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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.

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…

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…

Nellie Gertrude Dunmore of Providence, Rhode Island, studied Household Economics at Simmons, graduating in 1917. A member of the Endowment Fund Committee and the Glee Club, Dunmore also gained a reputation on campus as an ardent suffragist. “Rumor…

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…

Founded in 1907 by Harriot Stanton Blatch, the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (later called the Women’s Political Union) worked to involve working-class women in the suffrage movement, particularly in New York. This card, printed sometime…

Melnea Cass was born Melnea Agnes Jones in Richmond, Virginia, in 1896. Her mother was a domestic worker and her father was a janitor. Her mother died when Melnea was young, and Melnea and her sisters moved to Boston to live with their Aunt Ella.…

Mary Schenck was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1860 to John V. Schenck, a doctor, and Martha (McKeen) Schenck. The Schencks were well-off, and Mary received her early education at the Longstreth School, a private Quaker institution in Philadelphia…