Women in support of women prisoners demonstrate in front of Governor Rockefeller's office

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Women in support of women prisoners

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Meeting minutes maintained by the Secretary, Nov. 12, 1777

These minutes concern General William Heath's request for permission to house the soldiers of John Burgoyne – British prisoners of war – at Harvard. The Overseers voted to recommend that the Corporation allow the soldiers to occupy one or more College buildings, in spite of various hesitations. It has not been decisively determined whether or not the British troops were ultimately housed at Harvard. Some sources assert that no buildings were occupied, while others claim that Burgoyne and his soldiers lived in Apthorp House for a time.

Annotated almanac, 1745

Almanac containing calendar pages with sporadic annotations of unidentified measurements and interleaved pages with short handwritten entries about Winthrop's daily activities, and astronomical and meteorological observations. The entries include personal notes about travel, the weather, deaths in the community, notes of public fasts for the Louisbourg expedition (February 28) and the "Indian war" (September 19), and a note of the surrender of Louisbourg (June 17). There is an entry listing the burials and baptisms in Boston by month, with the deaths subdivided for white and black individuals, and notes of "French prisoners" for July and "Fever & flux" for September.

Letters to family members, 1799

Four letters dated March 11, 1799, written from debtors' prison ("Debtors' Apartment") in Philadelphia. Includes descriptions of his life in the prison and fellow prisoners.

Demonstration to support the women who are in Iranian prisons

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Native American woman Yvonne Wanrow speaking at Political Prisoner speak-out

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Women in support of Portuguese woman imprisoned in Lisbon jail for writing book on feminism

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.