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Special Collections — Catholic Women Resources

A selected list of holdings of the American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives, at The Catholic University of America.

AUDIO/VISUAL

Notable examples of audio/visual materials in the CUA Archives pertaining to Catholic women include the following:

  • National Council of Catholic Women conference and workshop proceedings from the 1950s through the 1980s (formats vary but mostly consist of cassette and reel-to-reel magnetic tapes, as well as some lantern slides and filmstrips);
  • Cassette and reel-to-reel tapes from the 1970s of meetings and gatherings of the Co-Workers of Mother Teresa (also includes some reel-to-reel films);
  • Reel-to-reel, cassette, and VHS tapes from the 1960s to the 1990s documenting events in the CUA School of Nursing.

(Various audio/visual inventories are available for researcher use.)


The photograph below shows students operating CUA's Moog synthesizer, a notable acquisition of the university’s Electronic Music Laboratory (founded in 1961 by Professor Emerson Meyers).