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Schlesinger Library Newsletter Spring 2012

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Featured Newsletter Article

Finding Zines in the Archives, and Archives in the Zines

The explosion of zines in the 1980s and early 1990s can teach us much about the lives of young people.

Women Vaccinating Against Smallpox in Afghanistan

These women, members of an all-female team of Peace Corps volunteers, were sent to Afghanistan to help eradicate the scourge of smallpox. They would struggle with the challenges of vaccinating in high mountains and vast deserts, where many of the Afghan women and girls could not be seen, much less vaccinated, by men outside their families.

New Cache of Letters Illuminates Life of African American Novelist Ann Petry

A previously unknown collection of letters to and from the African American writer Ann Petry—the first African American woman to sell more than a million copies of a novel—is now in the Schlesinger Library.

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Scholar, Singer, and Psychoanalyst

Priscilla Fierman Kauff '62 has always loved libraries. As an undergraduate, she studied in the Radcliffe College Library—housed in the building where the Schlesinger Library is now located—which reminded her of that childhood experience. Today, Kauff serves on the Schlesinger Library Council, which she joined in 2005.

Marian Cannon Schlesinger in 2011

Marian Cannon Schlesinger Remembers

At age 99, Marian Cannon Schlesinger '34 recently published the second volume of her memoirs, I Remember: A Life of Politics, Painting and People. Learn more about her, and what she has learned in a long and interesting life.

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A New Collection of Photography Focused on Women in Afghanistan

The late photographer Paula Lerner '84—who took pictures of people all over the world, but especially women in Afghanistan—gave her papers and photographs to the Schlesinger Library.