murray and Esther Boise Van Deman; novelists Pearl S. Buck, Bettina Peter Lum Crowe, Alice Tisdale Hobart, and Margaret Landon; journalists and photographers Ruby A. Black, Margaret Bourke-White, Dickey Chapelle, May Craig, Laura Gilpin, Ella Fullmore Harllee, and Rose Wilder Lane; public health specialists Marion Crary Ingersoll and Mary Lee Mills; librarians and archivists Virginia Haviland and Irene Aloha Wright; and historian Mary Ritter Beard, U.S. representative Frances Payne Bingham Bolton, and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. 
<br/><br/><br/>Founded in 1925 by Marguerite Harrison, Blair Niles, Gertrude Emerson Sen, and Gertrude Mathews Shelby to bring together women actively interested in geography, anthropology, world exploration, and allied disciplines. 
<br/><br/><br/>Collection material in English. 
<br/><br/> Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005005 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>mm 88065707  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Adams, Harriet Chalmers, 1875-1937. <br/>Akeley, Delia J. 1875?-1970. <br/>Andrews, Dorothy M. -1984. <br/>Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958. <br/>Black, Ruby A. 1896-1957. <br/>Bolton, Frances Payne Bingham, 1885-1977. <br/>Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971. <br/>Boyd, Louise Arner, 1887-1970. <br/>Bradley, Mary Hastings.<br/>Briggs, Berta N. 1884-1976. <br/>Brown, Muriel Agnes Eleanora Talbot, 1874- <br/>Buck, Pearl S. 1892-1973. <br/>Campbell, Edna Fay, 1881-1969. <br/>Carpenter, Frances, 1890-1972. <br/>Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964. <br/>Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965. <br/>Clark, Sally, 1883-1982. <br/>Colby, Mary McRae, 1899?-1985. <br/>Cole, Mabel Cook, -approximately 1978. <br/>Craig, May, 1889?-1975. <br/>Crowe, Bettina Peter Lum, 1911- <br/>Davisson, Elizabeth Derr, 1899?-1965. <br/>Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957. <br/>Douglas, Marjorie Stoneman.<br/>Douglass, Lucille Sinclair, -1935. <br/>Dyhrenfurth, Hettie, 1892- <br/>Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937. <br/>Felland, Nordis Adelheid, 1901- <br/>Foster, Alice, 1872-1962. <br/>Gilpin, Laura.<br/>González Acha de Correa Morales, Elina, 1861-1942. <br/>Grosvenor, Elsie May, 1878-1964. <br/>Harllee, Ella Fullmore, 1916?-1983. <br/>Harrison, Marguerite, 1879?-1967. <br/>Haviland, Virginia, 1911- <br/>Hobart, Alice Tisdale, 1882-1967. <br/>Ingersoll, Marion Crary, 1880-1972. <br/>Jaques, Florence Page, 1890-1972. <br/>Kroeber, Theodora.<br/>Landon, Margaret, 1903-1993. <br/>Lane, Rose Wilder, 1886-1968. <br/>Leakey, Mary D. 1913-1996. <br/>Lee, Muna, 1895?-1970. <br/>Lowther, Florence de L. 1884-1970. <br/>Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978. <br/>Mills, Mary Lee, 1912- <br/>Morse, Reba Forbes, -1982. <br/>Murray, Margaret Alice.<br/>Niles, Blair.<br/>Noble, Ruth Crosby, 1897- <br/>Nourse, Mary A. 1880-1971. <br/>Olds, Elizabeth Fagg.<br/>Peary, Marie Ahnighito, 1893-1978. <br/>Peck, Annie S. 1850-1935. <br/>Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962. <br/>Sen, Gertrude Emerson, -1982. <br/>Shelby, Gertrude Mathews, 1881-1937. <br/>Smith, Helen B.<br/>Story, Isabelle F. 1888-1970. <br/>Strong, Helen M. 1890-1973. <br/>Tee-Van, Helen Damrosch, 1893-1976. <br/>Uhrbrock, Mildred G.<br/>Van Deman, Esther Boise, 1862-1937. <br/>Vander Pyl, Mary Chamberlain, 1888-1979. <br/>Wright, Irene Aloha, 1879-1972. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Adventure and adventurers.<br/>Environmentalists.<br/>Ethnologists.<br/>Presidents' spouses--United States.<br/>Public health personnel.<br/>Women air pilots.<br/>Women anthropologists.<br/>Women archaeologists.<br/>Women archivists.<br/>Women artists.<br/>Women explorers.<br/>Women geographers.<br/>Women geographers--Societies, etc.<br/>Women historians.<br/>Women journalists.<br/>Women legislators.<br/>Women librarians.<br/>Women novelists.<br/>Women photographers.