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Historical Images of Women in Higher Education
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Wood engraved print of female medical students attending an anatomy lecture at New York Medical College for Women, 1870 (http://1.usa.gov/oJqmLY)
Group of young African-American women pose on the porch of the Simpson Industrial Home at Claflin University, circa 1899 (http://1.usa.gov/nn8hoY)
African-American women in cooking class at Hampton Institute, circa 1900 (http://1.usa.gov/pvuUFQ)
Chapel filled with female students at the Tuskegee Institute, circa 1902 (http://1.usa.gov/oDWQcm)
Panoramic photo of students at Wellesley College, circa 1903 (http://1.usa.gov/pdWjzE)
Women graduates view parading faculty on Commencement Day at the University of Michigan, circa 1900-1910 (http://1.usa.gov/pt5zFw)
Faculty marching to chapel at Mount Holyoke College, circa 1900-1910 (http://1.usa.gov/pe9j3F)
Wellesley College, circa 1910 (http://flic.kr/p/8Kg1A1)
Barnard College graduates, 1911 (http://flic.kr/p/4ibCeJ)
Barnard College students in procession at the joint Columbia University/Barnard College commencement exercises, 1913 (http://flic.kr/p/6axhqZ)
Women in School of Anatomy at Y.W.C.A. for Motor Corps of National League for Women’s Service, New York City, 1918. (http://1.usa.gov/ri5Sa1)
Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer on the steps of the first Home Economics building at Cornell University, 1921 (http://flic.kr/p/6SGKrB)
Ladies Home Journal, 1931. Photograph of woman graduate by Nickolas Muray, courtesy of the George Eastman House Photography Collection. (http://flic.kr/p/5L2M9d)
Elizabeth T. Kinney at the University of Pittsburgh. A prominent zoologist, Kinney studied at the University of Pittsburgh, graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1924, received an M.S. from Washington University in 1926, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1940. She taught at Washington Square College, Barnard College, and Mount Holyoke College. (http://flic.kr/p/9ntFpR)
Women in agricultural program at Oregon State University, 1944
First graduating class of what is now the Mississippi University for Women, 1889
Members of the International Club at Barnard College, circa 1930. Pictured in the middle front is Vera Joseph, who graduated with a degree in chemistry in 1932. She went on to graduate from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons at the top of her class. (Photo submitted by Carla L. Peterson, a professor of English at the University of Maryland and author of Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth Century New York City. Professor Peterson is the daughter of Vera Joseph.)
University of Kansas Women’s Tennis Team, 1892-93 (Photo courtesy of Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas)
Junior Prom Queen candidates at the University of Cincinnati, 1939 (Credit: Robert Kinstler/University of Cincinnati Magazine)
Student in an empty classroom at the University of Idaho, 1956
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