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A tongue-in-cheek poem from the 1910 Microcosm called "We Would Like to See" "“J. Van Liew Morris at a Suffragette Meeting” J. Van Liews was a physics and mathematics instructor.

In the 1917 Class Will, student Gertrude Dunmore expressed a desire for the Social and Civic Club to persist in its “undying faith in Woman” after her graduation, and left the organization a suffrage banner. Dunmore’s bequest suggests that the Social…

Comprised of subcommittees dedicated to various social and political issues, the Social and Civic Club discussed topics ranging from immigration to Red Cross work. The 1918 Microcosm listed suffrage as one of the concerns the group addressed in its…

A scrap of streamer in Blanche Castleman's yearbook from the October 17 suffrage parade in Boston. According to the Boston Globe, on the day of the parade, "antis" (those opposed to women's suffrage) prepared over 100,000 red "blushing" roses for…

Alice Charlotte Williams was born in 1878 in Buffalo, New York to Charlotte (Stoneman) Williams and Benjamin Harris Williams, a state senator. She attended Buffalo High School and then Wellesley College, earning her B.A. in 1900. She later pursued…

Alice Charlotte Williams entry in Woman's Who's Who of America (1915)

Annette E. Philbrick was born in Iowa City in 1875 to Philetus Harvey Philbrick and Malah P. (Brackett) Philbrick. She attended the Iowa City public schools until the family moved to Nebraska, and she finished her early education in the city of…