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Barnard Archives & Special Collections

Barnard Archives & Special Collections

Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning 423
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027, USA
archives@barnard.edu
The Barnard Archives and Special Collections collects and makes accessible materials that document campus and academic life at Barnard, as well as broader feminist histories.
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Moving Image collection, 1925-2011

54 Linear Feet
This collection consists of film and video recordings related to Barnard College, including events and performances, clips of television shows featuring Barnard or people affiliated with Barnard, documentaries related to Barnard, and course-related recordings.
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100-V: Barnard Centennial

Barnard Centennial, Duration: 0:10:51

  1. Video recordings, 1975-2011
  2. Tapes 92-109
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Annie Nathan Meyer Papers, 1890-1950

3.88 Linear Feet
This collection consists of the personal papers, correspondence, manuscripts, publications, and scrapbooks of Barnard college founder and trustee, Annie Nathan Meyer.
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Audio Collections, 1936-2007

32.17 Linear Feet
The collection consists of original and duplicate audio recordings of speeches and lectures, forums, conferences, interviews, anniversary celebrations, reunions, inaugurations, degree candidate presentations, and concerts.
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Coalition for Women Prisoners Collection, 1993-2021, bulk 1994-1996, 2003-2021

100.2 Gigabytes
The Coalition for Women Prisoners was a coalition founded in 1994 to address the issues and needs of women incarcerated in the New York prisons. The CWP was coordinated by the Women in Prison Project at the Correctional Association of New York. Formerly incarcerated women held various leadership roles in the Coalition as committee co-chairs, lobby team leaders, campaign organizers, peer-leader outreach workers, and public speakers. Their narratives, writing, and organizing work are present across the collection's materials. The CWP Collection contains physical and digital materials documenting the work of the Coalition for Women Prisoners and its members. The collection's contents include organizational records, photographs, video footage, films, artwork, reports, publications, and movement ephemera from the CWP's advocacy campaigns, programming, and organizational operations.
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Andrea Williams interview, part 1, 2022-08-29

This is an oral history interview with Andrea Williams conducted by Obden Mondésir on August 29th, 2022. It covers the years 1964-2002. Andrea Williams worked at the Women in Prison Project from 2004 to 2019 as the ReConnect program director and special projects coordinator. In the first section of the interview, Andrea discusses her childhood growing up in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Hackensack, New Jersey during the vibrant political activity of the 1960s. She then discusses her experience attending undergrad at Boston University, where she decided to pursue a career in law. She shares about her formative experiences completing a masters in African American studies at Atlanta University and her subsequent years attending Rutgers Law School. In the next part of the interview, Andrea discusses her professional trajectory beginning at Bergen County Legal Services. She then discusses working on domestic violence issues at NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. Next, Andrea talks about her job doing policy work and running an advocacy program with the HIV Law Project, which led her into working with the Women in Prison Project. The next section of the interview focuses on Andrea's experiences working for the Women in Prison Project coordinating the ReConnect program. Finally, she reflects on the CWP's sunsetting process and shares her vision for the Coalition for Women Prisoners archive.

  1. Coalition for Women Prisoners Oral History Interviews, 2022-2023
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Karen Durbin Papers, 1929-2016, bulk 1970-2000

25.51 Linear Feet
Karen Durbin is a journalist and film critic based in New York. Durbin is best known for her work with the Village Voice, where she has served as staff writer, senior editor, arts editor, and editor-in-chief. Her writing spans decades and reflects her position as a radical feminist in the second and third waves of the movement. This collection documents Durbin's professional and personal life through correspondence, journals and calendars, photographs, writing, and administrative work materials representing the years 1929 to 2016.
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24hr Xmas Trees, 1995 Box 44, Tape sc24_audiotape_043

  1. Audiovisual and born digital material, 1989-2014
  2. Cassette Tapes
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Marie Wilson White House Project Papers and Ms. Foundation

8.67 Linear Feet
The White House Project was created in 1998, an offshoot of the Ms. Foundation, the organization worked to help put women in positions of leadership. The White House Project was created with the ideal that a woman should be President sooner rather than later, and worked to increase female presence in business and American governmental spaces. Known for their catchphrase "Vote, Run, Lead" the Project ran a non-partisan conference called Go Run which connected women to workshops and opportunities to learn how to run for office.
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Program in the Arts, 1970-1989

8.33 Linear Feet
This collection consists of materials that document the history of the Program in the Arts (1970-1989) at Barnard College.
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Sabra Moore NYC Women's Art Movement Collection, 1969-1996, bulk 1970-1992

13.78 Linear Feet
This collection documents Sabra Moore's involvement in the Women's Art Movement, Women's Caucus for Art, Women Artists in Revolution, Heresies Collective, and other feminist artist groups based in New York City from the 1970s to the mid-1990s. The collection consists of flyers, publications, artwork, t-shirts, correspondence, photographs, and protest ephemera conceived of, and created by, Moore and her artist colleagues.
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4/Tells, 1989 Box 20

Set of four books in various formats within a box. 12.5" x 8" x 2". Relating to Moore's grandmothers and aunt. Part of the Akin series of books.

  1. Artist's Books by Moore, 1982-2005

Artifact/ Artifice, 1987 Box 20

Black and white xerox book with color xerox covers, sewn bindings, 44 pages, 5.875" x 6.25". Moore explores the juxtaposition of her childhood paper dolls cut out of a Sears catalogue and stored inside a children's Bible Book. Part of the Akin series of books.

  1. Artist's Books by Moore, 1982-2005
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Orientation and NSOP Schedule Books, 1949-2016

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Orientation booklets were given out to new Barnard students at the beginning of each academic year. Booklets from 1949-1967 include first-year class directories, along with illustrated and often lighthearted guides to Barnard, Columbia, and surrounding neighborhoods. Booklets from 1971 onward include schedules of Orientation Week events. Many orientation booklets contain specific themes.
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Barnard Camp-Holly House, 1927-1980

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This collection consists of reports, minutes, correspondence, handbooks, ledgers, scrapbooks, watercolors, photographs, and films documenting activities at Barnard Camp-Holly House, a campsite in Westchester County owned by Barnard college from 1933-1992. The camp provided weekend retreats to Barnard students and alumnae.
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