Mary Lucy (Mendenhall) Wood FSCW photographs, 1916.

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Mary Lucy (Mendenhall) Wood FSCW photographs, 1916.

This is a collection of small prints taken on the Florida State College for Women (FSCW) campus in 1916. Scenes include East Hall, students, an exterior view of FSCW President Dr. Edward Conradi's home, campus landscapes, exterior views of Westcott and dining hall buildings, the arcade leading to the old dining hall, Reynolds Hall, and the Westcott Fountain frozen with ice. There is also a 1916 picture of Dr. and Mrs. Albert Murphree and family. The collection provides excellent visual documentation of the early years of the Florida State College for Women.

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Wood, Mary Mendenhall

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Mary Lucy Mendenhall Wood (Mrs. T.H. Wood) is the only daughter of Lucy Conibear Mendenhall and Herbert Drummond Mendenhall. Lucy's sister, Ruth Conibear Kellum, was the wife of John Gabriel Kellum, who served as business manager of the Florida State College for Women from 1907 to 1945. Two aunts of Mary Lucy, Florence Conibear (later, Mrs. Grover Williamson) and Helen Conibear (later, Mrs. James Kutrow), attended FSCW and graduated in 1917 and 1919, respectively. From the descriptio...

Florida State College for Women

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According to Robin Sellers' Femina Perfecta, in 1914 members of the even-year classes of Florida State College for Women (juniors and freshmen) wore their green and yellow class colors to chapel on the Saturday morning before Thanksgiving. A spontaneous pep rally ensued. On the following Wednesday, odd-year class members (seniors, sophomores, and sub-freshmen) carried canes wrapped with ribbons in their individual class colors of red, white, and purple. On Thanksgiving Day the odd-year classes d...

Melissa E. Cochrane Reynolds Hall (Tallahassee, Fla.)

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East Hall (Tallahassee, Fla.)

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James D. Westcott Memorial Building (Tallahassee, Fla.)

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Murphree, Albert Alexander, 1870-1927

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College President. Dr. Albert Alexander Murphree was the president of the Seminary West of the Suwannee when it became Florida State College in 1901. He continued after the school became Florida Female College in 1905. The name was unpopular, and was changed to Florida State College for Women in 1909. Dr. Murphree left the college that same year to go to the University of Florida. From the description of Letterpress books, 1902-1908. (Florida State University...

William H. Johnston Building (Tallahassee, Fla.)

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