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Microfilm editions of original manuscript materials held in other repositories are not described in this guide, but a search of the Library of Congress Online Catalog will identify titles that are available for use in the Manuscript Reading Room. Several of these microfilm editions are also now available via the subscription database Proquest History Vault (Onsite Only).
The accessibility of such microfilm and subscription databases allows scholars to consult in one research trip various women's history sources scattered across the country. It permits, for example, the researcher interested in Jane Addams to consult both the microfilm edition of her papers held by Swarthmore College as well as original items relating to her in this division's Breckinridge Family Papers. It enables researchers studying women's roles in antilynching campaigns to access this division's original records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at the same time they consult the microfilm records of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching held at Atlanta University's Robert W. Woodruff Library.
The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available. Many of the microfilm editions held by the Manuscript Division were produced by commercial vendors and acquired through copyright deposit, including the series:
Women's studies manuscript collections from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Series 1, Woman's suffrage [microform] by Women's studies manuscript collections from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Series 2, Women in national politics [microform] by Women's studies manuscript collections from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Series 3, Sexuality, sex education, and reproductive rights [microform]and the important multirepository compilations:
Grassroots women's organizations. Records of the Women's City Club of New York, 1916-1980 [microform] by Grassroots women's organizations. Women's suffrage in Wisconsin [microform] by Southern women and their families in the 19th century, papers and diaries. Series A, Holdings of the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [microform] by Southern women and their families in the 19th century, papers and diaries. Series D, Holdings of the Virginia Historical Society [microform] by Southern women and their families in the 19th century, papers and diaries [microform]. Series F, Holdings of the Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin by Southern women and their families in the 19th century, papers and diaries. Series G, Holdings of the University of Virginia Library [microform] by 
