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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…

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…

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…

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.

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 broadsheet, containing marching instructions, a parade map, and song lyrics, advised suffrage supporters on how to participate in the Boston suffrage march of October 16, 1915.

This broadsheet, containing marching instructions, a parade map, and song lyrics, advised suffrage supporters on how to participate in the Boston suffrage march of October 16, 1915. Simmons is the only college listed individually among the groups of…