Housholder, Tammen, Colby, Gay, Small, and Pierce at Xi Chapter Installation Photograph, April 1, 1913

Six Sigma Kappas pose together outdoors during the Xi Chapter installation. They are (left to right): Xi Chapter President Vale Housholder, Xi, University of Kansas; Gertrude Armstrong Tammen, Lambda, University of California, Berkeley; Florence Colby, Iota, University of Denver; Grand President Mary L. Gay, Theta, University of Illinois; Grace A. Small, Delta, Boston University; and Founder Ida Fuller Pierce, Alpha, Colby College.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: Apr 1st, 1913

Ida Fuller Pierce Full-Length Cabinet Card

Collection: Archives Collection
Date:

Ida Fuller Pierce Remembrances of Mary Low Carver, 1926

Founder Ida Fuller Pierce, Alpha, Colby College, writes about fellow Founder Mary Low Carver, Alpha, who recently passed away.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: 1926

Ida Fuller Pierce Remembrances of Mary Low Carver, 1926

Founder Ida Fuller Pierce, Alpha, Colby College, writes about fellow Founder Mary Low Carver, Alpha, who recently passed away.

Collection: Mary Low Carver
Date: 1926

Ida Fuller Pierce to My Dear, Dear Sigma Letter, March 29, 1926

Ida Fuller Pierce, Alpha, Colby College, writes that she will write out her remembrances of fellow Founder Mary Carver Low, who recently passed away.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: Mar 29th, 1926

Ida Fuller Pierce to My Dear, Dear Sigma Letter, March 29, 1926

Ida Fuller Pierce, Alpha, Colby College, writes that she will write out her remembrances of fellow Founder Mary Carver Low, who recently passed away.

Collection: Ida Fuller Pierce
Date: Mar 29th, 1926

Information From the Catalogue of Colby University, 1871-1872

This information sheet compiles notes from a Colby University Catalog published in the 1870s, describing the admission of women into the institution, the policies governing their time in college, and their course of study.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date:

Louise Coburn Address to Candidate at Initiation Typed Copy, February 17, 1875

Founder Louise H. Coburn,Alpha, Colby College,gave this address to the candidates just before their initiation in the first Sigma Kappa initiation ceremony. The original handwritten copy of this speech is also available.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: Feb 17th, 1875

Louise Coburn Address to Candidate at Initiation Typed Copy, February 17, 1875

Founder Louise H. Coburn,Alpha, Colby College,gave this address to the candidates just before their initiation in the first Sigma Kappa initiation ceremony. The original handwritten copy of this speech is also available.

Collection: Louise Helen Coburn
Date: Feb 17th, 1875

Louise Coburn Address to Candidate at Initiation, February 17, 1875

Founder Louise H. Coburn,Alpha, Colby College, gave this address to the candidates just before their initiation in the first Sigma Kappa initiation ceremony. A typed transcript of this speech is also available.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: Feb 17th, 1875

Louise Coburn Address to Candidate at Initiation, February 17, 1875

Founder Louise H. Coburn,Alpha, Colby College, gave this address to the candidates just before their initiation in the first Sigma Kappa initiation ceremony. A typed transcript of this speech is also available.

Collection: Louise Helen Coburn
Date: Feb 17th, 1875

Louise Coburn and Grandniece Photograph, August 1938

Founder Louise H. Coburn sits on a porch with her 10-month-old grandniece Fay Coburn Smith Fawcett.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: Aug 1938

Louise Coburn to Sisters of Sigma Kappa Letter, June 22, 1933

In her greeting to the 1933 national convention, Founder Louise H. Coburn, Alpha, Colby College, writes about her fellow Founders and the ideals they had in founding Sigma Kappa.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: Jun 22nd, 1933

Louise Coburn to Sisters of Sigma Kappa Letter, June 22, 1933

In her greeting to the 1933 national convention, Founder Louise H. Coburn, Alpha, Colby College, writes about her fellow Founders and the ideals they had in founding Sigma Kappa.

Collection: 1933 National Convention
Date: Jun 22nd, 1933

Louise Helen Coburn to Sigma Kappa Letter

Louise Helen Coburn, Alpha, Colby College, writes to members of Sigma Kappa sorority with greetings and best wishes at the request of the Grand Historian.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date:

Maine's Musical History Stars Famous Composers and Singers Newspaper Clipping, April 22, 1950

Mabel Gould Demers writes about the history of music in Maine and describes several accomplished musicians and composers in the history of the state. The article includes a section on the life and work of Emily Peace Meader, Alpha, Colby College, and features a photograph of her family home in Waterville, Maine. Meader is the only Sigma Kappa referenced in this article.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: Apr 22nd, 1950

Mary Low Carver and Louise Helen Coburn With Family Members Photograph

Louise H. Coburn, (seated, first from left) and Mary Low Carver (seated, second from left) sit in their garden with members of their families, including Ruby Carver Emerson and Grace Coburn Smith, all Alpha, Colby College.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date:

Mary Low Carver and Ruby Carver Emerson At Colby College Photograph, c. 1924

Ruby Carver Emerson (left) and her mother, Founder Mary Low Carver, Alpha Chapter, Colby College, sit together on the lawn at the old campus of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. The photograph was likely taken during the Sigma Kappa Pageant at the 1924 National Convention.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: Jan 1st, 1970

Mary Low Carver Cabinet Card

Collection: Archives Collection
Date:

Mary Low Carver Profile Cabinet Card, 1895

This profile picture of Mary Low Carver at age 45 was taken as a preliminary study for an oil painting. Mrs. Carver did not like it, however, so painting was never done.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: 1895