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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.

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.

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.”

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…

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.”

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.”

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…