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Memory Pictures, Lucinda Darling Colman
Memory Pictures, Lucinda Darling Colman
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Lucinda Darling Colman (1835-1930) was one of three women in the first class to graduate from Lawrence University in 1857. She wrote this account of her life in her late eighties and nineties, from about 1920 to 1930. In this work, she recalls Lawrence in its earliest days, including memories of classes and student activities, the Academy building fire in 1857, and the first Commencement ceremony. She also recounts her family history; her childhood in Brockport, New York and Racine, Wisconsin; her marriage to Henry Colman and raising their four children; and her extensive travels around the country from 1906 …
The Milwaukee-Downer Woman, Lynne H. Kleinman
The Milwaukee-Downer Woman, Lynne H. Kleinman
Milwaukee-Downer College Written Histories
60 pages. Based on Lynne H. Kleinman's doctoral dissertation, "Milwaukee-Downer College: A Study in the History of Women and the History of Higher Education in America, 1851-1964."
The Dowager, Milwaukee-Downer College
The Dowager, Milwaukee-Downer College
Milwaukee-Downer College Written Histories
The Dowager was published by Milwaukee-Downer College students prior to the consolidation with Lawrence College in 1964. Illustrated with photographs of the Milwaukee-Downer campus and including excerpts of poetry, it was designed as “a creative and imaginative work which will keep Downer College alive in the hearts of all those who have spent a part of their lives within its walls.”