Women in higher education
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Bessie Emanuel photo album
Unprocessed Material — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X006178633]
Identifier: ViU-2023-0185
Co-education at the University of Virginia collection-addition 2
Unprocessed Material — Flat_box ACC_BW_003: [Barcode: X006178799], Oversize_Flat_File_folder: ViU-2025-0080_001
Identifier: ViU-2025-0080
Connie Clark for President poster, 1974
File — Oversize_folder(within_an_osbox) 1
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one poster campaigning for the presidency of Connie Clark. The poster has an image of Clark and says "Connie Clark for president of the graduating class Economic Honors- Intermediate Honors-Resident Staff-SR.Resident" Clark was part of the first coeducated class of undergraduates at the University of Virginia, graduating in 1974. She studied Economics. This presidential race ended with a run-off election, but ultimately Clark was not elected.
Dates:
1974
Bessie Emanuel photo album at Hampton Institute
Collection — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X006178633]
Identifier: MSS 16823
Content Description
This collection contains a brown faux leather photo album (7.25" X 11.25") belonging to Bessie Emanuel. Bessie (1902-1984) was raised in White Plains, New York. She was the first Black woman in her town to attend college, entering the Hampton Institute in Virginia in 1922. The photographs are dated from 1922 to 1924 and capture daily life at the Institute, sports events, friends, and family. Captions are found throughout the album. A picture of Bessie with her family in the Hampton...
Dates:
1922-1924
Gritty Women Podcast Series Recordings
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16806
Content Description
This collection contains the four documetnary style episodes of the Gritty Women podcast series, by Giovana Benatto de Oliveira, and one audio file of an interview used to create the episodes. Each episode includes segments of interviews conducted by the podcast’s creator. The podcast explores the history, and legal, political, and social context of UVA's coeducation, and balances both scholarly and personal perspectives through interviews with both scholars and...
Dates:
2020-08-25 - 2021-05-23
Dale Hill Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16583
Content Description
The Dale Hill Papers contain recordings, notes, research material, forms, consent waivers, articles, and photographs all relating to the beginning of co-education at the University of Virginia. The bulk of the materials are the audiovisual content, which were maintained previously on and digitized or transferred from audio cassette, DVD, CD, and flash drive carriers at the time the collection was donated to the Library.The...
Dates:
1970s - 2010s
Holly Peters papers (Addition 1), 1973-1975
File — Box 1: [Barcode: X032669514], Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
This addition 1 to the Coeducation at the University of Virginia collection contains the papers of Holly Peters. Peters was part of the first class of women attending the University of Virginia, graduating in 1974 with a B.A. in English and Religious Studies. Peters’s papers document her work on the Counselors Committee on Human Sexuality. Content includes a 1974 Commencement Exercises invitation, a 1974 photograph of the committee, “An Ounce of Prevention” pamphlet from 1973,...
Dates:
1973-1975
John C. McCoid II papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-94-2
Scope and Contents
The first part of the collection has sixteen law student notebooks created by John C. McCoid II during his law study at Vanderbilt University between 1950 and 1953. The addendum, received in 2016, contains a University of Virginia report regarding the admission of women in 1968, and some correspondence regarding the recruitment of African American faculty members in 1972, and teaching materials.
Dates:
1950 - 1972
Joy Rebekah Kime Benton scrapbook
Collection — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X032762515]
Identifier: MSS 16843
Content Description
This collection contains a scrapbook belonging to Joy Rebekah Kime Benton (1886-1957) of Burlington, North Carolina, an author, poet, painter, and weaver. The contents of scrapbook items are principally documents from 1905 to 1908, although some paste-ins are from the 1930s. There are 128 pages with photographs, clippings, drawings, and ephemera pasted and laid in. The album primarily documents her college days at the Salem Female Academy (later Salem College). It includes her...
Dates:
c. 1905-1933
Randolph-Macon Woman's College photograph album
File — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X006178830]
Identifier: MSS 16930
Content Description
This material contains images of racist imagery. The purpose of this note is to allow users to decide whether they need or want to view these materials. This collection includes a photograph album compiled from 1910 to 1913 documenting the Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, now called Randolph College, in Lynchburg, Virginia. It contains approximately 274 photos, mainly measuring 3 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches and smaller, with some small panoramas. All photographs have numbers written in silver ink, and...
Dates:
1910-1913
Randolph-Macon Woman's College photograph album
Unprocessed Material — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X006178830]
Identifier: ViU-2025-0118
School of Continuing and Professional Development portraits
Unprocessed Material — Flat_box ViU-2024-0176: [Barcode: X006178781]
Identifier: ViU-2024-0176
Jane Chapman Slaughter papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 3700
Content Description
This collection and addition consists of about 4.25 shelf feet (ca. 1500 pieces) and includes the legal, financial, genealogical, and personal papers of Jane Chapman Slaughter, a genealogical authority and one of the first women to receive a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. These papers cover the years 1809-1951 and consist of the correspondence of both Miss Slaughter and her family, her M.A. thesis and Ph.D. dissertation, genealogical records, photographs, notebooks,...
Dates:
1809-1951
UVA student publications
Unprocessed Material — Box RG 23 - Additions Box 1: [Barcode: X032668425], Folder: ViU-2022-0143_001
Identifier: ViU-2022-0143
Women Students Association records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 23/3
Scope and Contents
The collection contains two minute books and three folders of loose papers taken from the minute books, a copy of the Constitution of the Women's Students Association, a letter from Dean of Women Robert Hollingsworth and Peggy Thompson, Acting President, to the Women Students of the University of Virginia, 1946, enclosing a copy of the Constitution, and explaining various regulations and describing organizations that welcome women, and in what capacity. It also includes papers regarding...
Dates:
1948-1967