File of Girtoniana, containing the following:
‘Girton’s Jubilee’: newspaper cutting from the Daily Sketch, 28 July 1919, showing four photographs including Mr Sedley Taylor; ‘Typical Girton Girls of today’; ‘Miss Lumsden - - - with Miss Dove’ and ‘Mrs Walter Runciman’; and ‘Miss K Jex-Blake, Mistress’;
‘Our Portraits. Miss Welsh, Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge’: newspaper cutting, source unknown. Not dated [circa 1889]. The article discusses the career of Elizabeth Welsh (as Girton student, member of teaching staff and Mistress) and the first twenty years of the College;
Handwritten notes on the location of fire hydrants, engines, ropes, hoses and nozzles. Not dated;
Printed ‘Rules of the Girton College Fire Brigade’. Not dated. List of 11 rules including numbers of practices per term, powers of dismissal, legitimate reasons for absence etc;
‘St Valentine’s Day at Girton’ - photograph of a cartoon from ‘Punch’, 26 February 1876, showing two Girton women opening a Valentine in Greek;
‘The Girl Graduate’s Rejection. Midnight scenes at Cambridge. Students charged by fire brigade’: photocopy of a newspaper cutting, source unknown [1897];
Photocopy of a cartoon from The Granta, 15 May 1897, captioned ‘Cambridge University. Seminary for young ladies. The BA Degree in all its branches: Cooking and plain sewing extra’;
‘The Triumph of Man’: photocopy of a cartoon on the front page of The Westminster Budget, 28 May 1897. The cartoon represents the result following the 1897 vote to allow women into the university: a non placet voter stands over a prone female student brandishing a flyer reading ‘No Women!’;
Photocopy of a cartoon from the Daily Graphic, 24 May 1897, showing ‘Senate House Courtyard’ during the 1897 vote to allow women into the university. The cartoon has 3 scenes entitled: ‘A free fight with flour bags, fire crackers, squibs and an occasional egg’; ‘The voting table’; and ‘Declaring the result’;
Slip from Miss Welsh, Girton Mistress, confirming the time and place of a visit, 24 November 1895;
Slip signed by Miss Welsh, Mistress of Girton, giving permission for Miss Lynch ‘to go to Cambridge and remain out till Monday’, 27 November 1896.