Group 2 - Summer 2021

Only one mention of suffrage, in the “Exchange” Column, under the Mississippi section, discussing Millsaps College’s vote on Women’s suffrage. The women are referred to as “co-eds” and 21 women voted against suffrage vs. 12 for adopting and the…

Only one mention of suffrage in a column about new equipment in brewery laboratories. “Mr. Root, like his brewery clients, has been a strong opponent of woman suffrage.”

A written up “history” of the graduating class included in this yearbook mentions the “bravery” of the male students for discussing everything “from Home Rule to Woman Suffrage.”

In a “Collection” section, the yearbook staff included a series of quick jokes and phrases. The one concerning suffrage:
“Us women,” shouted the suffrage leader, “can do anything that a man can.” “Yeah,” sneered the cynic, “let’s see you grow a…

Detailed daily entries from February of Ordway’s junior year to January of her senior year at Vassar College. Mentions her opinions on suffrage multiple times throughout the entries, in full support “that women should have equal suffrage with men.”

Included in Elizabeth Babbott’s scrapbook of her years at Vassar, the book includes a whole page devoted to E. Sylvia Pankhurst’s pamphlet describing suffragettes and the appeal for suffrage.

Item from the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Archives and Special Collections Library at Vassar College. This document goes into detail about Stanton’s personality and character based on the shape of her skull.

Matthew Vassar, founder of Vassar College, writes to Miss Powell. Acknowledging a note of appreciation for a lecture on Woman Suffrage and makes several comments on the lecture.

A speech on women’s suffrage, on Worthington’s “unique perspective on the capabilities, duties, and possibilities of women,” as was the focus of Bryn Mawr College’s Equal Suffrage League.

The Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry was founded as a direct result of the 19th Amendment and white women’s newfound right to vote in both the US and UK. This intersectional outreach of Suffrage, class, and labor is discussed in…