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Caption on back reads: "Photo of framed suffrage poster. Poster from Baker Suffrage. Held by CWS."

1. Poster Advocating Women's Suffrage

IDNO:
053827
Title:
Poster Advocating Women's Suffrage
Date:
undated
Description:
Caption on back reads: "Photo of framed suffrage poster. Poster from Baker Suffrage. Held by CWS."
Tillie Bernhardt, from Uniontown, P. A., graduated from West Virginia in 1897. She was the first first-generation woman to graduate from WVU.

2. Tillie R. C. Bernhardt

IDNO:
053828
Title:
Tillie R. C. Bernhardt
Date:
undated
Description:
Tillie Bernhardt, from Uniontown, P. A., graduated from West Virginia in 1897. She was the first first-generation woman to graduate from WVU.

3. Barnett School Orchestra, Huntington, W. Va.

IDNO:
053830
Title:
Barnett School Orchestra, Huntington, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Caption reads: "Mr. Barnett was one of the earliest black students to graduate from Dennison University in Granville, OH (1892) and was the second principal of Douglass High School (1897–1900). Mrs. Barnett lived to be 109 and moved for a while to Columbus, Ohio, to work and send them her two sons to college. She was a major source of history in the Huntington area."Further information on back of photo: "Carter Harrison Barnett (1867–1921) A. B. Dennison University, Granville OH (1892). Callie Jackson Barnett (1871–1980) Graduate of Granville H. S., Granville, OH (1893). Retired attendance officer, Cabell County, WV (1941)."

4. Carter Harrison Barnett and Callie Jackson Barnett, Huntington, W. Va.

IDNO:
053831
Title:
Carter Harrison Barnett and Callie Jackson Barnett, Huntington, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Caption reads: "Mr. Barnett was one of the earliest black students to graduate from Dennison University in Granville, OH (1892) and was the second principal of Douglass High School (1897–1900). Mrs. Barnett lived to be 109 and moved for a while to Columbus, Ohio, to work and send them her two sons to college. She was a major source of history in the Huntington area."Further information on back of photo: "Carter Harrison Barnett (1867–1921) A. B. Dennison University, Granville OH (1892). Callie Jackson Barnett (1871–1980) Graduate of Granville H. S., Granville, OH (1893). Retired attendance officer, Cabell County, WV (1941)."
Victorine Louistall Monroe was the first African-American woman to earn a graduate degree from WVU. She joined the faculty in 1966 as a professor of library science.

5. Victorine Louistall Monroe

IDNO:
053832
Title:
Victorine Louistall Monroe
Date:
undated
Description:
Victorine Louistall Monroe was the first African-American woman to earn a graduate degree from WVU. She joined the faculty in 1966 as a professor of library science.

6. Louise Keener

IDNO:
053833
Title:
Louise Keener
Date:
undated
The Spinster Club, located in Morgantown, operated in the first decades of the twentieth century and was comprised of young women who were high school graduates.

7. Member of the Spinster Club

IDNO:
053838
Title:
Member of the Spinster Club
Date:
undated
Description:
The Spinster Club, located in Morgantown, operated in the first decades of the twentieth century and was comprised of young women who were high school graduates.
The Spinster Club, located in Morgantown, operated in the first decades of the twentieth century and was comprised of young women who were high school graduates.

8. Member of the Spinster Club

IDNO:
053839
Title:
Member of the Spinster Club
Date:
undated
Description:
The Spinster Club, located in Morgantown, operated in the first decades of the twentieth century and was comprised of young women who were high school graduates.
The Spinster Club, located in Morgantown, operated in the first decades of the twentieth century and was comprised of young women who were high school graduates.

9. Member of the Spinster Club

IDNO:
053840
Title:
Member of the Spinster Club
Date:
undated
Description:
The Spinster Club, located in Morgantown, operated in the first decades of the twentieth century and was comprised of young women who were high school graduates.