Association of Collegiate Alumnae Records
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Scope and Contents of the Collection
The records of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (1882-1917?) contain 1.75 linear feet of material, including announcements, registers, the "A.C.A. Journal" (1918), a scrapbook, and committee, financial, and branch reports. The records contain correspondence (1906-08) relating to living wage of college women and accompanying investigations, including letters to Ellen Richards, 1842-1911, and to internationalist and pacifist Fannie Fern Andrews, 1867-1950. Pamphlets of special interest concern the medical education of women, college entrance requirements, history of the A.C.A., Domestic Reform League, comparative statistics on colleges (1904), university extension programs, alumnae gifts, athletics for women (1897), wages of working women (1896), school lunch programs (1898), and a bibliography on higher education of women (1897). NOTE: The container list for this collection is available in the Sophia Smith Collection. Please contact us to request a copy. |