Summer School for Women Workers in Industry

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The Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, which ran from 1921 to 1938, was a residential summer school program that brought approximately 100 young working women—mostly factory workers with minimal education—to the Bryn Mawr College campus for eight weeks of liberal arts study. Conceived as part of the workers' education movement in the 1920s and 30s, the program was the first of its kind aimed at women in the United States. The School is also notable because in 1926, at the suggestion of students and against former College President and SSWWI founder M. Carey Thomas's wishes, Hilda Worthington Smith admitted five African-American students to the summer school at a time when Bryn Mawr College had no Black graduates. This collection includes photographs, mostly donated by SSWWI alumnae/i.

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Students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
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Students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
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Two students, one of whom is on bended knee playing a small stringed instrument, and the other in costume and carrying a fan. The photo is inscribed "My Italian roommate from Chi and myself."
Date:
1926
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Faculty and students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
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Faculty and students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
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Students and faculty members, some sitting and some standing, on the lawn and underneath a large tree. The back of the photo is inscribed "Harne-Hanson (Cook) Unit-1932."
Date:
1932
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry Class of 1926
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Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry Class of 1926
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Panoramic group portrait of the SSWWI class of 1926. This is a copy from a larger original.
Date:
1926
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
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Students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Alumni posing for a reunion photograph.
Date:
1984
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Italian Festival
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Italian Festival
Description:
Mary Tomassi dressed in traditional Italian folk costume.
Date:
1934
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Faculty and students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
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Faculty and students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Faculty and students pose for a portrait on the steps in front of an archway. Some students are seated on the steps while others are standing.
Date:
(approximate)1921 - (approximate)1938
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Student from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
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Student from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
A student, Miss Rebecca Learner of New York, wearing Russian garb in celebration of the International Peace Festival by the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry. Inscribed on back: " SSWWI students held an international peace festival with each nation in national costume. Represented Miss Rebecca Learner of New York is shown in Russian garb."
Date:
(approximate)1921 - (approximate)1938
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Title:
Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Women sitting on a porch.
Date:
(approximate)1921 - (approximate)1938
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
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Students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Group of women standing next to a car. Left to right: Mary Tomassi Scafidi, Frddy Drake Paine, Edyth Bottomely, Evelyn De La Guardia.
Date:
1934
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Student from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
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Student from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
A student, Mathilde Lindsay, sitting for a photograph near a wall with shrubs.
Date:
(approximate)1921 - (approximate)1938
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Faculty and students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
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Faculty and students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Faculty and students sitting and standing for a group photograph outside. Front row: Pat Wotasnyk, Joe Rotundo (Econ. Prof.), Catherine Sullivan (Eng. Prof.), Hazel Devine, Lillian Locke, Genevieve Baginski, Esther Pearlson, Mary Glazer, Mary Frank. Back row: Edna Stewart, Sally Russian, Corinne (Connie) Norton, Josephine Cirino, Mae Mantifel, Zina Coyne, Anna Weinstein, Grace Webb (from England), Ann Bayden.
Date:
1938
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Faculty from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers
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Faculty from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers
Description:
Two women standing on the lawn in front of a small tree.
Date:
(approximate)1925
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Reunion of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
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Reunion of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Photograph of what appears to be an outdoor luncheon. Reunion attendees are sitting outside (some standing) over a table as refreshments appear to be served.
Date:
1979
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Reunion of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Title:
Reunion of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Photograph of reunion attendees seated at a table out on the lawn. One of them appears to be speaking to a younger woman who is standing and others are pictured in the background.
Date:
1984
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Faculty and students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
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Faculty and students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Faculty and students standing behind a sign reading "Respect for Law and Order."
Date:
(approximate)1921 - (approximate)1938
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Pembroke Arch, Bryn Mawr College
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Pembroke Arch, Bryn Mawr College
Date:
(approximate)1925
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Rockefeller Arch, Bryn Mawr College
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Rockefeller Arch, Bryn Mawr College
Description:
Rockefeller Arch covered in ivy.
Date:
(approximate)1925
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Title:
Students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Group photograph. Students appear in costume, some seated and some standing, while out on the lawn and in front of a building with ivy.
Date:
1926
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Reunion of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Title:
Reunion of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Photograph of a reunion attendee talking with a younger woman (possibly a staff member) who is holding what appears to be a glass of wine. Both are standing on the lawn.
Date:
1984
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Scrapbook page showing students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry Scrapbook page showing students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
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Scrapbook page showing students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry Scrapbook page showing students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Scrapbook page features five images labeled (clockwise from top left): Bunnie in action; On the gym roof; Tennis Instructors Bunnie and Connie; After Class - In the Cloisters-Minnie Lee - Skipper; Miss Serena Eddiden, Leah Gordon, Wendy Adalade Noble, Mark Starr; Mark Starr's Unit; also there is an unlabeled image on the back with two women sitting on steps.
Date:
1929
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives

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