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Comprised of 17 boxes and 1 flat box (8.6 lin. feet) and includes subjects on China, nuclear war and weapons, women’s rights, worker’s rights, socialism, and diaries and correspondence.

The China records contain information about the U.S. – China People’s Friendship Association. This section also contains records from the group’s trip to China, led by Smith, in 1976. The documents in this section range in dates from 1975-1977.

Another series contains information about nuclear war and weapons and ranges in date from 1982 to 1987. These materials are largely magazine and newspaper articles which discuss the danger of nuclear war and weapons as well as peaceable alternatives.

The collection also contains three series’ containing Mary Anne’s materials regarding women’s rights, worker’s rights, and other liberation movements. The majority of the pieces included in these series are magazines, articles, personal notes, flyers and correspondence. These three series represent 1968 to 1972, the years in which Mary Ann learned about and was involved in a numbers of groups and movements.

The last series contains Mary Anne’s personal notebooks, letters, calendars, and various miscellaneous items. Of particular interest to the researcher may be her extensive collection of buttons, her Mao-style hats, and three audio cassettes which contain an interview with Mary Anne from 2001.