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Mary Caroline Crawford, a writer, lecturer, and activist, graduated in 1907 from Boston’s School for Social Workers, which later became the Simmons College School of Social Work. In her book The College Girl of America (1905), Crawford encouraged…

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…

Gladys Corthell was born in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1890. She attended the University of Wyoming until 1913, when her parents decided to send her across the country for a year so that she could experience life beyond Wyoming before she married her…

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.

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…

Mary Morton Kimball, pictured here in the Notable Women of Boston mural, was born in Boston in 1859 to wealthy parents Susan Tillinghurst Morton, daughter of Massachusetts governor Marcus Morton, and Moses Day Kimball, a merchant and banker. She…

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…

Harriet L.B. Brown, pictured here in Farm, Stock, and Home in 1915, was born in Napa, California in 1872 and received a Bachelor of Law degree from Smith College in 1891. She married Henry Herbert Darling in San Francisco in 1894, and the couple had…

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…