Society of Woman Geographers creator mixed material monographic eng 17,000 51 20.2 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. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. 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. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005005 Adams, Harriet Chalmers 1875-1937 Akeley, Delia J. (Delia Julia) 1875?-1970 Andrews, Dorothy M. (Dorothy May) -1984 Beard, Mary Ritter 1876-1958 Black, Ruby A. (Ruby Aurora) 1896-1957 Bolton, Frances Payne Bingham 1885-1977 Bourke-White, Margaret 1904-1971 Boyd, Louise Arner 1887-1970 Bradley, Mary Hastings Briggs, Berta N. (Berta Nabersberg) 1884-1976 Brown, Muriel Agnes Eleanora Talbot 1874- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker) 1892-1973 Campbell, Edna Fay 1881-1969 Carpenter, Frances 1890-1972 Carson, Rachel 1907-1964 Chapelle, Dickey 1919-1965 Clark, Sally 1883-1982 Colby, Mary McRae 1899?-1985 Cole, Mabel Cook -approximately 1978 Craig, May 1889?-1975 Crowe, Bettina Peter Lum 1911- Davisson, Elizabeth Derr 1899?-1965 Densmore, Frances 1867-1957 Douglas, Marjorie Stoneman Douglass, Lucille Sinclair -1935 Dyhrenfurth, Hettie 1892- Earhart, Amelia 1897-1937 Felland, Nordis Adelheid 1901- Foster, Alice 1872-1962 Gilpin, Laura González Acha de Correa Morales, Elina 1861-1942 Grosvenor, Elsie May 1878-1964 Harllee, Ella Fullmore 1916?-1983 Harrison, Marguerite 1879?-1967 Haviland, Virginia 1911- Hobart, Alice Tisdale 1882-1967 Ingersoll, Marion Crary 1880-1972 Jaques, Florence Page 1890-1972 Kroeber, Theodora Landon, Margaret 1903-1993 Lane, Rose Wilder 1886-1968 Leakey, Mary D. (Mary Douglas) 1913-1996 Lee, Muna 1895?-1970 Lowther, Florence de L. (Florence de Loiselle) 1884-1970 Mead, Margaret 1901-1978 Mills, Mary Lee 1912- Morse, Reba Forbes -1982 Murray, Margaret Alice Niles, Blair Noble, Ruth Crosby 1897- Nourse, Mary A. (Mary Augusta) 1880-1971 Olds, Elizabeth Fagg Peary, Marie Ahnighito 1893-1978 Peck, Annie S. (Annie Smith) 1850-1935 Roosevelt, Eleanor 1884-1962 Sen, Gertrude Emerson -1982 Shelby, Gertrude Mathews 1881-1937 Smith, Helen B. (Helen Belle) Story, Isabelle F. (Isabelle Florence) 1888-1970 Strong, Helen M. (Helen Mabel) 1890-1973 Tee-Van, Helen Damrosch 1893-1976 Uhrbrock, Mildred G Van Deman, Esther Boise 1862-1937 Vander Pyl, Mary Chamberlain 1888-1979 Wright, Irene Aloha 1879-1972 Adventure and adventurers Environmentalists Ethnologists Presidents' spouses United States Public health personnel Women air pilots Women anthropologists Women archaeologists Women archivists Women artists Women explorers Women geographers Women geographers Societies, etc Women historians Women journalists Women legislators Women librarians Women novelists Women photographers mm 88065707 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms005005 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms005005.3 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/mrva0012.0016/ http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005005 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005005.3 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/mrva0012.0016/ Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 880328 20260227111723.0 mm 88065707 eng