Katharine Coman
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Katharine Ellis Coman was an American social activist and professor. She was based at the women-only Wellesley College, Massachusetts, where she created new courses in political economy, in line with her personal belief in social change. As dean, she established a new department of economics and sociology.
Katharine Coman
Etching of Wellesley College circa 1881
Illustrations from Coman's 1912 book, Economic Beginnings of the Far West: How We Won the Land Beyond the Mississippi.
Image: Economic beginnings of the Far West how we won the land beyond the Mississippi (1912) (14778772865)
Wellesley College
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Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial grouping of current and former women's colleges in the northeastern United States.
Campus of Wellesley College as it appeared c. 1880
1922 cover of Judge depicting a Wellesley graduate
The Davis Museum art collections are open to the public
Wellesley College campus, fall 2006