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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…

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.

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

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.…

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

Student perspective on College President’s participation in the Suffrage movement. Nathalie Gookin was a member of the class of 1920, and wrote extensively about her time on campus. In this letter, she discusses day-to-day life on campus, the…

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.

Fundraising form letter by the Chairman of the Organization Committee, appealing for financial subscriptions to the Association.

Reflection on the interest of the college population in the Bryn Mawr Suffrage Chapter, means of developing greater interest, and the degree of interest in the issues of “keen suffragists” among current participants in the Equal Suffrage League.…

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.”