Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

Conditions Governing Use

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred Citation

Sarah M. Severance Scrapbook, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information

The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 10/14/2009.

Processing Information

Accessioned and processed in October 2009 by Ute Schechter.

Biographical Note

Sarah M. Severance was born in New York State in 1835. During the later part of the 19th century she lived in Santa Clara and San Jose, CA where she was a teacher and actively involved in the California Suffrage Movement. She also authored several publications on women's rights, like 'Andromeda Bound"  (1886), and "The Devolution and Evolution of Women." Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Sarah M. Severance">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Sarah M. Severance</a>.

Scope and Contents

Scrapbook of Sarah M. Severance (b. 1835) documenting her visit to the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California through postcards and detailed description.

Index Terms

Function:

Genre/Form of Material:

• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Scrapbooks

Topical Term:

• Postcards.
• Women travelers--Diaries.
• Women--Travel.

Additional Information