Anna Keim Stauffer, daughter of Abner Keely Stauffer (1836-1906), a lawyer, and Mary High Keim Stauffer (1842-1891), was born April 7, 1877. She spent most of her life in Reading, Pennsylvania. She died of breast cancer on April 18, 1927, at Baker Sanitorium in Charleston, South Carolina. Collection contains a scrapbook of obituaries and tributes to Abner Keely Stauffer; lists of people paying condolence calls and sending condolence letters and telegrams; and letters of condolence to Anna Keim Stauffer.

Persis Loring Conant Babb was born on May 29, 1887, daughter of Eva (Merrill) and Frederick Odell Conant. She attended Wellesley College (B.A. 1910). Her family lived in Portland, Maine, and vacationed in Cumberland, Maine, during the summer. Babb married Hugh W. Babb on June 19, 1915, in Bridgeport, Connecticut; they had four children. An attorney, Hugh Babb worked for Dunbar, Nutter, & McClennen before he joined the faculty of Boston University. Persis Conant Babb died on April 19, 1964. Collection consists of one notebook titled "Persis Conant Cook Book." The notebook contains handwritten notes and recipes, probably from a cooking class. The notes are divided by lesson and include household topics such as washing dishes, using a stove with coal or wood, and setting the table. There are recipes for common dishes featuring eggs and potatoes, bread, and custard, as well as regional dishes including lobster salad, oysters, and pop-overs. There is also a pamphlet advertising uses and recipes for Sea Moss Farine, and a pamphlet containing recipes for Wm. Underwood Co.'s deviled meats.

The Gamma Chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi was established at the University of Maine in 1908. Collection consists of convention and annual reports, correspondence, and bulletins documenting the activities of the Gamma Chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi at the University of Maine, as well as the activities of the larger sorority. Some material regarding the merger of the chapter of Delta Sigma at Tufts University into Alpha Omicron Pi is also included.

Joan Marie Anderson served as Vice President for Political Action of the San Francisco chapter of the Young Republicans (1969-1970). During those years, she photographed and described the political action activities, including meetings and events, of the San Francisco Young Republicans. The Young Republicans officially organized in 1931 as the Young Republican National Federation under the leadership of George H. Olmsted. Collection contains two photograph albums dating from late 1969 through 1970. They document meetings, events, and social activities of the San Francisco chapter of the Young Republicans. Included are cocktail parties, events, and speaking engagements for Republican candidates and elected officials in the state. Republican officials featured include the Honorable Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.; Spencer Williams, a candidate for the Republican nomination for California's attorney general; the Honorable Evelle J. Younger; the Honorable Janet Aitken; State Senator Milton Marks; and the Honorable James Mailliard. Photographs of each event are separated by a page detailing the event, including where it was being held, speakers, and topics. Each individual photograph is also captioned with information on the featured activity.

Sally Faith Dorfman, daughter of David L. Dorfman, a dentist, and Dolce Stern Dorfman, a buyer for Macy's department store, was born in 1950 in Cornwall, New York. She received an AB in Economics from Radcliffe College in 1971, and her MD and an MS in Health Services Administration from Stanford University in 1976. She has worked in a variety of positions in the medical field, including as a gynecologist in Newburgh, Kingston, and New York, New York (1982-2001); academic positions at several institutions including Emory University (1980-1982), Mount Sinai Medical Center (1982-1999), and Cornell University (1989-1998); Commissioner of Health for Orange County, New York (1988-1994); and service in the United States Public Health Service (1980-1982) and United States Public Health Service Reserve Corps (1982-2010). Since 2010, Dorfman has been a supervisory physician at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. The papers of Sally Faith Dorfman contain a curriculum vitae, clippings about Dorfman, and Radcliffe College class biographies. Also included are letters written to her parents while a student at Radcliffe documenting dormitory life; classes taken, including one taught by John Kenneth Galbraith; impressions of professors and classmates; dating; attending concerts, lectures, sporting events, parties, and other social events; and attending Jewish services. A web site documenting Dorfman's role in reviving Cornwall, New York's 4th of July pageant is being captured periodically as part of Schlesinger Library's web archiving program.

Florence Hope Luscomb, social and political activist, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on February 6, 1887, the daughter of Otis and Hannah Skinner (Knox) Luscomb. With an S.B. in architecture (M.I.T., 1909), she worked as an architect until 1917, when she became executive secretary for the Boston Equal Suffrage Association. She held positions in the Massachusetts Civic League and other organizations and agencies until 1933, when she became a full-time social and political activist. In the early 1920s Luscomb began to serve on the boards of civil rights, civil liberties, and other organizations; over the next 50 years these included the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (Boston), the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, the American League for Peace and Democracy, and many others. She helped organize and was president of a Boston local of the United Office and Professional Workers of America.
Luscomb ran unsuccessfully for the Boston City Council, United States House of Representatives, and governor of Massachusetts. Never a communist, she opposed anti-communist investigations as attempts to curtail dissent and in the 1950s worked to stop them. In 1955 she was investigated as a subversive by government committees in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Luscomb travelled to the Soviet Union in 1935 and illegally to China in 1962 and attended several international peace and women's conferences. In the 1960s she worked against the Vietnam War and in the 1970s frequently spoke to women's groups and conferences. From the 1950s to the mid 1970s, Luscomb lived in cooperative houses, usually with much younger people. She died in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1985 at 98. Collection consists of a permit issued to Florence Luscomb by the Health Department of the City of Boston, Massachusetts. The permit grants permission to Luscomb to act as a hawker and peddler. Luscomb sold copies of suffrage journals, including The Woman's Journal, on the streets of Boston.

Harriet Eliza Dunton was born February 25, 1862, to Zenas and Emily Jane Ingraham, in Naples, New York. She married Frank Eugene Dunton in 1883; they had three children. The Duntons lived in rural Ontario County, New York. Harriett Dunton died in 1933. Collection contains Dunton's daily diary from 1914. She describes household and farm tasks, including butchering, butter churning, baking pies and cakes, canning, pickling, and quilting. Seasonal tasks relating to grape growing and harvesting are also mentioned. Dunton also writes about attending church, helping neighbors, her health, comings and goings of her husband and children, and the family's purchase of a car.