Collection contains tintypes, cartes de visite, gelatin silver prints, and a stereograph card depicting African American men, women, and children. Cartes de visite were taken at photographic studios in Lowell and New Bedford, Massachusetts, Hudson, New York, and Montevideo, Uruguay. One portrait of a man is inscribed "M. Brown" on the back. No other identifying information is provided, although the bookseller the photographs were acquired from identified the photographs as having been removed from an album belonging to a family from Nantucket, Massachusetts.

The collection consists of a photograph album containing black and white photographs taken and collected by an unknown member of the 55th Artillery, United States Army Coast Artillery Corps stationed in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the 1930s. The album features a leather spine and black lacquer front and back covers with an image of man climbing a palm tree on a beach under the heading "Aloha Hawaii" on the front cover. Photographs inside include snapshots and souvenir photographs depicting sites in Honolulu, including the King Kamehameha statue, the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, and female hula dancers; servicemen, artillery, and Army facilities, including Fort Shafter and Fort Kamehameha; Amelia Earhart and her crashed plane on Ford Island; Shirley Temple seated on a gun carriage wearing a military officer's hat; and several airplanes, including the Pan American Airways Pacific Clipper flying boat. Six photographs in the album feature color tinting.

The collection consists of an autograph album created by members of the Psi, Mu, and Omega Omega chapters of the Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) sorority honoring Marian Anderson and presented to her following an AKA dinner held in her honor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 4, 1938, at which she performed. Entries celebrate Anderson's musical achievements and her role in the civil rights movement. Many entries wish her luck on her upcoming Latin America concert tour. Among the entries is one from Ethel Hedgeman Lyle, a founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

The scrapbook of Maud Esther Dunn Dove contains photographs, clippings, high school graduation programs, and Dove's Franklin School of Beauty Culture diploma. Photographs include snapshots of friends and family, school portraits, images of African American soldiers from World War II and the Korean War, a group portrait of the Franklin School of Beauty Culture graduates from July 1945, and a panoramic image of the Class of 1963 from Jefferson High School in Los, Angeles, California. Maud Esther Dunn Dove, daughter of Linton and Celia Henderson Dunn, was born June 23, 1925, in Hearne, Texas. She graduated from Blackshear High School in Hearne, Texas, in 1943, and earned a diploma from the Franklin School of Beauty Culture in 1945. She married Robert Earl Dove (1921-2005). She died April 7, 2003, Los Angeles, California.

The collection consists of a scrapbook Adah Margaret Ewing created containing clippings, programs, photographs, correspondence, and other materials documenting her life in Portland, Oregon, and her work as a bookseller for the J.K. Gill Company. The cover of the scrapbook is imprinted "The Girl Graduate's ScrapBook" and a sticker inside indicates it was sold at Gill's. Also included is a notebook Ewing titled "some books I have read" which contains lists of book titles and authors, often with the date when Ewing read the book. Adah Margaret Ewing, daughter of James Roland Ewing, a bookseller, and Cora Lillian Elliott Ewing, was born November 13, 1882, in Portland, Oregon. She worked for the J.K. Gill Company from 1904 to 1945, beginning as a bookseller and retiring as a department manager and book buyer. She was a member of the American Book Sellers Association and served as the organization's vice president in 1927. She died October 1, 1971.

The papers of Linda Greenhouse contain copies of articles Greenhouse wrote for her high school newspaper, Harvard University's The Crimson newspaper, and the New York Times; drafts of writings; correspondence, including with United States Supreme Court Justices; files relating to her work as a lecturer, journalist-in-residence, and research scholar at Yale Law School; speeches; Radcliffe College reunion files; and other materials documenting Greenhouse's career as a journalist and legal scholar. Legal journalist and scholar Linda Greenhouse, daughter of H. Robert Greenhouse and Dorothy Greenlick Greenhouse, was born in New York City, New York. She received an AB in government from Radcliffe College in 1968 and an MSL from Yale Law School in 1978. After graduating from Radcliffe, she began working for the New York Times covering state government in the paper's Albany bureau. From 1978 to her retirement in 2008, she reported on the United States Supreme Court for the Times. Since her retirement, she has written opinion columns for the paper focused on the Supreme Court. Since 2008, she has been a lecturer, journalist-in-residence, and research scholar at Yale Law School. Greenhouse is the author of several books including Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey (2005), Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling (with Reva B. Siegel, 2011), and Just a Journalist: Reflections on the Press, Life, and the Spaces Between (2017). Greenhouse has received many awards for her journalism including a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for her coverage of the Supreme Court, the 2004 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the 2004 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 2006, she was awarded the Radcliffe Medal by the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

The papers of Shizuko Iwazawa include an autograph album Iwazawa compiled while incarcerated at the Crystal City Internment Camp, a World War II concentration camp for Japanese Americans near Crystal City, Texas. Entries in the album are written in English, Japanese, and Spanish, and one entry includes a drawing of the camp with the title "Alien Internment Camp, Crystal City, Texas, Nov. 20th 1945." Other materials in the collection document Iwazawa's life in the two decades following the end of the war and include correspondence, including birth announcements for several of Iwazawa's nieces and nephews; a date book; an address and note book; an identification card and service certificate documenting her employment at The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company; and photographs, many of which document trips to Japan to visit family. Shizuko Iwazawa, daughter of Masaichi and Kiyo Iwazawa, was born August 3, 1929, in Hiroshima, Japan. She immigrated to the United States with her family in December 1929, settling in Hanford, and later Delano, California. In May 1942, Iwazawa, known as Sally, and her family were incarcerated at the Poston Relocation Center, a World War II concentration camp for Japanese Americans. In May 1943, they were transferred to Crystal City Internment Camp near Crystal City, Texas. Following the war, Iwazawa worked for The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. In 1971, she married Akira Matsubara.

The photograph album of June Delight Leckman contains publicity photographs of the Hazel Fisher Orchestra (also known as Hazel Fisher's All Girl Band), featuring Leckman as a trombone player. In other photographs, Leckman poses with members of the orchestra and uniformed servicemen, possibly at USO dances. The album also includes snapshots of Leckman and family and friends, most of whom are unidentified. Two clippings in the album feature Leckman's husband, Archie L. Blanchett, and his service in the United States Army. June Delight Leckman, daughter of John and Mildred O. Leckman, was born June 17, 1926, in Oregon. She played the trombone in the band at Clinton Kelly High School of Commerce in Portland, Oregon, and later joined the Hazel Fisher Orchestra (also known as Hazel Fisher's All Girl Band), which played at venues throughout Oregon, including the Cottonwoods Ballroom and United Service Organizations (USO) dances. On July 1, 1950, she married Archie L. Blanchett; he was killed in the Korean War on September 22, 1950. She died June 9, 1987.

The photograph album of Natsuko Tanouye Masada contains black and white photographs of Masada's family and friends in Arroyo Grande, California. Several photographs were taken at her parents' grocery store and others during a family car trip. Also included are souvenir photographs from the 1939 World's Fair in San Francisco and portraits of Masada's Asian American classmates at Arroyo Grande High School, many of them inscribed to Masada. One photograph depicts a school class possibly taken at the Poston Relocation Center. Natsuko Tanouye Masada was born June 23, 1922, in Del Rey, California. Her parents, Densuke and Kiyoko Tanouye, owned a grocery store in Arroyo Grande, California, and Natsuko graduated from Arroyo Grande High School in 1940. In May 1940, she and her family were incarcerated at the Poston Relocation Center, a World War II concentration camp for Japanese Americans. While incarcerated, she worked as a waitress, cook, teacher, and office worker and learned several crafts, including porcelain painting. Following her release in August 1945, she moved to Chicago, Illinois, and worked painting Hummel figurines. A year later, she returned to California and worked as a painter at Winfield Ware in Santa Monica before passing the civil service exam and working at the Internal Revenue Service in Los Angeles. She married Katsumi Masada (1925-2011), a vineyard farmer; they had three children, Marvin, Anna, and Karen. She died January 8, 2024, in Fresno, California.

The Marian McPartland collection on the International Sweethearts of Rhythm includes photographs, a band roster, and an article McPartland wrote about the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, an all-women racially and ethnically mixed swing band that performed between 1937 and 1949. Photographs are copy prints of promotional images of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm and individual band members. Many of the photographs feature inscriptions, several of which were cut off when they were reproduced. Jazz pianist and composer Marian McPartland, daughter of Frank and Janet Payne Turner, was born March 20, 1918, in Slough, England. She studied piano and vocal performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London but left before earning a degree to join Billy Mayerl's Claviers, a four-piano vaudeville act. During World War II she entertained Allied troops with the Entertainment National Service Association and the United Service Organization (USO). While in the USO, she met Jimmy McPartland, and American cornetist who she married in 1945. After the war, she moved to the United States and performed in her husband's Dixieland jazz band before forming her own trio in 1950. The McPartlands divorced but remained close friends and remarried shortly before Jimmy's death in 1991. McPartland recorded for several labels in the 1950s and 1960s before forming her own record company, Halcyon in 1969. In addition to her work as a musician, she lectured and wrote about music for Down Beat, Melody Maker, and other publications. From 1978 to 2011, she hosted the show "Jazz Piano" on NPR. She was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2000, awarded a lifetime achievement Grammy in 2004, and was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2007. In 2010, she was named a member of the Order of the British Empire. McPartland died August 20, 2013, in Port Washington, New York.

The collection consists of a loose-leaf scrapbook containing photographs, clippings, and correspondence documenting Agnes Christina Olsson's social life and political connections in New York City, Columbia, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. Most of the photographs are souvenir photographs from night clubs with inscriptions to Olsson from people featured in the images. Several of the inscriptions are on pieces of cardstock with printed information on the back about the nightclubs where the photographs were taken. Also included are several press photographs, including from the wedding of Dominican President Héctor Trujillo and Alma McLaughlin Simó de Trujillo and the 1965 inauguration of Ferdinand Marcos. Also included are two of Olsson's passports and a passport belonging to her sister, Olivia Allontina Olsson. Agnes Christina Olsson, daughter of Oskar Ludvig and Kristina Karlsson Olsson, was born in Styrsö, Sweden on September 3, 1923. She immigrated to New York with her family in 1934 and eventually became a United States citizen. She worked as a Spanish interpreter throughout Central and South America and the Caribbean.

The photograph album of Mary Lomeli Rodriguez contains photographs of Rodriguez and her siblings and friends in Whittier, California. Included are portraits of schoolmates, most of whom are of Latin American or Asian descent, as well as informal photographs of teenagers and children in yards and on the front steps of houses. Several images depict children wearing costumes and others document outings to the beach and at the Santa Ana River. Also included are photographs of a trip to Vera Cruz, Mexico, and photographs of a 1934 reenactment of the Battle of Puebla in Mexico. The photographs are black and white with several featuring color tinting. Mary Lomeli Rodriguez, daughter of Marcelino and Felicitas Avila Lomeli, was born July 9, 1913, in New Mexico. She graduated from Whittier Union High School in Whittier, California in 1933. Following graduation, she worked as a housekeeper. In 1942, she married Julian S. Rodriguez. She died March 8, 1994, in Los Angeles, California.

The collection consists of a scrapbook containing clippings and handwritten recipes pasted, pinned, and sewn into an account ledger. Included are recipes for food and beverages; treatments for boils, consumption, asthma, and other ailments; and cleaning products. Clippings include advice columns; household cleaning and management advice; poems; profiles and commentary on politicians and literary figures, including Jefferson Davis and Washington Irving; commentary on life in the United States during the Reconstruction era; and moral and religious anecdotes.

Collection consists of a photograph album containing 13 photographs taken by Tōyō Miyatake of the wedding of an unidentified Asian American couple. Photographs document the bride and groom, the wedding party, the wedding ceremony, and the wedding reception, including the cutting of the wedding cake.

The photograph album of Madlene Jackson Wilson contains photographs of Wilson and her family and friends in Glynn County, Georgia. Most photographs consist of snapshots taken in yards and at school events, such as football games. Also included are school portraits; photographs of the Risley High School girls and boys basketball teams; studio photographs of African American soldiers; and a portrait of Mansfield Jackson's singing group, The Four Souls. Madlene Jackson Wilson, daughter of Mansfield and Araminta Barnes Jackson, was born January 8, 1926, in Saint Simons Island, Georgia. She attended Fort Valley State College, a historically Black college, and later worked as a teacher. She died May 12, 1999.

The Ah Fong Wong family photograph collection contains snapshots of the Wong family at family gatherings, including a graduation. Several photographs were taken in front of Wong Laundry. Some of the photographs are dated, but none of them identify the people, places, or events depicted. Ah Fong Wong, son of Wong Yee Lang and Leung Shee, was born July 2, 1921, in Git Soo Vil Sun Ning, China. Known as George, he served in the United States Army in World War II and following the war settled in Lynn, Massachusetts, where he operated Wong Laundry. He married Sue You (Soo-Hoo) and they had Gene, Marion, Theodore, Lillian, Henry, Arnold, and Helen. Wong died November 28, 1990.

The photograph collection of the Alice Abbott Wong family contains black and white formal portraits and candid photographs of Alice Abbott Wong; her parents, George W. and Ellen Allen Abbott; her husband, Chan Wong; her children, Annie Langley, Howard Langley, Ellen Langley Tong St. Claire, and Elsie Wong Evans; and her grandson, Frank Tong Joyce. Portraits were taken by photograph studios in Concord, Laconia, Manchester, and Tilton, New Hampshire, as well as New York City. Among the candid photographs are several depicting men, including Chan Wong, hunting. Alice Abbott Wong, daughter of George W. and Ellen Abbott, was born April 28, 1872, in Belmont, New Hampshire. In 1892, she married Rufus Howard Langley; they had three children, Howard (1893-1966), Ellen (1894-1972), and Annie (1905-1913), before divorcing in 1913. She then married Quong Chan (known as Chan) Wong, who was born China in 1888 and immigrated to the United States in 1906. He became a United States citizen in 1946. Alice and Chan had a daughter, Elsie Li Wong (1915-2005), who married William George Evans (1912-1996) in 1934. Alice and Chan both died in 1956 and were buried in Loudon, New Hampshire.
Ellen Langley attended Tilton Seminary in Tilton, New Hampshire, where she met Su Hong Tong, a student from Shanghai, China, who went by the name Edward S. Tong. They married July 24, 1911, in Concord, New Hampshire, and had a son, Frank Yue Tong, in 1912. The Tongs eventually separated and Ellen later married and divorced Andrew St. Claire. She died in August 1972. Frank changed his name to Frank Tong Joyce in 1943. He married Eileen Germaine Sullivan in 1938; they had five children. Frank died in January 1985.

The Wages for Housework collection of Molly Ladd-Taylor contains flyers, position papers, clippings, correspondence, and other materials documenting Ladd-Taylor's involvement in the Wages for Housework movement, a grassroots women's network that advocated for recognition and compensation for unwaged work and sought to improve women's lives through advocacy for issues such as health care, reproductive rights, and the decriminalization of sex work. The collection documents the work of organizations in the United States, England, and Canada including Wages for Housework groups in all three countries and affiliated organizations including Wages Due Lesbians, Black Women for Wages for Housework, the English Collective of Prostitutes, U.S. PROStitutes Collective (US PROS), and the No Bad Women, Just Bad Laws Coalition. Individuals represented in the material include Silvia Federici, Margaret Prescod, Selma James, and Wilmette Brown. Also included in the collection are internal working documents, memos, correspondence, drafts of statements, questionnaires, and other materials produced by the Oberlin and Cleveland Wages for Housework chapters, which Ladd-Taylor led while attending Oberlin College in the 1970s. Molly Ladd-Taylor, a United States gender historian based in Toronto, was active in the International Wages for Housework Campaign in her twenties. Her involvement began at Oberlin College, from which she graduated in 1975, and continued in Cleveland, New Haven, and Boston until about 1986, the year she earned her PhD from Yale University. In 1993, Ladd-Taylor moved to Canada to become a professor of history at York University. Although she left Wages for Housework in the 1980s, her scholarly books, including Raising a Baby the Government Way, Mother-Work, and Fixing the Poor, reflect the Wages for Housework perspective on poverty, welfare, and mothers' unpaid work. Ladd-Taylor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020.

The collection on Lolita Lebrón contains posters, press photographs, and printed material relating to Lebrón's role in an armed attack on the United States House of Representatives in the name of Puerto Rican independence on March 1, 1954. Press photographs document her arrest and trial while posters call for her release from prison and celebrate her role as a Puerto Rican revolutionary.