Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

An exploration of the diary as a medium: during the 17th and 18th centuries

Publication Date
2017-January-01
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Looking through the 17th and 18th centuries and specifically the diaries of Samuel Pepys and William Byrd, I aim to explore the medium specificity in the diary as well as its particular moment in manuscript culture. Being written by hand...

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To Hear and See with Love -

Publication Date
2023-May-17
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This project uses photographs and audio as a way to both hear about, and see the lives of Black women in a way that humanizes them without making them into a spectacle within the art world.

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