Table of Contents
- Collection Summary
- Scope and Content Note
- Subject Headings
- Related Material
- Administrative Information
- Access and Use
- Encoding Information
- Series List
- Folder List
Collection Summary
| Repository: | Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries |
|---|---|
| Title: | Autograph Files |
| Dates: | 1669-1995 |
| Quantity: | 9 cubic feet (1 filing cabinet, 6 boxes, 3 framed items) |
| Abstract: | Letters with some manuscripts, speeches, poems, and other items, primarily resulting from an official connection with Vassar College, written by Vassar students, faculty or staff, or by persons of historical and cultural significance. |
Scope and Content Note
Letters with some manuscripts, speeches, poems, and other items, primarily resulting from an official connection with Vassar College, written by Vassar students, faculty or staff, or by persons of historical and cultural significance.
TopAccess and Use
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Permission to quote (publish) from unpublished or previously published material must be obtained as described in the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library.
Subject Headings
Names:
- James Family
- Livingston Family
- Roosevelt Family
Organizations:
- Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.)
- Bryn Mawr College
- Spellman College
- Vassar College--Employees
- Vassar College--Faculty
- Vassar College--Students
- Vassar College. Department of History
- Vassar College. Library
- Vassar College. Observatory
- Yale University
Subjects:
- Abolitionists--New York (State)--Rochester
- Apprentices--Massachusetts--Woburn
- Authors, American
- Authors, English
- Chastity
- Christianity
- Dogs
- Educational fund raising
- Equal rights amendments
- Feminism
- Feminists
- Fires--Massachusetts--Salem
- Fugitive slaves--Kentucky
- Fugitive slaves--New York (State)--Rochester
- Law students
- Missions--India
- Music--Study and teaching
- Nonviolence--Religious aspects
- Ovariotomy
- Patriotism
- Peace treaties
- Peasantry--Russia
- Poetry
- Presidents--United States--Election
- Publishers and publishing
- Revolutions--Europe
- Screenwriters--California--Hollywood
- Shakers
- Shoemakers--Massachusetts--Woburn
- Slavery--Anti-slavery movements
- Social work with African Americans
- Strikes and lockouts--Marble industry and trade--Vermont
- Syphilis
- Theater--Spain
- Wages and women
- Women artists
- Women authors, American
- Women in politics
- Women missionaries--India
- Women social reformers
- Women's colleges--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie
- Women's colleges--Pennsylvania--Bryn Mawr
- Women's health services
- Women's rights
- Women--Education
- Women--Employment
- Women--Social conditions
- World War, 1914-1918--France
- World War, 1914-1918--War work--Red Cross
Places:
- Boston (Mass.)--Religious life and customs
- Boston (Mass.)--Social life and customs
- Europe--History--1848-1849
- Europe--Politics and government
- France--Foreign relations--United States
- Ghana--Description and travel
- New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs
- Scotland--Social conditions
- United States--Foreign relations--France
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States--Politics and government
- United States--Social life and customs
- Woburn (Mass.)--Economic conditions
Document Types:
- Autographs
- Poems
VCL Categories:
- Autographs
- Vassar College
- Women's History
Encoding Information
Encoded by Laura Streett, April 2008.
Updated by Gretchen Maslin and Jenna Effenberger, 2011-2012.
Updated by Mark Seidl, December 2019.
Updated by Emma Gronbeck, February 2023.
TopAdministrative Information
Preferred Citation
Autograph Files, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.
Processing Information
Partially processed by Louise Loeb, 2005.
Completed and updated by Jared Berenholz, 2008.
Last updated February 2023.
Acquisition Information
An artificial collection, collected over several decades by Vassar College Library staff. Some materials removed from larger collections.
Series List
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Folder List
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Details
Letters with some manuscripts,
speeches, poems, and other items, primarily resulting from an official connection
with Vassar College, written by Vassar students, faculty or staff, or by persons of historical
and cultural significance.
