Thursday, March 2, 2006, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Lownes Room
John Hay Library
Exhibit, Panel Presentation, and Reception
The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and the Sarah Doyle Center, in association with the Friends of the Library, will celebrate an exhibit showcasing some of the Rhode Island and Pembroke women’s documents in the Christine Dunlap Farnum Archives. Listen to the Voices of Sophia, the new choir of Providence’s Sophia Academy. Hear an historian, an archivist, a student, an alumni and a donor of records talk about the importance of remembering what women have done.
About The Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive
Housed in the John Hay Library at Brown University, the Christine Dunlap Farnham archive comprises a wide range of materials on women’s history. It includes records of women’s activities in Rhode Island, as well as a rich documentation of the history of Brown alumnae. A new direction, recently announced, involves the collection of feminist theory papers, devoted to the legacies of feminist thinkers active in the late twentieth century.
The Farnham Archive’s nationally significant holdings are strongest in the area of clubs and philanthropies, higher education, employment, women’s health, literary works and salons, reform movements and Rhode Island history.
The papers of individuals include those of Elizabeth Buffum Chace, nineteenth-century suffragist, abolitionist and reformer, war correspondent Lyn Crost, Pembroke ’38 and those of Alison Palmer, first person to file an EEO sex discrimination grievance against the State Department, and first woman Episcopal priest to celebrate communion in the Church of England.
Organizations and institutions represented include the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, the Providence Association for Friendless Females, a multitude of Protestant churches, papers relating to Third Wave feminism, to Women for a Non-Nuclear Future, and from Pembroke College in Brown University, the coordinate college for women at Brown from 1891-1971.
For further information contact Holly_Snyder@brown.edu