Adelphi College Women
One hundred year ago today … Students and staff of Adelphi College, then an all-women’s school in Brooklyn, put out a letter rejecting assertions that they were smokers and drinkers who only wore high-heeled shoes.
Daily News, 24 November, 1922, p. 1. Library of Congress.
Daily News, 24 November, 1922, p. 6. Library of Congress.
The college, founded in 1896, was located at the intersection of St. James Place and Clifton Place in what is now considered the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn. Here it is in a 1927 photograph by P.L. Sperr:
Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. "Brooklyn: St. James Place - Clifton Place" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1927.
And here is the building, now used by Pratt School of Architecture, in 2022:
Google Maps.
– Jonathan Goldman, November 24, 2022
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