In honor of Women's History Month, Swem Library Special Collections would like to highlight two of its most recent acquisitions related to women's history. The Rowena Goddard Diary is a travel diary kept by Rowena while traveling with her mother in Germany during the spring and summer of 1889. Some of the sites she visited while in Germany include Berlin, Dresden, Bohemia, Karlstad and Bayreuth. In her diary, Goddard wrote of taking German lessons and socializing with other students, seeing and describing the Kaiser in Berlin, making sketches of the countryside, and getting her fortune told among other topics. The diary also contains loose drawings, train tickets, and flowers. Here are some photographs of different pages from the diary:
The Lane Carlson Papers contains photographs, correspondence, and scrapbooks kept by Colonel Lane Carlson, the first female colonel in the United States Army. The most recent addition to the collection, Mss. Acc. 2014.026, contains military photographs as well as photographs of Helen Keller on a visit to Japan, as well as scrapbooks from Lane Carlson's high school years from 1933-1934 and from the set of the movie Francis Joins the Wacs. A commemorative book published for one of Helen Keller's trips to Japan inscribed to Lane Carlson is also included.
For more information about Special Collections resources related to women's history, please consult our women's history research guide.