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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…

Helen Davenport Brown was born in Philadelphia in 1882 to Clement M. and Emily Eckert (Myers) Brown. She studied German and French at Bryn Mawr, graduating around 1905, and then pursued graduate work at Simmons from 1906 to 1907, possibly studying…

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…

Caroline Jewell Cook was born in Evansville, Indiana in 1863 to Henry and Caroline (Judson) Cook. She earned an A.B. from Wellesley College in 1884 and later attended the Boston University School of Law, graduating in 1899. The following year, she…

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

“Suffrage news,” 1915. Carrie Chapman Catt papers, Bryn Mawr College Special Collections.

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

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…

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

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Part of the Simmons University Archives Photographs Collection.