The pro-life collection of Raymond Leo Dempsey contains correspondence, direct mailings, printed materials, memorabilia, slides, audiotapes, and other materials documenting Dempsey's participation and interest in the pro-life movement, particularly in the Providence, Rhode Island area. Correspondence includes letters Dempsey wrote to print and television media outlets lobbying for more coverage of the pro-life movement and providing information about the pro-life cause; letters relating to Dempsey's attempt to arrange a meeting between President Jimmy Carter and National Right to Life Committee president Mildred Jefferson; letters to local and national politicians advocating for pro-life issues; and exchanges with other pro-life supporters and pro-life organizations sharing information on the cause. Also included are incorporation papers, by-laws, minutes, correspondence, slides, and audiotapes relating to local pro-life organizations and events in Providence, Rhode Island. Raymond Leo Dempsey, Jr., son of Raymond Leo, Sr., and Louise Veronica Dempsey, was born June 18, 1949, in Providence, Rhode Island. He received a BA from Rhode Island College in 1973, and certifications from the Blake Computer Programming Institute (1977), the University of Rhode Island (1979), and the Billy Graham School of Evangelism (1989). He worked as a freelance writer from 1980 to 1988; as a teacher in the Providence and Cranston, Rhode Island public high schools in 1988; as a producer and moderator of the WRIB radio shows Church Focus and People from 1989 to 1997; and since 1983 has produced and moderated Chapter & Verse TV on RICA-TV in Providence. He served on the board of directors of Rhode Island Right to Life from 1973 to 1995.

The papers of Joyce Wallace contain articles about Wallace, particularly her work with female sex workers; medical research papers by Wallace and others documenting AIDS epidemiology; research files on AIDS; AIDS conference materials; and other materials documenting Wallace's career as a physician, AIDS researcher, and advocate for female sex workers. AIDS research files contain articles from mainstream media outlets relating to AIDS awareness and prevention; medical papers documenting AIDS treatments and treatments for AIDS symptoms such as herpes; literature on drugs that could be used to treat AIDS symptoms such as Isoprinosine, an antiviral drug used to treat herpes and cancer; and correspondence with other physicians concerning AIDS studies and potential treatments. Also included in the collection are correspondence, committee materials, and policy documents relating to Wallace's employment at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City and the hospital's response to the AIDS crisis. Files relating to St. Vincent's Hospital include discharge records for AIDS patients documenting the progression of their symptoms, their treatments, and eventual deaths from the disease. Physician Joyce Wallace, daughter of Samuel Malakoff, a teacher, and Henrietta Yetta Hameroff Malakoff, a speech therapist, was born November 25, 1940, in Philadelphia. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, she received a BA in history from Queens College in 1961, then studied pre-med at Columbia University's School of General Studies before receiving her MD from the State University of New York Health Science Center in Brooklyn in 1968. She started practicing medicine in the late 1970s in Greenwich Village, where many of her patients were gay men. In 1981, before AIDS was recognized, she was among the first physicians to report finding Kaposi's sarcoma among their patients and was a co-author of "Kaposi's Sarcoma and Pneumocystis Pneumonia Among Homosexual Men -- New York City and California," one of the first reports linking Kaposi's sarcoma with immunodecfient gay men. Wallace shifted her focus to examining the impact of AIDS on female sex workers and dedicated herself to making them safer through AIDS tests, safe sex education and condom distribution, and needle-exchange programs. She attempted to start drop-in centers providing meals, clothing, and transitional housing for drug-free sex workers, but her efforts were blocked by local residents. She started an alternative sentencing project at Manhattan Criminal Court where sex workers were given condoms, AIDS literature, and drug treatment instead of prison sentences. She also founded the Foundation for Research on Sexually Transmitted Diseases in 1982 and served as its executive and medical director until 2003. Wallace held academic appointments at Mount Sinai, New York Medical College, and Stony Brook University. In 1964, she married Lance Wallace, a researcher. They divorced in 1973. In 1979, she married Arthur Kahn, a stockbroker, with whom she had a son and daughter. They later divorced. Wallace died of a heart attack in New York City on October 14, 2020.

The collection contains letters from M.F.K. Fisher to Carol J. Blinn regarding social meetings with Blinn and manuscripts Fisher gave Blinn for a potential small press publication of the writings. Also included are the manuscripts Fisher gave Blinn. The publication was never completed and the final letter in the collection is from Fisher's assistant requesting the return of the manuscripts. Carol J. Blinn is the owner of Warwick Press, a graphic design, letterpress print shop, and limited addition publishing company based in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Through her company, Blinn creates stationery, invitations, greeting cards, and announcements as well as handbound books and illustrations.

The collection contains letters sent to Sybil H. Holmes congratulating her on being elected to the Massachusetts Senate in 1936. Several letters note Holmes's accomplishment of being the first woman to serve in the Massachusetts Senate. Sybil Henry Holmes, daughter of Henry T. and Helen E. Bangs Holmes, was born June 20, 1889, in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. She graduated from Bellingham High School in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and received legal training in the office of Francis P. Garland. She was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1911, becoming the youngest woman to become a lawyer in the United States. Holmes became active in the Republican Party and began participating in local politics in Brookline, Massachusetts, where she ran unsuccessfully for the board of selectman in 1923. In 1922, she was appointed to the Massachusetts Commission on Unemployment and Minimum Wage and served on the Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Committee. From 1930 to 1934, she served as Assistant Attorney General. She later became the first woman appointed master by the Massachusetts courts. In 1936, she became the first woman elected to the Massachusetts Senate. On February 14, 1938, she presided over an afternoon Senate session, becoming the first woman to do so. She lost her bid for reelection in 1938. She launched a failed campaign to become state treasurer in 1942. From 1948 to 1959, she was recorder of the Massachusetts Land Court. In 1961, she ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Boston City Council. Holmes died July 22, 1979, in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

The collection includes letters to Anita C. Milton from Louis Hooker, a Camden, New Jersey, physician advising on the medical care of Elizabeth Ann Stidum, who was Milton's aunt or grandmother; letters of condolence and correspondence concerning the settlement of the estate following Elizabeth Ann Stidum's death on December 13, 1904; a letter from Mrs. Goode in Detroit, Michigan, commenting on the availability of work for Black men and women during World War I; and a letter from Helen L. Milton in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to her mother, Anita C. Milton, who was convalescing in Ocean City, New Jersey, conveying news from home, including an account of being on a street car when it derailed. Anita C. Milton was born May 22, 1867, in New Jersey. In 1891, she married William Franklin Milton (1865-1948), a barber, and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They had four children: Anita E. Milton (1883-1907), Helen L. Milton Fontilers (1894-1973), Vanarsdale G. Milton (1898-1925), and Frances B. Milton (1901-1925). Anita Milton died May 8, 1920.

Photograph album featuring black and white photographs of the Seattle Skylarks, a women's fast pitch team in the National Softball Congress. Photographs document team practices and games as well as team members travelling to games in Vancouver, Canada, and Bremerton, Washington. Travel photographs show team members in automobiles, hotel rooms, and sightseeing. Photographs are captioned, possibly by Skylarks outfielder Frankie L. Milligan. Identified players include Alice Jorgenson (identified as "Jorg"), Isobel Prentice (identified as "Sis"), and Shirley Soggie (identified as "Shirb"). Loose photographs include two team photographs and a hand-colored image of an unidentified women's basketball team.

The collection includes materials created for Isaac Heller's Harvard College thesis project, Unbind This Book, Unstitch This Body. Materials include an audio recording created for "Echo, Chamber, Chest," to be experienced in conjunction with viewing the zine Timtum; a video recording of "Top Surgery Show and Tell" performance at Leverett Library Theater and artwork created for the performance; zines and other artwork created in "Handbound," a bookbinding and zine making workshop; zines Heller created as part of his development of Unbind This Book, Unstitch This Body; and a poster advertising the project and performances. Also included are photographs documenting the "Mouth to Mouth: Re-recitation" reading of Stone Butch Blues in the stacks of Widener Library, the "Handbound" workshop, and the "Top Surgery Show and Tell" performance. Isaac Heller grew up in Mishawaka, Indiana, and graduated from Harvard College in 2023 with concentrations in Theater, Dance, and Media and Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality. His thesis project, Unbind This Book, Unstitch This Body, explored the ways in which queer histories are cared for and transmitted, both within archives and through community networks that exist at the margins of mainstream institutions. For his thesis, he staged four performances on Harvard's campus: "Echo, Chamber, Chest," a self-guided audio experience at the Schlesinger Library in conversation with the zine Timtum; "Mouth to Mouth: Re-recitation," a reading of Stone Butch Blues in the stacks of Widener Library; "Handbound," a bookbinding and zine making workshop; and "Top Surgery Show and Tell," a performance at the Leverett Library Theater in which Heller shaved his head while playing a recorded oral history with a friend about his experience with top surgery and Heller's experience with brain surgery.

The Maida Tilchen collection on the Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace & Justice includes correspondence, clippings, printed materials, writings by Tilchen, and other materials collected by Tilchen documenting the Encampment and her experiences of staying at the Seneca Encampment for three weekends in the summer of 1983. Also included are audiotapes and transcripts of interviews Tilchen conducted Carol Harwood, Pam Ryan, Ana Vio, and other members of the Encampment. Maida Tilchen was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1949. She received a BA in anthropology from SUNY Stony Brook in 1971 and an MS in education in instructional systems technology from Indiana University in 1976. From 1973 to 1974, she served with the Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) in Vincennes, Indiana. She helped produce women's music concerts in Bloomington, Indiana, from 1975 to 1980. She moved to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1980, where she was the Promotions Manager at Gay Community News (Boston) and helped backstage for Allegra Productions. In 1983, she spent three weekends at the Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice. From 1993 to 2001, she worked as a writing tutor at Cambridge College in Massachusetts. From 2001 until her retirement in 2015, she directed library services at Cambridge College. Since the mid-1970s, Tilchen has published articles in a variety of feminist and LGBT publications, writing primarily on women's music, LGBT literature, Jewish, and anti-nuclear issues. She wrote the foreword to the third edition of Barbara Grier's The Lesbian in Literature: A Bibliography (Naiad Press, 1981) and is the author of two novels, Land Beyond Maps (Savvy Press, 2009) and She's Gone Santa Fe (Savvy Press, 2013).

The papers of Augusta Batchelder Hartt mostly document her camping trips and international travels and include notes, travel journals, home movies, and photograph albums featuring photographs taken by Hartt and others. Also included are a medal awarded to Hartt by the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China and a volume Hartt compiled honoring her parents. Augusta Batchelder Hartt, daughter of John Langdon Batchelder and Augusta Gore Lewis, was born July 5, 1872, in Roxbury, Massachusetts. She married Arthur William Hartt on June 5, 1895, and eventually moved to Brookline, Massachusetts. At the state level, Hartt served on the board of the Northeastern Federation Girl Scout Councils from 1917 to 1919, was elected deputy commissioner of the Massachusetts of Girl Scout Council and served as commissioner of the council from 1920 to 1930. At the national level of the Girl Scouts, Hartt served as a member of the National Uniform and Standards Committee (1919), a member of the national executive board (1922-1925), a member of the board of directors (1925-1930), and a member of the national executive committee (1929-1932). Hartt traveled widely and in 1934 co-founded the Women's Travel Club. In the 1930s and 1940s, she was chairman of the women's division of the United China Relief Campaign and secretary of the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. Hartt died November 29, 1961.