The collection contains a letter from Mary Anna Morrison Jackson to Gaillard S. Tennent concerning a Morrison family coat of arms she commissioned him to make. Using racist language, Jackson objects to the Moors' heads in the rendering being "representatives of the present African type" and requests that Tennent "relieve the picture of the hideous African representation" and describes desirable and undesirable features she wishes to see represented. Mary Anna Morrison Jackson (known as Anna), daughter of Mary Graham and Reverend Robert Hall Morrison, was born July 21, 1831, in Lincoln County, North Carolina. In 1857, she married Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson; they had two children, Mary, who died in infancy, and Charlotte, born in 1862. When the Civil War broke out, Thomas joined the Confederate Army, rising to the rank of general, and Anna moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, where she lived with relatives. She visited her husband twice during the war and was at his bedside when he died on May 10, 1863. After the war, Anna frequently attended Confederate veterans' reunions and wrote two books about her husband, Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson (1892), which was expanded and republished in 1895 as Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow, and Julia Jackson Christian, Daughter of Stonewall Jackson (1910). She died March 24, 1915, in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The collection contains a letter from Mrs. G.F. Palmer to Mrs. F.W. Burnham concerning a Black servant in Palmer's household identified as Lizzie who gave birth out of wedlock. The letter indicates that Lizzie denied being pregnant; expresses Palmer's regret in not firing Lizzie; and records a doctor's advice that Lizzie rest at the County House before starting on "the long journey home" and that Palmer bought an outfit for the baby. Palmer states that Lizzie failed to express gratitude for Palmer's assistance but also expresses her hope that Lizzie and her child find a comfortable home. The letter concludes by asking if a woman identified as Betty was still willing to pay Lizzie's estimated fifteen dollars doctor's bill.

The Schlesinger Library collection on the enslavement of Black women contains bills of sale, letters, estate inventories, logbooks, and printed materials documenting the enslavement of Black women, efforts of women to escape enslavement, and the lives of free Black women in Antebellum America.

The collection contains publicity photographs of three African American women wrestlers: Sweet Georgia Brown, Louise Green, and Ethel Johnson. Each photograph is captioned with the wrestler's name. Brown's image is further captioned "Girl Wrestler---Columbia, South Carolina" and Green and Brown's photographs are further captioned "Girl Wrestler."

The collection consists of photographs documenting the funeral and burial procession for Agatha Brooks Avery, Pastor of the Avery Bible Holiness Church in Chicago, Illinois. Photographs show Avery's body in her casket, pallbearers carrying the casket, the funeral service, mourners, the transport of the casket to the burial site in a glass horse-drawn hearse, and the graveside service. Several photographs show female mourners wearing white receiving laying on of hands. Also included in the collection is the black three-ring binder the photographs were stored in. The binder features gold lettering on the front reading, "August 26, 1904 - October 16, 1973, Lasting Memories of Our Beloved Reverend Mother Agatha Avery Founder & Pastor of Avery Bible Church of All Nations Pentecostal and Overseer of Christ Way Baptist Church, 7310 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60619, Rev. Consuella York, Pastor, 'Resting in the Grave'."

The Bachelor Maids photograph album contains black and white photographs of eight nurses living together at 1463 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois. The first page of the album is inscribed "Dedicated with kindliest intentions and malice toward none, to the Bachelor Maids: Martha B. Ellingsen, Mary McElin, Winifred Evans, Alice Gilborne, Catharine Thompson, Kirsten Larsen, Jessie Christie, Marie Peterson, by The Author." The album contains captioned photographs of the apartment building's exterior, described as "Bachelor Maids Hall"; interior rooms, including the parlor, dining room, a bedroom, and the kitchen ("a place to avoid"); and the "Bachelor Maids," who are captioned as members of a family including "pa," "ma," "our twins," and "the baby." Photographs of the "Bachelor Maids" include images of the women gathered around the dining table and posed together in group portraits, as well as individual portraits of the women. One photograph captioned "The Cake-walkers" depicts a woman dressed as a man standing next to a seated woman who is leaning against the standing woman while caressing her face.

The collection consists of a film compiled by members of the Radcliffe College Class of 1975 featuring excerpts from oral histories conducted by the Class of 1975 to preserve their stories and in anticipation of their 50th reunion. Interviews are interspersed with archival photographs and film footage of Radcliffe and Harvard College to illustrate alumnae reminiscences of their Radcliffe experiences including their arrivals at college; positive and negative experiences with co-educational living; sexism and sexual harassment experienced from male Harvard students, faculty, and staff; feelings that Harvard was not open to new ideas, failed to provide female role models, and didn't provide students with academic guidance or career counseling; feeling marginalized and unwelcome due to their gender; unequal resources available to women's sports and between Radcliffe and Harvard dormitories; and the advantages of attending Harvard, noting resources available to them while they were undergraduates and opportunities their Harvard degrees afforded them in the workplace. In addition to commenting on sexism they experienced at Harvard, several African American students share their experiences with racism. The film concludes with interviewees reflecting on their feelings about Radcliffe and its merger with Harvard.

The photograph album of Agnes Katherine Hannay contains black and white photographs documenting Radcliffe College's graduate dormitory, Trowbridge House, located at 58 Linnaean Street, and its residents, between 1930 and 1932. Photographs depict Trowbridge House from multiple vantage points and include an image of the Radcliffe College Field House. Most of the photographs feature Trowbridge House residents posed by the front steps, often holding books. Many pages feature the name of the person in the photograph, information about where they were from, their academic degrees, and the date the photograph was taken. There are images of the following Radcliffe graduate students: Jeannette Berger, Carolyn Blain, Marie Charpentier, Gladys Dahlgren, Adele Drouet, Ruth Eliot, Alma Emmons, Ida Greaves, Katharine (Kitty) Harris, Marie Heuer, Lillian Hitchman, Charlotte Jacobs, Elizabeth (Ted) Kenyon, Ase Grude Koht, Marina Yung Kwai, Lucile Lawrence, Edith Lawton, Sarah Michie, Rebecca Molinelli-Wells, Helen Norton, Mary Parsons, Dorothy Schuval, Grace Seiler, Elizabeth Sterenberg, and Jean Carol Trepp. There are also photographs of Millicent Parker Cox, mistress of Eliot Hall, Stella Stockbarger, mistress of Trowbridge and Edmands houses, and Trowbridge House service staff members Lena Bywaters, Winnie McDermott, Rose McParland, and Theresa Purcell. Agnes Katherine Hannay, daughter of Annie Murray MacGregor and Neilson Campbell Hannay, was born October 14, 1909, in Washington, DC. She received an AB from Bryn Mawr College in 1930, and took graduate classes at Radcliffe College from 1930 to 1932. She taught mathematics at Foxhollow School in Rhinebeck, New York, and the Burnham School in Northampton, Massachusetts, before moving to Plainfield, New Jersey, where she taught at the Hartridge School until her retirement in 1972. Hannay died January 6, 1992, in Solihull South, West Midlands, England.

The Beatrice Roberts Holden scrapbook contains photographs; writings by Holden; programs, photographs, and other items relating to the Class of 1926 of the Baptist Young People's Union (BYPU) Christian Service School in Gary, Indiana; programs for BYPU and First Baptist Church events; clippings about family and friends; and other materials documenting Holden's life. Photographs consist of snapshots of Holden and her family and friends in Gary, Indiana, and trips to Niagara Falls in New York and Canada, Detroit, Michigan, Cedar Lake, Indiana, and other locations. Beatrice Roberts Holden, daughter of Charles B. and Lula Byars Roberts, was born in Oklahoma around 1904. She attended the Conway Country Training School in Menifee, Arkansas, before moving with her family to Gary, Indiana, in the 1920s. She graduated from Baptist Young People's Union (BYPU) Christian Service School in 1926. In 1925, she married John W. Holden, a shoe repairman. They later divorced and Beatrice moved to Los Angeles, California.

The Henrietta Mar How photograph album contains black and white snapshots of How and her family and friends in San Francisco, California, between 1935 and 1945. Photographs were taken in a variety of locations, including Chinatown, and several feature sites from the Golden Gate International Exposition, including the Court of Pacifica. Most of the individuals in the photographs are Asian American. Several photographs depict people wearing traditional Chinese dresses and costumes or wearing uniforms with patches featuring Chinese characters, possibly from a Chinese school. Many of the photographs are inscribed to How and a small number feature captions in Chinese. Four photographs depict How wearing a white cap and gown, possibly marking her graduation from high school. Henrietta Mar How, daughter of Mar Kim and Tom Moy, was born August 29, 1921, in Isleton, California. She was raised in San Francisco, California, where she continued to live after her marriage to Martin How (1915-1997). She died December 17, 2005.

The collection contains snapshots and formal portraits taken during World War II of African American Red Cross nurses stationed at Fort Huachuca's Station Hospital Number One, a segregated Black United States Army hospital unit in Arizona. Portraits feature women wearing their Red Cross uniforms; one portrait is identified as Marjorie Hayes on the back while the remainder are unidentified. Snapshots feature women and servicemen in uniforms and civilian clothing and include buildings, vehicles, and tanks found around the installation. Other snapshots were taken in the Arizona countryside and include a trip to Tombstone. A loose photograph at the back of the album features a group of men and women posing at a table in a nightclub or restaurant with a mural painted on the wall behind them. The collection also includes a 1942 menu for a Thanksgiving dinner at Station Hospital Number One listing the food served and the personnel stationed at the hospital.

The collection consists of a photograph album containing black and white images of unidentified African American men serving in the United States Army in Japan and Korea during the late 1940s. Most of the photographs feature men serving in the United States Army Military Police Corps. In one photograph, several men are standing in front of a building identified as the Military Police Station in Uijongbu [Uijeongbu], South Korea with a "622 Military Police Operations" sign to their left. Another photograph is embossed "photo by M Mitsui Kyoto," but no location information is provided for the remaining images. A few photographs provide the first names of the people depicted, but none of the individuals are fully identified. Images depict men in uniform, both in formal portraits and in informal snapshots, on Army bases and interacting with local women and children in the surrounding communities. Other photographs show servicemen with Asian women in formal portraits and spending time in a drinking establishment.