page_title: Schlesinger Library
section_title: Collections
hierarchical_section_title: Schlesinger Library / Collections
caption_attribution_description: English: Photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals standing next to her camera (on tripod), with camera trigger in hand. PC60-6-3. Jessie Tarbox Beals Photographs, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
context_page_description: The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America is a research library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. According to Nancy F. Cott, the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director, it is "the largest and most significant repository of documents covering women's lives and activities in the United States."
context_section_description: The library’s holdings include manuscripts; books and periodicals; and photographic and audiovisual material.
  While its focus for collecting is American women, the library has an abundance of print and manuscript materials bearing on issues around the globe as a result of American women's extensive travel and foreign residence. Some examples are letters of early missionaries in China, activists' accounts of the Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice, and the world-spanning speeches and writings of Shirley Graham Du Bois.
  Detailed records for the library’s manuscript collections as well as books and periodicals can be found in HOLLIS. The catalog record gives a description of the item or collection and provides other important information such as offsite location or access restrictions. Researchers can learn more about the manuscript collections by consulting the Schlesinger Library's Research Guides. Research Librarians can be reached through Ask a Schlesinger Librarian.
caption: Photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals standing next to her camera
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