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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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."