Mary Ishimoto Watanabe was born September 29, 1920 in San Jose, California, to Santaro Ishimoto (1883-1938) and Umeyo Taketa Ishimoto (1892-1986), both of whom were born in Japan. She had a brother, Hideo, and a sister, Fumiye (who later changed her name to Carol and became a librarian at Harvard University). Watanabe attended school in San Jose and received a bachelor's degree in chemistry and biology from San Jose State College in 1942. As a result of anti-Japanese sentiment during World War II, the Ishimoto family was forced to live in incarceration camps in California and Wyoming in 1942. In 1943, Watanabe was released through the efforts of the American Friends Service Committee. She enrolled at Radcliffe College and Harvard University for graduate studies, where she earned a masters of arts degree (1944) and PhD (1950) in biology. In 1950, she married Warren H. Watanabe and they moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where Watanabe joined the Army Quartermaster Corps. In 1954, she took a Japanese language course at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1961 she joined the university's Asian studies department as a lecturer in Japanese. After teaching for five years, she joined the Pacific Asian Coalition, eventually serving for three years as its president during the 1970s. Until the early 1990s, she spent her time promoting Japanese culture, helping Asian students acquire loans, raising funds for the Japanese House and Garden in Fairmont Park, and collecting Japanese woodcuts, including some she and her husband donated to the Philadelphia Museum. Watanabe died in Philadelphia in 1997. Collection consists of a handwritten cookbook containing recipes and notes by Mary Ishimoto Watanabe compiled during the 1980s and 1990s. The recipes are mostly for American food; there are recipes for onion beer bread, fresh apple pie, baked macaroni and cheese, meat loaf, beef stew, and roasting and stuffing a turkey. Watanabe also includes some Japanese recipes, such as nasu shigiyaki (grilled eggplant with bean paste). She documented the source and date of the handwritten recipes (e.g. New York Times), and sometimes dated her notes. In addition, there are also recipes clipped from newspapers and magazines, as well as recipes provided by food manufacturers, including Kikoman Soy Sauce; Knox Gelatine, and Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise. Watanabe also numbered the cookbook and created an alphabetical index.

Margaret Perkins Simmons was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1921 and enlisted in the Women's Army Corps (WACs) in 1943. She served in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only overseas battalion composed entirely of Black women. The Battalion was inititally based in Birmingham, England, and charged with sorting through warehouses and airport hangars filled with millions of pieces of undelivered mail intended for members of the United States military, government personnel, and Red Cross workers. The women succeeded in identifying the intended recipients of the mail and clearing the backlog of mail in three months, rather than the anticipated six. With this work completed, in 1945 the Battalion sailed to France , where they were based first in Rouen and then in Paris, and again tasked with sorting through large backlogs of undelivered mail. While in the corps, Simmons performed on guitar as a member of an all-female orchestra and designed costumes for shows put on by the military. She was also interested in photography. Simmons was apparently married three times, first to men with the surnames Simmons and Tacdol, and then, in 1959, to Ronald Fouche. Ronald and Margaret lived in the San Francisco, California, area. Margaret Simmons died in 1996. The collection includes photographs of Simmons's battalion marching in formation and of Simmons in military uniform, with her fellow WACs, and with soldiers. Photographs of friends and of Simmons's parents, Addie and George Perkins, are also included. The collection also includes clippings on topics including African Americans and women in the military, a reunion of African American WACs, African American women in the fashion industry, and racism. Some biographical information is included, as well as memorial service programs for friends of Simmons; her 1939 membership card for the New York Institute of Photography, and photographs of minor celebrities, one of which was taken by Simmons herself and stamped "Photo by Simmons."

Alice Mary Newell Davis was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on November 23, 1878. She attended Radcliffe College (AB 1902), where she was a member of the basketball team and participated in several clubs, including the German Club, the Music Club, and the Idler Club. After graduation, she studied at the Biblical Seminary in New York. In 1903 Davis traveled to India, where for five years she served as a secretary of the Student Young Women's Christian Association as a representative of Radcliffe College. She married Lloyd Granville Davis in 1908 and they moved to Rochester, New York, where Lloyd Davis was the pastor of a church. The Davises had one son, Wilbert Newell Davis, born in 1910. In 1912 the Davises moved to Rome, Georgia, where they worked at the Berry Schools for five years, returning to New York to work at the Biblical Seminary for two years. In 1919 the family moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where Lloyd Davis became dean of the Christian Worker's Institute. While living in Hawaii, Davis directed the Hawaiian Board Book Room and was active with the University Women's Club. Davis died in 1935. Collection consists of one notebook containing handwritten notes and drawings for a geology course at Radcliffe College. The notebook documents laboratory assignments, and includes geology vocabulary, examples of different types of landmasses and rock formations, and geographical cycles. There are drawings and discussions of land and ocean features in the United States and around the world. The notebook also includes a poem, "The Pescadero Pebbler," dated February 1900.

Grace V. Hobson was born in Nebraska in 1888 or 1889, the daughter of Adelia Jane and Benjamin Franklin Hobson. She was living in Chicago, Illinois, when World War I broke out. She joined the American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) with the Army Nurse Corps and completed her training at Base Hospital 14 in Mars-sur-Allier, France. She was then stationed at several smaller camp hospitals designed to support rear echelon units. She served as head nurse at one or more of these hospitals. Hobson left France in July 1919, on USS George Washington. Upon her return to the United States, she worked as a nurse in Los Angeles, California. The collection consists of a scrapbook kept by Grace V. Hobson during her service in France with the Army Nurse Corps during World War I. The scrapbook is titled, "A Scrap Book of the A.E.F" and has a dedication reading, "Dedicated - most lovingly to Mary F. Montgomery alias - 'Mont' my blackeyed ally who 'stood pat' by me through all the joys and glooms of a year with the American Expeditionary Forces in France - July 1918 - July 1919." The scrapbook documents Hobson's tour of duty and includes photographs (of Hobson with fellow nurses and with soldiers and patients, as well as images of the destruction caused by the war); postcards; fliers; military documents and identification cards; correspondence; and a report by Hobson critiquing the nurses who reported to her, one of whom she designated as "poor" due to "repeated disobedience." Also included in the scrapbook is a letter authorizing Hobson and Montgomery to visit occupied territory in Belgium. Hobson annotated most of the pages in the scrapbook with diary-like entries. The collection also includes a folder of loose correspondence removed from the front of the scrapbook.

Rose City Rollers is a roller derby league, founded in Portland, Oregon, in 2004. The league's mission is to serve girls, women, and gender-expansive individuals interesting in playing the team sport of roller derby, connecting with an inclusive community, and realizing their power both on skates and off. The league consists of four home teams (Break Neck Betties, Guns N Rollers, Heartless Heathers, and the High Rollers); an internationally-ranked travel team (the Wheels of Justice) composed off all-stars from the home teams; two junior derby teams (Rosebuds and Rose Petals); a developmental competitive program; and a recreational program with skaters ranging in age from seven to sixty years old. The league is primarily run by volunteers. Collection consists of programs for several Rose City Rollers tournaments. The rules of Roller Derby, and accepted behavior during play, are described in the programs, which include advertising, sponsors, and team lineups. Ticket stubs and wrist bands are laid into some of the programs. A wooden paddle and a paper skate mounted on a popsicle stick are also included in the collection.

ennifer Claire Rader was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1964. Her mother was a labor arbitrator and her father was a physician. She had a twin sister, Allison, and an older brother, Andrew. In 1970 the family settled in Berkeley, California. Rader attended Berkeley High School and then Harvard University (BA, 1987). After her sophomore year at Harvard, she spent a year traveling in India and Nepal and working at a nature field school at Ein Gedi in Israel. Upon her return to Harvard, she enrolled in a program at the Harvard School of Education, receiving a teaching certificate in 1987 along with her undergraduate degree. Rader lived and worked in Mexico and Guatemala from 1991 to 1993. In 1992, she began working with Guatemalan Mayan refugees in Southern Mexico, as part of a Witness for Peace project. She and the rest of the Witness for Peace team assisted the refugees, who lived in United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) refugee camps, as they organized for a return to Guatemala. After her return from Central America, Rader received an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She taught at a public high school in the San Francisco Bay Area and initiated a health project at her public high school that she directed over twenty years. Over this time she returned to school and got an MSW (Humboldt State University), becoming a licensed clinical social worker in 2016. She remained involved with organizations working in Central American countries and in late 1996/early 1997, she coordinated a cultural exchange visit to Guatemala organized by the San Francisco Jewish Sanctuary Coalition. Rader and her wife Barb (her girlfriend at the time of her work with Witness for Peace) have two sons. The collection includes Jennifer Rader's application to Witness for Peace; travel documents; letters home (including "newsletters" sent to a variety of recipients); and letters received from United States and Guatemalan friends. Also included are documents from "tallers" (workshops) on reproductive health, youth sexual health, and women's rights (some specifically scoped for Guatemalan refugee women) and handouts in Spanish. The collection also includes a report in English from Rader about women's rights tallers she conducted, what they covered, and how they were received; a draft of a talk about Witness For Peace that she intended to give (or did) when back in the United States; letters between Witness For Peace members; and other program internal communications. Rader's journal notebooks from the time period, some of which contain diary entries about her experiences, are also included. Some journals also record meeting notes, vocabulary lists, draft correspondence, and daily lists of activities. Printed material about Guatemala is also included.

Augusta Alger Prince was born in 1919 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Catharine Jackson Alger and Philip L. Alger. Catherine Jackson Alger was a member of the Radcliffe College class of 1915. After Prince's birth, the family settled in Schenectady, New York. She had four siblings: Philip Langdon (1922-1929), Catharine (1925-1935), John (1927-2005), and Andrew (1932-2014). Her parents also adopted Philip Alger's niece Anne Vogdes (1927-2020). Prince attended Radcliffe College (BA 1940), as did her daughters Catharine and Charlotte. Collection consists of baby books for Augusta Alger Prince, her brother Philip Langdon, and her sister Catharine. The books include congratulatory telegrams, notes on the babies' development, locks of hair,lists of gifts received, poems, and photographs. Augusta's baby book continues for a number of years and includes letters to and from her, a height chart, sketches of Augusta at various ages; and an invitation to her wedding to David Chandler Prince, Jr. Catharine's includes notes from a playgroup she attended in 1928 on her social adjustment, emotional reactions, etc. Collection also includes Philip L. Alger's self published book Tales of my Life and Family.

Judith "Judi" Kelemen received a BFA in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and pursued graduate studies in mass communications at Emerson College. In the late 1970s and early 1980s she worked as a photojournalist in Boston, Massachusetts, photographing marches, rallies, and other events focused on community and women's issues, including Gay Pride and Take Back the Night marches. Since 1983, she has worked in media production and has produced a number of documentaries. Collection consists of 16 contact sheets, 20 8x10 work prints, 40 5x7 work prints, and approximately 728 negatives primarily documenting women's marches, rallies, and conferences in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Also included are articles about the events; fliers; conference programs and related materials; a draft of an article on the Crittendon-Hastings House and the history of women's health in Boston; and buttons with slogans in support of women's health and safety.

Mariet White was a student at Wheaton Female Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts, in 1850-1851. Collection contains one daily journal written by Mariet White documenting her classes and leisure activities at Wheaton Female Seminary. The journal seems to be an assignment; in one entry White remarks that the school principal, Mrs. Metcalf, will be reading her entries. The entries mention her studies, including recitations, attending calisthenics classes, and school events such as a visit from the Board of Trustees. White also reflects upon her own academic progress and growth and is sometimes critical of herself. The diary also contains her thoughts about Sunday religious sermons and readings. In addition, White mentions local happenings and events, including the passing of the Norton Artillery and Foxboro music band, and visiting a panorama in Boston.