Lycoming College - Lycoming County Women's History

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Williamsport Women: Voices, Images, Actions-Source material related to the history of women in Lycoming County from Lycoming College, the Lycoming County Historical Society, and the J.V. Brown Library. Documents selected highlight the history of local women in volunteer and reform organizations, education, the arts, the workplace, and private lives. The first part of the collection will cover the time period 1875-1925. "This material will have national, perhaps international, significance as it relates to women's history and studies during a time period when there is a scarcity of materials about women's contributions to local communities. All three cooperating facilities are very limited in staffing and available hours, so the materials will reach users who either cannot physically come to the collections or did not previously know of their existence. This collaborative project is funded through an LSTA grant.

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Bertha Mary Heiney (Mrs. Gibson Garfield) Antes, on her wedding day, 23 June 1909

Heiney, Bertha Mary, Private lives, Antes, Bertha Mary Heiney (Mrs. Gibson Garfield) Antes

Wedding portrait taken upon a staircase. Long diaphanous train is pooled at the bride's feet. Gibson Antes, a bookkeeper, and his wife Bertha lived on Park Avenue, according to the 1910 census.

Camp life in the black forest

Lumber camps, Lumber trade, Lumber-yards, Private lives, Work, Logging--Pennsylvania--Williamsport

Photograph of camp life in the black forest depicts a number of men, women and children in a lumber camp.

[Elizabeth] [B]ess Taylor, W. 4th St. [Williamsport, Pa.] (April 1914)

Private lives, Taylor, Elizabeth L.

Outdoor photograph of young woman

Helen Bonner, aged 16 (5 June, 1915)

Private lives, Bonner, Helen

Photograph of young girl seated in an armchair; on reverse of photo: "Yours for keeps,/ To Mr. Houseknecht,/ From Helen Bonner/ Taken June 5, 1915 (Age 16)". Living with parents in South Williamsport in 1910 census, not found in 1920 census. Some possible reasons: she may have moved, married, or died in Spanish flu epidemic.

Jessie Elizabeth Blair

Private lives, Blair, Jessie Elizabeth

Portrait, girl 8-12 years old. The 1910 census records Jessie E. Blair of Armstrong Twp. as a 23-year-old warper at a silk mill.

Julia Mabel Ambos (Mrs. Boyd Cummings) Caldwell…

Caldwell, Julia Mabel Ambos (Mrs. Boyd Cummings), Private lives, Ambos, Julia Mabel

Photograph of Julia Mabel Ambos (Mrs. Boyd Cummings) Caldwell, Married Columbus, Ohio, 10 Oct., 1881. Gown handmade by Worth, Paris. Caldwell residence was at 128 E. Third St., Williamsport. The birth of a son was announced in the Gazette & Bulletin of April 28, 1884. Sseveral articles from the same newspaper in September 1886 reported that Boyd Caldwell was being investigated for embezzlement. By the 1900 census they had moved to Ohio, and by 1910 to St. Louis; the 1920 census shows Boyd living with his sister in Williamsport.

Luella Van Dyke

Private lives, Van Dyke, Luella

Studio portrait of child aged 5-7.

Mae Vanneody

Private lives, Vanneody, Mae

Studio portrait of young woman

Margaret A. Mahammitt Hagan; photograph

Private lives, Hagan, Margaret A. Mahammitt

Undated photograph of Margaret A. Mahammitt Hagan.

Margaret Stahl (later Liddic) at her First Communion

Liddic, Margaret Stahl, Private lives, First Communion

Full-length photograph of young girl in white dress and veil. According to the 1910 census, 16 year old Margaret Stahl lived in South Williamsport with her divorced mother, a laundress.