#WASP
WRVM collection, PO-07257, Gift of Jacquie Fogelberg
College Girls, c. 1916
The “New Woman” ideal was out of reach for most women in America. The New Woman, aside from being able-bodied and white, was also college educated, independently wealthy, and able to freely pursue a career in the arts or humanities - a combination of traits impossible to achieve without inherited generational wealth.