Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America

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The Schlesinger Library is part of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. The Schlesinger Library documents the history of women in America, and its holdings are strongest in Women's rights and feminism; Health and sexuality; and Culinary history. The Schlesinger Library is open to the public and welcomes all visitors. We invite you to explore the Schlesinger Library's photographs on Flickr Commons. These photographs represent portions of our collections that have been digitized. Please Ask a Schlesinger Librarian if you have any questions.

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  • Melinda Young Stuart said:
    Wonderful view to show the exaggeration of this style of sleeve which was, really, so popular in the 1980s!
  • dannyscotland said:
    Is there a reason we cannot see her hands? Is this blouse structured to allow her to wear the fashion of the day when perhaps she does not have hands or arms? The sleeves seem almost to have a structure inside them holding them out.
  • Ju Bo said:
    ....i think she exaggerates the sleeves by pointing her elbows outwards with her hands near her shoulders, all inside the sleeve. This may have been intended to be a silly picture?

    I know that back in the day there were also tulle undersleeves for the larger mutton sleeves. Maybe this blouse was originally intended to be worn with undersleeve 'stuffing'.

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  • Melinda Young Stuart said:
    Wonderful portrait! There seem to be lots of notes devoted to the fame of her graduating, but I wonder what happened to her and what she was able to do with her life?
  • Summ.... said:
    tragically, it wasn't that long: "Alberta Virginia Scott, a resident of Cambridgeport, was the first African American graduate of Radcliffe College. Alberta was born near Richmond, Virginia, the daughter of Smith and Fanny Bunch Scott. When she was six years old, her family moved to Cambridge, where they lived in several locations in the "lower Port," a traditionally black neighborhood near Kendall Square that has been replaced with office buildings. Her father, a boiler tender and stationary engineer, was a deacon at the Union Baptist Church on Main Street As a child, Scott devoted herself to intensive study. From the time she entered elementary school, it was said that she had a studious disposition. At Union Baptist, she taught Sunday school under the guidance of her friend Charlotte Hawkins. Scott graduated with distinction from the Cambridge Latin School in 1894 and entered Radcliffe College, where she studied science and the classics and belonged to the Idler and German clubs. Radcliffe had no dormitories at that time, so during her first two years there she lived with an African American family on Parker Street. In her senior year, she lived at home at 28 Union Street. When she finished college in 1898, she was only the fourth African American to graduate from a women’s college in Massachusetts. Scott decided that it was her duty to teach African American children in the South rather than stay in Massachusetts. At first she taught in an Indianapolis high school, but in 1900 Booker T. Washington recruited her to teach at the Tuskegee Institute. Scott’s promising future was tragically cut short. After a year in Alabama, she fell sick and returned to Cambridge, where she died at her parents’ home at 37 Hubbard Avenue on August 30, 1902. Charlotte Hawkins sang at her funeral. which was conducted by the Reverend Jesse Harrell of the Union Baptist Church." www2.cambridgema.gov/historic/aahmonth.html#WEEK_THREE:
  • Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America said:
    A beautiful portrait and a remarkable woman. Thanks Cambridge Historical Commission.
  • Flickr said:
    Congrats on Explore! ⭐ March 24, 2021
  • gato-gato-gato said:
    Sehr schönes Foto.

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