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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Julia C. Collins

Collins, Julia C., d. 1865, Arts, Education, Private lives

Profile of Julia C. Collins, author of The Curse of Caste, one of the first novels published by an African American woman. Originally published in the Williamsport Sun Gazette.

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.