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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.

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"“A Mass Consumption of Scenery”: Nationalism, Tourism, and the Construction of Landscape in the 19th-Century White Mountains and Their Tallest Peak Mount Washington

Publication Date
2023-May-01
Authors
Clifford, Jennifer
Department or Program
Earth Science and Geography Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

New Hampshire’s White Mountains are the site of some of the earliest tourism developments in the United States. In this thesis, I analyze how these developments served to re-shape and construct a new–and lasting–landscape of the region that served the...

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[Exhibition] Reexamining Books: Book Objects and Artist's Books by Werner Pfeiffer

Publication Date
2024-January-16
Authors
Hill, Thomas
Patkus, Ronald
Department or Program
Vassar College Libraries
Document Type
Archived Website
Access Level
Open
Abstract

On view in the Vassar College Main Library, the Art Library, and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center from September 6-December 15, 2012. 2012 marked the 75th birthday of Werner Pfeiffer, an artist who for half a century has worked...

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Pleistocene foraminifera assemblages as a proxy for temperature in the Weddell Sea, ODP Site 693A

Publication Date
2015-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Cassandre Stirpe
Department or Program
Earth Science and Geography Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

Climate conditions in the Weddell Sea during the Pleistocene can be inferred by examining the abundance of foraminifer species and mineral fragments in ocean sediment cores. In particular, Neogloboquadrina incompta is a useful temperature proxy, and the abundance of terrigenous...

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Psyche's Library

Publication Date
2022-April-02
Authors
Hill, Thomas
Department or Program
Vassar College Libraries
Access Level
Open
Abstract

This lecture presents the architectural program of the Frederick Thompson Memorial Library at Vassar College as the instantiation of the introduction of the concept of research into American undergraduate education by early Vassar faculty who were invested in the direct...

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