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This collection of finding aids describe items in both the Virginia B. Smith Memorial Manuscript Collection and the College Archives. The Virginia B. Smith Memorial Manuscript Collection is named after the eighth president of Vassar College, whose vision for the library included the addition of personal papers of a number of key literary figures. The holdings range from medieval illuminated manuscripts to modern manuscripts, and include over 500 collections of Vassar College graduates, faculty, and others affiliated with the college. The Vassar College Archives documents the history of the College from its founding in 1861 to the present. It includes publications, administrative records, meeting minutes, architectural drawings, photograph and audiovisual collections, subject files, artifacts, and other materials. For more information please visit the Archives & Special Collections Library website here: https://library.vassar.edu/specialcollections/

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Guide to the Harriet Isabel Ballintine Papers, 1881-1916

Collection Title
Harriet Isabel Ballintine Papers
Creator
Ballintine, Harriet Isabel, 1865-1951
Abstract
Papers pertaining to her interest in folk dances and singing games including her arrangements of music scores for dances, a notebook containing descriptions of folk dances and a glossary to dance positions, and sheet music and dance instructions she used in classes, 1881-1916, including works by Elizabeth Burchenal and Louis H. Chalif.
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