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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…

Members of the Social and Civics club, including Chairman Margaret Riegel (seated, center), pose for a yearbook photograph in 1917.

During the 1916-1917 school year, members of the Social and Civics Club at Simmons heard political speeches, studied socialism, and held rallies for the 1916 presidential candidates. “Even if all of us cannot take an active part in the work of this…

Edited by suffragist Mrs. L.O. Kleber, The Suffrage Cook Book (1915) was one of several culinary collaborations produced by suffragists to spread awareness and raise funds for the cause during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Like…

Vera Perkins was born in Rutland, Vermont around 1892. She graduated from Rutland High School and went on to study Household Economics at Simmons, where she was a member of the Honor Board, the Student Building Endowment Fund, and the Ukulele Club,…

From Miscellaneous collection of anti-suffrage material assembled by an officer of the Massachusetts Association Opposed to Further Extension of Suffrage to Women, 1895-1921

Votes for Women banner carried and preserved by Wilda Claire Peck Strong.