Browse Items (37 total)

Vassar graduates Julia Lathrop and Katherine B. Davis, were to speak with others on Women’s suffrage at the Masonic Temple.

Students held a meeting on Women’s Suffrage. They had previously conducted a survey on student support for suffrage: “[Dorothy Holt] announced the results of the recent canvass of the college: for suffrage, 476; against, 154; neutral, 174.” They had…

Despite Vassar encouraging its students to have a wide breadth of knowledge, they have left students particularly uneducated on issues such as Women’s Suffrage. These students believe that if they are more educated on Women’s Suffrage they are not…

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…