American Association of University Women

The Lucy Maynard Salmon Collection includes the personal papers of Lucy Maynard Salmon along with a smaller collection of papers belonging to her mother, Maria Clara Maynard 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 Other items include her published and unpublished poetry; grant proposals; correspondence, clippings, and reports from field work, including her Mescalero trip, 1931-1932; and a draft of Margaret Mead's .