Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Address:
Schlesinger Library
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact:
Diana Carey
Telephone:
617-495-8540
Fax:
617-496-8340
Email:
Repository website URL:
http://www.radcliffe.edu/schlesinger_library.aspx
Description of repository / collection image holdings:
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/index.php) exists to document women's lives and endeavors. Its wealth of resources reveals the wide range of women's activities at home in the United States and abroad from the early nineteenth century to the present day. The library holds over 2,500 unique manuscript collections, and more than 80,000 published materials. Especially well represented are suffrage and women's rights, social reform, family history, health and sexuality, work and professions, culinary history, and gender issues. Photographs in VIA are linked to finding aids through OASIS http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu
What we have in VIA:
The library's image holdings include all varieties of photographic formats, as well as some original graphic material. They document the lives of both famous and little-known women. There are formal and informal portraits of individuals and family groups, pictures of women at work, or demonstrating for suffrage or other causes, images documenting women's organizations, political and cultural events, and material culture. New images are continually being added to VIA as they are cataloged.
How we use VIA:
Each Schlesinger Library work record in VIA represents an original image. The majority of Schlesinger Library VIA records are cataloged fully on an item, or work, level; however, within a collection, some sets of photographs documenting the same people, events, subjects and locations may be cataloged together as a VIA group record. A group record is used to cluster similar or related images that can be described together concisely and to greater purpose than separately. For example, many portraits of the same woman can be collectively described in a single group record; photographs that lack individual distinction but share certain elements in common with other images in a folder, or photographs whose significance is really evident only when viewed alongside other related photographs, may be cataloged together in group records. Each photograph in a group record always has its own work record.
Photograph cataloging is based on the subject matter of the image itself, which is often different from subjects that appear in the accompanying manuscript collection. Materials and techniques headings are less specific than those applied by other repositories, which reflects the Schlesinger Library's interest in the historical content of an image rather than the physical characteristics of the photograph itself.
Copyright and Permissions:
The material in this collection is owned or held by Schlesinger Library. Some of the images, text and other content in VIA (collectively, the "Content") is protected by copyright law. In some cases, the copyright is owned by other parties, and Harvard is making the Content available to you under license or under the fair use doctrine.
The Content is provided for your personal, noncommercial teaching and research use. You may not copy, publish, post, distribute, display, perform, or otherwise make available any of the Content protected by copyright, except as may be permitted under fair use or another copyright law exemption. If you wish to make any such use of the Content, you must obtain permission from the copyright holder, which may be Harvard or another party. Please contact slref@radcliffe.edu.
Some of the Content may be subject to other restrictions - for example, those imposed by a license agreement. You must comply with any other restrictions and terms of use that are identified in connection with particular Content.
In accessing VIA, you agree to use the Content only in accordance with copyright law and any other identified restrictions, and you assume all liability for any copyright infringement caused by your use. Some information on copyright law and fair use for members of the Harvard community can be found at:
http://ogc.harvard.edu/copyright_docs/copyright_and_fair_use.php