American Association of University Women

The Lucy Maynard Salmon Collection
includes the personal papers of Lucy Maynard Salmon along with two smaller collections
of papers belonging to her mother, Maria Clara Maynard Salmon, and her brother, Pomeroy L. Salmon. The materials relate
to her work as an historian and professor at Vassar College as well as her work with
the suffrage movement and local political issues. There are also materials relating
to her family, education and personal life. Formats include correspondence,
manuscripts, printed material, clippings, minutes, reports, notes, and
photographs.

Personal and professional papers
consisting of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts,
articles, speeches, financial papers, reports, teaching materials, and photographs.
Correspondents include Franz Boas with whom she studied and worked. Subjects include
American Anthropological Association, Progressive Education Association, West Side
Defense Council (New York City), Council Against Intolerance in America, American
Association of University Women, American Folklore Journal, Mary Wollstonecraft,
Indians of the American Southwest including Pima, Zuni, Dakotas, Sioux, and
Shoshone, civil rights, and Japan and Japanese culture. Other items include her
published and unpublished poetry; grant proposals; correspondence, clippings, and
reports from field work, including her Mescalero trip, 1931-1932; and a draft of
Margaret Mead's .