Sara Yorke Stevenson was an archeologist, an Egyptologist, a leader in the suffrage movement, a civic reformer, and an activist for women’s work rights. She helped found the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, and in 1894, she became the first woman to receive an honorary degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Through her volunteer work as president of the Equal Franchise Society, president of the Civic Club, chair of the French War Relief Committee of the Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania, and an active member of numerous voluntary organizations, Stevenson played a leadership role in improving the lives of women and the less privileged in Philadelphia and abroad. Through her vocal public support and volunteer efforts, Stevenson rallied behind organizations that supported women’s right to vote and work, as well as those that sought to improve the lives of all Philadelphians through art, music, and accountable public institutions. As a result, her papers contain reports and correspondence from a myriad of women’s and civic organizations, including: the Equal Franchise Society, the Teachers Club (a group seeking equal pay for female public school teachers), the Bureau of Occupation for Trained Women (dedicated to finding women employment other than “teaching”), the Civic Club (a women’s group dedicated to reform and civic improvement), the Woman’s Advisory Council to the Director of Public Health and Charities, the Child Federation, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Philadelphia Committee for the Shakespeare Tercentenary, and the French War Relief Committee of the Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania. Correspondence from Stevenson’s days as a literary editor and columnist for the Philadelphia Public Ledger and a small collection of her professional papers are also included.