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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…

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…

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

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…

E363425 U.S. Copyright Office 19150629 For voice and piano. "Dedicated to the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association." Staff notation.

Susan Myra Kingsbury was born in San Pablo, California in 1870. Her father Willard B. Kingsbury, was a doctor, and her mother, Helen Shuler Kingsbury, was Dean of Women at the College of the Pacific, where Susan earned her A.B. in 1890. She went on…