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Professor of personnel management in the School of Business Administration of the University of Michigan, also professor of economics in the department of economics. Margaret Elliott also wrote under her married name Elliott Tracy. The collection consists of scattered files from her professional career, documenting in part her research of women's roles in business and professional careers in the World War II era; file concerning her activities with the American Association of University Women; and various subject files.

The Margaret Elliott collection, arranged alphabetically, pertains to her professional career. Most of the papers focus on her research of women's roles in business and professional careers in the World War II era. The papers provide valuable insight into the way women viewed their role in higher education and the workforce in the 1930s and 1940s. One folder in the papers, "Dissertations and thesis critiques," contains interesting information about the topics students were choosing for their dissertations in the World War II era. This file is closed to researchers for seventy five years from the date of creation because it contains personally identifiable student information.

Feminist, active in various women's rights organizations and causes; the files concerns her activities with American Association of University Women and the People's Campaign for Choice, 1987-1988; also included are Topical Files, 1972-1999 and Audiovisual Materials, 1986-1997

The papers of Patrice I. Elms, consisting of correspondence, reports, topical files and some organizational records, provide a fine overview of the state of abortion rights in Michigan in the later 1980s and other controversial issues such as school choice and parochiaid. The papers are arranged in four series: American Association of University Women, People's Campaign for Choice, 1987-1988, Topical, 1972-1999 and Audiovisual Materials, 1986-1997. These documents provide a fine overview of the state of abortion rights in Michigan in the later 1980s.