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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…

This suffrage-themed advertisement for an Economics class at Simmons in 1914 suggests the presence of pro-suffrage faculty and students in the Household Economics department.

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…

Born in 1897 in Rochester, New York, Blanche Castleman ‘19 studied Library Science at Simmons, where she was a member of the Bulletin Board Committee, the Dormitory Council, and the Dramatics Society. She later became a librarian at Jefferson Junior…

When clothing manufacturer John Simmons died in 1870, he left provisions in his will “to found and endow an institution to be called Simmons Female College.” The necessary funds were not secured until almost thirty years later, but when Simmons…

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…

Dorothy Celeste Boulding was born in Norfolk, Virginia around 1898 to Benjamin and Florence Ruffin Boulding. She spent much of her childhood in Boston, living with an aunt while her mother recovered from an illness. Boulding graduated from the Girls’…