1 10 106 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/365a7a05cfa6e0d965cd9728a2a4d87c.png ec46c7b78ef0c5714877b64c2ece6f54 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The College Girl of America and the Institutions Which Make Her What She Is Description An account of the resource Mary Caroline Crawford, a writer, lecturer, and activist, graduated in 1907 from Boston’s School for Social Workers, which later became the Simmons College School of Social Work. In her book The College Girl of America (1905), Crawford encouraged recent graduates to pursue opportunities for social and political activism, including social work, labor rights advocacy, and suffrage organizing. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Caroline Mary Crawford Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State Library of Massachusetts Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1905 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/3f4124f9226f8828525e2c22be2f81b7.jpg ab5f3f5687d6a49e56abd6f2b9053bb0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Miriam Birdseye Faculty, Household Economics Description An account of the resource Miriam Birdseye, pictured here in 1915 giving a lecture on the safe handling of meat, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1878 to Clarence F. and Ada (Underwood) Birdseye. She was the older sister of Clarence Birdseye II, who later became a well-known frozen food entrepreneur, and the two shared an interest in nutrition and food science. Miriam graduated from the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn and then earned an A.B. from Smith College in 1901. She later pursued graduate work at Pratt Institute, receiving a diploma in Normal Domestic Science in 1907. Between her college and graduate work, Birdseye briefly worked for the Department of Health and Economics of the National Lamp Association of Cleveland, where she investigated the working conditions of women employees in the organization’s factories. Her work there inspired an interest in women’s industrial labor, and she became a member of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education and served as Chairman of the Textile Standardization Committee of the American Home Economics Association. In 1907, Birdseye began her career as a teacher, working as an instructor in Household Economy at the Hebrew Technical School for Girls in New York City, and then teaching Household Economics at Simmons from 1909 to 1910. She then became Head of the Department of Household Economy at Bates College from 1911 to 1912. Around 1915, Birdseye began lecturing at Cornell University, focusing on nutrition, and particularly on meat. By 1917, she had moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked as a nutrition specialist at the Extension Service of the Department of Agriculture, a position she held until her retirement in 1946. She traveled throughout the country to conduct research, meet with agricultural workers and state nutritionists, and give lectures to students and clubwomen on topics related to nutrition and cooking. She was a coauthor of the Department of Agriculture’s book Adequate Diets for Families with Limited Incomes (1931). For more than ten years, Birdseye shared her Washington, D.C. home with fellow Extension Service worker Leonie de Sounin, a baroness from Bohemia. The two were avid gardeners, and, in 1941, Birdseye wrote the introduction to de Sounin’s book Magic in Herbs. Birdseye was also a suffragist and a Congregationalist, and held membership in the Smith College Alumnae Association, the Zonta Service Club, and the Women’s City Club of Washington, D.C. Birdseye moved to Carmel, California following de Sounin’s death in 1942 and her own retirement in 1946. She died from a heart attack in August of 1948, and her funeral was attended by Extension Service workers from across the country. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cornell University Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1915 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/b8bcf8f209ee50752961ad9732d82c87.jpg 95e5c1cc06d9102e04d0eaa2099de21b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gladys Corthell Hitchcock Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Courtesy of Ann Mullens Boelter Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Courtesy of Ann Mullens Boelter Description An account of the resource Gladys Corthell was born in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1890. She attended the University of Wyoming until 1913, when her parents decided to send her across the country for a year so that she could experience life beyond Wyoming before she married her college boyfriend, architect Wilbur Hitchcock. Corthell studied Household Economics at Simmons from 1913 to 1914, living with a friend in a rooming house near campus. Corthell and her roommate marched in the Boston suffrage parade on May 3, 1914, joining the Wyoming section of the procession. Corthell had never marched for suffrage before; women had been voting in Wyoming since 1869. “I’ll bring my ‘Equal Rights, Votes for Women’ pennant home to you as a souvenir,” she wrote to Hitchcock after the Boston parade. “It was a wonderful experience. I’m eager to see its effect.” After her year at Simmons, Corthell transferred her credits to the University of Wyoming, graduating in the spring of 1914. She married Wilbur Hitchcock in June of that year, and the couple had four children. Tragically, however, Gladys died in 1925 of complications from an appendectomy, only weeks after her husband had finished building a house for the family. She is buried in Laramie, Wyoming. https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/d740d6ac2bd9c8e3bd24c2be01c1d62a.jpg 46493a2e39bff5924c022a9b2de5cbd9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Photo of Martha Washington with a red-white-and-blue bow above Description An account of the resource This portrait of Martha Washington, preserved by Simmons student Daisie Miller Helyar in her scrapbook, may have carried pro-suffrage connotations, as Washington often served as a figurehead for suffrage organizations. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Daisie Miller Helyar Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Daisie Miller Helyar Scrapbook Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Simmons University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1900 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/bb2d385d58cb8f918fe63f2908012050.jpg 896df29badc2c49abcb5bbf2fd202253 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Newspaper clipping entitled “Education of Women Urged” Description An account of the resource Daisie Miller Helyar, who graduated from Simmons in 1910, saved this newspaper clipping in her scrapbook. The article reported on Dean Arnold’s address to a citizenship class at the South Congregational Church in Boston, quoting Arnold’s argument that education was essential to preparing women for the political duties of suffrage and citizenship. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Daisie Miller Helyar Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Simmons University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1906-1910 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/ad98f40e62b85d84ddb3f3e85be1cf7d.png a1646b143aea5111025bd39dba6de9df https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/232c52a4979ef09beb3fe7b03123ed5f.pdf 5fbbbb3e96e7050dfcd9ec5e0475d590 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mary Morton (Kimball) Kehew Trustee Description An account of the resource Mary Morton Kimball, pictured here in the Notable Women of Boston mural, was born in Boston in 1859 to wealthy parents Susan Tillinghurst Morton, daughter of Massachusetts governor Marcus Morton, and Moses Day Kimball, a merchant and banker. She received her education at private schools and displayed an interest in social science early in her life. In 1880, Kimball married Boston manufacturer William B. Kehew, who was supportive of his wife’s reform work. In 1886, Kehew joined the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union (WEIU) of Boston, an organization composed of mostly wealthy women who sought to improve working conditions for the women of Boston. Kehew became director of the WEIU in 1890 and was elected president two years later. During her tenure, she reorganized the Union to focus heavily on legislative labor reform, forming a research department designed to gather information about working conditions for use in future legal actions. Kehew also established a women’s vocational training program at the Union, offering courses in dressmaking, millinery, housekeeping, and salesmanship. The program was later absorbed by Simmons when the College opened its doors to students in 1902, and Kehew maintained a position on the school’s Board of Trustees. Among the other Boston women involved with the WEIU were Kehew’s fellow Simmons suffragists Mabel Wheeler Daniels, Susan Myra Kingsbury, and Dean Sarah Louise Arnold. Following her term as president of the WEIU, Kehew sought to expand her labor activism further, hoping to reach a broader demographic of women workers. In 1892, she recruited Mary Kenney O’Sullivan, a former Hull House worker, to help found the Union for Industrial Progress, a group that organized labor unions for women in different trades, including bookbinding, laundry, tobacco work, and needlework. During this time, she also opened her Beacon Street home as a boarding house for working women in an effort to bring attention to class inequalities in the city. In 1903, Kehew became a founding member of the National Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL), serving until 1913 as its first president, and remaining on the board for the rest of her life. During her career as a social reformer, philanthropist, and labor activist, Kehew was also involved in a number of other organizations, either as a member or as a financial supporter. She worked with the Denison Settlement House in Boston, the Massachusetts Minimum Wage and Child Labor Commissions, the Boston Tuberculosis Association, and the American Park and Outdoor Association, among many other organizations. She was an active suffragist, working on suffrage campaigns for the WTUL, the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, and the School Voters’ League, and hosting at least one meeting of Boston’s Ward 8 Suffrage Association at her home. Kehew also maintained an interest in providing services for blind women, supporting the Massachusetts Association for Promoting the Interests of the Blind, the Loan and Aid Society for the Blind, and the Woolson Settlement House for blind women. Kehew died of kidney disease in Boston in 1918. She is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ellen Lanyon Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1980 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/561c627ad3adb7c2e10077bab2efd4a6.jpg f0dd259a9c208a3a2be3c2a8a0e166b3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Notable women of Boston mural Description An account of the resource Given to Simmons College September 1985 by the Workingmens Cooperative Bank. Hung in Bartol Hall. Portrayed are: Anne Hutchinson, Phyllis Wheatley, Sister Ann Alexis, Lucy Stone, Mary Baker Eddy, Ellen Richards, Mary Morton Kehew, Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan, and Melnea Cass, 1985. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ellen Lanyon Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1985 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/1381ffe357c3cb4bc114bffcd2345ee2.png 9278c0d51e5ca105126e9f42a860aa1d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Harriet L.B. (Brown) Darling '13 Description An account of the resource Harriet L.B. Brown, pictured here in Farm, Stock, and Home in 1915, was born in Napa, California in 1872 and received a Bachelor of Law degree from Smith College in 1891. She married Henry Herbert Darling in San Francisco in 1894, and the couple had three children. In 1911, Harriet returned to school, pursuing a graduate degree (likely in Household Economics) at Simmons. After graduating in 1913, Darling became a renowned lecturer, traveling the country to give talks on housekeeping and nutrition to farmers, women’s clubs, and college women. She worked as an instructor at the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1917 and was also a regular contributor to agricultural and Unitarian periodicals. A member of the College Equal Suffrage Association, the College Club of Boston, and the Smith and Simmons alumnae associations, Darling remained committed to women’s education, lecturing to Wellesley students and possibly returning to Simmons as an instructor around 1914. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Farm, Stock, and Home Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1915 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/755ad88f3d5a1727044ac5b4e56ba505.png cb5a0c9dd9c3ebba742a009e4151009f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mr. President How Long Must Women Wait for Liberty Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Harris & Ewing, photographer Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1917 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/a2269344c69c3ee93e86c0621d1b0811.png ff36167f79245d869afbadc08715a11d https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/7afe51d6ebba50f398e4906f0ededba4.png a1d527e340f6ffcd6f3d04864fc35064 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John Simmons' will Description An account of the resource When clothing manufacturer John Simmons died in 1870, he left provisions in his will “to found and endow an institution to be called Simmons Female College.” The necessary funds were not secured until almost thirty years later, but when Simmons College opened its doors in 1899, it remained committed to Simmons’s vision of a college that would give women an opportunity to “acquire an independent livelihood.” Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John Simmons Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Simmons University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1870