Barnard Commencement 1914

(Library of Congress)

Vassar Class Day Garland, 1919.

(submitted by laurgold)

“In the gym at Mt. Holyoke ca. 1912”

(Library of Congress)

“Tree day, Barnard College—Miss Plant and the owl of ‘1910.’”

(Bain News Service)

Activist Inez Milholland (Vassar ‘09) leads a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. March 1913. 

(Vassar Archives)

“Nearly a hundred years ago, some history-minded students braved the cold for another reason: to reenact George Washington’s famed Christmas crossing of the Delaware River. Starring Margaret Armstrong Howe ’14 as Washington, this makeshift crossing of February 22, 1914, honored Washington’s birthday.”

(Vassar Quarterly) 

Happy Valentine’s Day to my fellow boy-haters!

“Ten Little Suffergets. Anti-Suffrage Book c. 1910”

(Women’s Suffrage Ephemera Collection, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Frances Harriet Williams, Mount Holyoke ‘19

When Williams’ mother forwarded her transcript to Mount Holyoke in 1916, she ”received a letter from the college stating that they did not believe her daughter would be happy at Mount Holyoke, to which she responded that she wasn’t sending her daughter to be happy but to receive an education. Williams, who had a light complexion, recalled that many of her fellow students would not sit with her at meals, although some were not concerned about her race. Williams held a double major in chemistry and economics, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1919. She then earned a master’s in political science from the University of Chicago.” (Linda Perkins, “Racial Integration at the Seven Sister Colleges,” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education)

vintagesmith:

Paradise Pond, 1914.

“Ruth Munsey and a friend play in the snow, ca. 1918”

(Mount Holyoke College Archives)