In 1903, Aletta Jacobs, one of the first women physicians in the Netherlands and an active international suffragist, sold her collection of feminist books, magazines, and pamphlets to the John Crerar Library of Chicago.
[4] With the creation of the National Archives and Records Administration in 1934, preservation efforts increased throughout the United States and a push was started to collect unpublished source materials.
[5] The Crerar Library began adding English titles to the collection, doubling its size, and in 1954, sold it to the University of Kansas, in Lawrence.
Periodicals dating from 1832, besides German and English titles, focus on both suffrage and anti-suffrage works from Arab countries, Australia, Austria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Switzerland.
A significant portion of the legal documents evaluate prostitution in countries like Algeria, Cuba, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United States.
The documents are largely about women in Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the United States.