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Brief description of the purpose of the women’s suffrage movement in Anthony’s words.

Swarthmore College Yearbook

Swarthmore yearbook covering the year white women on campus gained the right to vote. Interesting writeup from the Poli Sci department about the resulting increase of women enrolling in their courses and major track.…

The Swarthmore College Bulletin is the official alumni magazine of the college. It evolved from the Garnet Letter, a newsletter published by the Alumni Association beginning in 1935. After World War II, college staff assumed responsibility for the…

A digital archive of the Swarthmore College Annual Catalogue.

Speeches of various College presidents or administrators remark on the enfranchisement of white women voters, the impact this has on Swarthmore College moving forward. Features a speech…

Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.

Discussions of what women on campus should expect with their first time voting, portrait of Susan…

Group portrait of the class of 1920. Students are wearing white dresses. Similar class year portraits are traditionally done in academic regalia; the shift from caps and gowns to white dresses for this singular portrait may indicate this portrait was…

Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.

Discusses campus-wide fundraising for Suffrage groups, M. Carey Thomas’s involvement in the…

Proclamation of XIX Amendment, August 26, 1920.

Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.

Contains “Suffrage Club Holds Rally of Party Speakers in Taylor,” an event held to educate women…

Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.

Contains results of the “Suffrage straw vote,” held to quantify the degree of the college…