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A social club of self-supporting
young women (teachers, stenographers, bookkeepers) who have made good. This
picture is eight years old. One of the group is dead, eleven are married and
four are successful "bachelor
maids." While the club is still intact, the original membership here presented is scattered from
New England to Panama and
from Georgia to Colorado. [Original caption]
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I
have always been fascinated by this photograph. It shows a group of young
ladies who banded together to help one another make something extraordinary of
their lives at a time when doing so was a daunting task for American Americans.
But with all the difficult obstacles they knew would be unjustly thrown in
their way, they still seem, to my eye, to be determined, serene, and confident
as they look to the future. I wish I could have known them.
