The Sophia Smith Collection's holdings include tens of thousands of photographs, slides, negatives, postcards, scrapbooks, and artwork, as well as images in print sources such as women’s periodicals, broadsides, fliers, pamphlets, and posters.
Major subject areas are:
- women's activism in the women’s liberation and suffrage movement
- women's activism in the civil rights, peace, and reproductive rights movements
- women in international work
- women in the arts and professions
- U.S. social history and family life
A selection of works from the growing collection of SSC digital images documenting women’s history from the early 19th century to the present is available on its Digital Collections web page.