Life at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1917. Taken from a photo album that appears to have belonged to a Rachel Blair who lived in the Dewey House residential house at Smith that year. Found on the website of House of Mirth Photos.

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Ivy Day at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. 1914-1917. American. Photograph taken from a photo album kept by Rachel Blair who was a student at Smith in 1917, residing in the Dewey House residential house at Smith that year. Photographer not given. Image © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/656/1917-smith-college-women-photo-album.
Ivy Day at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts 1914. American. Photograph taken from a photo album kept by Rachel Blair who was a student at Smith in 1917, residing in the Dewey House residential house at Smith that year. Photographer not given. Image © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/656/1917-smith-college-women-photo-album.
Cast of a student play, it looks like but I don’t actually know as it doesn’t say. Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts 1914-1917. American. Photograph taken from a photo album kept by Rachel Blair who was a student at Smith in 1917, residing in the Dewey House residential house at Smith that year. Photographer not given. Image © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/656/1917-smith-college-women-photo-album.
Mountain Day. Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts 1914-1917. American. Photograph taken from a photo album kept by Rachel Blair who was a student at Smith in 1917, residing in the Dewey House residential house at Smith that year. Photographer not given. Image © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/656/1917-smith-college-women-photo-album.

Somewhere my grandmother is mad at me because she got kicked out of Smith about ten years later. However the album turned up and these are good pictures and those can be hard to find. Sorry, Helen Mulford Washburn Harden (ducks and runs).

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