Diane M. Jacobs was born in the City of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Jacobs attended Radcliffe College (AB Biochemical Sciences, 1961) and Harvard University (PhD Microbiology and Immunology, 1967). From 1967 to 1971, she served as an instructor and lecturer at Hebrew University's Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem. Jacobs worked as a research associate at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies from 1974-1976, and in 1976, she became an associate professor at the State University of New York, Buffalo, where she later served as a professor of microbiology from 1980 to 1989. From 1989 to 1994, she worked as associate vice chancellor of research, dean of the graduate school, and a professor of biology at East Carolina University. She became a professor of microbiology and molecular biology at the University of Central Florida in 1994, where she also served as vice president for research and graduate studies from 1994 to 1998. Jacobs was recognized as professor emerita at the University of Central Florida in 2016. Collection includes papers related to Diane M. Jacobs's years as a Radcliffe College student. It contains correspondence regarding Jacob's application and admission to Radcliffe, as well as new student information about classes and living on campus. There is also a program and clippings related to the inauguration of Mary Ingraham Bunting as Radcliffe College president (1961), as well as letters from Bunting and Harvard Medical School president Harry Amos regarding Jacobs's science tutorial. In addition, there is material regarding her graduation, including a 1961 Radcliffe College commencement program, congratulatory telegrams, and a card from her parents.

Cyd Jenefsky is Vice Provost for Strategy and Educational Effectiveness and Interim Dean of the Graduate School at the University of the Pacific. She received her MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jenefsky taught at the University of Georgia, where she was one of three founding faculty hired to start the Women's Studies program, and was professor and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at John F. Kennedy University where she directed the Office for Educational Effectiveness and the Hub for Educational Innovation. She has been active in the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, serving on accreditation review teams and committees, co-authoring WASC's "good practice guide" on outcomes-based program review, serving as a workshop leader and mentor for WASC's Educational Programs, and as faculty and mentor for WASC's Assessment Leadership Academy. The Cyd Jenefsky collection on Andrea Dworkin contains audio and video recordings and transcriptions of interviews Jenefsky conducted with Dworkin, mostly for Jenefsky's doctoral thesis, "Confronting Male Power with Integrity: Andrea Dworkin's Rhetoric, Art, and Politics." Also included are Jenefsky's notes on the interviews, biographical information she collected on Dworkin, writings by Dworkin sent to Jenefsky by Dworkin, and a copy of Jenefsky's dissertation.

Ruth Sattler Schwartz, daughter of Benjamin and Kate Sattler, was born March 31, 1916, in the Bronx, New York. She received a BA in biology from Hunter College. Following graduation, she worked as a biologist for the New York City Health Department. In the late 1950s, she earned a teaching degree and worked as a substitute teacher. In 1944, she married Hyman Schwartz, a chemist. They had two children, Ben (born 1946) and Eileen (born 1949). Schwartz died March 25, 1997, of Lewy Body Dementia. The correspondence of Ruth Sattler Schwartz includes letters to Schwartz from family and friends and letters Schwartz wrote to her family. Letters from family and friends document social life in the Bronx, New York, and contain mentions of vacations in the Catskills and at the beach. Also included are letters from Schwartz's boyfriend Jacob "Jack" M. Yablonowitz expressing his love for her; recounting his experiences studying zoology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and medicine at the Royal College of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh; and documenting the end of his relationship with Schwartz due to his infidelity. Letters from Ruth to her family document a vacation she took to Miami Beach, Florida, describing Miami Beach and commenting on the lack of social activities except for gambling.

Mardelle "Mardi" Elaine Springer Dean, daughter of Burdell Leonard and Marjorie Lucile Cuthbertson Springer, was born September 17, 1942, in Washington, DC. She attended the University of Tampa and Strayer University. An active member of La Leche League, Dean taught classes, lectured, and lead workshops on parenting and breastfeeding. She was married to Jonathan C. Dean; they had three sons. She died November 4, 2021. The La Leche League collection of Mardelle Springer Dean contains correspondence, programs, and educational materials from local La Leche League conferences and trainings featuring educational sessions administered by Dean; programs from local and national La Leche League conferences and events Dean attended; La Leche League leadership training materials and other printed materials collected by Dean; and La Leche League jewelry collected by Dean.

Photographer and lesbian rights activist Elaine Wessel was born in 1947 and was raised in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Roosevelt University and worked there as an audiovisual technician. As a teenager, she was active in the civil rights movement and in the 1970s, she became active in the women's rights movement. From 1970 to 1977, she was a member of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU) and wrote articles and took photographs for CWLU publications including CWLU News and Blazing Star. Wessel was also active in several lesbian rights organizations including the Illinois Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Metropolitan Chicago, and Chicago Lesbian Liberation. She also contributed articles and photographs to the periodical Lavender Woman. The photograph collection of Elaine Wessel contains photographic prints and contact sheets of images Wessel took in the 1970s, mainly featuring the Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU). Photographs document CWLU members socializing, attending CWLU meetings, and participating in community events. Several photographs document a 1973 tour CWLU members took of Foshan in the Guangdong Province of China and include images of sculptors, a factory, and rice fields. Also included are photographs Wessel took of a Chicago performance by the Alive and Trucking Theater Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and photographs of Wessel taken by others.

Avarani "Rani" Thomas was the daughter of Charles Thomas and Bijou "Dolly" Thomas and lived in Dehra Dun, Northern India, during the 1920s and 1930s. Thomas and her sister Probhabala "Probha" attended the Girls High School in Dedhra Dun, where she met an American Presbyterian missionary, Ruth E. Bergevin, who served as principal of the school. Bergevin published a memoir, One of Us: Adventures in India (1980), which documents her experiences in India, including her friendship with the Thomas family. According to the memoir, Charles Thomas was a judicial officer for the Dehra Dun City and District and a member and chairman of the high school's governing board. Bijou Thomas was the member of a large Bengali family. Bergevin considered herself a close friend to Rani and Prohabala. After graduation, the sisters attended Kinnaird College in Lahore, and later Rani received a degree in education at the Isabella Thoburn College in Lucknow. Prohabala attended library training in the United States and returned to India to become a librarian at the Agricultural Institute in Allahabad. In her memoir, Bergevin states that she viewed herself as a mentor to Rani. Ruth E. Bergevin, daughter of Lillie Heppe and Louis Bergevin, was born April 28, 1893, in Markleeville, California. In 1909, Bergevin moved to Berkeley, California, to live with her sister and attend high school. After graduation, she enrolled in a business course and worked for the Fisk Teacher's Agency of Berkeley. Bergevin also attended Bible study and programs at the First Presbyterian Church. In 1915, she was baptized and moved to Los Angeles to study at the Bible Institute. Bergevin later traveled to New York, where she met with the Presbyterian Church Board of Foreign Missions. In 1917, she traveled to India, where she served for 41 years as a missionary. She was principal of the Girls High School in Dehra Dun, and later worked as a hospital administrator at the Frances Newton Hospital in Ferozepore, India. Bergevin frequently traveled to the United States to give talks at Presbyterian churches. Upon her retirement in 1958, she returned to live in the United States, visiting India in 1960 to assist with the building of a hospital in Ferozepore and again in 1973 in celebration of her 80th birthday. Bergevin died December 25, 1984, in Los Angeles, California. Collection contains letters from Ruth E. Bergevin to Avarani "Rani" Thomas, probably written while Rani attended college away from home. The letters describe Bergavin's romantic feelings of love and devotion to Rani, and mention missing her and longing to see her. The letters also include news from home, and recount Ruth's interactions with Rani's family and mutual friends. The collection also contains letters from others to Thomas, including her parents Charles and Bijou, and sister Probhabala. These letters contain news of home, family and friends.

Lynne O'Neill was born Elaine Jose Nolan in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 8, 1918, to Allan and Josephine Nolan. The family moved to Evanston, Illinois, where O'Neill graduated Evanston Township High School in 1935. During World War II, O'Neill performed as an entertainer for the United Service Organizations (USO). O'Neill worked as a model and a dancer under the stage name Lynne O'Neill, and began performing in Chicago as burlesque dancer, where she developed a routine featuring her garters. She became known as "The Original Garter Girl." O'Neill traveled throughout the United States and Mexico, and had minor roles in musicals, movies, and radio shows. She moved to Lynbrook, New York, in the 1950s, where she continued her burlesque career. O'Neill was arrested in March 1960 for possessing and distributing nude photographs of herself, later serving four days in prison. She had a role in the movie "Secrets of an Uncover Model" and also wrote a column "Burlesque Backstage" for the men's magazine Man to Man. In 1972, O'Neill and her mother Josephine Nolan moved to Hempstead, New York, and opened a real estate brokerage office. O'Neill, working under her given name Elaine Nolan, also served on the board of the Hempstead Chamber of Commerce and was the president of the Country Club Estates Civic Association. She died on August 5, 2010. Collection contains one album of photographs featuring model and burlesque dancer Lynne O'Neill. O'Neill is depicted wearing fashionable clothing, burlesque-style costumes, and bathing suits. There are several nude portraits. In some, O'Neill is depicted dancing and stripping; she is also shown posing in a pinup style. Some photographs are taken outdoors at a beach. The album also includes two promotional cards for O'Neill's shows at the Village Paradise and Tony Pastor's in New York City.

Sculptor and inventor Harriet Goodhue Hosmer was a native of Watertown, Massachusetts, the daughter of Dr. Hiram and Sarah (Grant) Hosmer. She studied anatomy, and spent much of her life in Rome, where she was at first the pupil of the English sculptor, John Gibson. Her works were exhibited and purchased in England and the United States. Collection includes a handwritten letter from Harriet Goodhue Hosmer to her friend, writer Lydia Maria Child, regarding her sculpture of Thomas Hart Benton, and her plans to travel to St. Louis in the near future, and Child's written accounts of Hosmer's sculpture Zenobia. Hosmer mentions a "Mrs. Vaughn" who is interested in Child's writing about Zenobia. In addition, there is a brief note signed by Hosmer in 1895 on stationery from The Ledge in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Diversity futurist, author, and consultant Deborah Levine was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Bermuda. She studied anthropology at Radcliffe College from 1966 to 1969 before transferring to New York University, where she received a BA in cultural anthropology in 1971. She received an MA in urban planning and policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1985 and an MA in religion from the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies in 1993. She was the Executive Artistic Director of the Harlequinade Dance Company (1975-1981), Interreligious Affairs Director for the American Jewish Committee (1984-1991), founder of the DuPage Interfaith Resource Network (1990-1994), Directory of Community Relations of the Greater Tulsa Jewish Federation (1993-1997), Executive Director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga (1997-2000), Research Coordinator at UTC College of Engineering and Computer Sciences (2014-2015), and founder of Lean In - Women Ground Breakers, Chattanooga, Tennessee, chapter (2001-2016). Since 2005, she has been Editor-in-Chief of American Diversity Report. Levine is the author of numerous articles and books, including Teaching Curious Christians about Judaism (1995), Matrix Model Management System: Guide to Cross Cultural Wisdom (2006), Going Southern: The No-Mess Guide to Success in the South (2013), The Liberator's Daughter (2016), and Un-Bias Guide for Leaders: Unconscious Bias & Conscious Choices (2018).
Dianne Irvine Fleet received a BA in psychology from Radcliffe College in 1970. After graduation, she worked for the Bedford Styverson Restoration Corporation in Brooklyn, New York, on projects relating to sickle cell anemia awareness and education, lead testing in children, eradicating lead paint in housing, dialysis for Black citizens, and literacy education. She entered Yale Law School in 1973 and received a JD in 1976. She was an associate at Baker and McKenzie (1976-1980), Corporate Attorney for the Coca Cola Bottling Company of New York (1978-1980), Assistant Professor of Law at Louisiana State University (1980-1981), Associate Counsel at The City University of New York (1982-1988), Senior University Attorney at Harvard University (1988-1994), General Counsel for the University of Guam (1994-1997), Dean for Faculty and Staff Relations at The City University of New York (1997-1999), Supervising Attorney at the United States Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights (1999-2002), an associate at DeCuir, Clark & Adams, LLP (2002-2011), and in 2011 became General Counsel and Vice President for Administration for the University of Louisiana System.
The collection consists of a digital video recording of the March 2021 Black-Jewish Dialogue cosponsored by The Jewish Federation, Mizpah Congregation, and the American Diversity Report in which Rabbi Craig Lewis of the Mizpah Congregation moderates a discussion between Dianne Irvine Fleet and Deborah J. Levine on the topic of women creating change as Harvard freshmen in the 1960s and today. Fleet and Levine give presentations discussing their backgrounds; their experiences as students at Radcliffe College; and their respective career paths. Their reflections on their time at Radcliffe College include experiences of gender discrimination by Harvard University faculty, their perspectives as African American students (Fleet) and Jewish students (Levine), and their involvement in social justice movements. The question-and-answer session that follows includes discussion of the ongoing failure of Ivy League schools to become more diverse and experiencing sexism in the professional opportunities available to female graduates of Harvard as compared to their male counterparts.

Archivist and librarian Anne Engelhart was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1951, the eldest child of Carl and Margaret Engelhart. In that year the couple moved to Plattsburgh, New York, where her father began a long career in the English department at the State University of New York. Her mother later served as an editor for Tundra Books, a Canadian publishing company. An avid flute player, Engelhart studied at Vassar College (1969-1971) before leaving for Europe where she became involved in the study of Renaissance and baroque music and historically informed performance practice, attending the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel, Switzerland), the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, and studying with baroque flutist Barthold Kuijken while living in Bruges, Belgium. In 1975 she returned to the United States and studied at Brandeis University (1975-1976) before finishing at New England Conservatory (BM 1978). In 1984 she completed an MLIS from Simmons and in 1992 she received an MLA in history from the Harvard Extension School. In 1978 she married Douglas Durant, a doctoral candidate in music whom she'd met at Brandeis. The couple have two children. Engelhart began part-time work at the Schlesinger Library in 1977, initially as a staff assistant for the Black Women Oral History Project, and later as Assistant Curator of Manuscripts, and Head of Collection Services before retiring in 2018. The papers of Anne Englehart include personal correspondence with family and friends; a baby book, an autograph book, and a scrapbook (1958-1959); photographs; school reports and programs; and correspondence, charts, financial accounts from her in vitro fertilization treatments (1988-1991). Materials document Engelhart's childhood travels to Europe and China; her close relationships with her parents, family, and friends; her experiences living abroad in the early 1970s while studying early music; her marriage and efforts to get pregnant via in vitro fertilization and other treatments; parenthood; and her work at the Schlesinger Library. Also included are papers relating to Engelhart's friend, composer Trude Rittmann, including biographical and financial materials, photographs, and correspondence.

Sylvia S. Seaman, daughter of Nathan and Fanny Bleat Bernstein, was born November 8, 1900, in Manhattan, New York. A lifelong feminist, she participated in her first suffrage march in 1915 and frequently participated in women's rights marches throughout the 1970s. Seaman graduated from Cornell University in 1922, then taught English in New York City before embarking on a career as a writer. Her earliest writings were in conjunction with her Cornell University roommate, Frances Schwartz, and appeared under the pseudonym Francis Sylvin. They published several articles and two novels, Rusty Carrousel (1943) and Miracle Father (1952, republished in 1968 as Test-Tube Father). In 1955, she underwent a radical mastectomy, an experience she recounted in magazine and newspaper articles and in her 1965 book, Always a Woman: What Every Woman Should Know About Breast Cancer. In addition to her breast cancer awareness advocacy, Seaman spoke and wrote on issues relating to women's health and sexuality including abortion and lesbianism. In 1979, her last book, How to Be a Jewish Grandmother was published. Seaman married chemist William Seaman in 1925. They had two sons, Jonathan and Gideon, who married women's health advocate Barbara Seaman. Seaman died of breast cancer on January 8, 1995. The papers of Sylvia S. Seaman contain drafts of articles and novels Seaman wrote under her own name and as Francis Sylvin, in partnership with Frances Schwartz. Most writings are typed and often feature edits, but are largely undated and don't have any publishing information attached to them. Writing topics include breast cancer, student life at Cornell University, travel, and Jewish humor. The collection also includes articles about Seaman, correspondence with publishers, and speeches by Seaman.

Isabella Coolidge Councilman, daughter of David Hill and Isabella Shurtleff Coolidge, was born March 20, 1861, in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1894, she married pathologist William Thomas Councilman (1854-1933); they had three children, Isabella Coolidge Councilman Wigglesworth (1895-1989), Christiana Drummond Councilman Morgan (1897-1967), and Dr. Elizabeth Councilman Rogers (1899-1981). She was affiliated with the Arlington Street Church in Cambridge and was a member of the National Society of Colonial Dames and the Garden Club of America. Councilman died January 16, 1934. Collection consists of two handwritten cookbooks created by Isabella Coolidge Councilman. Volume 1 is titled Cooking Recipes and features tabbed sections for different types of recipes such as bread, meat, fish, and dessert. The volume is inscribed "Isabella Coolidge Councilman 1915 from Aunt Julia Coolidge" and features mainly American recipes including fish balls, veal loaf, and oatmeal cookies. Many of the recipes were added later by her daughter, Isabella Councilman Wigglesworth, and include several recipes attributed to Julia Child. Volume 2 contains handwritten recipes for candies, desserts, seafood and meat entrees, and soups. Also included are recipes clipped from unidentified newspapers.

Mary Frances Gerety, daughter of John A. and Mae J. Pigott Gerety, was born November 17, 1915, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Known as Frances, she graduated from the Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and studied at the University of Pennsylvania. She worked as a copywriter at Jacob Reed's and Sons before joining N.W. Ayer & Son in 1943. She remained at N.W. Ayer & Son until her retirement in 1970. Among the companies Gerety wrote advertisement copy for was De Beers, who were prohibited from conducting business in the United States due to their violation of antitrust laws so the advertisements could not promote De Beers or feature images of diamond jewelry. In 1947, Gerety was tasked with creating a tagline for a new line of De Beers that would overtly identify diamonds as the sales product. She submitted the phrase "diamonds are forever," which became one of the most recognizable advertising slogans ever created and continues to be used by De Beers. Gerety died April 11, 1999, in Derby, Pennsylvania. The papers of Mary Frances Gerety contain biographical information about Gerety, including an obituary and a will; an interview with Gerety for the N.W. Ayer Oral History Program; fashion advertisements featuring adverting copy written by Gerety, including De Beers advertisements featuring the "diamonds are forever" slogan; reports to De Beers Consolidated Mines by N.W. Ayer & Son featuring advertising and marketing recommendations; and photographs of Gerety and her family.

Esther Sidney Stanton, daughter of Thomas Fernley Fawcett and Sidney Ann Bonsai Fawcett, was born in Salem, Ohio, on September 23, 1882. She married Elwood Dean Stanton on July 28, 1909. They lived in Westtown, Pennsylvania, first at Westtown School where Elwood was business manager, and later in town when he became county commissioner. The Stantons had 5 children, 4 daughters and one son. In 1928, Esther received a diploma from the domestic arts correspondence school of the Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences in the complete dressmaking and designing course. She was also an active member of the Middletown Friends Meeting and served on the board of the Chester County Hospital Auxiliary. Esther Sidney Stanton died May 16, 1962. The Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences collection of Esther Sidney Stanton contains printed material and letters to Stanton from the Institute; examinations taken by Stanton; Stanton's diploma; and samples of Stanton's course work including drawings of dresses and needlework samplers, many with feedback from instructors.