In September 1918, the first class of women enrolled at William & Mary making it the first state-supported four-year college in Virginia to admit women. The decision to make the College co-ed was met with mixed reviews by faculty, students, and alumni. This exhibit explores the first three years of co-education at William & Mary from 1918-1921 through photographs and ephemera found in scrapbooks, yearbooks, and other collections from the Special Collections Research Center. The blog Mary Comes to the College with William, 1918-1919 follows the first women students at the College with blog posts 90 years later. Additional information about early women students at the College, including links to online exhibits, is available from the SCRC Wiki. Images of the installed exhibit are available from the department's Flickr page.
All material is from the Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library. Curator: Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist ; Exhibit design and installation: Chandi Singer, Burger Archives Assistant.