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Smith College Special Collections Online Resources

Smith College Special Collections offers digital resources that can assist your research while we are off campus. These resources represent a sampling of the materials in the Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History, College Archives, and Mortimer Rare Book Collection.

Online Exhibitions
Exhibits on select topics represented in Special Collections. Includes images of collection materials and contextual information.
College Archives
Image galleries, online exhibitions, and documentation of significant events in history of Smith College.
Mortimer Rare Book Collection
Digital images of European medieval manuscripts (hosted by Digital Scriptorium), a selection of digitized materials pages from various printed books and manuscripts (hosted on Artstor), and collection of materials related to Virginia Woolf’s writing of “To the Lighthouse”.
Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History
Digitized images, documents, audio recordings, and film from select topics relating to women’s history.
Five College Compass: Digital Collections
Select digital images from the collections at Smith, Mount Holyoke, and Hampshire colleges.
Oral Histories Online
Video recordings, audio recordings, and transcripts of oral history projects related to women’s history.
College Publications
College Books, curriculum catalogues, and other publications produced by Smith College, past and present.

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