Bryn Mawr (Pa.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
M. Carey Thomas Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: BMC-RG-1DD2
Scope and Contents
M. Carey Thomas was the first Dean and second President—a title she held for twenty-eight years—of Bryn Mawr College. Thomas’s professional and personal lives were both deeply connected to the College, and she is one of the chief architects of the college post-1894, when she began her tenure as President. Even after her retirement, Thomas continued to live on campus in the home she and her life partner Mary Garrett built, The Deanery. Although Thomas was a proponent of women’s education and...
Dates:
1853 - 1940
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Mary Garrett family papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-1970-01
Abstract
Mary Elizabeth Garrett (1854-1915) promoted women's education by founding the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Maryland, helping to finance Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and ensuring that women were admitted to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her family was prominent in Baltimore society, which allowed her to pursue her philanthropic activities. She was an active suffragist and financially helped that cause until her death in 1915. The Mary Garrett family...
Dates:
1874 - 1915
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
