The mission of the Woman’s Collection at Texas Woman’s University is to collect, preserve, promote, and make accessible the lives, legacies, and history of American women. The Woman’s Collection is the largest source of research materials on Southern and Southwestern women in the United States and in 1979 was designated by the Texas legislature as the state’s official collection on the history of women. The Woman’s Collection provides primary source material to historians, scholars, journalists, genealogists, policy makers, authors, educators, filmmakers and documentarians worldwide.