Women -- Education -- New York (State) -- Rochester

Content Description

Five scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings and ephemera related to publicity for the Rochester Branch of the American Association of University Women and its projects. The scrapbooks date between 1930 and 1936,

Scope and Content Note This small collection of papers documents the education and writings of Susan Ernisse Crowe and her daughter Jane Ernisse Crowe Maxfield in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Both women grew up and received schooling in Rochester, NY. Both were proficient at writing and drawing, as reflected in these papers. Jane went on to graduate studies at the University of Rochester and Columbia University at a time when women were beginning to achieve the goal of higher education.The...

Abstract

This collection consists of correspondence, photos, school programs, artwork, and newspapers. These materials came from Ella King, and her family. The materials date between 1889 - 1923.

Abstract The Livingston Park Seminary, originally called the Curtis Seminary, operated from 1860 to 1934; the name Livingston Park Seminary was adopted follwing the death of Mrs. Cathro Curtis in 1892. The materials in this collection include operating records of the Seminary between 1892 and 1934 (accession 2019.058), records of the Alumnae Association dating from 1896 to 1964 (accession 2019.057), and personal papers of the third and final principal, Eurith Trabue Rebasz, dating from 1863 to 1931...