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Elizabeth Igler's Scrapbook 1927-1928, Elizabeth Igler

Scrapbooks

Elizabeth Igler (1910-1995) went to Ward-Belmont during the 1927-1928 school year. She received her law degree from the University of Cincinnati Law School, graduating in 1932. She would go on to have a splendid law career and was one of the few practicing female lawyers in Cincinnati in the 1930s. She clerked for the Honorable Howard Bevis, Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and became the first Solicitor for the Village of Glendale in 1934. She married Lawson E. Whitesides in 1935. She was a member of the Ohio State Bar Association for almost 60 years.

Conférence Sur Le Vote Des Femmes, Marguerite Durand, Michèle C. Magnin

Tome 3

No abstract provided.

Informational Pamphlet, Your Community Chest

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Booklet: Information pamphlet describing the activities and agencies supported by the Community Chest through the Community Chest Campaign. Date: February 20, 1926

Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence - Holeman, Wku President's Office - Cherry

WKU Administration Documents

Correspondence of Sadie Holeman and Mattie McLean regarding work at Frisbie Hall, smallpox cases and the renting out of Holeman's cottage in Cherryton.

Transcription of Letter 1:

Will be in school this summer anyway.

Lebanon Jct., Ky.

March 3^rd 1926
Miss Mattie McLean
Dear Miss Mattie:

I have heard that Frisbie Hall might be in need of a matron, and am would like to put in an application for the place. I know you remember me and I would appreciate it very much if you would use your influence with Mr. Dr. Cherry in getting the place for me. …

Antisémitisme; Affaire Dreyfus; Séverine Interroge Le Pape Léon Xiii, Marguerite Durand, Michèle C. Magnin

Tome 1

Marguerite Durand évoque dans ce texte Edouard Drumont et son journal antisémite La libre parole, les causes de l’antisémitisme de la fin du 19e siècle, l’affaire Dreyfus, en particulier du point de vue de la journaliste Séverine, qui assista avec la directrice de La Fronde au procès en révision à Rennes en 1899. Le texte porte aussi sur l’interview que Séverine fit du pape Léon XIII en 1892, « restée célèbre dans les annales du journalisme ».

L'Humilité Ne Convient Plus Aux Femmes, Club Soroptimist, 1925, Marguerite Durand, Michèle C. Magnin

Tome 2

Dans cette conférence prononcée en 1925 devant les membres du Club Soroptimist – réseau international de femmes professionnelles, fondé en 1921 aux Etats-Unis et en 1924 en France par le docteur Suzanne Noël - Marguerite Durand, qui fut elle-même une « Soroptimist », réfute les préjugés sur la prétendue incapacité féminine, dont elle voit l’origine dans l’ignorance de l’histoire des femmes et de leur rôle dans tous les domaines d’activité. Elle y réclame aussi le droit de vote, en dénonçant les « arguments» spécieux de ceux qui s’y opposent.

Letter From School Committee To Eartha White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Correspondence: Letter from J. A. Wynn, Chairman, and S. G. Bellamy, Secretary, School Committee, Marianna, Florida, to Eartha M. M. White, soliciting donations for building a new schoolhouse at St. John. Date: January 1925

Maine's Joan Of Arc : An Address Made Before The Kennebec Historical Society, John Francis Sprague

Dorothea Lynde Dix Pamphlets

Booklet containing an address by John Francis Sprague given to the Kennebec Historical Society on January 8, 1924 about Dorothea Dix. Series 1, number 2 of "Kennebec Historical Society's Brochures."

Faculty Wives Scrapbook, Abilene Christian College Faculty Wives

Abilene Christian College Faculty Wives Records

Abilene Christian College Faculty Wives Scrapbook, 1924-1961.

Discours Prononcé À L'Occasion De L'Apposition D'Une Plaque À La Mémoire D'Hubertine Auclert, Marguerite Durand, Michèle C. Magnin

Tome 3

No abstract provided.

Cummings Guest House Register Pages 002 And 003, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

This is a detail from the Cummings Guest House Register. You can see a digital version of the full text HERE.

Cummings Guest House Register Pages 004 And 005, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

No abstract provided.

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1923 -- The Soprano Voice: Woman's Number, Phi Sigma

The Voice of the Phi Sigma

This item is part of the Phi Sigma collection at the College Archives & Special Collections department of Columbia College Chicago. Contact [email protected] for more information and to view the collection.

Mary Margaret Hill Scrapbook 1923, Mary Margaret Hill

Scrapbooks

Mary Margaret Hill went to Ward-Belmont during the 1923-1924 school year.

Protection De L'Enfance, Marguerite Durand, Michèle C. Magnin

Tome 1

Face aux natalistes qui réclament plus d’enfants pour la France, Marguerite Durand préconise dans ce texte des mesures telles que l’hygiène et la puériculture pour réduire la mortalité infantile. Elle dénonce aussi les absurdités de l’organisation de la protection de la petite enfance.

Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence, Henry Cherry, Lalla Boone

WKU Administration Documents

Correspondence between Lalla Boone and Henry Cherry regarding her returning to work at WKU, enrollment, appropriations and the $100 she donated to start the College Heights Foundation.

Transcript of her letter:

2054 Webster St., Oakland, California, June 30, 1922

Dear Mr. Cherry,

I have feared you had forgotten me until to-day, when I received the invitation to commencement. I had received other invitations to that event; but your invitation gave me courage. Courage I needed. I have been wanting to tell you for a long while now that I want to come back. If you ever expected to get rid …

L'Art Oratoire, Marguerite Durand, Michèle C. Magnin

Tome 3

Texte des cours dispensés par Marguerite Durand à l’Ecole de conférencières qu’elle créa en 1921 à Paris. Cette école était destinée à apprendre aux femmes à prendre la parole en public en défendant leurs idées. On ne sait si cette école perdura. L’idée en fut reprise en 1932 par l’Union française pour le suffrage des femmes et l’avocate féministe Marcelle Kraemer-Bach fonda une école d’oratrices au sein du Musée social.

L'Impératrice Eugénie Et L’Impératrice Augusta-Victoria, Marguerite Durand, Michèle C. Magnin

Tome 1

Texte consacré à la dernière impératrice des Français et à la dernière impératrice des Allemands, épouse de Guillaume II, mortes toutes deux en 1921. Marguerite Durand y réfute les « légendes » qui ont donné d’elles une fausse image. La journaliste était très attachée à la figure de l’impératrice Eugénie, qu’elle considérait comme l’une des premières féministes et pour laquelle elle lança l’initiative d’un musée à Pierrefonds.

Rosalyn Kirsch's Scrapbook 1920-1922, Rosalyn Kirsch

Scrapbooks

Rosalyn Kirsch went to Ward-Belmont during the 1920-1922 school years. She created this scrapbook during her time there.

Réflexions Sur L'Amour, Marguerite Durand, Michèle C. Magnin

Tome 1

Texte très bref et très personnel, où Marguerite Durand expose sa conception de l’amour, physique et moral.

To Arms! Songs Of The Great War, Laura E. Richards

Maine Collection

To Arms! Songs of the Great War

by Laura E. Richards

The Page Company, Boston, Mass., 1918.

"First Impression, December, 1917."

The Colonial Press, C.H. Simonds Co., Boston, U.S.A.

Mary Daly Mcwilliams' Scrapbook 1918-1920, Mary Daly Mcwilliams

Scrapbooks

Mary Daly McWilliams went to Ward-Belmont during the 1918-1920 school years. She created this scrapbook during her time there.

Mary Stewart's Scrapbook 1918-1919, Mary Stewart

Scrapbooks

Mary Stewart went to Ward-Belmont during the 1918-1919 school year. She created this scrapbook during her time there.

Letter From Ella Wheeler Wilcox To Elizabeth Coatsworth, June 22, 1917., Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sincerely Yours, Letters From The Maine Women Writers Collection (Multi-Page Items)

Typed and handwritten letter from Ella Wheeler Wilcox to Elizabeth Coatsworth, dated June 22, 1917, with envelope.

Marguerite Griffith's Scrapbook 1917-1918, Marguerite Griffith

Scrapbooks

Marguerite, born in 1901 in Huntington, West Virginia, attended Ward Belmont during the 1917-1918 school year. She married Harry D. Witherspoon on September 15, 1920, and they moved to California. They had two children: Merilyn and Sara Patricia Witherspoon. They moved to North Carolina where Harry worked as a manager. Marguerite died in 1954 with her husband Harry followed in 1956.

Scrapbook, Ora Mae Curry

Ora Mae Curry Papers

Ora Mae Curry's scrapbook including notes from fellow students and teachers, descriptions of social events, correspondence, report cards, photographs, newspaper clippings, and programs from school events from 1917-1921.

November 15, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, dated to approximately 1916, Abbie writes to Mrs. Tibbets about several topics, including her teaching job, attending an exhibition, seeing the Emperor pass on the street, tea services, and describes in detail her accommodations. She says that she is very happy in Japan now that she is more used to the climate.

Hattye Mae White Scrapbook 1916-1918, Hattye Mae White

Scrapbooks

Hattye Mae White was born in San Antonio, Texas on October 16, 1897. She attended Ward-Belmont during the 1916-1917 school year. She married Charles Cousins Johnson Jr. on September 7, 1918, and the pair had one son, Captain Charles Cousins III, born August 2, 1919. Captain Cousins would later die during World War II. Hattye Mae White Johnson died on June 23, 1979, in Texas.

Jessie Whitesell Scrapbook - 1916-1951, Jessie Whitesell

Scrapbooks

Jessie Whitesell went to Ward-Belmont during the 1916-1917 school year. While there are a few elements in the book from her time as a student, the scrapbook mostly details the closing of Ward-Belmont as it went through its transformation to Belmont College.

Myrtle Conyers' Scrapbook 1915-1916, Myrtle Conyers

Scrapbooks

Myrtle Conyers attended Ward-Belmont for two years, 1914-1916.