Farm Papers, 1974-1999

Extent:

6 boxes

Scope and content:

The Farm is a women's art colony and farm collective in Poughkeepsie, New York, founded and operated by Kate Millett. The series is divided into correspondence and administrative files. The correspondence consists chiefly of letters from friends and former students of Millett, and applications for residency. It is arranged chronologically, with application materials, including writing samples and artwork from prospective residents, placed at the end of the Correspondence Subseries. Administrative files are arranged chronologically at the end of the series. The administrative files consist of business records, plus a wide variety of other material related to the operation of the farm. This includes correspondence with past residents who volunteered to help with farmwork, publicity material on the farm and its Christmas tree sales, and Millett's personal account of the difficulties of running the farm in the early 1990s. Additional material on efforts to raise funds in the early 1990s can be found in the Women's Archives Project Subseries of the Subject Files.

The series includes some documents in electronic format. Electronic documents are grouped with folders containing related paper documents. If there is no corresponding folder, the documents are marked "electronic format only." For each document, the container list provides the file name, the date the file was last modified, and the number assigned to the original computer disk on which the file was received. Consult a reference archivist for access to electronic documents.

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