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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Margaret Mahammitt of Maryland
Margaret Mahammitt of Maryland
Hagan, Margaret A. Mahamitt, Private lives, Work, Gregory, Thomas Montgomery
Profile of Margaret Mahammitt Hagan by her great granddaughter Sheila Gregory Thomas. Gregory Thomas recalls the stories that her father, Thomas Montgomery Gregory, passed on about his grandmother. She owned the Star Laundry in Williamsport, and was an electrotherapist, a clinic called The Electric Baths.
Margaret Young Coleman memorial stone
Margaret Young Coleman memorial stone
Private lives, Work, Coleman, Margaret Young
Gravestone of Margaret Young Coleman, M.D. Wildwood Cemetery, Loyalsock, Pennsylvania
Mary Emma Ten Broeck (1916)
Mary Emma Ten Broeck (1916)
Work, Ten Broeck, Mary Emma
Photograph of Mary Emma Ten Broeck, "Nurse at Williamsport Hospital; later Supt. Of Private Hospital, 3rd & Basin Sts. that burned, run by Drs. Nutt, Clump, and Hart.' Died Flu Epidemic 1918
Mary Slaughter
Mary Slaughter
Mary Slaughter Home for Aged Colored Women (Williamsport, Pa), Slaughter, Mary, Women, Black, Social reform, Work, Aged Colored Women's Home
Framed oval portrait of elderly matron Mary Slaughter (1837-1934), who dedicated her life to caring for homeless black women.
Mavis Frymire
Mavis Frymire
Education, Work, Frymire, Mavis
1 1/2" x 2 1/4" photograph on front cover of Public School souvenir booklet (7 p.)
Miss Carrie Dietrick, "Opera Singer"
Miss Carrie Dietrick, "Opera Singer"
Art, Work, Dietrick, Carrie (Miss)
Photograph of Miss Carrie Dietrick, "Opera Singer", who was listed among those appearing at an entertainment at the YMCA in an article in the July 9, 1880 Gazette & Bulletin. Her professional debut as Violet in "The Little Tycoon" occurred at the Temple Theater on January 4, 1886, according to the same newspaper.
Miss Jennie Williams, of Montoursville, Pa.
Miss Jennie Williams, of Montoursville, Pa.
Work, Williams, Jennie, (Miss)
Full-length photograph. "Proctor School Teacher" (on reverse). If this is the same Jennie Williams whose marriage to D.M. Love was listed in the Gazette & Bulletin of Oct. 21, 1897, her teaching career probably ended at that time.
Miss Katharine W. Bennet [and other students at Muncy Normal School, Muncy, Pa.]
Miss Katharine W. Bennet [and other students at Muncy Normal School, Muncy, Pa.]
Muncy Normal School (Muncy, Pa.), Education, Work, Bennet, Katharine W.
Photograph of Miss Bennet. Born approx. 1886, Katharine W. Bennet was an alternate regent at the Proceedings of the 26th Continental Congress of the D.A.R. in 1917; she was named head librarian at the James V. Brown Library in 1944.
Monument to Mrs. Elizabeth Nice
Monument to Mrs. Elizabeth Nice
Nice, Elizabeth Lyman -Monuments, Social reform, Work, Monuments - Pennsylvania - Williamsport
Photograph of monument to Mrs. Elizabeth Nice, First President of SPCA. Monument to be erected in Vallamont.
Mrs. Alta Solley picked by Mayor for Policewoman
Mrs. Alta Solley picked by Mayor for Policewoman
Policewomen, Solley, Alta, Work
Newspaper story describing the appointment of Mrs. Alta Solley as the first female policewoman in Williamsport.
Mrs. Gray Named Sheriff; First thus appointed
Mrs. Gray Named Sheriff; First thus appointed
Gray, Mabel Virginia, Zuber, Margaret E., Work
Newspaper article describing the appointment of Mrs. Mabel Virgina Gray, Sheriff of Lycoming County. Mrs. Gray succeeded her late husband and was the first woman to serve as sheriff.
Mrs. Margaret Hagan
Mrs. Margaret Hagan
Women-owned business enterprises, Private lives, Work, Hagan, Margaret A. Mahammitt
Newspaper article in the Gazette and Bulletin (Williamsport, Pa.) from June 29, 1895 about Margaret Hagan, proprietress of the Electric Bath rooms, 581 East Third Street, Williamsport, where she provided electrotherapeutic treatments. Mrs. Hagan also owned the Star Laundry in Williamsport, employing local workers. Her daughter, Fannie Emma Hagan, married James Monroe Gregory in Williamsport in 1897.
Mrs. Mary D. Pyles served as first woman foreman of county grand jury 39 years ago.
Mrs. Mary D. Pyles served as first woman foreman of county grand jury 39 years ago.
Juries - Williamsport, Pennsylvania., Private lives, Work
Newspaper article recollecting the first woman jury foreman, in 1923.
Narrow Fabric Company employees wind thread
Narrow Fabric Company employees wind thread
Women textile workers -- Pennsylvania, Women -- Employment -- Pennsylvania, Work
"At the Narrow Fabric Company, at 406 Bridge Street in Williamsport, women double and wind thread. Narrow Fabric expanded during 1933, moving 200 braiding machines to town from its plant in Brooklyn, New York....In 1955, the company merged with a New England firm and became Assembled Products of Williamsport and, in 1959, Trimtex." Description from Lycoming County's Industrial Heritage by Robin Van Auken and Louis E. Hunsinger Jr.
Raymond N. Ulrich, Syntex Fabrics, Interview
Raymond N. Ulrich, Syntex Fabrics, Interview
Textile mill workers, Warshaw Mill (Montoursville, Pa.), Work, Syntex Fabrics (Williamsport, Pa.)
Interview with Raymond Ulrich on March 23, 1995. Ulrich worked for Syntex Fabrics of Williamsport for 14 and half years and also worked for Warshaw Mill in Montoursville. He began when he was in sixth grade.
Register of graduate nurses of Williamsport Hospital Training School for Nurses, v. 1, 1884-1960
Register of graduate nurses of Williamsport Hospital Training School for Nurses, v. 1, 1884-1960
Williamsport Hospital (Williamsport, Pa.). School of Nursing, Education, Work, Nurses--Education—Pennsylvania—Williamsport
Register listing the name, residence, dates of entrance and graduation of each student. Also lists the name of the supervising nurse. Some records include the student's religious denomination and include the signature of the student. The record book was annotated about 1927 to include married names, new addresses, and other pertinent information.
Register of graduate nurses of Williamsport Hospital Training School for Nurses, v. 2, 1961-1988
Register of graduate nurses of Williamsport Hospital Training School for Nurses, v. 2, 1961-1988
Williamsport Hospital (Williamsport, Pa.). School of Nursing, Education, Work, Nurses--Education—Pennsylvania—Williamsport
Register listing the name, residence, dates of entrance and graduation of each student. Also lists the name of the supervising nurse.
Rena Frankeberger correspondence with Smithsonian, 10/4/32
Rena Frankeberger correspondence with Smithsonian, 10/4/32
Arts, Education, Work, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882. Song of Hiawatha.
Rena Frankeberger correspondence with the Smithsonian Institution, 10/4/32, concerning the design of a mural to be installed at Curtin School in Williamsport, PA., depicting scenes from Longfellow's poem, "Hiawatha."
Rena Frankeberger correspondence with Smithsonian, 10/8/32
Rena Frankeberger correspondence with Smithsonian, 10/8/32
Education, Work, Arts
Letter from M. W. Stirling of the Smithsonian Institution in reply to Rena Frankeberger.
Rena Frankeberger correspondence with Smithsonian, 9/12/1932
Rena Frankeberger correspondence with Smithsonian, 9/12/1932
Arts, Education, Work, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882. Song of Hiawatha
Rena Frankeberger correspondence with the Smithsonian Institution, 9/12/32, concerning the design of a mural to be installed at Curtin School in Williamsport, PA., depicting scenes from Longfellow's poem, "Hiawatha."