Women's Archives. Susan Bulkeley Butler Women's Archives
Collecting Area
Identifier: Women's Archives
The Susan Bulkeley Butler Women's Archives collects, preserves, and makes available for research original and rare materials that capture the often overlooked and under-represented stories of women and their communities in Purdue and Indiana's past. Collections include papers, photographs, audio-visual materials, digital media, rare books, and select artifacts documenting women faculty, staff, and students at Purdue University; organizations and programs at Purdue that support women; and significant women and women's organizations in Indiana. The Women’s Archives actively seeks new collections that align with this focus, particularly those that represent women from diverse backgrounds, women of color, women in the LGBTQ+ community, and women who have challenged traditional gender roles. The Purdue Archives and Special Collections established the Women's Archives in 2006 after receiving a generous donation from Susan Bulkeley Butler.
Found in 367 Collections and/or Records:
Rita Colwell papers, addition 06
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20191107.1
Dates:
1961 - 2018
Roberta (Bobbie) Simon papers
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20130413.5
Dates:
1940 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1976
Roberta Gleiter papers, addition 04
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20111006
Dates:
1960 - 2011
Roberta Gleiter papers, addition 09
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20141029.1
Dates:
1964 - 2011
Martha Bemis Rogers dance cards
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSA 256
Scope and Contents
The Martha Bemis Rogers dance cards document the dances Martha Bemis attended from 1953-1957, while a student at Purdue University. There are 32 cards in the collection.
Dates:
1953 - 1957
Fred W. and Mary Otten Rose collection on the Class of 1921 and 1922
Collection — Box Communal Collections 11, Placement: 09
Identifier: MSA 203
Scope and Contents
Materials collected by Fred Rose and Mary Otten Rose. The collection includes a Class of 1921 directory, records, Class of 1921, 45th, 50th, and 55th anniversary papers, correspondence to classmates in regards to events, copies of clippings from Purdue Exponent, and related materials. One folder contains photographs, newsletters, programs from 25th 30th, 40th and 50th reunions, rosters and notes from the Class of 1922 for which Mary Otten Rose was class secretary.
Dates:
1966 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1972
Janalyce Rouls papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 499
Overview
The collection contains correspondence, clippings, publications, etc. documenting the career of Janalyce Rouls, a prominent figure in home economics extension work.
Dates:
1917 - 2007
Ruth Davis Braun papers
Unprocessed — Box Communal Accessions 38
Identifier: 20191125.1
Dates:
1939 - 1941; 1994
Ruth (Frier) Shively Oliver collection
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20200918
Dates:
undated
Ruth Senderrek Mecca papers on Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2022-046
Dates:
circa 1944 - 2000
Sally Jo Bible Tomahawk Club pledge board
Unprocessed — Box Communal Collections 64, Placement: 03
Identifier: 20131001.2
Dates:
1955
Sarah Allenbaugh papers on Pi Beta Phi
Unprocessed — Box Communal Accessions 62, Folder: 1
Identifier: 2023-139
Dates:
1960 - 1961
Laurentza Schantz-Hansen papers
Collection — Box Communal Collections 44, Placement: 01
Identifier: MSF 440
Scope and Contents
Three folders containing correspondence, writings, conceptual drawings, newspaper clippings, programs, publications and donation papers of Laurentza Schantz-Hansen.
Dates:
1910 - 2003
Mary Lou Schiltz papers on Purdue in World War Two
Collection — Box Communal Collections 66, Placement: 09
Identifier: MSA 370
Scope and Contents
The collection contains several clippings, pamphlets and announcements belonging to Mary Lou Schiltz, who was a Home Economics student at Purdue during World War Two. Of particular interest are materials relating to the experiences of women students during this time, including: program material for the Work to Win Conference that was compulsory for women students, an article about the RCA engineering cadette program that was modeled after the Curtiss-Wright Cadettes, and other articles...
Dates:
1942 - 1943
Collection on Helen B. Schleman
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 307
Content Description
This collection includes a collection of papers and artifacts that were collected during Helen Schleman's life and posthumously by individuals who were close to her, such as Dorothy Stratton and Betty Nelson. Some items were donated after they were removed from an exhibit on Schleman that was previously installed in Schleman Hall.
Dates:
1940 - 1992
Helen B. Schleman papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 334
Scope and Contents
The Helen Schleman papers document the life of Helen B. Schleman from her time as a student at Northwestern University in the 1920s up until her death in 1992. Much of the collection documents Schleman’s tenure at Purdue University as Head of the Women’s Residence Halls, Dean of Women, and Dean Emeritus, as well as her military service in the Coast Guard Women’s Reserve (SPARs) during World War II. Additionally, the collection contains Schleman’s collection of newspaper clippings pertaining to...
Dates:
1920 - 2003; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1980
Mary Lou Seaburg Bieber collection
Collection — Box Communal Collections 3, Placement: 15
Identifier: MSA 53
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one folder which contains programs, Exponents and Exponent clippings, along with other memorabilia from Mary Lou Seaburg Bieber's days as a Purdue student.
Dates:
1940 - 1948
Carolyn E. Shoemaker collection
Collection — Box Box 1
Identifier: MSF 343
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a box of memorial pamphlets, one faculty folder, Shoemaker's annotated copy of the Purdue 1926-1927 Directory, and two books owned by her: The Crescent Moon, and The Perfect Tribute.
Dates:
1933 - 1997
Ella B. Silance collection
Collection — Box Communal Collections 12: Series MSA 213, Series 1, Placement: 11
Identifier: MSA 215
Scope and Contents
One photograph, with Ella B. Silance's named marked on the back, but a group of unidentified people in the photograph.
Dates:
circa 1932