1. Cover of photobook
3. Title page and names mentioned
4. Blank page
5. a. "The First Glimpse of Vassar" ; b. Vassar Main Building ; c. Vassar Main Building ; d. Vassar Main Building
6. a. Vassar Main Building ; b. Laboratory ; c. Gymnasium
7. a. Observatory ; b. Grounds ; c. Gymnasium ; d. Vassar Main Building
8. a. The Museum ; b. Hall of Casts ; c. Hall of Casts
9. a. Art Gallery ; b. Laboratory ; c. Professor Van Ingen ; d. Art Studio
10. a. Landscape ; b. "Chattie" ; c. Infant in winter
11. a. "The Faculty Scow" ; b. Students on a bridge ; c. Vassar at night ; d. Boating
12. a. Students at the Frederick Ferris Thompson Annex ; b. Students at the Frederick Ferris Thompson Annex ; c. Students at the Frederick Ferris Thompson Annex
14. a. "After" ; b. "Before" ; c. Boating ; a. Landscape
14. b. Landscape ; c. Landscape ; d. Students
15. a. Path through the woods ; b. Lucile Cross bicycling ; c. Students in the woods ; d. Students in the woods
16. a. Students and a wheeled cart ; b. Students writing in field ; c. "Those horrid burrs"
17. a. Katharine Reiley ; b. Students in the woods ; c. Helen Holmes in the snow ; d. Lucile Cross and Medora Higgins in the snow
18. a. Dick Taylor and Elizabeth Thelberg ; b. Elizabeth Thelberg ; c. Dick Taylor
19. a. The Vassar Brothers Laboratory ; b. Vassar College Museum ; c. Vassar College Observatory
20. a. Landscape ; b. Sledding at Vassar College ; c. Construction ; d. Tennis Court ; e. Student in a daisy field
21. a. Students at a vine-covered fence ; b. Hurdling ; c. Hurdling ; d. Helen Holmes and Cora ; e. Helen Holmes on the tennis courts ; f. Students in a pavilion
22. a. View from "Sunrise Hill" ; b. Landscape ; c. Frank Collins and Maude MacFarland
23. a. Play ; b. Play ; c. "The Squirrel Inn" Play
24. a. Helen Holmes' Room ; b. Helen Holmes' Room ; c. Helen Holmes' Room
25. a. Studying for exams ; b. Jam and fudge in celebration! ; c. Harriet Holmes, Lilian Weaver, and Helen Holmes
26. a. Geology field trip ; b. Geology field trip ; c. Geology field trip
27. a. Geology field trip ; b. Geology field trip ; c. Geology field trip ; d. Geology field trip
28. a. West Point Visit ; b. West Point Visit ; c. Bridge over the Hudson
29. a. Mock Wedding ; b. Mock Wedding ; c. Mock Wedding
30. a. Washington's Birthday pageant ; b. Washington's Birthday pageant ; c. Washington's Birthday pageant
31. a. Washington's Birthday pageant ; b. Washington's Birthday pageant ; c. Washington's Birthday pageant
32. a. "Jolliest Table in Strong" ; b. Path through the woods ; c. Art studio
33. a. Professor Van Ingen in his art studio ; b. Art studio ; c. Art studio
34. a. Senior room ; b. Senior room ; c. Senior room
35. a. Senior room of Nell and Medora ; b. Students in a room ; c. Senior room of Lucile Cross Russell
36. a. Washington's Birthday pageant ; b. Washington's Birthday pageant ; c. Washington's Birthday pageant
37. a. Basketball team of 1896 ; b. Parlor
38. a. Sue Hoagland ; b. Exploring the woods ; c. Pine tree
39. Vassar College Chapel
40. a. Arranging Fruit ; b. Room decoration ; c. Eating Fruit ; d. Eating Apples ; e. Nell and Medora
41. a. Chattie and Lucile at Lucile's bureau ; b. Student at a bookshelf ; c. Four students at a small table ; d. Four students posing ; e. Nell writing
42. a. Students at Hyde Park Road ; b. Students at Hyde Park Road
43. a. Students at Hyde Park Road ; b. Students at Hyde Park Road
44. a. Nell, Alice, Medora, and Chattie ; b. Chapel at Edenvale, California ; c. Walk at Edenvale, California ; d. Company H of the 49th Iowa Volunteer Infantry
45. a. Oldest house in Salt Lake City ; b. Mormon temple in Salt Lake City
46. "We Four and No More"
66. Back inside cover of photobook
67. Back cover of photobook
47. Graduation photo envelope
48. Reverse side of photo of Mary Sanders
49. Mary Sanders
50. a. Graduation photo ; b. Cornelia Kinkead
51. a. Louise Van Anden ; b. Ella Louise Love
52. a. Marie McChesney ; b. Marian Elizabeth Samson
53. a. Elizabeth Parker ; b. Blanche Jones ; c. Jessie Bell Wainwright
54. a. Maude M MacFarland ; b. Lillian Berlin Rice
55. a. Anne Elizabeth "Nan" Douglas ; b. Muriel Kate Mabie
56. a. Blanche Grant ; b. Blanche Grant ; c. Blanche Grant ; d. Blanche Grant ; e. Blanche Grant
57. a. Mary Tarbox ; b. Gertrude Dewey ; c. Gertrude Dewey and son
58. Frank Collins
59. a. Annie Childs ; b. Annie Childs ; c. Annie Childs ; d. Cat of Annie Childs ; e. Annie Childs with her cat
60. Annie "Nan" Childs Taylor
61. a. Alice Howland ; b. Alice Howland ; c. Alice Howland
62. a. Hortense Lewis ; b. Martha Howland ; c. Hortense Lewis ; d. Alice Howland ; e. Sally, Martha Howland, and Alice Howland
65. a. Lucile Cross Russell and daughter ; b. Jeanne Russell
64. Lucile Cross Russell
63. a. Ruth Mann ; b. Ruth Mann ; c. Ruth Mann
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1895-1896
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This photo album covers the full four years Lucile Cross Russell spent at Vassar College, as well as subsequent Vassar reunions. Russell frequently photographed herself with friends Chastine "Chattie" Miner Johnson (exVC 1896), Ellen "Nell" Hayward Kimball (VC 1896), Alice Merrill Howland (VC 1896), and Medora Higgins Hooper (VC 1897). The friends frequently participated in outdoor and athletic activities, such as hiking, bicycling, boating, ice-skating, sledding, tennis, hurdling, and basketball. She especially enjoyed exploring the outdoors, as during the Geology field trip to Boardman's. Russell's images document several Vassar traditions, such as donning colonial costume for George Washington's Birthday, traveling downriver to West Point, and decorating the senior rooms and parlor. She also attended theatrical events and mock weddings. "The Lodge" and the "Annex" to Main Building, which have since been demolished, appear in several of her photos. Also included in the album are images of art professor Henry Van Ingen, President James Monroe Taylor's son Richard, and Dr. Elizabeth Burr Thelberg's daughter Elizabeth.
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