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Women's Archives. Susan Bulkeley Butler Women's Archives

 Record Group
Identifier: Women's Archives
The Susan Bulkeley Butler Women's Archives collects, preserves, and makes available for research original and rare materials that capture the often overlooked and under-represented stories of women and their communities in Purdue and Indiana's past. Collections include papers, photographs, audio-visual materials, digital media, rare books, and select artifacts documenting women faculty, staff, and students at Purdue University; organizations and programs at Purdue that support women; and significant women and women's organizations in Indiana. The Women’s Archives actively seeks new collections that align with this focus, particularly those that represent women from diverse backgrounds, women of color, women in the LGBTQ+ community, and women who have challenged traditional gender roles. The Purdue Archives and Special Collections established the Women's Archives in 2006 after receiving a generous donation from Susan Bulkeley Butler.

Found in 359 Collections and/or Records:

Bonnie Graham Rabert papers

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 20190412.1

Esther Conelley Boonstra papers

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 3, Placement: 20
Identifier: MSA 57
Scope and Contents Recollections by Esther Boonstra of the years she spent at Purdue from 1941 to 1945. Transcription The Way It Was at Purdue 1941-1945, by Esther Conelley BoonstraI came to Purdue as a freshman in September 1941. There were four male students for every female student. The Music Hall (now Elliott Hall of Music) was new and in it we freshmen had an orientation talk and an initial assessment of each one's capabilities for the...
Dates: 1941 - 1945

Helen Bosard papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSA 361
Scope and Contents

Papers of Helen Bosard, including letters, photographs, and artifacts relating to her time as a student at Purdue University, and information on the Purdue class of 1918. Please see PDF Finding Aid for collection inventory.

Dates: 1918-1983

Irma Jean Bowman scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 227
Abstract

Irma Jean Bowman's scrapbook contains with clippings, programs, playbills, postcards, and ticket stubs documenting various cultural events at Purdue University and the surrounding region in Northwestern Indiana.

Dates: 1935 - 1980

Susan Bulkeley Butler papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 17
Abstract

This collection primarily consists of memorabilia of Susan Bulkeley Butler’s time at Purdue University, including newspaper clippings, documents about extracurricular projects, photographs, and artifacts.

Dates: 1959-2006; Other: Majority of material found in 1963 - 1965

Sharon Byrkett papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 320
Scope and Contents This collection contains awards, certifications, and honors documenting the life and achievements in social work and disability access and awareness of Sharon Byrkett. Of most prominence is a hand-written manuscript by Byrkett titled "Understanding My Disability" written in 1983. Other materials in the collection include a journal from 1967, photo albums and scrapbooks depicting events from her personal life and conferences attended, craft items made by Byrkett, and works created and saved...
Dates: 1967 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1983 - 2010

Eleanore Cammack papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 83
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of various programs from University Convocations; two folders which contain issues of the Campus Copy, News of the Staffs of Purdue University, from the 1940s; Books and Coffee listing for the fourth series, 1953-1954; and a short biography on Stanley Anderson, artist, with notations made on the back.

Dates: 1940 - 1950

Carol Plyle papers, addition 01

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2023-014

Carole Sue Richardson-Macklin papers

 Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 34
Identifier: 20120320

Carole Sue Richardson-Macklin  papers, addition 01

 Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 34
Identifier: 20120518

Kassandra Agee Chandler papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 363
Abstract

The collection includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, and other materials related to Kassandra Agee Chandler's time as a student at Purdue, her career, and her reign as the first African American homecoming queen at Purdue.

Dates: 1971 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1977 - 1982

Pearl E. Child collection

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 4, Placement: 09
Identifier: MSA 66
Scope and Contents

The Pearl Child papers include correspondence, teacher's certificates, Tri-State College certificate, clippings, report cards, tuition receipts, recommendation letters, postcards, photographs, Mansfield Machine Works catalog, issue of The Valley Register, two issues of The Ohio Farmer, cards detailing food traits.

Dates: 1865 - 1979

Ching Siang Tang Yeh papers

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 20161017
Dates: October 4, 1989

Dorothy Christoff papers

 Collection — Box Box 1
Identifier: MSA 304
Abstract

The collection contains various artifacts relating to Dorothy Christoff's time at Purdue as an Engineering student.

Dates: ca. 1963-1967; Other: Date acquired: 01/06/2000

Joan Minton Christopher papers

 Collection — Box Box 1
Identifier: MSA 250
Scope and Contents

The Joan Minton Christopher papers (1968-1970; 0.4 cubic feet) documents her undergraduate years at Purdue University during the late 1960s. The collection contains tickets from Purdue Convocations events, as well as basketball and football tickets. Christopher’s green WRX Club beanie, several programs from Purdue events, a box of matches from the Purdue National Bank, and a photo of Joan Minton Christopher from 1968 are also included.

Dates: 1968-1970; Other: Majority of material found in 1968; Other: Date acquired: 01/10/2011

Margaret Church papers

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 17, Placement: 19
Identifier: MSF 74
Scope and Contents

Folder 1 contains an obituary, a short autobiography, an article about her from The Indianapolis News, four English exams from Harvard, and a rough draft of a paper written by Margaret Church, along with a catalog record for a book written by her. Folder 2 contains various Church publications and a photograph of Tennessee Williams and Tom Adler.

Dates: 1939 - 1982

Clara Birch Snepp Vogt papers

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 20190726.1

Helen E. Clark papers

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 19, Placement: 01
Identifier: MSF 91
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of four folders containing publications by Helen Clark and her professional record.

Dates: 1957 - 1978

Marguerite A. Clifton papers

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 19, Placement: 02
Identifier: MSF 92
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one folder that contains items from the 58th Convention of Midwest District of AAHPER, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1972, the year Marguerite Clifton was president.

Dates: 1972

Collection of materials related to Clara Adams, Marian Anderson, and women's rights

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20190522

Collection of materials related to Lillian Gilbreth, addition 01

 Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 14
Identifier: 20091219

Collection of materials related to Lillian Gilbreth, addition 02

 Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 3
Identifier: 20140425.8

Collection of Sandy Monroe retirement celebration records

 Unprocessed Material — Digital folder 2022-034 Collection of Sandy Monroe retirement celebration records
Identifier: 2022-034
Dates: August 30, 2021

Collection on Berenice Carroll Memorial Service

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20181123

Collection on Louise and Eugene Poitevin

 Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 66, Folder: 1
Identifier: 20190705