Alice Riggs Hunt Notebook

First page from Alice Riggs Hunt notebook

Notebook kept by Alice Riggs Hunt, journalist and women's rights activist, while travelling in West Virginia in 1916-1917 to campaign for equal suffrage. The notebook was transcribed in the fall of 2015 by students in Women's Studies 101.

 
 

K. Mary E. Shaw Notebooks

Page from K. Mary E. Shaw's notebook featuring china plates.

Two notebooks by K. Mary E. Shaw while she was studying and teaching at the Battersea Polytechnic Institute in 1904. The notebooks contain syllabi for housewifery and laundry work courses.

  

Elizabeth Smith Shortt diaries

Page 75 of Elizabeth Smith Shortt's diary #6

Diaries kept by Elizabeth Smith Shortt, one of the first 3 women MDs in Canada, while she was in her second year of medical school in 1882. The diaries were transcribed in the winter of 2016 by students in Women's Studies 101.

Suffragette Postcard Collection

 The Suffragist at home. We don't know what we want, but we'll get it.

13 postcards concerning suffragettes and women's rights.

 

Page of a scrapbook with botanical cuttings.

A collection of scrapbooks compiled by women during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These books offer mixed-media representations of history and the lives of their authors.