The Dobkin Family Collection of Feminism is a New York-based research collection begun a quarter-century ago to address the gender gap in primary research material. It houses tens of thousands of items bulking to 19th- and 20th-century America and UK. Nearly every item in the Collection is unique: original letters and manuscripts, annotated and inscribed books, personal diaries; and painfully rare ephemeral items deployed in the efforts towards gender equality.
Individually and in the aggregate, the material in the Dobkin Family Collection chronicles women’s advancements – private and public, individual and collective – towards gender equality in political and domestic realms such as suffrage, education, labor, science, medicine, birth control, the military, business, and literature. Within each of these subsets are truly remarkable items by luminaries in their fields, the women who envisioned and brought about real societal change.
Please explore the collection using our Search the Collection page; description and image uploads are ongoing.
To view or request material from the Collection for research, publication, or exhibition, please contact us.
