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Women -- Education

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Emily Howland Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-066
Abstract Emily Howland (1827-1929) was a Quaker humanitarian and educator who is particularly known for her work with formerly-enslaved African Americans in Virginia during and after the American Civil War. A birthright Friend, Emily Howland was the only daughter of Slocum and Hannah (Tallcot) Howland of Sherwood, N.Y. She was educated locally and for a brief period in Philadelphia, and then moved to Washington, D.C. in 1857 to teach at the Miner School for Freedmen. During the war she worked at a...
Dates: 1763-1929
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Anne E. W. Kierstead papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: BMC-M54
Abstract

Genealogical and biographical documents for Anne Williams Kierstead, BMC 1943, and her mother, Helen Elizabeth Jones Williams, BMC 1906. Included are: letters from Kierstead to her family while she taught and traveled in Turkey in the late 1940's, a diary and an autobiographical account of Williams' travel in Europe during the outbreak of WWI, and a genealogy of the family compiled by Kierstead in 1976.

Dates: 1884 - 1998
Found in: Bryn Mawr College

Helen Clements Kirk papers

 Collection
Identifier: A12-45
Abstract Helen Clements Kirk was a student at Bryn Mawr from 1888-1892. She studied History and Economics. This collection consists of papers belonging to Helen and her family, particularly her mother, Emma Newbold Clements, and her father, Samuel Clements. Most of the collection consists of correspondence from Helen to her mother, which spans two decades, 1888-1908. In her letters from college, Helen writes about her social life, academics, professors, and events on campus. In letters written after...
Dates: 1881 - 1917
Found in: Bryn Mawr College

Milcah Martha Moore Fund records

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-017
Scope and Contents

This collection contains one volume of minutes (1866 - 1882) from the Trustees of the Milcah Martha Moore Fund. The minutes consist of treasurer reports, and decisions about use of the funds.

Dates: 1866-1882
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Pennsylvania National Organization for Women (PA NOW) papers

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-M66
Abstract The Pennsylvania National Organization for Women (PA NOW) papers occupy fourteen boxes and contain the feminist organization’s records about their activities and meetings as well as materials about women’s issues such as reproductive rights; violence against women; gender, economic, and constitutional equality; and civil rights. The records date from 1970 to 2007 and include newspaper clippings, articles, meeting notes, office files, activism realia, and lobbying records, among other...
Dates: 1970 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1996
Found in: Bryn Mawr College

Series I. Miscellaneous Biographical material, Personal Letters, Reprinted Information

 Series — Box 1
Abstract

This collection contains the subject files of Marion Edwards Park, president of Bryn Mawr College from 1922 to 1942.

Found in: Bryn Mawr College / Marion Edwards Park papers

Society for Home Culture records

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-026
Scope and Contents

The Society for Home Culture records includes four volumes: three volumes of minutes, which include tipped in annual reports, and lists of students with the subject they studied, by year; and one volume of a list of books to be studied, which includes the name of items, sometimes a brief description of the item, and the date of publication.

Dates: 1880-1894
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Henrietta Baldwin Sperry papers

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-M99
Abstract Henrietta Baldwin Sperry was a student at Bryn Mawr from 1917-1921. This collection consists of approximately 1000 of her letters. Of those letters, most are written by her to her mother about her time applying to and attending Bryn Mawr College (1916-1921). The subjects of the letters include social life at Bryn Mawr, disease quarantines, the college war effort. The collection also contains letters to Henrietta from her friend and admirer, Sheldon Clarke, who wrote to her while he was...
Dates: 1916 - 1921
Found in: Bryn Mawr College

Kate Thompson scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-801-04-005
Abstract

The scrapbook of Kate Thompson, spanning 1877-1881, has a great variety of ephemera. The photographs, newspaper clippings, flowers, and cards, are from her time at the Fairmount Collegiate Academy and during her visits to Europe.

Dates: 1877 - 1881
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Sarah D. Wilt diary

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-801-01-001
Abstract

This collection contains a diary created by Sarah D. Wilt between the years 1864 and 1872. In her entries she wrote about traveling with her family.

Dates: 1864-1872
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
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Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections