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Three unidentified students (plus 2 hidden) posed studying in the School of Social Work Library at 51 Commonwealth Avenue.

ID: APC001_05919

Part of the Simmons University Archives Photographs Collection.

The class of 1931 honored Sarah Louise Arnold at their graduation, pictured here in the center in a cap and gown. They also presented the college with a portrait of Arnold, which eventually was hung in Arnold Hall, a residence hall named after her.

Sarah Louise Arnold is buried beside Dr. Mary Gould Hood at Mount Vernon Cemetery in Arnold's hometown of Abingdon, Plymouth County, MA. Arnold and Hood lived together from 1895 to Hood's death in 1938. Robert Grose, Arnold’s grandnephew, noted the…

Sara Cone Bryant, pictured here in a 1906 Boston Globe article, was born in Melrose, Massachusetts in 1873 to Dexter and Dorcas Anne (Hancock) Bryant. She received her A.B. in 1895 from Boston University, where she joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma…

Ruth Belcher, pictured here in the 1923 edition of the Wellesley College Legenda, was born in 1901 in Portland, Maine to Arthur Belcher and Annie Manson Belcher, a fellow suffragist. Ruth and her mother marched together in the Boston suffrage parade…

The first Simmons yearbook, published in 1906, featured these side-by-side portraits of College President Henry Lefavour and Dean Sarah Louise Arnold. Lefavour and Arnold had a contentious relationship, as Lefavour made his anti-suffrage views known…

This portrait of Dean Sarah Louise Arnold was painted in 1929 during Arnold’s tenure as a trustee of Massachusetts Agricultural College. The artist is unknown.