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Votes for Women banner carried and preserved by Wilda Claire Peck Strong.

Framed photograph of Wilda Claire Peck Strong with the pin she wore at the suffrage parade in Boston in 1915.

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.

A newspaper article about Sarah Louise Arnold's new position as national president of the Girl Scouts. Arnold assumed this position after 20 years as Dean of Simmons College.

Fanny Baker Ames was born Julia Frances Baker in 1840 in Canandaigua, New York to Increase Baker, a coal measurer, and Julia (Canfield) Baker. The family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio when Fanny was a child, and she completed one term at Antioch College…

Katharine Lent (sometimes spelled Lente) was born in Copake, New York in 1853 to Marvin Richardson Lent, a Methodist minister, and Hannah (Louzada) Lent. She attended Amenia Seminary in New York, graduating as valedictorian in 1875. She went on to…

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.…

Julia Eleanor Moody was born in Canton, New York in 1869 to Harnel and Adelia (Hewett) Moody. She attended Mount Holyoke College, earning a B.S. in 1894 and then an M.A. in 1909 and writing her master’s thesis on the anatomy and embryology of…