Lyon, Harriet E.

Overview A multi-media packet containing publications and a videotape about the first one hundred years of West Virginia University as a co-educational institution. The materials document the achievements of women at WVU and provide a glimpse into women's student life and how it has changed over the years. Women discussed include Harriet E. Lyon, Agnes J. Morrison, Mary C. Busweel, Eva Hubbard, Blanche Lazzell, Victorine Louistall, Annette Chandler-Broome, Margaret Workman, Lea Anderson, and Barbara...

Scope and Contents The collection contains materials from the West Virginia University Women’s Studies Center, now called the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. Materials include financial documents, organization records, newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, posters, and textiles. The earliest materials in the collection are letters from the first women to attend West Virginia University in 1885 prior to their admittance to the university in 1889. The latest materials include...