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Emma Hopkins: Vassar College professor of music, 1865-1866

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Date
1865 or 1866
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Full-length picture of two women (Emma Hopkins on the right) wearing long dresses. They are seated, each of them resting an arm on the back of her chair.

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Vassar College Student Letters

Houts, Annie (Glidden). Letters, 1866-1874

Date
1866-1874
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1 letter from classmates Abby F. Goodsell and [Emma], 2 letters from Houts to her fiancé Frank, and 27 letters from Houts to her brother John Glidden. Houts' letters to her brother include discussions of extracurriculars (e.g. her participation in a baseball club and drama productions), Founder's

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Vassar College Archives Film and Video Collection

Meeting Emotional Needs in Childhood: The Groundwork of Democracy, part 1

Meeting Emotional Needs in Childhood: The Groundwork of Democracy, part 1
Date
1947
Description

Part one of the fifth film in the Vassar College Child Study Department series, "Studies of Normal Personality Development." This installment tracks the evolution of personality development through favorable and unfavorable interpersonal relationships in the home, school, and neighborhood. The

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Vassar College Archives Film and Video Collection

Meeting Emotional Needs in Childhood: The Groundwork of Democracy, part 2

Meeting Emotional Needs in Childhood: The Groundwork of Democracy, part 2
Date
1947
Description

Part two of the fifth film in the Vassar College Child Study Department series, "Studies of Normal Personality Development." This installment tracks the evolution of personality development through favorable and unfavorable interpersonal relationships in the home, school, and neighborhood. The

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Vassar College Student Diaries

Pease, Helen Hartley. Diary, 1915-1919

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Date
1915-1919
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This "line a day" five-year memory book chronicles most of Helen Pease's four years at Vassar, beginning in January of her freshman year. She writes about her daily academic routine and also includes notes on her free time, which she filled by playing the mandolin and piano, singing, dancing

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