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A compilation of audio clips from an interview of Alvis Lee Tinnin on what his experience was like as the first black student at Carleton

A description of the Priscilla Procession, a college tradition for women students, which was held in the chapel for the first time. Dr. Vernon gave a speech at the procession in which he listed reasons for students to be thankful, including the fact…

Dr. James E. McConnel, a former Northfield pastor, gave a speech at the Sunday service. He lectured on the principles of the “New Age,” and the positive changes being implemented, such as “regulation of the traffic of intoxicating liquors, and the…

Comprehensive look at important moments in the Suffrage movement, from Carrie Chapman Catt’s perspective via her scrapbooking.

Proclamation of XIX Amendment, August 26, 1920.

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.

Although President Henry Noble MacCracken asserted he was a suffragist, he discouraged the gathering that was about to happen that intended to promote suffrage.

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…

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…