Vassar College Digital Library
Guide to the Vassar College Archives Files, circa 1855-1969 (bulk 1860-1914)

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Collection Summary

Repository: Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries
Creator: Vassar College
Title: Vassar College Archives Files
Inclusive Dates: circa 1855-1969
Bulk Dates: 1860-1914
Quantity: 13.6 cubic feet (15 boxes)
Abstract: An artificial collection of materials documenting the history of Vassar College, collected by various departments of the Library over several decades. Materials include letters, photographs, programs, college circulars and other publications, building specifications, contracts, bills and receipts, inventories, accounts, committee minutes, architectural and landscape drawings, reports, and club constitutions and records.
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Scope and Content Note

An artificial collection of materials documenting the history of Vassar College, collected by various departments of the Library from multiple sources over several decades. Materials include photographs, letters, programs, college circulars and other publications, building specifications, contracts, bills and receipts, inventories, accounts, committee minutes, architectural and landscape drawings, reports, and club constitutions and records. Specific items include letters on the structure of college education for women, admission requirements, and references for some of Vassar's first students, 1860-1865; letters and applications of professors and staff, 1860-1864; correspondence on the role of alumnae at Vassar, 1884-1915; college journal containing entries on events, meetings, speakers, domestic concerns, and social life, 1870-1871; notebooks of directives from the President's Office to faculty and students, 1869-1883; correspondence of Adelaide Underhill and President MacCracken about the Library, 1915-1924; reports and correspondence relating to the Maids' Clubhouse, 1914; minutes, reports, memoranda, and correspondence of college trustees, 1861-1936; original manuscript and typescript reports by the college president, 1866-1918; correspondence, sketches, estimates, and bills relating to construction of the first college facilities; and manuscript and typescript reports from College departments, the comptroller, the Lady Principal, the Library, and the Physician, 1866-1869.

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Access

This collection is open for research according to the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library without any additional restrictions.

Restrictions on Use

Permission to quote (publish) from unpublished or previously published material must be obtained as described in the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library.

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Subject Headings

Names:

  • Caldwell, Samuel L. (Samuel Lunt), 1820-1889
  • Jewett, Milo P.
  • MacCracken, H. N. (Henry Noble), 1880-1970
  • Raymond, John H. (John Howard), 1814-1878
  • Renwick, James, 1818-1895
  • Taylor, James Monroe, 1848-1916
  • Underhill, Adelaide, 1860-1936

Organizations:

  • Vassar College--Admission
  • Vassar College--Alumni and alumnae
  • Vassar College--Buildings
  • Vassar College--Employees
  • Vassar College--Faculty
  • Vassar College--History
  • Vassar College--Presidents
  • Vassar College--Students
  • Vassar College. Board of Trustees
  • Vassar College. Comptroller
  • Vassar College. Lady Principal
  • Vassar College. Library

Subjects:

  • Landscape architecture--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie
  • Women college students--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie
  • Women's colleges--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie
  • Women--Education
  • Women--Societies and clubs

Document Types:

  • Account books
  • Administrative records
  • Architectural drawings
  • Correspondence
  • Financial records
  • Minutes (administrative records)
  • Photographs
  • Reports

VCL Categories:

  • Vassar College Administrative Offices and Functions
  • Vassar College Presidents
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Encoding Information

Encoded by Elizabeth Clarke, May 2007. Updated by Emma Gronbeck, June 2024.

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Preferred Citation

Vassar College Archives Files, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.

Processing Information

Original processing date unknown. Materials in Box 15 incorperated into collection by Emma Gronbeck, June 2024, from unprocessed materials in the College Archives.

Acquisition Information

An artificial collection, collected by various departments of the Library from multiple sources over several decades.

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Folder List

Box 1, Folder 1.1 Admissions — Requirements for admission, letters of acceptance, letters of reference, 1860-1865
Box 1, Folder 1.2 Admissions — Requirements for admission, exam cards, 1866-1888
Box 1, Folder 1.3 Admissions — Admission of Packer Institute Students, letters from Packer President Truman J. Backus, report of LeRoy Cooley on visit to Packer, 1886
Box 1, Folder 1.4 Advertising — (includes undated clippings), 1865, 1881, 1884, undated
Box 1, Folder 1.5 Advertising — Broadsheet, undated
Alumnae Association of Vassar College — SEE ALSO: Associate Alumnae
Box 1, Folder 1.6 Alumnae Association of Vassar College — AAVC Reports, Letters to Alumnae, 1871-1894, undated
Box 1, Folder 1.7 Alumnae Association of Vassar College — Academic Council of Alumnae Correspondence between members of council and President Taylor, 1912-1913
Box 1, Folder 1.8 Alumnae Association of Vassar College — Circular Letter to Trustees Concerning the State of the College, 1884 [2 Copies of letter, ITS, IMS]
Box 1, Folder 1.9 Alumnae Association of Vassar College — Papers Concerning Alumnae Representation, petitions to Board of Trustees, corr., outline of a plan for Alumnae Representation, 1887-1888, undated
Box 1, Folder 1.10 Alumnae Association of Vassar College — Alumnae Monthly Correspondence between Elsie Hill and President Taylor re: Vassar Alumnae Monthly, 1911
Box 1, Folder 1.11 Alumnae Association of Vassar College — Alumnae Trustees plan for nomination of alumnae trustees, 1918, undated
Box 15, Folder 9.1 Alumnae Association of Vassar College — Letter to Mary C. Raymond from her sister, reporting on activities of the VC Alumnae Association and a visit to Vassar College, [1885?]
Box 1, Folder 1.12 Ancient Languages — Applications for Chairman and Professorships, 1862-1865
Box 1, Folder 1.13 Modern Languages — Applications for Chairman and Professorships A-J, 1863-1865
Box 1, Folder 1.14 Modern Languages — Applications for Chairman and Professorships K, 1863-1865
Box 1, Folder 1.15 Modern Languages — Applications for Chairman and Professorships L, 1864-1865
Box 1, Folder 1.16 Modern Languages — Applications for Chairman and Professorships M-Z, 1863
Box 1, Folder 1.17 Ancient and Modern Languages Department — Reports, 1865-1869
Box 1, Folder 1.18 Ancient and Modern Languages Department — Reports, 1869-1872
Box 1, Folder 1.19 Ancient and Modern Languages Department — Reports, 1872-1880
Box 1, Folder 1.20 Ancient and Modern Languages Department — Reports, 1881-1889
Box 1, Folder 1.21 Anderson, Martin Brewer (VC Trustee, President of U. of Rochester) — Letters to Matthew Vassar, Cyrus Swan, John H. Raymond, and Samuel Caldwell, 1860-1880
Box 1, Folder 1.22 Applications — Applications for positions of bookkeeper, Engineering/ Machinist, Assistant Housekeeper, Mechanic, Nurse, Steam Operator, 1863-1865
Box 1, Folder 1.23 Applications — Applications for position of Matron, 1862-1865
Box 1, Folder 1.24 Art Department — Reports 1885-1891
Box 1, Folder 1.25 Art Department — Reports, 1891-1898
Box 1, Folder 1.26 Art Department — Reports, 1900-1905, 1911-1913
Box 1, Folder 1.27 Art Gallery — Correspondence re: purchases for Gallery, 1873-1875, 1893, 1895, 1903-1904
Box 1, Folder 1.28 Art Gallery — Correspondence re: Ehrich gift, 1920
Box 1, Folder 1.29 Art Gallery — Inventory of Art Collection, by Henry Van Ingen, Professor of Art, 1894
Box 1, Folder 1.30 Art Gallery — Report of the [Trustees] Committee, 1864, 1877-1878
Box 1, Folder 1.31 Art Gallery — Rules of the Art Gallery by Board of Trustees, 1867
Box 1, Folder 1.32 Associate Alumnae — Correspondence re: Barrows Resolution, 1910
Box 1, Folder 1.33 Associate Alumnae — Correspondence, 1911-1920, undated
Box 1, Folder 1.34 Associate Alumnae — Meeting, 1900
Box 1, Folder 1.35 Astronomy Department — Application (Abbe) for Professor of Astronomy, 1864
Box 1, Folder 1.36 Astronomy Department — Reports, 1865-1872
Box 1, Folder 1.37 Astronomy Department — Reports, 1872-1878
Box 1, Folder 1.38 Astronomy Department — Reports, 1878-1881, 1882-1888
Box 1, Folder 1.39 Astronomy Department — Reports, 1888-1892, 1893-1897
Box 1, Folder 1.40 Astronomy Department — Reports, 1897-1903
Box 1, Folder 1.41 Astronomy Department — Reports, 1903-1910
Box 1, Folder 1.42 Astronomy Department — Reports, 1910-1914, undated
Box 1, Folder 1.43 Athletic Association — re: new tennis courts, 1913
Box 1, Folder 1.44 Atwater, Edward S. — Resignation from Board of Trustees, 1918
Box 1, Folder 1.45 Backus, Truman S. (Professor of English 1867-83) — Letter to J.H. Raymond, 1877
Box 1, Folder 1.46 Barnard, Henry — Letter to H. P. Jewett, 1861
Box 1, Folder 1.47 Bawden, H. Heath — Papers relating to discharge from University of Cincinnati, resignation from Vassar, 1907-1911
Box 1, Folder 1.48 Bequests to Vassar College, 1879-1954 [SEE ALSO: Lyon, Joseph B.]
Box 1, Folder 1.49 Bible Department, 1899-1900, 1901-1913
Biology Department — before 1889, SEE: Natural History Department
Box 1, Folder 1.50 Biology Department — Reports, 1889-1894
Box 1, Folder 1.51 Biology Department — Reports, 1894-1902
Box 1, Folder 1.52 Biology Department — Reports, 1902-1911
Box 1, Folder 1.53 Biology Department — Reports and Correspondence, 1911-1914
Box 1, Folder 1.54 Bishop, Nathan (Trustee 1861-1880) — Letters to J.H. Raymond, 1872-1875
Box 1, Folder 1.55 Borden Fund — Correspondence, 1914
Box 1, Folder 1.56 Buckland, Rev. R.J.W. — Letter to J. H. Raymond, 1865
Box 1, Folder 1.57 Butler, William Allen (Trustee 1875-85) — Letter to President Caldwell, 1878
Box 1, Folder 1.58 Caldwell, Samuel L. (President 1875-85) — Newspaper clippings and correspondence from Elizabeth Hamlin VC 1874 and others regarding President Caldwell, 1879-1885
Box 1, Folder 1.59 Caldwell, Samuel L. — Letter, 1884 Apr 23
Box 15, Folder 9.2 Caldwell, Samuel L. — Correspondence with Katharine P. Loring (Harvard University, Examinations for women), 1881 [3 letters]
Box 1, Folder 1.60 Cecil Pictures — Correspondence relating to Maure paintings and Sarah Cecil, VC 1884, 1896-1899
Box 15, Folder 9.3 Chambers, Frank (trustee) — Resignation letter to Henry V. Pelton, 1920 May 27
Box 1, Folder 1.61 Chapel — Attendance. Correspondence and statistics, 1916-1921
Box 1, Folder 1.62 Chapel — Attendance: Faculty. Correspondence, 1916
Box 1, Folder 1.63 Chapel — Hymnal. Correspondence and example, 1915-1916
Box 1, Folder 1.64 Chapel — Building specifications and laying of corner-stone, circa 1902-1904
Charter - SEE: Trustees. Charter
Box 15, Folder 9.38 Chemistry Department — "Mr. Vassar's artesian well - analysis by the chemistry class of 1877," 1877 May 14
Box 1, Folder 2.1 Chemistry Department — Reports, 1894-1897
Box 1, Folder 2.2 Chemistry Department — Reports, 1897-1904
Box 1, Folder 2.3 Chemistry Department — Reports, 1904-1911
Box 1, Folder 2.4 Chemistry Department — Reports, 1911-1914, 1918
Box 1, Folder 2.5 Choir — Petition for gowns, 1915
Box 1, Folder 2.6 Christian Association — Reports, 1910-1913
Box 1, Folder 2.7 Church, Emma — Correspondence, 1863-1865
Box 2, Folder 2.8 Circulars [Prospectus], 1864-1889
Box 2, Folder 2.9 Class Day — Reports, 1893, 1896-1898
Box 2, Folder 2.10 Class Day — Reports, 1900-1901, 1903
Box 2, Folder 2.11 Class Day — Reports, 1904
Box 2, Folder 2.12 Class Day — Reports, 1905-1908
Box 2, Folder 2.13 Class Day — Reports, 1909-1911
Box 2, Folder 2.14 College Avenue — Extension of College Avenue, 1868 Jul 25
Box 2, Folder 2.15 Comptroller, 1941 Dec 15, undated
Box 2, Folder 2.16 Comptroller, 1942 Jan 12 - 1969 Jun 22
Box 2, Folder 2.17 "Conscience Money": for stolen spoon - Letter, 1891 Dec 5
Box 2, Folder 2.18 Corridor Teachers — Duties, letters to Miss Lyman, circa 1869
Box 2, Folder 2.19 Corridor Teachers — Log Books, 1869-1875
Box 2, Folder 2.20 Curriculum, resolutions, recommendations, reports, circa 1886-1910, undated
Box 2, Folder 2.21 Denominations of students, faculty, and teachers, 1865-1926
Box 15, Folder 9.4 Dean, Willard L. — Letter from nephew and Bond Agreement with Vassar College for the position of Treasurer, 1893, 1896
Box 15, Folder 9.5 Deane, John H. (VC Trustee) - Report on the estate of John H. Deane (printed), 1885
Box 2, Folder 2.22 Denominational Statistics of VC [with 1872 letter from Nathan Bishop], 1865-1872
Box 2, Folder 2.23 Directory — petition to publish directory, 1914
Drawing and Painting Department — SEE ALSO: Art Department
Box 2, Folder 2.24 Drawing and Painting Department — Applications for Professor of Drawing and Painting, 1861-1865
Box 2, Folder 2.25 Drawing and Painting Department — Reports, 1865-1870
Box 2, Folder 2.26 Drawing and Painting Department, 1870-1874
Box 2, Folder 2.27 Drawing and Painting Department, 1874-1878
Box 2, Folder 2.28 Drawing and Painting Department, 1878-1885
Box 2, Folder 2.29 Economics and Sociology Department — Reports, 1893-1900
Box 2, Folder 2.30 Economics and Sociology Department — Reports, 1900-1907
Box 2, Folder 2.31 Economics and Sociology Department — Reports, 1907-1914
Box 2, Folder 2.32 Economics and Sociology Department — Economics Department Survey Social Work of Former Students, 1906
Box 2, Folder 2.33 Egyptian Collection, 1903-1904
Box 2, Folder 2.34 Endowment, circa 1869
Box 2, Folder 2.35 Endowment — Class Gifts, circa 1906-1910
Box 2, Folder 2.36 Endowment — Plans for First Endowment $100,000, 1889
Box 2, Folder 2.37 English Department — English [including Spoken English, Rhetoric and Belles Lettres] Applications B-D, circa 1861-1865
Box 2, Folder 2.38 English Department — English [including Spoken English, Rhetoric and Belles Lettres] Applications E-W, circa 1861-1865
Box 2, Folder 2.39 English Department — Course Material, undated
Box 2, Folder 2.40 English Department — Reports, circa 1860s
Box 2, Folder 2.41 English Department — Reports, 1865-1871
Box 2, Folder 2.42 English Department — Reports, 1871-1878
Box 2, Folder 2.43 English Department — Reports, 1878-1889
Box 2, Folder 2.44 English Department — Reports, 1889-1892
Box 2, Folder 2.45 English Department — Reports, 1892-1896
Box 2, Folder 2.46 English Department — Reports, 1896-1899
Box 2, Folder 2.47 English Department — Reports, 1899-1900
Box 2, Folder 2.48 English Department — Reports, 1900-1902
Box 2, Folder 2.49 English Department — Reports, 1902-1904
Box 2, Folder 2.50 English Department — Reports, 1904-1905
Box 2, Folder 2.51 English Department — Reports, 1905-1906
Box 2, Folder 2.52 English Department — Reports, 1906-1907
Box 2, Folder 2.53 English Department — Reports, 1907-1908
Box 2, Folder 2.54 English Department — Reports, 1908-1910
Box 2, Folder 2.55 English Department — Reports, 1910-1911
Box 2, Folder 2.56 English Department — Reports, 1911-1914
Box 14 Event Attendance Register, [circa 1887-1893]
Box 2, Folder 2.57 Examinations, Entrance Examinations and Certificates, Plans of Examinations, 1870-1883
Box 2, Folder 2.58 Expense Accounts and Estimates, 1863-1869
Box 2, Folder 2.59 Expense Accounts and Estimates, 1870-1879
Box 2, Folder 2.59a Expense Accounts and Estimates, 1884-1902 [Notebook]
Box 2, Folder 2.60 Expense Accounts and Estimates, undated
Box 3, Folder 3.1 Faculty — Applications - Teaching Miscellaneous, 1864-1865
Box 3, Folder 3.2 Faculty — Appointments, circa 1865-1919
Box 3, Folder 3.3 Faculty — Basis of Appointment and Promotion, 1911-1912
Box 3, Folder 3.4 Faculty — Committees, 1867-1918
Box 3, Folder 3.5 Faculty — Committee on Advanced Degrees, 1891-1906
Box 3, Folder 3.6 Faculty — Certificate Committee, 1887-1895
Box 3, Folder 3.7 Faculty — Certificate Committee, 1896-1905
Box 3, Folder 3.8 Faculty — Committee on Commencement, 1895-1905
Box 3, Folder 3.9 Faculty — Committee (Misc.) [Arranged Alphabetically], 1868-1902
Box 3, Folder 3.10 Faculty — Curriculum Committee, 1888-1892
Box 3, Folder 3.11 Faculty — Curriculum Committee, 1893-1895
Box 3, Folder 3.12 Faculty — Curriculum Committee, 1896-1899
Box 3, Folder 3.13 Faculty — Curriculum Committee, 1900-1902
Box 3, Folder 3.14 Faculty — Curriculum Committee, 1903-1905
Box 3, Folder 3.15 Faculty — Curriculum Committee, 1906-1908
Box 3, Folder 3.16 Faculty — Curriculum Committee, undated
Box 3, Folder 3.17 Faculty — Committee on Degrees, 1887-1904
Box 3, Folder 3.18 Faculty — Committee on General Catalogue, 1882-1883
Box 3, Folder 3.19 Faculty — Committee on Excuses and Absences, 1891, 1904-1905, undated
Box 3, Folder 3.20 Faculty — Report of Special Committee on Evening Classes, 1914 Feb 23
Box 3, Folder 3.21 Faculty — Committee Report, 1921
Box 3, Folder 3.22 Faculty — Committee on Schedules, 1896-1897
Box 3, Folder 3.23 Faculty — Committee Reports, 1915-1916, 1918-1919
Box 3, Folder 3.24 Faculty — Leaves of Absence, 1916-1919, undated
Box 3, Folder 3.25 Faculty — Petition Regarding Academic Costume, undated
Box 3, Folder 3.26 Faculty — Resolutions Upon the Deaths of Faculty Members, 1889-1898
Box 3, Folder 3.27 Faculty — Salaries Report, 1899
Fire — SEE ALSO: Henry Noble MacCracken Papers
Box 3, Folder 3.28 Fire — Several Reports on Fire, 1918 Feb
Box 3, Folder 3.29 Fire — Reconstruction Work and Statement of Losses, 1918 Feb 12
Box 3, Folder 3.30 Fire — Alarm Notice, undated
Box 3, Folder 3.31 Founder's Day, 1866-1892
Box 3, Folder 3.32 Founder's Day, 1895-1892
Box 3, Folder 3.33 Founder's Day, undated
Box 15, Folder 9.6 Fox, Alanson J. — Memorial statement draft from VC Board of Trustees, undated
French Department — SEE ALSO: Ancient and Modern Languages
Box 3, Folder 3.34 French Department — Reports, 1869-1870, 1872-1882
Box 3, Folder 3.35 French Department — Reports, 1882-1886, 1887-1890
Box 3, Folder 3.36 French Department — Reports, 1890-1895
Box 3, Folder 3.37 French Department — Reports, 1895-1896, 1902-1903
Box 15, Folder 9.7 French Department — Sée, Rosalie - Correspondence with R. Wright and employment contract, 1879-1883
Box 3, Folder 3.38 Gas Supply and Works — Gas Supply, 1907
Box 3, Folder 3.39 Gas Supply and Works — Gas Works and Boiler House Construction, 1863-1869
Box 3, Folder 3.40 Gate Lodge — Construction, 1863
Box 15, Folder 9.8 General Education Board — Letter to Henry V. Pelton, 1916 Feb 24
Box 3, Folder 3.41 General Superintendent, 1867-1912
Geology and Mineralogy Department — before 1879, SEE: Natural History Department
Box 3, Folder 3.42 Geology and Mineralogy Department — Reports, 1879-1892
Box 3, Folder 3.43 Geology and Mineralogy Department — Reports, 1892-1897
Box 3, Folder 3.44 Geology and Mineralogy Department — Reports, 1897-1901
Box 3, Folder 3.45 Geology and Mineralogy Department — Reports, 1901-1914
Box 3, Folder 3.46 German Department — Reports, 1873-1885
Box 3, Folder 3.47 German Department — Reports, 1885-1894
Box 3, Folder 3.48 German Department — Reports, 1894-1898
Box 3, Folder 3.49 German Department — Reports, 1898-1903
Box 4, Folder 3.50 German Department — Reports, 1903-1910
Box 4, Folder 3.51 German Department — Reports, 1910-1914
Box 4, Folder 3.52 Gifts, 1887-1934
Greek Department — SEE ALSO: Ancient and Modern Language Department
Box 4, Folder 3.53 Greek Department — Reports, 1889-1898
Box 4, Folder 3.54 Greek Department — Reports, 1898-1903
Box 4, Folder 3.55 Greek Department — Reports, 1903-1914
Box 4, Folder 3.56 Grounds — Plan for Improving the Grounds, 1917
Box 4, Folder 3.57 Grounds — Application for Groundskeeper, 1865
Box 15, Folder 9.9 Hague, William H. — Correspondence and memorial statement on Hague from VC Board of Trustees, 1871, undated
Box 4, Folder 3.58 Higher Degrees, 1885-1907
History Department — including History and Economics
Box 4, Folder 3.59 History Department — Applications, 1856-1864
Box 4, Folder 3.60 History Department — Reports, 1865-1866, 1887-1889
Box 4, Folder 3.61 History Department — Reports, 1889-1892
Box 4, Folder 3.62 History Department — Reports, 1892-1894
Box 4, Folder 3.63 History Department — Reports, 1894-1897
Box 4, Folder 3.64 History Department — Reports, 1897-1901
Box 4, Folder 3.65 History Department — Reports, 1901-1908
Box 4, Folder 3.66 History Department — Reports, 1908-1914
Box 4, Folder 3.67 History Department — Reports, 1914-1918 [photocopies]
Box 15, Folder 9.39 Housekeeping Order Book, 1880-1882
Box 4, Folder 3.68 Housing — [Faculty and Students], 1874-1923
Box 4, Folder 3.69 Infirmary letter, Elizabeth B. Thelberg - James M. Taylor, 1901
Box 15, Folder 9.10 Innis, George — Letter from [?] Winslow, memorial statement draft from VC Trustees, 1873, undated
Box 4, Folder 3.70 Insurance, 1903
Box 4, Folder 3.71 Janitor's Office, undated
Box 4, Folder 3.72 Janitor's Office — Application for Position of Janitor, 1863-1865
Box 15, Folder 9.11 Jewett, Milo P. — Letters to Sarah J. Hale, 1864 [2 letters with transcripts]
Box 4, Folder 3.73 Jewett House, 1906-1908
Box 15, Folder 9.12 Kapp, Caecilia (Prof. of German) — Letter from J. H. Raymond, 1877 Jul 25
Box 4, Folder 3.74 Laboratories, undated
Box 4, Folder 3.75 Laboratories — Vassar Brothers Laboratory, 1879
Box 4, Folder 3.76 Lady Principal — [Applications], 1861-1864
Box 4, Folder 3.77 Lady Principal — Correspondence, 1871
Box 4, Folder 3.78 Lady Principal — Correspondence [Circular letters to parents], 1867-1872
Box 4, Folder 3.79 Lady Principal — Guidelines
Box 4, Folder 3.80 Lady Principal — Report, 1865-1869
Box 4, Folder 3.81 Lady Principal — Report, 1869-1871, 1872-1875
Box 4, Folder 3.82 Lady Principal — Report, 1875-1880
Box 4, Folder 3.83 Lady Principal — Report, 1880-1885
Box 4, Folder 3.84 Lady Principal — Report, 1885-1891
Box 4, Folder 3.85 Lady Principal — Report, 1891-1896
Box 4, Folder 3.86 Lady Principal — Report, 1896-1900, 1901-1902
Box 4, Folder 3.87 Lady Principal — Report, 1902-1903, 1906-1914
Latin Department — SEE ALSO: Ancient and Modern Language and Literature; Greek and Latin Language and Literature; Ancient Language
Box 4, Folder 3.88 Latin Department — Reports, 1889-1896
Box 4, Folder 3.89 Latin Department — Reports, 1896-1901
Box 4, Folder 3.90 Latin Department — Reports, 1901-1907
Box 4, Folder 3.91 Latin Department — Reports, 1907-1914
Box 4, Folder 3.92 Laundry — Specifications for Building, 1872
Box 4, Folder 3.93 Leases — Davies Property, 1901
Box 4, Folder 3.94 Leases — Windsor Hotel Lease, 1895 Aug 1
Box 4, Folder 3.95 Lectures, 1879-1887
Box 4, Folder 4.1 Legal Actions, 1881-1909
Box 4, Folder 4.2 Legal Actions — Fayerweather Will Case, 1893-1896
Box 4, Folder 4.3 Legal Actions — Gill - Hiestand Case, 1875-1882
Box 4, Folder 4.4 Legal Actions — Mary Monroe Will, 1895-1897
Box 4, Folder 4.5 Library — Librarian Rank
Box 4, Folder 4.6 Library — Selection of Librarian, 1956
Box 4, Folder 4.7 Library — Librarian's Annual Reports, 1867-1883
Box 4, Folder 4.8 Library — Librarian's Annual Reports, 1883-1891
Box 4, Folder 4.9 Library — Librarian's Annual Reports, 1891-1897
Box 4, Folder 4.10 Library — Librarian's Annual Reports, 1897-1903
Box 4, Folder 4.11 Library — Librarian's Annual Reports, 1903-1911
Box 4, Folder 4.12 Library — Librarian's Annual Reports, 1911-1913
Box 5, Folder 4.13 Library — Librarian's Annual Reports, 1913-1914
Box 5, Folder 4.14 Library — Librarian's Annual Reports, 1914-1918, 1923-1924
Box 5, Folder 4.15 Library — Librarian's Annual Reports, 1924-1927
Box 5, Folder 4.16 Library — Librarian's Correspondence with President MacCracken, 1914 Oct - 1916 Dec
Box 5, Folder 4.17 Library — Librarian's Correspondence with President MacCracken, 1917 Apr-Jul
Box 5, Folder 4.18 Library — Librarian's Correspondence with President MacCracken, 1917 Jul - 1918 Mar
Box 5, Folder 4.19 Library — Librarian's Correspondence with President MacCracken, 1918 Apr-Nov
Box 5, Folder 4.20 Library — Librarian's Correspondence with President MacCracken, 1919
Box 5, Folder 4.21 Library — Librarian's Correspondence with President MacCracken, 1920 Feb - 1921 Apr
Box 5, Folder 4.22 Library — Librarian's Correspondence with President MacCracken, 1921 May - 1922 Dec
Box 5, Folder 4.23 Library — Librarian's Correspondence with President MacCracken, 1923 Jan-Aug
Box 5, Folder 4.24 Library — Librarian's Correspondence with President MacCracken, 1923 Oct - 1924 Jan
Box 5, Folder 4.25 Library — Librarian's Correspondence with President MacCracken, 1924 Feb-Jun
Box 5, Folder 4.26 Library — Correspondence
Box 5, Folder 4.27 Library — Book Recommendations, 1866-1868
Box 15, Folder 9.13 Lord Electric Company — Letter to W. H. Boughton regarding a financial settlement, 1914 Oct 15
Box 5, Folder 4.28 Lyon, Joseph B. — Bequests to the College
Box 15, Folder 9.14 MacCracken, Henry Noble — Resignation and Re-Appointment, correspondence between trustees and administration, 1918 Sep
Box 15, Folder 9.15 MacCracken, Henry Noble — Resignation and Re-Appointment, correspondence between trustees and administration, 1918 Oct
Box 15, Folder 9.16 MacCracken, Henry Noble — Resignation and Re-Appointment, correspondence between trustees and administration, circa 1918 Sep-Oct
Box 15, Folder 9.17 MacCracken, Henry Noble — Resignation and Re-Appointment, correspondence between trustees and administration, 1918 Nov
Box 15, Folder 9.18 MacCracken, Henry Noble — Resignation and Re-Appointment, correspondence between trustees and administration, 1919 May-Sep
Box 5, Folder 4.29 Main Building — Construction - Bids on Construction, furnishing, equipping, etc., 1860
Box 5, Folder 4.30 Main Building — Construction - Breaking Ground, 1861
Box 5, Folder 4.31 Main Building — Construction - Addition Specifications and Contract, 1872
Box 5, Folder 4.32 Main Building — Construction - Front Steps, 1865
Box 5, Folder 4.33 Main Building — Construction - Heating System, 1862, 1864-1865
Box 5, Folder 4.34 Main Building — Construction - Hot Water Tank, 1865
Box 5, Folder 4.35 Main Building — Construction - Iron Doors, Gates, Railing, 1863, 1865
Box 5, Folder 4.36 Main Building — Construction - Kitchen and Laundry, circa 1865
Box 5, Folder 4.37 Main Building — Construction - Lightning Rods, 1865
Box 5, Folder 4.38 Main Building — Construction - Miscellaneous, 1861, 1864-1865
Box 5, Folder 4.39 Main Building — Construction - Name Tablet, 1862
Box 5, Folder 4.40 Main Building — Construction - Plumbing, 1864 [SEE ALSO: Swan, Cyrus]
Box 5, Folder 4.41 Main Building — Construction - Refrigerator Room Smith's Plan, undated
Box 5, Folder 4.42 Main Building — Construction - Repairs and Improvements, 1866
Box 5, Folder 4.43 Main Building— Contracts with William Harloe (builder) - Accounting of Work Estimates, 1864
Box 5, Folder 4.44 Main Building — Contracts with William Harloe (builder) - Contract and Amended Contract, 1861-1862
Box 5, Folder 4.45 Main Building — Contracts with William Harloe (builder) - Contract and Amended Contract, 1861-1862
Box 5, Folder 4.46 Main Building — Contracts with William Harloe (builder) - Correspondence
Box 5, Folder 4.47 Main Building — Contracts with William Harloe (builder) - Executed Contracts and Releases
Box 5, Folder 4.48 Main Building — Contracts with William Harloe (builder) - Work Estimates, #1 – 10, 1861-1862
Box 5, Folder 4.49 Main Building — Contracts with William Harloe (builder) - Work Estimates, #11 – 20, 1862-1863
Box 5, Folder 4.50 Main Building — Contracts with William Harloe (builder) - Work Estimates, #21, 23, 25-32, 1863-1864
Box 5, Folder 4.51 Main Building — Contracts with James Renwick (architect) - Approval by Tufts and Coffin (Boston) of Renwick plans, 1861
Main Building — Contracts with James Renwick (architect) - Architectural Renderings and Drawings [SEE: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Collections]
Box 5, Folder 4.52 Main Building — Contracts with James Renwick (architect) - Contracts and Agreements, 1860-1864
Box 5, Folder 4.53 Main Building — Contracts with James Renwick (architect) - Correspondence, 1861-1862, 1864
Box 5, Folder 4.54 Main Building — Contracts with James Renwick (architect) - Design 1882 removed from Vassar Papers
Box 5, Folder 4.55 Main Building — Equipment and Furnishings - Chemical Equipment: Correspondence and Receipts 1864 [Purchased by R.A. Fisher, Professor of Chemistry in Paris]
Box 5, Folder 4.56 Main Building — Equipment and Furnishings - Clock, 1865
Box 5, Folder 4.57 Main Building — Equipment and Furnishings - Furniture, Bedding, Carpets, 1863-1865
Box 5, Folder 4.58 Main Building — Equipment and Furnishings - Lighting Fixtures, 1864
Box 5, Folder 4.59 Main Building — Equipment and Furnishings - Organ Specifications, 1881
Box 5, Folder 4.60 Main Building — Equipment and Furnishings - Pianos, 1865
Box 5, Folder 4.61 Main Building — Floor Plan Unidentified
Box 5, Folder 4.62 Main Building — Insurance
Box 5, Folder 4.63 Main Building — Landscaping
Box 5, Folder 4.64 Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Chemistry Department — Reports, 1865-1874
Box 5, Folder 4.65 Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Physics — Applications: A-L
Box 5, Folder 4.66 Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Physics — Applications: R-S
Box 5, Folder 4.67 Mathematics Department — Reports, 1874-1891
Box 5, Folder 4.68 Mathematics Department — Reports, 1891-1895
Box 5, Folder 4.69 Mathematics Department — Reports, 1895-1900
Box 5, Folder 4.70 Mathematics Department — Reports, 1900-1914
Box 15, Folder 9.19 The Mercer Company — Invoice for furniture paid by VC Trustees, 1896
Box 5, Folder 4.71 Miscellaneous Notes — Visitors 1868, number of students, messenger wages, commencement invitations, number of books in library
Box 15, Folder 9.20 Monnier, Mathilda (VC faculty) — Letter from Major General H. P. McCain to Henry Noble MacCracken about Monnier's work in the Y.M.C.A. Canteen Unit, 1918 Oct 10
Box 5, Folder 4.72 Mortgages, 1861-1910
Box 5, Folder 4.73 Mortgages — Vassar Female College to Matthew Vassar, 1866 Nov - 1868 Oct
Box 5, Folder 4.74 Museum — Reports, 1902-1904, 1910-1912
Box 5, Folder 4.75 Music Department — Programs, 1867-1891
Box 5, Folder 4.76 Music Department — Reports, 1864-1885
Box 5, Folder 4.77 Music Department — Reports, 1884-1902
Box 5, Folder 4.78 Music Department — Reports, 1902-1913, 1915
Box 5, Folder 4.79 Music Department — Applications from Professors: Music, 1860-1864
Box 6, Folder 4.80 Natural History Department — Reports, 1865-1873, 1876-1879
Box 6, Folder 4.81 Natural History Department — Reports, 1879-1887
Box 6, Folder 4.82 Natural History Department — Reports, 1887-1891
Box 6, Folder 4.83 Natural History Department — Catalog of Cabinet, agreements, documents, and correspondence
Box 6, Folder 4.84 Natural History Department — Nationalist Catalogue of Cabinet of Mineralogy and Geology, correspondence W/ Henry A. Ward, etc., 1873
Box 6, Folder 4.88 Natural History Department — Orton, James (Faculty), 1869-1877
Box 15, Folder 9.21 Nettleton, George H. — Guest book during Nettleton's tenure as acting VC President, 1922 Fall
Box 6, Folder 4.85 Observatory — Advertisement, 1886
Box 6, Folder 4.86 Observatory — Contract, 1863
Box 6, Folder 4.87 Observatory — Construction, 1863-1865
Box 6, Folder 4.89 Pecuniary Aid Students
Box 6, Folder 4.90 Philalethean Society, 1866-1869
Box 6, Folder 4.91 Philalethean Society, 1870-1873
Box 6, Folder 4.92 Philalethean Society, 1891-1894, 1896
Box 6, Folder 4.93 Philalethean Society, 1910-1911, 1914, undated
Box 6, Folder 4.94 Philosophy Department — Applications, 1864-1865
Box 6, Folder 4.95 Philosophy Department — Reports [includes Ethics and Mental and Moral Philosophy], 1886, 1871, 1887-1902
Box 6, Folder 4.96 Philosophy Department — Reports, 1903-1914
Box 6, Folder 4.97 Physical Training Department — Reports [includes gymnastics], 1866-1879
Box 6, Folder 4.98 Physical Training Department — Reports [includes gymnastics], 1890-1899
Box 6, Folder 4.99 Physical Training Department — Reports [includes gymnastics], 1899-1908
Box 6, Folder 4.100 Physical Training Department — Reports [includes gymnastics], 1908-1914
Physician — SEE ALSO: Physiology and Hygiene
Box 6, Folder 4.101 Physician — Reports, 1870-1873, 1882-1886
Box 6, Folder 4.102 Physician — Reports, 1886-1892
Box 6, Folder 4.103 Physician — Reports, 1892-1897
Box 6, Folder 4.104 Physician — Reports, 1898-1901
Box 6, Folder 4.105 Physician — Reports, 1901-1904
Box 6, Folder 4.106 Physician — Reports, 1904-1907
Box 6, Folder 4.107 Physician — Reports, 1907-1910
Box 6, Folder 4.108 Physician — Reports, 1910-1912
Box 6, Folder 4.109 Physician — Reports, 1912-1914
Box 6, Folder 4.110 Physician — Reports, 1916-1917, 1919
Box 6, Folder 4.111 Physician — Reports, 1923-1926
Box 6, Folder 4.112 Physician — Reports, 1926-1929
Box 6, Folder 5.1 Physics Department — Reports [includes Chemistry], 1874-1884, 1885-1889
Box 6, Folder 5.2 Physics Department — Reports [includes Chemistry], 1889-1894
Box 6, Folder 5.3 Physics Department — Reports, 1894-1905
Box 6, Folder 5.4 Physics Department — Reports, 1905-1914
Box 6, Folder 5.5 Physiology and Hygiene Department — Reports, 1865-1871
Box 6, Folder 5.6 Physiology and Hygiene Department — Reports, 1871-1879
Box 6, Folder 5.7 Physiology and Hygiene Department — Reports, 1879-1882, 1887-1896
Box 6, Folder 5.8 Physiology and Hygiene Department — Reports, 1896, 1898-1907
Box 6, Folder 5.9 Physiology and Hygiene Department — Reports, 1907-1914
Box 6, Folder 5.10 Physiology and Hygiene Department — Gymnastics Applications, 1863-1865
Box 15, Folder 9.22 Poole, William F. — Letters to and from Vassar presidents regarding work he did for the college, 1865
Box 6, Folder 5.11 Porter, T. H. — Letter re: Appointment to Professor of Rhetoric and English, 1865
Box 6, Folder 5.12 Postal Service, 1918
Box 6, Folder 5.13 Poughkeepsie City Railroad Co. — Agreement with Vassar College, 1872
Box 6, Folder 5.14 Preachers — List of preachers who spoke at Vassar, 1870, 1886-1915
Box 6, Folder 5.15 Presidents — General Orders from President, 1869-1891, 1902
Box 6, Folder 5.16 Presidents — Reports [Raymond], 1865-1869
Box 6, Folder 5.17 Presidents — Reports [Raymond], 1869-1872
Box 6, Folder 5.18 Presidents — Reports [Raymond], 1872-1874
Box 6, Folder 5.19 Presidents — Reports [Raymond], 1874-1877
Box 7, Folder 5.20 Presidents — Report [Raymond], 1877
Box 7, Folder 5.21 Presidents — Reports [Caldwell], 1878-1880
Box 7, Folder 5.22 Presidents — Report [Caldwell], 1880-1882
Box 7, Folder 5.23 Presidents — Report [Caldwell], 1882
Box 7, Folder 5.24 Presidents — Report [Caldwell], 1883
Box 7, Folder 5.25 Presidents — Report [Caldwell], 1884
Box 7, Folder 5.26 Presidents — Baccalaureate Sermon by President Caldwell, 1881 Jun 19
Box 7, Folder 5.27 Presidents — Kendrick Report, 1885
Box 7, Folder 5.28 Presidents — Reports [Taylor], 1886-1892
Box 7, Folder 5.29 Presidents — Reports [Taylor], 1892-1896
Box 7, Folder 5.30 Presidents — Reports [Taylor], 1896-1899
Box 7, Folder 5.31 Presidents — Reports [Taylor], 1899-1902
Box 7, Folder 5.32 Presidents — Reports [Taylor], 1902-1905
Box 7, Folder 5.33 Presidents — Reports [Taylor], 1905-1907
Box 7, Folder 5.34 Presidents — Reports [Taylor], 1907-1909
Box 7, Folder 5.35 Presidents — Report [Taylor], 1909
Box 7, Folder 5.36 Presidents — Report [Taylor], 1910
Box 7, Folder 5.37 Presidents — Reports [Taylor], 1911-1914
Box 7, Folder 5.37a Presidents — Reports, 1865-1885 [transcriptions]
Box 7, Folder 5.37b Presidents — Reports, 1886-1903, 1905-1907, 1914 [transcriptions]
Box 7, Folder 5.38 Presidents — Taylor Report on Internal Management and Organization, 1904-1909
Box 7, Folder 5.39 Presidents — Reports [MacCracken], 1916-1920
Box 7, Folder 5.40 Presidents — Powers of: On President's Right to Vote Twice, 1912
Psychology Department — SEE ALSO: Philosophy, Mental and Moral
Box 7, Folder 5.41 Psychology Department — Reports, 1907-1914
Box 7, Folder 5.42 Randall's Island, Sing-Sing, and Vassar College — Clippings, notes, and correspondence re: a proposed Boys' Reformatory near VC, 1907
Box 7, Folder 5.43 Randall's Island, Sing-Sing, and Vassar College — Clippings, notes, and correspondence re: a proposed Boys' Reformatory near VC, 1908 Jan
Box 7, Folder 5.44 Randall's Island, Sing-Sing, and Vassar College — Clippings, notes, and correspondence re: a proposed Boys' Reformatory near VC, 1908 Feb
Box 7, Folder 5.45 Randall's Island, Sing-Sing, and Vassar College — Clippings, notes, and correspondence re: a proposed Boys' Reformatory near VC, 1908 Apr, undated
Box 15, Folder 9.23 Raymond, J. H. — Letter from Morgan Smith, 1876 Mar 1
Box 7, Folder 5.46 Raymond Reading Room
Box 7, Folder 5.47 Real Estate Holdings — Low Property Deeds
Box 7, Folder 5.48 Real Estate Holdings — Kansas
Box 7, Folder 5.49 Real Estate Holdings — New York City
Box 7, Folder 5.50 Real Estate Holdings — New York State
Box 7, Folder 5.51 Real Estate Holdings — Steuben County, NY
Box 7, Folder 5.52 Religion
Box 15, Folder 9.24 Richardson, Sophia F. (VC 1879) — Letters, mostly to Mrs. O. V. Stewart, regarding raising funds for the endowment of Sophia Richardson's grave, 1916-1923
Box 7, Folder 5.53 Riding School
Box 7, Folder 5.54 Riding School — Contracts
Box 7, Folder 5.55 Rockefeller Hall
Romance Languages Department — SEE ALSO: French Department
Box 7, Folder 5.56 Romance Languages Department — Reports, 1895-1901
Box 7, Folder 5.57 Romance Languages Department — Reports, [1901]-1907
Box 7, Folder 5.58 Romance Languages Department — Reports, 1907-1914
Rombout Deed — SEE: Matthew Vassar Papers, Box 24
Box 15, Folder 9.25 Salmon, Lucy M. — Announcement of celebrations related to the 400th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin, 1909 Mar 23
Box 15, Folder 9.26 Salmon, Lucy M. — Letter to Mr. Pelton regarding a meeting with Dr. Stulz, 1914 Nov 6
Box 15, Folder 9.27 Salmon, Lucy M. — Letters from James Thorne Harper regarding book acquisitions, 1888 [typescript, copies]
Box 7, Folder 5.59 Scholarships
Box 15, Folder 9.28 Scholarships — R. H. McDonald, circulars and draft contract, 1877
Box 15, Folder 9.29 Scholarships — Adolph Sutro Scholarship, 1913 Dec 13
Box 7, Folder 5.60 Schou, J.N.
Box 7, Folder 5.61 [Secretary of the College] — College Journal, 1870-1871
Box 7, Folder 5.62 Secretary of the College — Reports [Swan], 1862, 1867
Box 7, Folder 5.63 Secretary of the College — Contracts, rules, correspondence [Swan], 1866, undated
Box 7, Folder 5.64 Secretary of the College — Reports [McCaleb], 1900-1913
Box 8, Folders 5.65-5.68 Sewer
Box 15, Folder 9.30 Sheldon, Smith (Bookseller) — Letters to his brother and Nathan Bishop; letter from Benson J. Lossing, 1869-1870
Box 8, Folder 5.69 Steward's Office — Accounting Records, 1865
Box 8, Folder 5.70 Steward's Office — Applications for Position of Steward, 1862-1865
Box 8, Folder 5.71 Steward's Office — Contract for Employment of William Smith, 1864
Box 8, Folder 5.72 Steward's Office — Correspondence w/ General Superintendent Cyrus Swan, 1865 Jul-Nov
Box 8, Folder 5.73 Steward's Office — Correspondence w/ General Superintendent Cyrus Swan, 1865 Dec - 1866 July
Box 8, Folder 5.74 Steward's Office — Correspondence w/ Harriet Terry, Lady Principal, 1872
Box 8, Folder 5.75 Steward's Office — Correspondence w/ V.C. Trustees, 1864-1865
Box 8, Folder 5.76 Steward's Office — Inventories, 1865-1866
Box 8, Folder 5.77 Steward's Office — Letterbook, 1865-1866
Box 8, Folder 5.78 Steward's Office — Meal Menus, 1865-1866
Box 8, Folder 5.79 Steward's Office — Reports, 1865-1866, undated
Box 8, Folder 5.80 Stocks and Bonds (Securities)
Box 8, Folder 5.81 Strong House — Contract Agreement for Dormitory (1892), 1884-1902 [SEE ALSO: Folder 2.59a, Expense Accounts and Estimates [Notebook], pp.64-69]
Box 8, Folder 5.82 Student Religious Association
Box 8, Folder 5.83 Students — Constitutions of the Classes of 1897, 1900, 1902-1904, 1908
Box 8, Folder 5.84 Students — Constitutions of the Classes of 1876-1879, 1881-1886, 1894-1896
Box 8, Folder 5.85 Students — Constitutions of the Societies and Clubs: A - C
Box 8, Folder 5.86 Students — Constitutions of the Societies and Clubs: D - L
Box 8, Folder 5.87 Students — Constitutions of the Societies and Clubs: M - P
Box 8, Folder 5.88 Students — Constitutions of the Societies and Clubs: Q - Z
Box 8, Folder 5.89 Students — Students Debates on Enrollment, Scholarships, Plays, Requirements for Admission
Box 8, Folder 5.90 Students — Students' Expenses
Box 8, Folder 5.91 Students — Students' Fees (Receipts)
Box 14 Students — Students' Grades. Grade and Studybook ["Times Tables"], 1865-1866
Box 8, Folder 5.91A Students — Students' Grades. Grade and Studybook, 1868-1869
Box 8, Folder 5.91B Students — Students' Grades. Grade and Studybook, 1869-1870
Box 14 Students — Students' Grades. Grade and Studybook ["Times Tables/Courses Taken"], 1889-1890
Box 8, Folder 6.1 Students — Students' Petition to the Faculty for Various Organizations
Box 8, Folder 6.2 Students — Students' Rooms
Box 8, Folder 6.3 Students — Students' Applications for M.A., 1884-1902
Box 8, Folder 6.4 Students — Students' Applications for M.A.
Box 8, Folder 6.5 Students — Students' Applications for M.A., A - K
Box 8, Folder 6.6 Students — Students' M.A. Degree work on, L - R
Box 8, Folder 6.7 Students — Students' M.A. Degree work on, S - Z
Box 8, Folder 6.8 Students' Association
Box 8, Folder 6.9 Students' Association — Constitution
Box 8, Folder 6.10 Students' Association — Constitution and By-Laws
Box 8, Folder 6.11 Students' Association — 1914-1924, Documents, Letters
Box 8, Folder 6.12 Students' Association — 1914-1924, Documents, Letters
Box 8, Folder 6.13 Students' Association — Report
Box 8, Folder 6.14 Students' Association — Rules
Box 8, Folder 6.15 Students' Association — Self-Government Committee, 1889-1906
Box 8, Folder 6.16 Students' Building
Box 9, Folder 6.17 Swan, Cyrus — Correspondence, 1864-1866
Box 9, Folder 6.18 Swan, Cyrus — Notes and Suggestions, 1865, undated
Box 9, Folder 6.19 Swan, Cyrus — Correspondence from Charles A. Raymond, 1864
Box 9, Folder 6.20 Swan, Cyrus — miscellaneous
Box 15, Folder 9.31 Taylor, James M. — Correspondence with Augustus W. Cowles (President of Elmira College); clippings related to Elmira College, 1890
Box 15, Folder 9.32 Taylor, James M. — Resolution of the Republican National Convention on the integrity of the court system, 1908 Jun 6
Box 9, Folder 6.21 Taylor Hall
Box 9, Folder 6.22 Taxes — Taxation Exemption
Box 9, Folder 6.23 Taxes
Box 9, Folder 6.24 Telephone Service, 1916
Box 15, Folder 9.33 Thompson, C. Mildred — Letter to Herbert Gurney (VC Treasurer), 1918 Oct 19
Box 9, Folder 6.25 Thompson, Frederick Ferns
Box 15, Folder 9.34 Torrey, H. W. — Letter nominating Dr. Peabody as a Vassar College Trustee, 1880 Apr 19
Box 15, Folder 9.35 Townson, Andrew J. — Memorial draft, 1920 Jun 7
Box 9, Folder 6.26 Treasurer — Bankbook, 1865-1866
Box 9, Folder 6.27 Treasurer — Cancelled Checks, 1861-1862
Box 9, Folder 6.28 Treasurer — Cancelled Checks, 1862-1863
Box 9, Folder 6.29 Treasurer — Cancelled Checks, 1863-1864
Box 9, Folder 6.30 Treasurer — Cancelled Notes, 1865-1869 (incomplete)
Box 9, Folder 6.31 Treasurer — Cancelled Notes, 1869-1883
Box 9, Folder 6.32 Treasurer — Funds (Vassar will), 1889
Box 9, Folder 6.33 Treasurer — Miscellaneous
Box 9, Folder 6.34 Treasurer — Pay Roll, March, 1872, 1900
Box 9, Folder 6.35 Treasurer — Receipts, William Harloe, 1861-1862
Box 9, Folder 6.36 Treasurer — Receipts, William Harloe, 1862-1863
Box 9, Folder 6.37 Treasurer — Receipts, William Harloe, 1863-1864
Box 9, Folder 6.38 Treasurer — Receipts, 1861-1862
Box 9, Folder 6.39 Treasurer — Receipts, Matthew Vassar and VC Building Account, 1861-1862
Box 9, Folder 6.40 Treasurer — Receipts, VC General Expense Account, 1861-1862
Box 9, Folder 6.41 Treasurer — Receipts, 1861-1862
Box 9, Folder 6.42 Treasurer — Receipts, 1862-1863
Box 9, Folder 6.43 Treasurer — Receipts (General Expense Account), 1862-1863
Box 9, Folder 6.44 Treasurer — Receipts, 1862-1863
Box 9, Folder 6.45 Treasurer — Receipts, 1863-1864
Box 9, Folder 6.46 Treasurer — Receipts, 1863-1864
Box 9, Folder 6.47 Treasurer — Receipts (General Expense Account), 1863-1864
Box 9, Folder 6.48 Treasurer — Receipts, 1863-1864
Box 9, Folder 6.49 Treasurer — Receipts (Observatory), 1863-1864
Box 9, Folder 6.50 Treasurer — Receipts, 1871 Dec - 1872 Mar
Box 9, Folder 6.51 Treasurer — Receipts, 1872 Apr
Box 9, Folder 6.52 Treasurer — Receipts, 1872 May-Jun
Box 9, Folder 6.53 Treasurer — Receipts, 1888
Box 9, Folder 6.54 Treasurer — Receipts, 1900s
Box 9, Folder 6.55 Treasurer — Elsworth, Edward
Box 9, Folder 6.56 Treasurer — Receipts, 1861 Jan-Jun
Box 9, Folder 6.57 Treasurer — Report, 1861-1862
Box 9, Folder 6.58 Treasurer — Report, 1862-1863
Box 9, Folder 6.59 Treasurer — Report, 1863-1864
Box 9, Folder 6.60 Treasurer — Report, 1864-1865
Box 9, Folder 6.61 Treasurer — Report, 1865-1866
Box 9, Folder 6.62 Treasurer — Report, 1866-1867
Box 9, Folder 6.63 Treasurer — Report, 1867-1868
Box 9, Folder 6.64 Treasurer — Report, 1868-1869
Box 9, Folder 6.65 Treasurer — Report, 1869-1870
Box 9, Folder 6.66 Treasurer — Report, 1870-1871
Box 9, Folder 6.67 Treasurer — Report (scattered annual and special reports), 1870-1875
Box 9, Folder 6.68 Treasurer — Report (scattered annual and special reports), 1878-1905
Box 9, Folder 6.69 Treasurer — Report (scattered annual and special reports), 1906-1915
Box 9, Folder 6.70 Treasurer — Report (scattered annual and special reports), 1917-1922
Box 9, Folder 6.71 Trustees — Acceptances of First Trustees, 1861
Box 9, Folder 6.72 Trustees — Autograph
Box 9, Folder 6.73 Trustees — By-Laws
Box 9, Folder 6.74 Trustees — Charter of Vassar College with the Will of its Founder
Box 10, Folder 6.75 Trustees — Committees Lists
Box 10, Folder 6.76 Trustees — Committees Common Age of Trustees
Box 10, Folder 6.77 Trustees — Committees Art Gallery. Report (includes letters to Art Committee), 1861, 1869-1882
Box 10, Folder 6.78 Trustees — Committees Art Gallery. Report (includes letters to Art Committee), 1889-1893
Box 10, Folder 6.79 Trustees — Committees By-Laws
Box 10, Folder 6.80 Trustees — Cabinets and Apparatus Report (1), 1861-1871
Box 10, Folder 6.81 Trustees — Cabinets and Apparatus Report (2), 1872-1880
Box 10, Folder 6.82 Trustees — Cabinets and Apparatus Report (3), 1881-1886
Box 10, Folder 6.83 Trustees — Cabinets and Apparatus Report (4), 1886-1888
Box 10, Folder 6.84 Trustees — Cabinets and Apparatus Report (5), 1889-1891
Box 10, Folder 6.85 Trustees — Cabinets and Apparatus Report (6), 1892-1893
Box 10, Folder 6.86 Trustees — Cabinets and Apparatus Report (7), 1893-1894
Box 10, Folder 6.87 Trustees — Cabinets and Apparatus Report (8), 1895-1896
Box 10, Folder 6.88 Trustees — Cabinets and Apparatus Report (9), 1897-1899
Box 10, Folder 6.89 Trustees — Cabinets and Apparatus Report (10), 1900-1901
Box 10, Folder 6.90 Trustees — Cabinets and Apparatus Report (11), 1902-1909
Box 10, Folder 6.91 Trustees — Cabinets and Apparatus Celebration of the 25th Anniversary
Box 10, Folder 6.92 Trustees — Cabinets and Apparatus Duties of the Standing Committee, 1864
Box 10, Folder 6.93 Trustees — Cabinets and Apparatus Engineers
Box 10, Folder 6.94 Trustees — Executive Committee
Box 10, Folder 6.95 Trustees — Executive Committee Minutes, 1861 Feb - 1862 Mar
Box 10, Folder 6.96 Trustees — Executive Committee Minutes, 1862 Mar - 1864 Jun
Box 10, Folder 6.97 Trustees — Executive Committee Minutes, 1864 Jun - 1866 Jul
Box 10, Folder 6.98 Trustees — Executive Committee Minutes, 1880-1913
Box 10, Folder 6.99 Trustees — Executive Committee Minutes, 1888-1890
Box 10, Folder 6.100 Trustees — Executive Committee Minutes, 1891
Box 10, Folder 6.101 Trustees — Executive Committee Minutes, 1892
Box 10, Folder 7.1 Trustees — Executive Committee Minutes Report, 1887
Box 10, Folder 7.2 Trustees — Executive Committee Minutes Report, 1888
Box 10, Folder 7.3 Trustees — Executive Committee Report (includes letters to committee), 1861-1869
Box 10, Folder 7.4 Trustees — Executive Committee Reports (also correspondence), 1888-1893
Box 10, Folder 7.5 Trustees — Executive Committee Reports (also correspondence), 1894-1904
Box 10, Folder 7.6 Trustees — Executive Committee Reports (also correspondence), 1905-1914
Box 10, Folder 7.7 Trustees — Executive Committee Reports, 1917-1918
Box 10, Folder 7.8 Trustees — Executive Committee Report (includes letters to committee), 1870-1874
Box 10, Folder 7.9 Trustees — Executive Committee Report (includes letters to committee), 1875-1876
Box 10, Folder 7.10 Trustees — Executive Committee Report, 1887-1882
Box 10, Folder 7.11 Trustees — Executive Committee Report, 1883-1886, 1889
Box 10, Folder 7.12 Trustees — Committee on Faculty and Studies
Box 10, Folder 7.13 Trustees — Committee on Faculty and Studies Proceedings, 1866-1884
Box 10, Folder 7.14 Trustees — Committee on Faculty and Studies Report (memoranda, letters, etc.), 1861, 1866
Box 10, Folder 7.15 Trustees — Committee on Faculty and Studies Report, 1867-1872
Box 11, Folder 7.16 Trustees — Committee on Faculty and Studies Report, 1873-1883
Box 11, Folder 7.17 Trustees — Committee on Faculty and Studies Report, 1884-1898
Box 11, Folder 7.18 Trustees — Committee on Faculty and Studies Report, 1899-1907
Box 11, Folder 7.19 Trustees — Committee on Faculty and Studies Report, 1908-1914
Box 11, Folder 7.20 Trustees — Finance Committee Report (Committee on Investment), 1871-1876
Box 11, Folder 7.21 Trustees — Finance Committee Report (Committee on Finance), 1875-1892
Box 11, Folder 7.22 Trustees — Finance Committee Report (Committee on Securities), 1870-1904
Box 11, Folder 7.23 Trustees — Finance Committee Report (Committee on Securities), 1905-1914
Box 11, Folder 7.24 Trustees — Finance Committee Report (Committee on Finance and Securities)
Box 11, Folder 7.25 Trustees — Committee on Future Policies. Correspondence of Dr. Taylor, 1893-1894
Box 11, Folder 7.26 Trustees — Committee on Grounds, 1912-1919
Box 11, Folder 7.27 Trustees — Committee on Grounds, 1920
Box 11, Folder 7.28 Trustees — Committee on Investment, 1916-1917
Box 11, Folder 7.29 Trustees — Committee on Investment Reports of the Committee of Investment and Finance, 1930-1936
Box 11, Folder 7.30 Trustees — Committee on Investment Reports of the Committee of Sage Fund, 1921-1934
Box 11, Folder 7.31 Trustees — Committee on Library, 1861-1871
Box 11, Folder 7.32 Trustees — Committee on Library, 1872-1882
Box 11, Folder 7.33 Trustees — Committee on Library, 1883-1899
Box 11, Folder 7.34 Trustees — Committee on Library, 1900-1913
Box 11, Folder 7.35 Trustees — Committee on Museum and Laboratories, 1910
Box 11, Folder 7.36 Trustees — Committee on Museum and Laboratories, 1920
Box 11, Folder 7.37 Trustees — Committee on Music Department Equipment
Box 11, Folder 7.38 Trustees — Committee on Nomination of Trustees, 1920
Box 11, Folder 7.39 Trustees — Committee on Powers and Duties of Officers, 1866
Box 11, Folder 7.40 Trustees — Committee on Professors' Houses and Salaries, 1882-1893
Box 11, Folder 7.41 Trustees — Committee on Retrenchment, 1885
Box 11, Folder 7.42 Trustees — Committee on Scholarships Report, 1868-1889
Box 11, Folder 7.43 Trustees — Committee on Scholarships Report, 1889-1911
Box 11, Folder 7.44 Trustees — Committee on Selection of a President, 1885
Box 11, Folder 7.45 Trustees — Special Committee Reports, 1867-1869
Box 11, Folder 7.46 Trustees — Special Committee Reports, 1875-1911
Box 11, Folder 7.47 Trustees — Special Committee Reports, 1883-1904
Box 11, Folder 7.48 Trustees — Special Committee on Expenditures, 1885 Jun
Box 11, Folder 7.49 Trustees — Special Committee on Reorganization: Business Departments 1909-1910
Box 11, Folder 7.50 Trustees — Special Committee on Reorganization: Educational Departments 1911-1912
Box 11, Folder 7.51 Trustees — Special Committee on Ways and Means
Box 11, Folder 7.52 Trustees — Correspondence, 1861-1868
Box 11, Folder 7.53 Trustees — Correspondence, 1869-1882
Box 11, Folder 7.54 Trustees — Correspondence, 1883-1885
Box 11, Folder 7.55 Trustees — Correspondence (Mary H. Whitney, pensions), 1910-1912
Box 11, Folder 7.56 Trustees — Correspondence, 1888-1890
Box 11, Folder 7.57 Trustees — Correspondence, 1891-1895
Box 11, Folder 7.58 Trustees — Correspondence, 1896-1902
Box 11, Folder 7.59 Trustees — Correspondence, 1905-1907
Box 11, Folder 7.60 Trustees — Correspondence, 1908-1910
Box 11, Folder 7.61 Trustees — Correspondence, 1909-1913
Box 11, Folder 7.62 Trustees — Correspondence, 1914-1915
Box 11, Folder 7.63 Trustees — Distribution of Powers and Duties p. 46 1866
Box 11, Folder 7.64 Trustees — Distribution of Powers and Duties, p. 46-7 and Portfolio of Plans
Box 11, Folder 7.65 Trustees — First Meeting: 1861 Feb 26
Box 11, Folder 7.66 Trustees — Regular Meetings, 1903-1920
Box 11, Folder 7.67 Trustees — Meeting, 1865 Apr 12
Box 11, Folder 7.68 Trustees — Meetings, 1862-1863
Box 11, Folder 7.69 Trustees — Meetings, 1864
Box 11, Folder 7.70 Trustees — Special Meeting, 1918, 1920
Box 12, Folder 7.71 Trustees — Minutes (includes petitions to board, reports of other business), 1867-1878
Box 12, Folder 7.72 Trustees — Minutes (includes petitions to board, reports of other business), 1877-1885
Box 12, Folder 7.73 Trustees — Minutes, 1897-1899
Box 12, Folder 7.74 Trustees — Minutes, 1900-1909
Box 12, Folder 7.75 Trustees — Minutes, 1893-1896, 1910
Box 12, Folder 7.76 Trustees — Minutes, 1892
Box 12, Folder 7.77 Trustees — Minutes, 1886-1889
Box 12, Folder 7.78 Trustees — Minutes, 1889-1891
Box 12, Folder 7.79 Trustees — Name Change
Box 12, Folder 7.80 Trustees — Organization, Plans for 1864-1865
Box 12, Folder 7.81 Trustees — Property Real and Personal
Box 12, Folder 7.82 Trustees — Sale of Property, 1904-1905
Box 12, Folder 7.83 Trustees — Resolutions 1861-1862
Box 12, Folder 7.84 Trustees — Resolutions 1867-1868
Box 12, Folder 7.85 Trustees — Resolutions 1869-1871
Box 12, Folder 7.86 Trustees — Resolutions 1872-1874
Box 12, Folder 7.87 Trustees — Resolutions 1872-1873
Box 12, Folder 7.88 Trustees — Resolutions 1876-1884
Box 12, Folder 7.89 Trustees — Resolutions 1885-1887
Box 12, Folder 7.90 Trustees — Resolutions 1888, 1890-1892
Box 12, Folder 7.91 Trustees — Resolutions 1893-1897
Box 12, Folder 7.92 Trustees — Resolutions 1898-1902
Box 12, Folder 7.93 Trustees — Resolutions 1905-1907
Box 12, Folder 7.94 Trustees — Resolutions 1908-1913
Box 12, Folder 7.95 Trustees — Resolutions Women Trustees
Box 12, Folder 7.96 Trustees — Resolutions Women Trustees
Box 12, Folder 7.97 Trustees — Resolutions Tuitions
Box 12, Folder 7.98 Trustees — Resolutions Tyler, Moses Coit
Box 12, Folder 7.99 Trustees — Resolutions Vacations
Box 15, Folder 9.36 Van Ingen, Henry — Correspondence, 1868-1869, 1891
Box 13, Folder 8.44 Vassar, Matthew — Autograph album pages [2 leaves, 1 framed leaf]
Box 12, Folder 7.100 Vassar College and Its Founder — Correspondence acknowledging gift copies
Box 12, Folder 7.101 Vassar Students' Aid Society
Box 12, Folder 7.102 Vassariana — Correspondence
Box 12, Folder 7.103 War Activities
Box 12, Folder 7.106 Warden's Office
Box 12, Folder 7.104 Wolven, Edmund L.
Box 12, Folder 7.105 Wood, Frances A.
Box 15, Folder 9.37 Wood, Nathan E. — (VC Trustee) - Resignation letter to James M. Taylor, 1903 May 15
Box 12, Folder 7.107 Zoology Department [SEE ALSO: Natural History Department]
Box 12, Folder 8.1 Archives Photographs — Raymond Ave.
Box 12, Folder 8.2 Archives Photographs — V. C. Buildings. Calisthenium and Riding Academy
Box 12, Folder 8.3 Archives Photographs — V. C. Buildings. Chapel
Box 12, Folder 8.4 Archives Photographs — V. C. Buildings. Lodge
Box 12, Folder 8.5 Archives Photographs — V. C. Buildings. Main
Box 12, Folder 8.6 Archives Photographs — V. C. Buildings. Observatory. Exterior
Box 12, Folder 8.7 Archives Photographs — V. C. Buildings Observatory. Interior
Box 12, Folder 8.8 Archives Photographs — V. C. Class Groups. Academic (Art)
Box 12, Folder 8.9 Archives Photographs — V. C. Class Groups. Academic (Astronomy)
Box 12, Folder 8.10 Archives Photographs — V. C. Class Groups. Academic (Greek)
Box 12, Folder 8.11 Archives Photographs — V. C. Class Groups. Academic (Physics)
Box 12, Folder 8.12a Archives Photographs — V. C. Faculty. Early A-L
Box 13, Folder 8.12b Archives Photographs — V. C. Faculty. Early A-L
Box 13, Folders 8.13a-8.13b Archives Photographs — V. C. Faculty Early M-Z
Box 13, Folder 8.13c Archives Photographs — V. C. Physicians
Box 13, Folder 8.14 Archives Photographs — V. C. Presidents
Box 13, Folder 8.15 Archives Photographs — V. C. Student and Faculty Rooms, 1870s
Box 13, Folder 8.16 Archives Photographs — V. C. Students, Misc. Groups. Early
Box 13, Folder 8.17 Archives Photographs — V. C. Students, Resolutes [baseball club], circa 1876
Box 13, Folder 8.18 Archives Photographs — V. C. Trustees
Box 13, Folder 8.19 Archives Photographs — V. C. Vassar Lake
Box 13, Folder 8.20 Archives Photographs — V. C. Vassar, Matthew, Buildings Related to
Box 13, Folder 8.21 Archives Photographs — V. C. Vassar, Matthew, Relatives
[NOTE: Archival Photographs — for office use only, copies in Photograph Files]
Box 13, Folder 8.22 Archival Photographs — Portraits. Matthew Vassar, Calendar
Box 13, Folder 8.23 Archival Photographs — Engraved Portraits. Matthew Vassar, Buttre engraving
Box 13, Folder 8.24 Archival Photographs — Engraved Portraits. Matthew Vassar, H. Wright Smith engraving, [1865-1867?]
Box 13, Folder 8.25 Archival Photographs — Painted Portraits. Matthew Vassar, at desk, [1835-1840?]
Box 13, Folder 8.26 Archival Photographs — Painted Portraits. Matthew Vassar, Bogle miniature, [circa 1855?]
Box 13, Folder 8.27 Archival Photographs — Painted Portraits. Matthew Vassar, Booth miniature
Box 13, Folder 8.28 Archival Photographs — Painted Portraits. Matthew Vassar, early oil portrait
Box 13, Folder 8.29 Archival Photographs — Painted Portraits. Matthew Vassar, Elliott portrait, 1861
Box 13, Folder 8.30 Archival Photographs — Painted Portraits. Matthew Vassar, oval portrait
Box 13, Folder 8.31 Archival Photographs — Painted Portraits. Matthew Vassar, seated portrait with curved cane
Box 13, Folder 8.32 Archival Photographs — Painted Portraits. Matthew Vassar, Wright portrait, 1861
Box 13, Folder 8.33 Archival Photographs — Photographic Portraits. Matthew Vassar, daguerreotype
Box 13, Folder 8.34 Archival Photographs — Photographic Portraits. Matthew Vassar, daguerreotypes, 2 in top hat
Box 13, Folder 8.35 Archival Photographs — Photographic Portraits. Matthew Vassar, "Fund Box" Pictures
Box 13, Folder 8.36 Archival Photographs — Photographic Portraits. Matthew Vassar, late portrait, circa 1867-[1868?]
Box 13, Folder 8.37 Archival Photographs — Photographic Portraits. Matthew Vassar, seated, holding spectacles
Box 13, Folder 8.38 Archival Photographs — Photographic Portraits. Matthew Vassar, standing by pillar [1867 Jan 25]
Box 13, Folder 8.39 Archival Photographs — Photographic Portraits. Matthew Vassar, with dog "Tip"
Box 13, Folder 8.40 Archival Photographs — Silhouette Portraits. Matthew Vassar, full length
Box 13, Folder 8.41 Archival Photographs — Silhouette Portraits. Matthew Vassar, head
Box 13, Folder 8.42 Archival Photographs — Sculptural Portraits. Matthew Vassar, proposed statue and bust (Hoffman)
Box 13, Folder 8.43 Archival Photographs — Miscellaneous Portraits. Matthew Vassar, Misc. Undated Pictures
Box 13, Folder 8.45 Archival Photographs — "Vassar Female College" illustration from Harper's Weekly (1861 Mar 30), undated [1 photograph]
Box 13, Folder 8.46 Archival Prints — Matthew Vassar portrait by C. Buttre, with accompanying letter from the South Kensington Museum to M. P. Jewett, 1862 May 20

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Abstract

An artificial collection of materials
documenting the history of Vassar College, collected by various departments of the
Library over several decades. Materials include letters, photographs, programs,
college circulars and other publications, building specifications, contracts, bills
and receipts, inventories, accounts, committee minutes, architectural and landscape
drawings, reports, and club constitutions and records.

Finding Aid Date
Inclusive Dates: circa 1855-1969
Collection Title
Vassar College Archives Files