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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Women students

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Elizabeth (Gladys) McCarthy scrapbook

 Unprocessed Material — Flat_box ViU2023-0173_001: [Barcode: X006178638]
Identifier: ViU-2023-0173
Dates: 1920 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1924

Bessie M. Rhoades botany workbook and notebooks

 Collection — Box MSS 16776: [Barcode: X031579442]
Identifier: MSS 16776
Content Description This collection contains six handwritten notebooks and a workbook outlining botanic observations of Bessie M. Rhoades, an orphan at the Bethany Orphanage in Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania. The collection highlights the study of science by a female student at the turn of the twentieth century.It is a personal archive detailing life inside an American orphanage during a pivotal moment in the history of child advocacy.The education provided by an orphanage could give students academic opportunities...
Dates: 1903-1904

Louisa Wooten botany and zoology notebook

 Collection — Box BW 53, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16781
Content Description This collection contains one handwritten notebook from an English female student learning about botany and zoology in 1857. The notebook includes sixty-eight pages of notes and essays on plant and animal biology. The notebook cover has the handwritten signature of the original owner, Louisa Wootten (possibly Woodson or Woodrow).It is unusual for a female student to study botany and zoology in 1857 so this notebook is remarkable in that regard.The cover also notes an...
Dates: 1857