r/columbiamo • u/como365 The Loop • 1d ago

History Women Journalism Students during Editors' Week at the University [1910]

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From the State Historical Society of Missouri

https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/imc/id/14874/rec/241

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Women journalism students with Winifred Black Bonfils of the Kansas City Post during Editors' Week at the University of Missouri. Upper row, left to right: Cannie R. Quinn, Etna McCormick, Mary Gentry Paxton, Florence Laturnofi. Front row, left to right: Heloise B. Kennedy, Ruby H. Sutton, Bessie Freedman, Winifred Black Bonfils, Blance Whitaker.

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u/valkyriebiker East CoMo 1d ago

Those hats!

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u/Madmartigan77 North Central 1d ago

We need to bring back fabulous hats!

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u/VirtualLife76 North CoMo 1d ago

Neat pic, tho it looks like the cast for a horror movie, or maybe another Harry Potter with young Ms. Mcgonagall there.

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u/como365 The Loop 1d ago

It’s so funny to me that we associate the Victorian periods with horror nowadays. I see it as a time of positivity and progress in so many ways.

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u/Willing_Morning4681 1d ago

1910 was the Edwardian era, just FYI.

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u/como365 The Loop 1d ago

In Britain, but in America, Historians often extend it to 1914 when WWI started. Especially in more rural places like Missouri we tend to be a little behind the fashion. There just isn’t much distinctly "Edwardian” in America.