Collections

Eleanor Roosevelt and Anna Pennybacker on CWC Porch
Chautauqua Women's Club Collection
University at Buffalo Libraries - Digital Collections

The Chautauqua Women’s Club, founded in 1889, has enjoyed a long, proud and vital history as an integral part of the Chautauqua experience.

Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck Collection
Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck Collection
Stone Ridge Public Library

Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck's diaries (1838-1841), and portraits of the Hasbrouck and Lawrence families.

First page of affidavit form filled out by handwriting
Women in the Legal System
Schenectady County Historical Society

This collection is composed of materials that document the treatment and condition of women in the 18th and 19th centuries, and their pursuit of justice and rights within the court systems.