Credits
This exhibit owes much to the scholarship of Dr. Rita Rubinstein Heller, whose work has not only generated immeasurably valuable scholarship on the Summer School, but has also helped to collect firsthand accounts from faculty and students of the School that now comprise a valuable breadth of archival material from which to draw from. Also invaluable to the development of this project has been Dr. Jennifer Redmond's digital exhibit "The Summer School for Women Workers: Diversity, Class, and Education," which has been an invaluable resource to many who wish to learn about the Summer School and its relationship to other institutions of its kind.
The author of this exhibit would also like to thank the Bryn Mawr College Strike Collective and Black Student Liberatory Coalition for their ongoing labor for and beyond the Student Strike. This project could not exist in its current form today without their work done in the fall of 2020; Bryn Mawr as an institution is indebted to a long history of student activism and calls for change, and our present moment should not be excluded from this lineage.
Further reading on the Summer School and its history can be found in these sources below:
- Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry papers, Special Collections Department, Bryn Mawr College Library.
- Heller, Rita R. “The Women of Summer: the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, 1921-1938.” Ph.D. diss., Rutgers University, 1986.
- Hilda Worthington Smith papers, BMC-12H-Smith. Special Collections Department, Bryn Mawr College Library.
- Hilda Worthington Smith faculty papers, 3H-Smith. Special Collections Department, Bryn Mawr College Library.
- Schneider, Florence Hemley, Patterns of workers' education: The story of the Bryn Mawr Summer School. (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: Bryn Mawr College, 1941).
- Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, Boxes: 30-32. Marion Edwards Park papers, BMC-1970-02, Special Collections Department, Bryn Mawr College Library.
- Redmond, Jennifer. “The Summer School for Women Workers: Diversity, Class, and Education,” The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education. Bryn Mawr College, 2014, http://greenfield.brynmawr.edu/exhibits/show/the-summer-school-for-women-wo
- Rita Rubinstein Heller Collection on the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, BMC-13D, Special Collections Department, Bryn Mawr College Library.
- The Women of Summer. Directed by Suzanne Bauman and Rita Heller. National Endowment for the Humanities, 1985.
- Worthington Smith, Hilda. Women Workers at the Bryn Mawr Summer School. New York: Affiliated Schools for Workers and American Association for Adult Education, 1929.
- Worthington Smith, Hilda. Opening Vistas in Workers' Education: An Autobiography of Hilda Worthington Smith. Published by the author, 1978.