The Bedford-Lexington Area branch of the American Association of University Women was founded in 1962 to "unite graduates of regionally accredited educational institutions in order to promote equity, education, intellectual growth, individual worth, and development of opportunities for women and girls." The branch disbanded in June 2018. The records of the Bedford-Lexington Area Branch of the American Association of University Women include by-laws, anniversary programs, brochures, minutes, and yearbooks containing lists of officers, events, financial reports, and member lists.

Rhea Becker, a longtime journalist based in the Boston area, turned to activism in 1984 when she became involved with the city of Cambridge's anti-pornography ballot measure. She went on to work on similar ballot measures in Washington State and Minnesota. She worked as communications manager at Culture Reframed, a nonprofit organization dedicated to solving the public health crisis of the digital age by building resilience and resistance in young people to hypersexualized media and pornography. The anti-pornography civil rights legislation collection of Rhea Becker contains correspondence, legal documents, flyers, brochures, clippings, and other materials relating to attempts to pass legislation defining pornography as a violation of women's civil rights in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Massachusetts State legislature, and Bellingham, Washington. Much of the material was collected by Becker in her role as a member of Women's Alliance Against Pornography.

Solveig Stone lived in California with her husband, Humphrey Stone, until they moved to England in the late 1960s. In the 1970s, she founded Compton Marbling, a hand-marbled paper company. She is the author of Decorative Marbling (1993) and contributed to The Art & Craft of Paper (1995). She and her husband were friends with food writer M.F.K. Fisher from the 1960s until Fisher's death in 1992. The collection contains letters from M.F.K. Fisher to Solveig and Humphrey Stone discussing writing projects, social engagements, travels, and news of family and friends. Letters also include mentions of meals Fisher ate or prepared and contain a small number of recipes.

ulie A. Grimstad is a licensed practical nurse and volunteer patient advocate. In 1973, she began volunteering with Birthright of Lincoln, Nebraska, and became a Natural Family Planning instructor for the Diocese of Lincoln. Several years later she founded and served as the director of a pregnancy aid office in Tacoma, Washington. From 1985 to 2004, she was the director of the Center for the Rights of the Terminally Ill. In 2012, with Jo Tolck, Ann Olson, and Mary Merritt, she co-founded Pro-Life Healthcare Alliance (PHA), an outreach of Human Life Alliance (HLA). In 2018, Grimstad, Tolck, Olson, and Merritt founded the Healthcare Advocacy and Leadership Organization (HALO), a non-profit Christian organization that addresses a wide array of ethical issues including euthanasia, assisted suicide, rationing of medical services, and hastening of death in healthcare settings. Grimstad serves as HALO's president and as executive director of Life is Worth Living, Inc. Grimstad is also a pro-life writer whose areas of interest are euthanasia, assisted suicide and patient advocacy. The Julie A. Grimstad collection on Joseph R. Stanton contains materials relating to Grimstad's unpublished book on Stanton, "Profound Obligation; Highest Privilege": Dr. Joseph R. Stanton and the Prolife Movement. Materials include an incomplete draft of the book; letters from Stanton and his wife, Mary, to Grimstad; biographical information about Stanton; correspondence with Stanton's colleagues about Stanton and the proposed book; and research files containing reprints of articles by and clippings about Stanton, many annotated by Stanton.

Author and publisher Vicki Lansky, daughter of Arthur and Mary Kaplan Rogosin, was born January 6, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky. She married S. Bruce Lansky in 1967. The had two children before divorcing in 1983. She married Stephen M. Schaefer in 2008. Her first book, Feed Me I'm Yours, began as a fund raiser for the Minneapolis chapter of the Childbirth Education Association in 1974. Encouraged by the reception to the book, Lansky and her husband started a publishing company, Meadowbrook Press, and marketed the book to a national audience. Lansky's other books include Taming of the C.A.N.D.Y. (Continuously Advertised Nutritionally Deficient Yummies), Practical Parenting Tips for the First Five Years, Fat-Proofing Your Children, and Vicki Lansky's Divorce Book for Parents: Helping Your Children Cope With Divorce and Its Aftermath. Lansky was also a columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Sesame Street Parents magazine and was a contributing editor to Family Circle magazine. She appeared on numerous television and radio shows offering parenting and housekeeping advice as well as instructions on how to make healthier snack foods. She served as a spokesperson for Arm & Hammer Baking Soda, the Dole Family Advisory Board, Mead Johnson's Enfamil, and Proctor & Gamble's Bounce fabric softener. Lansky died on January 15, 2017, from nonalcoholic cirrhosis. The papers of Vicki Lansky contain advertisements for Lansky's books, articles about Lansky, kitchen tips submitted by readers for Lansky's column in Family Circle magazine, and writings by Lansky.

Children's fashion designer Marguerite Moschard was the daughter of Henri and Martha (Hentzi) Moschard. She graduated from high school in Waltham, Massachusetts, and attended the Massachusetts School of Art. In March 1928, Moschard became pregnant and married Lewis George Wroe. In late June, she broke the news to her mother and arrangements were made for her to spend the next few months with acquaintances in South Hanson, Massachusetts. Moschard's son, Robert, was born in October and was cared for by a couple in Dover, Massachusetts. He was later brought up in his father's family. Moschard had a successful career as a children's fashion designer in New York City. She traveled widely, visiting Switzerland, Mexico, and French Guiana. She died of cancer in 1986. The papers of Marguerite Moschard consist of Moschard's diary detailing her love for Lewis George Wroe, her pregnancy, ambitions, school and social life, and her emotional state. Also included is biographical and genealogical information, and photographs of the Wroe family and of Moschard with boatmen in French Guiana.

Photographer Anna Winand worked as assistant to Cornell Capa, founding director of the International Center of Photography (ICP), from 1975 until his death in 2008. She remained with the ICP until 2012. Prior to joining the ICP, she assisted Wilfred Cartey on his book, Whispers from a Continent, and in 1968, she joined the Voice of the Children, a writing workshop in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, New York, under the guidance of poet June Jordan and Terri Bush, a teacher at New York City Community College. Winand served as photographer for the project and her photographs were featured in a compilation of poems from the workshop, The Voice of the Children, published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston in 1970. The papers of Anna Winand contain photographs taken by Winand of the Voice of the Children writing workshop participants, some of which were featured in the book, The Voice of the Children (1970); descriptions of the workshop by Winand; reviews of The Voice of the Children; correspondence with workshop participants; and poems written by workshop participants, including Vanessa Howard.

Editor and health care reform advocate Ellen Bilofsky studied at Syracuse University and New York University before receiving a BA in Psychology from Lehman College in 1975. She was an editor (1993-2013) and later Executive Director (2013- 2016) of the AFB Press of the American Foundation for the Blind. An advocate for women office workers, Bilofsky was an active member of Women Office Workers (WOW), which worked on issues relating to health and safety and organizing, and the WOW offshoot Office Workers Network (OWN), an organization with a "feminist perspective committed to working with other women's groups and open to a wide range of women office workers." She was also an advocate for national single payer universal health care and the passage of the New York State Health Act and was a co-founder of South Central Brooklyn United for Progress. Bilofsky died of brain cancer on August 19, 2021. The papers of Ellen Bilofsky include agendas and minutes, mission statements, mailings, and other materials relating to Women Office Workers (WOW) and Office Workers Network (OWN). Much of the material focuses on a dispute in WOW in which a group of members accused the leadership of excluding members from decisions relating to changes to the by-laws and general elections. The dispute ultimately lead to members leaving WOW to form OWN, with the goal of creating a more democratic organization that addressed the needs of a broader group of working women.

Attorney and professor Linda J. Wharton was born in Camden, New Jersey, in 1955. She received a BA from Bryn Mawr College and a JD from Rutgers Law School. From 1989 to 1997, she served as the managing attorney at the Women's Law Project in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was co-lead counsel in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a lawsuit that went to the Supreme Court in 1992 and reaffirmed the constitutionality of abortion. Wharton taught at Rutgers Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School and is currently an associate professor of political science at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. The papers of Linda J. Wharton include correspondence, notes, press releases, pleadings, briefs, testimonies, printed material, and other materials relating to the abortion rights lawsuits Roe v. Operation Rescue, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center for Women v. Knoll.