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News and Highlights
Smith Stories 2012
Come tell your Smith stories and be a part of history!
Thursday and Friday, May 24-25, 2012
Smith College Archives & Sophia Smith Collection
Alumnae Gymnasium, Level A
Smith students will be conducting videotaped interviews with alumnae during Reunion. If you are interested in sharing your Smith story, please contact Kelly Anderson. Interview footage and transcripts will be placed in the College Archives.
Directions to Alumnae Gym
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Red Flame
On April 4 and 5, Hampshire College student Jaymes Timpson Winell presented a most engaging and inspiring song-and-dance performance entitled Red Flame. Based on the life and work of her grandmother, Anne Burlak Timpson whose papers are now in the Sophia Smith Collection, Jaymes' performance has made great use of these materials. So, too, will the archived material provide rich sources for her final research paper, all part of her Division III senior project. Timpson (1911-2002) was a Communist Party official and labor organizer who went to work at fourteen and within two years became an activist, fighting for the rights of workers as she would continue to do for decades. Her papers include correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, speeches, photographs, scrapbooks, interviews, audiovisual materials, and an unfinished autobiography. In Red Flame, Timpson's granddaughter presented an emotionally-charged and spirited look at one woman's efforts to make social, political and economic justice a reality for all Americans. At the same time, it was very much grounded in the historical context.
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Anne Burlak Timpson, 1931
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As Jaymes herself said, "This performance is an attempt to put history on its feet, share some songs and stories, and explore what fearlessness might look like." The Sophia Smith Collection is pleased and proud to be a part of such endeavors.
William Timpson, Jaymes, Kellee Timpson, Kathryn Anne Wright,
April, 2012. Photo by Kathleen Banks Nutter
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SSC images now searchable!
Digital images from the SSC can now be searched and viewed in the Smith College
LUNA image database.
To date, over 300 images from our collections have been added and the online collection will continue to grow.
More information on finding images
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Women Strike for Peace, Washington, D.C., 1969. Photo by Diana Davies
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Student Projects
Read about student work using SSC primary sources including exhibits, oral histories, and internships.
Learn more about the Archives Concentration at Smith.
Adrian and Caroline in the Ms. Foundation office, New York City
 Recent Scholarship- Publications and projects using SSC sources; research grant recipients.
- Newsletter
- Read past issues of the SSC newsletter, Imposing Evidence; essays on women's history; order postcards, bookmarks, and more.
- Past events
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