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Students lining up, some wearing white and some wearing black tops, on the lawn. Trees and several buildings are visible in the background. "B Young" (perhaps Barbara Young, Class of 1947) is noted on the back.

Anne Allen Knapp, Margaret Tyler, and Sara Ann Suppes stand on Merion Green holding hoops and flowers.

Frances Ream, later Mrs. John L. Kemmerer, class of 1901, costumed as Maid Marian for the traditional Robin Hood play. May Day celebrates spring and honors parting seniors featuring parades, theater, and maypole dancing.

From May Day, 1900. Approximately twenty students participating in the Robin Hood Play somewhere outdoors. The actors are dressed in elaborate costumes with cloaks, monk's habits, hats, hoods, and bows with quivers of arrows.

Players costumed for the traditional Robin Hood play riding in a wagon during the Big May Day procession, followed by a group of students carrying wooden crooks and leading several lambs. May Day celebrates spring and honors parting seniors featuring parades, theater, and maypole dancing. Big May Day occurs once every four years and is marked by even more extravagant celebrations.

This photo album documents May Day 1906. The photographs are of good quality and all of them are clearly captioned.

Players in the Masque of Flowers.

Photo of M. Carey Thomas, pictured from a distance and holding what appears to be a wreath, while students look on surrounding her.

Mary Whitall Worthington's diary from around the time of her senior year at Bryn Mawr College, 1909-1910. The diary begins with a description of Miss Worthington's summer vacation in which she goes first to Baltimore to visit with family and friends, and then to New York before sailing to Europe on board the RMS Lusitania. In England, she attends a number of parties and social engagements and makes new friends. She goes to the World's Student Christian Federation Meeting in Oxford and is moved by the religious devotion she witnesses. Worthington is particularly interested in the suffrage movement, and while in England she has tea with Inez and Vida Milholland. They attend a "suffragette raid" on the House of Commons together, and Miss Worthington gives a detailed description of the demonstration and includes newspaper clippings with her own thoughts. Later in the year, when Emmeline Pankhurst gives a lecture at the Merion Cricket Club and tours Bryn Mawr, Worthington is able to speak with her about the movement and privately marvel that she dressed in purple, white, and green -- suffragette colors. This diary is filled with Miss Worthington's high praise of her friends, descriptions of hockey games, club lectures, play and glee club rehearsals, and traditions such as rush night, Lantern Night, May Day (for which she was elected the May Queen), and bonfire night. Throughout her diary, Miss Worthington talks about her relatives, in particular her aunt, M. Carey Thomas. She also includes programs from events, exam questions, drawings and photographs, and letters from family members. Miss Worthington also includes an index of topics she discusses at the back of the diary.

Photo of M. Carey Thomas with Margaret Tyler, (class of 1922) under the senior maypole. This photo is from the album of Elizabeth McGowan Hall (also class of 1922).