Research Guides: Gender & Sexuality Studies: Archives & Libraries

Northwestern & Beyond: Archives, Libraries

Archival & Manuscript Collections, Northwestern University Library
Search through finding aids that describe archival and manuscript materials held by various Northwestern University libraries. Materials about students, alumni, faculty, faculty wives, and student and University organizations are available. Materials related to women, LGBT, bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender interests are available.
GLBT Periodicals
Here are found lists of GLBT periodicals in the McCormick Library. GLBT periodicals held in the Main Library collections are not listed here. Many of these periodicals are incomplete runs, in some cases we possess only a single issue.
Life and Times of Florence Kelley
Digital archive of first woman factory inspector in the U.S. 2012 Leigh Bienen, Northwestern University School of Law.
Nineteenth Century Women
Finding aid for materials in the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections.

Black Metropolis Research Consortium
The Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) is a Chicago-based membership association of libraries, universities, and other archival institutions. Its mission is to make broadly accessible its members’ holdings of materials that document African American and African diasporic culture, history, and politics, with a specific focus on materials relating to Chicago.
Chicago Collections Consortium
Chicago Collections is a consortium of libraries, museums, and other institutions with archives that collaborate to preserve and share the history and culture of the Chicago region.
Gerber/Hart Library and Archives
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Information Resource and Archives, Chicago, IL. Founded in 1981 as a depository for the records of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) individuals and organizations.

ArchiveGrid
ArchiveGrid is a collection of over three million archival material descriptions, including collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies. Access is provided to detailed archival collection descriptions and contact information for the institutions where the collections are kept. ArchiveGrid data is primarily focused on archival material descriptions for institutions in the United States but now also includes information about collections in Australia.
Archive Finder
Archive Finder brings together ArchivesUSA and the cumulative index to the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the UK and Ireland (NIDS UK/Ireland), previously available on CD-ROM.

ArchivesUSA is a current directory of over 5,600 repositories and more than 175,000 collections of primary source material across the United States. NIDS UK/Ireland is a major reference work that reproduces on microfiche the finding aids to thousands of archive and manuscript collections in libraries and record offices, museums and private collections throughout the UK and Ireland. Used together in Archive Finder, researchers are able to read descriptions of a repository's holdings to determine whether a collection contains material useful to their work as well as find the information they need to contact the repository directly. – Publisher

National Archives @ Chicago
We hold permanent records created by federal agencies and courts in the following states: Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin
National Archives
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever.