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Wooden Shoe Soles
1865. According to the donor, these shoe soles were "used in our late war....They were made fall 1865 by James Kirkland and sold [to] Geo Arterbridge-On his way home he laid the Shoe Soles down to steal a pig, and in doing so, he in haste and hurry left them which Evidenced [sic] preserved." Arterbridge was a former slave." (Tilley's book, page 36) -
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Nurse and businesswoman Mary Seacole was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1805 to a Scottish officer in the British Army and a free Jamaican woman. In Seacole’s autobiographical Wonderful Adventures, she relates her extensive travel and medical contributions, including her work as a nurse during the Crimean War. She had applied to participate in wartime initiatives, including joining a group of nurses organized by Florence Nightingale, but was rejected. Instead, she and a business partner gathered their own supplies, booked passage on a Dutch ship, and established quarters for sick officers between Balaclava and Sevastopol. -
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Womyn, The Queer Experience
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Women's Suffrage Deputation: Received by the Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, on Saturday, May 19th, 1906, at the Foreign Office
British Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman agreed to meet with representatives from the suffrage movement on 19 May 1906. This National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies publication reprints the speeches delivered by Members of Parliament and representatives of over 1,000 women from 25 groups and institutions. The organizations listed demonstrate the Women's Social and Political Union’s success in bringing working class women into the movement. At the meeting, the Prime Minister revealed that he could not overcome his cabinet’s opposition to woman suffrage. This item is part of the Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence Papers. -
Women's Initiative Report (page 2)
Report on the 2003 Women's Initiative featuring the concept of the"effortless perfection" demanded of female undergraduate students at Duke. -
Women's Initiative Report (page 1)
Report on the 2003 Women's Initiative featuring the concept of the"effortless perfection" demanded of female undergraduate students at Duke. -
Women's initiative
President Nannerl Keohane spearheaded the Duke Women's Initiative in 2003, hoping to evaluate and improve the climate for all women who work and study at Duke. The report, created by a committee of administrative staff and professors, identified concerns about professional mentoring, dating culture, gender/sexual diversity, parental leave, and more. The Initiative led to the creation of many new programs, including the Baldwin Scholars, an undergraduate women's leadership organization named for the first Woman's College dean, Alice Baldwin. -
Women's college placemat - Few Graduate Quadrangle
This placemat depicting the newly-constructed Few Graduate Quadrangle may have been used at the Woman's College. Author and Woman’s College faculty member G. Hope Summerall Chamberlain designed the placemat. Notice the illustrations of dogwoods, now the North Carolina state flower. The Few Graduate Quadrangle was named after President William Preston Few. The creation of this placemat coincides with Duke’s first Centennial celebration, which occurred in the 1938-1939 academic year. -
Women's Baseball, 1941
Two women play baseball on the Woman's College campus at Duke University (now East Campus) in 1941. -
Women's Baseball, 1939
Women at Duke play baseball on May 6, 1939. They are playing on what is currently the field hockey field on East Campus (then known as the Woman's College campus). The women's baseball team was sponsored by the Women's Athletic Association. -
Women, one wearing crown
Six women and a man. The man is placing a beauty pageant-style crown on one woman's head. -
Women speaking to children in classroom
circa 1950s or 1960s -
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