Sketch: Grace Espy Patton, Professor of English, Agricultural College (1896)
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Title
Sketch: Grace Espy Patton, Professor of English, Agricultural College (1896)
Subject
Grace Espy Patton
Description
A sketched portrait of Grace Espy Patton, whom some believe was the first LGBTQ+ student and faculty member of what is today Colorado State University. The drawing appeared across the nation as part of a syndicated newspaper story on Patton and other Colorado women entering elected office. Note Patton's style of dress in the image. While it was not necessarily an unusual style for women of the West at this time, many readers back east would have found her appearance to have violated gender norms about appropriate dress.
Source
Newspapers.com
Publisher
"Women of Colorado," Cromwell's Kansas Mirror, June 20, 1896, pp. 3.
Date
June 20, 1896
Contributor
Thomas R. Dunn (researcher)
Rights
Public domain -- published before 1926
Format
JPEG, PDF
Language
English
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Original Format
Newspaper
Files
Collection
Citation
“Sketch: Grace Espy Patton, Professor of English, Agricultural College (1896),” Northern Colorado Queer Memory Project, accessed June 3, 2023, https://nocoqueermemory.omeka.net/items/show/120.