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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Founder's Day play

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Date
1920-04-30
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Professors Isabel Nelson Tillinghast as Maria Mitchell, Professor James Fosdick Baldwin as Matthew Vassar, and Professor Elizabeth Hatch Palmer as Hannah Lyman in a presentation at the end of Founder's Day

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Founder's Day play

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Date
1920-04-30
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Professor Isabel Nelson Tillinghast as Maria Mitchell in a presentation at the end of Founder's Day

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Maria Mitchell bust, Maria Mitchell Observatory

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Date
1920-1936
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Bronze bust of astronomer and professor Maria Mitchell at the top of the stairs of the first Vassar observatory

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Maria Mitchell bust, Maria Mitchell Observatory

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Date
1920-1936
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Bronze bust of astronomer and professor Maria Mitchell at the top of the stairs of the first Vassar observatory

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Vassar College Early Images

Maria Mitchell, 1865: Vassar College astronomy professor, 1865-1888

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Date
1865
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Facial picture of Maria Mitchell.

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Maria Mitchell, 1865: Vassar College astronomy professor, 1865-1888

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Date
1865
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Full-length picture of Maria Mitchell wearing a dark hat, long, button-down dress and shawl. She is seated behind a table, her chin is resting on her right hand and her left hand is holding the page of an open book.

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Maria Mitchell, 1872: Vassar College astronomy professor, 1865-1888

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Date
1872
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Head and shoulders picture of Maria Mitchell wearing a white blouse and dark clothing. Her cheek is resting on her right hand.

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Maria Mitchell: Vassar College astronomy professor, 1865-1888

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not after 1874
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Half-length picture of Maria Mitchell wearing a dark hat, white ruffled blouse and dark suit. She is seated.

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Maria Mitchell: Vassar College astronomy professor, 1865-1888, and her father

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Date
187-?
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Full-length picture of Maria Mitchell and her father, William. She is wearing a dark headpiece, white collar and long, dark button-down dress. She is seated on the right of a small, round table, her cheek is resting on her right hand and her left hand is pointing to papers on the table. Her father

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Maria Mitchell: Vassar College astronomy professor, 1865-1888, and her father

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Date
187-?
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Full-length picture of Maria Mitchell and her father, William. She is wearing a dark headpiece, white collar and long, dark button-down dress. She is seated on the right of a small, round table, her cheek is resting on her right hand and her left hand is pointing to papers on the table. Her father

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Vassar College Astronomical Observatory with classes of 1871-1874

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Date
19-?
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Observatory of Vassar College with path, lawn, trees and lamp post. Also shows Maria Mitchell, members of the classes of 1871-1874 using astronomical instruments and a boy seated on the steps. Woman halfway up the steps is Abby Farwell Ferry, VC 1872.

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