West Virginia University -- Women's Centenary (1891-1991)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Carroll Wilkinson Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4576
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials collected and created by Carroll Wilkinson during her time working for West Virginia University (WVU) Libraries and Women’s and Gender Studies Center between 1979 and 2019. It includes materials from her work in several positions within the library and WVU Women’s Studies Center, including Chief Circulation Librarian, Women and Gender Studies Bibliographer, Head of Access Services, Director of Instruction and Information Literacy, Director of Strategic...
Dates:
1914-2018 and undated; Majority of material found within 1979-2018 and undated
Dr. Lillian Waugh, Professor, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4518
Overview
Lillian Jane Waugh was born in Lewistown, Maine, on 1941 June 1, and passed away in Morgantown, West Virginia, on October 8th, 2018. She was an instrumental cofounder for the Morgantown chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), serving as an officer, and contributing decades of advocacy for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). This collection contains personal family photographs, correspondence, and research about Waugh keeping her surname after marriage. Protest and activism...
Dates:
1884-2018 and undated; Majority of material found within 1960-2017
West Virginia University, Women's Centenary, 1891-1991, Videotape and Publications
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3107
Overview
A multi-media packet containing publications and a videotape about the first one hundred years of West Virginia University as a co-educational institution. The materials document the achievements of women at WVU and provide a glimpse into women's student life and how it has changed over the years. Women discussed include Harriet E. Lyon, Agnes J. Morrison, Mary C. Busweel, Eva Hubbard, Blanche Lazzell, Victorine Louistall, Annette Chandler-Broome, Margaret Workman, Lea Anderson, and Barbara...
Dates:
1989-1991 and undated
West Virginia University, Women's Studies Center, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5048
Scope and Contents
The collection contains materials from the West Virginia University Women’s Studies Center, now called the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. Materials include financial documents, organization records, newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, posters, and textiles. The earliest materials in the collection are letters from the first women to attend West Virginia University in 1885 prior to their admittance to the university in 1889. The latest materials include...
Dates:
1885-2002 and undated
West Virginia University, Women's Studies Center, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5131
Overview
This collection contains materials from the West Virginia University (WVU) Women's Studies Program (WSP), Center for Women’s Studies (CWS), Council for Women’s Concerns (CWC), and Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS), mostly dated between 1974 and 2018.
The majority of materials relate to the growth and development of the CWS, particularly through events they hosted or supported, such as the Dickinson Symposium and the Women’s Centenary.
Dates:
1838-2018 and undated; Majority of material found within 1967-2018
West Virginia University, Women's Studies Center, Women's Centenary, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3376
Overview
This collection contains materials collected or created by the WVU Center for Women's Studies (CWS) in preparation for the Women's Centenary between 1989 and 1991. It mostly consists of research on early women students at WVU as well as planning materials for events to commemorate the Women's Centenary.
Dates:
1849-2000 and undated; Majority of material found within 1890-1992