Lycoming College - Lycoming County Women's History

About This Collection

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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Anonymous women
Anonymous women
Private Lives, Women - Pennsylvania - Williamsport
Photograph of two women in their thirties in traveling clothes, possibly seated in a studio.
Anonymous women
Anonymous women
Private Lives, Women - Pennsylvania - Williamsport
Photograph of woman and girl, possibly mother and daughter
Anonymous women (1915)
Anonymous women (1915)
Private Lives, Women - Pennsylvania - Williamsport
Photograph of two elderly women. "Taken in 1915/ under our big pear tree/ Tree had 15 bushel pears (on reverse)
Anonymous women (in costume), c. 1910
Anonymous women (in costume), c. 1910
Private Lives, Women - Pennsylvania - Williamsport
Photograph of women and girls in various types of costumes
Anonymous young woman
Anonymous young woman
Private Lives, Women - Pennsylvania - Williamsport
Photograph of young girl in white wearing what may be a nurse's cap, holding a diploma.
Answer to inquiries
Answer to inquiries
Education, Williamsport Hospital (Williamsport, Pa.). School of Nursing.
Form dated Jan. 25, 1917, providing answer to inquiries relative to Miss _________, an applicant for admission to the Williamsport Hospital Training School for Nurses. Queries length of acquaintance, history, health, manners and disposition, temper, and moral character.
Anti-Suffrage Organization is Effected in City
Anti-Suffrage Organization is Effected in City
Women - Suffrage, Social reform
Newspaper article concerning the formation of an anti women's suffrage organization in Williamsport
Application for charter is filed [Woman's Club]
Application for charter is filed [Woman's Club]
Woman's Club (Williamsport, Pa.), Arts, Private lives, Social reform
Newspaper story on the application of local women to form a Woman's Club.
Application of Lula Thompson for admission to the Williamsport Hospital Training School for Nurses
Application of Lula Thompson for admission to the Williamsport Hospital Training School for Nurses
Thompson, Lula, Williamsport Hospital (Williamsport, Pa.). School of Nursing, Education, Work, Applications
Application of Lula Thompson for admission to the Williamsport Hospital Training School for Nurses, dated Jan. 13, 1897. Mrs. Thompson was a widow with children aged three and five, who, as she indicated in response to a question on the application, would be cared for by their grandparents. She listed Roman Catholic as her religion and gave as recommendations Dr. S.O Goldman, of New York, and L.O. LaBelle, with whom she apparently boarded.
Application of Martha M. Lay for admission to the Williamsport Hospital Training School for Nurses
Application of Martha M. Lay for admission to the Williamsport Hospital Training School for Nurses
Lay, Martha, Williamsport Hospital (Williamsport, Pa.). School of Nursing, Education, Work, Applications
Application of Martha M. Lay for admission to the Williamsport Hospital Training School for Nurses, dated Sept. 10, 1899. The name of Miss Virginia Loomis, Superintendent, is now crossed out on the printed application, and a handwritten note has been added to "Send photograph." Attached is a typewritten note reading, "To whom it may concern, I very cheerfully bear testimony to the correct Christian deportment, of the bearer, Miss Martha Lay. She is a member, in good standing, in the church, Trinity Methodist Episcopal, in the city of Lock Haven, Pa., of which I am pastor. And I am sure that she will prove herself trustworthy in any position to which she is appointed. M. K. Foster, Pastor Trinity M.E. Church. Lock Haven, Pa., Sept. 14, 1899."
Application of Martha Washington Redfern for admission to the Williamsport Hospital Training School for Nurses
Application of Martha Washington Redfern for admission to the Williamsport Hospital Training School for Nurses
Redfern, Martha Washington, Williamsport Hospital (Williamsport, Pa.). School of Nursing, Education, Work, Applications
Application of Martha Washington Redfern for admission to the Williamsport Hospital Training School for Nurses, dated July 24, 1896. "This is to be filled out in the Candidate's own handwriting, and sent to Miss Virginia Loomis, Superintendent of the Williamsport Training School for Nurses. A letter from a clergyman or teacher, relating to the moral character of the applicant, and a certificate of good health from a physician, must accompany this application. The physician must make a through physical examination of the candidate before issuing the certificate." Martha Redfern, born in Philadelphia on February 22, 1873, was in good health and a member of the Cumberland Street M.E. Church in Philadelphia. She was recommended by the Secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association of Harrisburg and by Mr. Wm. B. Threapleton, hosiery mfg., of Philadelphia, probably her previous employer.
Application of Nelle B. Mitchell for admission to the Williamsport Hospital Training School for Nurses
Application of Nelle B. Mitchell for admission to the Williamsport Hospital Training School for Nurses
Mitchell, Nellie, Williamsport Hospital (Williamsport, Pa.). School of Nursing, Education, Work, Applications
Application of Nelle B. Mitchell for admission to the Williamsport Hospital Training School for Nurses, dated 1898. Nelle was born in Newberry, "educated in the public schools of city", and a Presbyterian. Her recommendations were G.D. Nutt, a physician, and Rev. Baker.
Applications for admission (Aug. 27, 1913 - June 5, 1917)
Applications for admission (Aug. 27, 1913 - June 5, 1917)
Women in charitable work, Social reform, Home for the Friendless (Williamsport, Pa.)
Contains notes about applicants for admission to the Home for the Friendless,
Applications for admission (June 1, 1917 - Dec. 25, 1919)
Applications for admission (June 1, 1917 - Dec. 25, 1919)
Women in charitable work, Social reform, Home for the Friendless (Williamsport, Pa.)
Contains notes about applicants for admission to the Home for the Friendless
Architectural drawing of new residence.
Architectural drawing of new residence.
Education, Williamsport Hospital (Williamsport, Pa.). School of Nursing.
Architectural drawing of new residence. A partial label reads, "Architectur(?) Lawrie & . Harrisburg, Pen(?)". The Pennsylvania State Archives holds the manuscript collection, including architectural drawings, of Lawrie & Green, 1922-1960, although this Harrisburg architectural firm was in business 1922-1972.
Ardna Shetler
Ardna Shetler
Private Lives, Shetler, Ardna
Photograph of a young girl approximately age 6. According to the Gazette & Bulletin, Ardna Shetler, born in 1924, worked at the Grit Publishing Company until her marriage in 1950.
Art Class (1899)
Art Class (1899)
Arts, Education, Dickinson Seminary
Photo of young women in art class at Dickinson Seminary, now Lycoming College, in 1899.
AT REST IN WILDWOOD: Funeral of Mrs. Emeline Bentley Yesterday Afternoon.
AT REST IN WILDWOOD: Funeral of Mrs. Emeline Bentley Yesterday Afternoon.
Bentley, Emeline G., Obituaries, Private Lives
Newspaper article announcing the death and funeral arrangements for Mrs. Emeline Bentley, widow of the late Benjamin S. Bentley
Aunt Hattie (no surname given)
Aunt Hattie (no surname given)
Private Lives, Women - Pennsylvania - Williamsport
Photograph of infant
Aunt Jane Ross
Aunt Jane Ross
Blacks in Williamsport, Pa., Ross, Jane, Slaves - Biography, Private lives, Social reform, Work
Newspaper article on an elderly Williamsport woman who was once a slave and was over 100 years old.