Exhibits

The library’s collections tell more than one story about religious women, both positive and negative. This exhibit focuses on several women sharing three concerns: religious struggle, voice, and social justice. The women documented here are unique and in some way representative of the many women whose records are housed here.

The exhibit will be on view in the Schlesinger Library first-floor exhibit area during regular library hours. Recent works published by the conference speakers will also be on display in the library’s lobby during the two-day conference.

The records also show camp life from the campers’ perspective and document the evolution of girlhood during the twentieth century. Early campers cooked, danced, sewed, swam, rode horses, rowed canoes, and played games. As times changed, activities changed, to include waterskiing, windsurfing, sailing, and rock climbing.

Enterprising Women brings to life the stories of some 40 intriguing women who helped shape the landscape of American business. Artifacts and costumes, diaries and letters, business and legal documents, photographs and paper ephemera, audio recordings, and interactive technology reveal the trials and triumphs of this diverse group of inventors, innovators and trendsetters.