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[Home movie]

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[Home movie]
Date
approximately 1938-1940
Description

Personal camera footage likely taken by a member of the Class of 1940. The original film was transferred to cassette before being gifted to the library; thus, the image quality is poor. Includes scenes of the college in winter and spring, the Athletic Circle gardens, Sunset Lake, the Shakespeare

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[Home movie]

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[Home movie]
Date
1939
Description

Personal camera footage taken by Margaret (Loose) Krell, Class of 1939, and her friends and family. There are many scenes of campus during winter, including Taylor Gate, Thompson Library, Sunset Lake, Skinner Hall, the Vassar Chapel, Main Building, the Residential Quad, and Alumnae House, as well as

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[Home movie]

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[Home movie]
Date
1935-1936
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Personal camera footage shot by Frances White Field (VC 1936) including winter scenes of the college, students smoking, convocation, an anti-war protest, and the 1936 commencement

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[Home movie]

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[Home movie]
Date
1931-1935
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Archival footage taken by Elizabeth S. Brooks (VC 1935). The first 2.5 minutes is footage of the Vassar campus from approximately 1931-1933, including a trolley running on Raymond Avenue, Vassar Lake, and views of the exteriors of various college buildings. The following 30 seconds are likely Brooks

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[Home movie]

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[Home movie]
Date
1935
Description

Archival footage taken by Elizabeth S. Brooks (VC 1935) and her family. Begins with the Class of 1935 walking in the commencement procession, followed by a brief clip of Brooks feeding goldfish with a Vassar friend. Next is footage of the 1935 Alumnae Parade beginning with the Class of 1885 and

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[Home movie]

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[Home movie]
Date
1949 May
Description

Personal camera footage of Vassar campus in spring 1949. Includes footage of Skinner Hall, the Shakespeare Garden, and Class of 1951 Daisy Chain

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[Home movie]

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[Home movie]
Date
1934
Description

Personal camera footage of campus and the academic procession on commencement day, 1934, followed by scenes of a senior and her family. The family could be the Pogues of Cincinnati, Ohio. Virginia Pogue Weinland graduated in 1934, and her sister, Margaret Pogue Macneale, graduated in 1936

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[Home movie]

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[Home movie]
Date
1930-1932
Content Warning
The Vassar College Archives within the Digital Library include some images, texts, and material items that are racist, xenophobic, or otherwise harmful. The Vassar Libraries have provided descriptive text and additional notes whenever possible to alert Digital Library users to these items. The Engaged Pluralism Initiative Race and Racism in Historical Collections Project Group is working with the library on contextualizing and facilitating community conversations about these materials. For more information see: https://library.vassar.edu/rrhc
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Personal camera footage from Founder's Day 1931 and 1932 as well as Class Day 1932. Scenes from Founder's Day 1931 begin with a treasure hunt, followed by the faculty-student baseball game, the hoop-rolling contest (won by Marcia Wheelock, VC 1931), and dancing the Virginia Reel to a performance by

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A Psalm of Life

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60464-Service File.jpg
Date
1895
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A Serenade Stars of the Summer Night

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60522-Service File.jpg
Date
1906
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A Vassar Notebook, 1970

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A Vassar Notebook, 1970
Date
1970
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Made by professor and founder of the Film Department James Steerman and his students, "A Vassar Notebook" comprises a series of twelve student pieces on life at Vassar in 1970. The pieces are: (1) "Remedial Film Making 1A" - students setting up and using a movie camera in front of Main Building with

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Above and to the left (south) of main entrance on east wall. [location: A1]

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84800-Service File.jpg
Date
2017-05-01T00:00:01Z-2017-05-01T23:59:59Z
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Projecting; distraught lion head; feathered or scaled body; bird feet; front legs; no wings

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Above and to the right (north) of main entrance on east wall. [location: A2]

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84788-Service File.jpg
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2017-05-02T00:00:01Z-2017-05-02T23:59:59Z
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Projecting; lion head with mane; front legs

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Adee, Ellen (Skeel). Diary, 1869-1870

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49119-Service File.jpg
Date
1869-1870
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The Vassar College Archives within the Digital Library include some images, texts, and material items that are racist, xenophobic, or otherwise harmful. The Vassar Libraries have provided descriptive text and additional notes whenever possible to alert Digital Library users to these items. The Engaged Pluralism Initiative Race and Racism in Historical Collections Project Group is working with the library on contextualizing and facilitating community conversations about these materials. For more information see: https://library.vassar.edu/rrhc
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Much of this volume focuses on Adee's year-long absence from Vassar College due to sickness, presumably typhoid fever. Adee became sick in October, 1868, during the first semester of her senior year. She spent a short time at Vassar's infirmary before returning home to her family in Balmville, a

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Allah

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59389-Service File.jpg
Date
1917
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Allah: song

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59960-Service File.jpg
Date
1887
Abstract

voice, piano

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Anthony, Constance E. Diary, 1915

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51258-Service File.jpg
Date
1915
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The Vassar College Archives within the Digital Library include some images, texts, and material items that are racist, xenophobic, or otherwise harmful. The Vassar Libraries have provided descriptive text and additional notes whenever possible to alert Digital Library users to these items. The Engaged Pluralism Initiative Race and Racism in Historical Collections Project Group is working with the library on contextualizing and facilitating community conversations about these materials. For more information see: https://library.vassar.edu/rrhc
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Detailed daily entries, beginning in the spring of 1915 and ending in winter 1915, addressing Anthony's sophomore and junior years at Vassar College. Anthony describes her semester schedules, January and June exams, the dismissals of several classmates from school for failure (Feb 3-5), lectures

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Ascheri, Carlo, 1936-1967 | Memorial Minute

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19483-Service File.jpg
Date
[After 1967]
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At corner of northern and western arms [location: C13]

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84817-Service File.jpg
Date
2017-05-25T00:00:01Z-2017-05-25T23:59:59Z
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Projecting; crocodile; grid pattern on body

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At corner of southern and western arms [location: C4]

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84820-Service File.jpg
Date
2017-05-16T00:00:01Z-2017-05-16T23:59:59Z
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Projecting; crocodile; grid pattern on body

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Content Warning

The Vassar College Archives within the Digital Library include some images, texts, and material items that are racist, xenophobic, or otherwise harmful. The Vassar Libraries have provided descriptive text and additional notes whenever possible to alert Digital Library users to these items. The Engaged Pluralism Initiative Race and Racism in Historical Collections Project Group is working with the library on contextualizing and facilitating community conversations about these materials. For more information see: https://library.vassar.edu/rrhc