Elizabeth Crocker Lawrence papers
CA-MS-00393
Smith College Class of 1883. President of the Alumnae Association. Contains correspondence, diaries, journals, news clippings, photographs and publications documenting the life of Elizabeth Crocker Lawrence (Clarke). Correspondence and journals dating past 1939 describe life during World War II, both in the United States and also abroad in Surrey, England.
Morrow family papers
SSC-MS-00108
Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, Smith College Class of 1896. Author; Philanthropist; President, Smith College. Collection consists primarily of the papers of Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, although her husband Dwight W. Morrow, and daughters Elisabeth Reeve Morrow (Morgan); Anne Spencer Morrow (Lindbergh); and Constance Cutter Morrow (Morgan), and extended family members are also represented. The papers include personal and professional papers and material pertaining to Smith College. Correspondence is extensive. Of interest are documents describing Elizabeth Cutter Morrow's World War II activities.
Charlotte B. DeForest papers
SSC-MS-00044
Smith College Class of 1901. Missionary. President, Kobe College. Papers include correspondence, memorabilia, photographs, clippings, awards and citations, and writings. Personal and professional correspondence includes letters from friends and colleagues in Japan, mostly relating to her work at Kobe College. During World War II, DeForest returned to the United States and taught Japanese at Pomona College. She was also a counselor at the Manzanar Relocation Center, a Japanese internment camp in California, 1941-45.
Azalia Emma Peet papers
SSC-MS-00120
Smith College Class of 1910. Missionary and teacher. The Azalia Peet papers consist of photographs, correspondence, memorabilia, and speeches. Of particular interest in the collection diaries and letters written by Peet from Japan, and from the Japanese American internment camps in the United States during World War II. Her early diaries reflect her home life and her personal struggle to come to terms with her vocation.
Helen Begley Nixon papers
SSC-MS-00113
Smith College Class of 1921. Red Cross official; Relief worker, World War II; Refugee relief organizer, Vietnam; and President, International Women's Association, Vietnam. The papers document the lives of women in Korea; in Germany after World War II; and in Vietnam, as well as orphanages, and refugees. Material includes correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia; approximately one quarter of the collection is in German, and some is in Vietnamese, Korean, and French.
Helen Paull Kirkpatrick papers
CA-MS-01132
Smith College Class of 1931. She became a foreign correspondent at the beginning of World War II. Her papers contain news clippings, correspondence, and photographs documenting the student experience. It also contains her professional work while at Smith College as Assistant to the president, 1953-1955.
Frances Rich papers
SSC-MS-00129
Smith College Class of 1931. Sculptor; Director, Smith College Public Relations; and Officer, United States Naval Reserve, World War II. Focuses primarily on her career as a sculptor, with a small amount of material on her work (as student and staff) at Smith College and in U.S. Navy. Material includes correspondence, biographical articles, research files, clippings, exhibit catalogs (sculptures of notable people), posters, scrapbooks, and photographs.
Helen C. Bragdon papers
SSC-MS-00218
Smith College Class of 1933. Actress; Playwright; Women's Army Corps, World War II. The Helen Bragdon Papers include letters to her family from her basic training in Florida, her stateside service in Texas and Georgia, and overseas tours of duty in Australia, New Guinea, Netherlands East Indies, and the Philippines. Additional materials include correspondence, clippings, photographs, and programs related to her theater activities.
Dudley Harmon papers
SSC-MS-00191
Smith College Class of 1934. Journalist and war correspondent. Papers consist of correspondence, writings, biographical material, photographs and memorabilia. Includes letters home during World War II; her coverage of the Nuremberg trials and the United Nations European Headquarters in Geneva; and her letters and journal from Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa. Also included are unpublished stories, radio broadcasts, two scrapbooks and letters to her father.
Margaret Myers Dunn papers
CA-MS-00392
Smith College Class of 1937. She graduated with a B.A. in Biology and a minor in German. She traveled through Europe on graduation and later married Richard Byam Dunn at the end of 1938. Richard Dunn was a Williams College undergraduate who later attended Harvard Law and courted Margaret since 1935. They wrote frequent letters back and forth throughout their courtship, and during World War II while Richard was stationed on the USS Steinaker. Margaret remained at home in Newton, MA, dedicating her time to maintaining the household and raising their young family.
Jean Louise Burnham papers
CA-MS-00357
Smith College Class of 1939. Her papers contain biographical material, correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia. The bulk of the collection consists of several hundred letters between Burnham and her husband, Albert Robertson Gray, between 1939 and 1945. They contain considerable detail about the life of a sergeant on the base and about his work in the finance office. The bulk of Jean's letters to Al are from the period after he left for Europe in 1944. Hers also relate many daily activities as well as her emotions during their long separation. Many of Jean's are V-Mail (Victory mail) letters. Some letters also convey the practical problems of life in wartime and mention events in the wider world.
Trudy Feiss papers
SSC-MS-00771
Smith College Class of 1941. The collection contains the personal papers, artworks, photographs, newspaper and magazine clippings of Gertrude "Trudy" Feiss, illustrator and artist. Particularly well represented are Feiss' time at Smith and her service in the Marines.
Gloria W. Heath papers
CA-MS-00304
Smith College Class of 1943. The materials in the Gloria W. Heath papers document Heath's career in aerospace, her work as a WASP during World War II, and her connection to Smith College.
Caroline Dwight Bain papers
SSC-MS-00762
Smith College Class of 1944. This collection consists of Caroline Bain's personal papers including travel journals, correspondence, photographs and other biographical materials. Of special note are the letters Bain wrote to her parents while she was working for the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington, DC, 1944-1945.
Townsend-O'Brien-Hoffheimer family papers
SSC-MS-00302
Smith College Classes of 1911 and 1941. Professor, languages; Naturalist; Civic volunteer; Army Intelligence officer, World War II; Author; Teacher. The Townsend-O'Brien-Hoffheimer Family papers consists primarily of correspondence between these three generations of women and other family; diaries of Smith College years for both mother and daughter. After their Smith graduations Margaret Townsend O'Brien II (Class of 1911) earned a Ph.D. from Harvard and taught languages and Charlotte Townsend O'Brien Hoffheimer (Class of 1941) served as a WAC officer in World War II, deciphering Japanese code.
