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Janish, Jeanne (Russell) and Lucile (Cross) Russell. Scrapbook, 1887-1938

Janish, Jeanne (Russell) and Lucile (Cross) Russell. Scrapbook, 1887-1938
Date
1887-1938
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This scrapbook contains materials from two alumnae: Lucile (Cross) Russell and her daughter Jeanne (Russell) Janish. Cross' portion covers her high school education in Fairbury, Nebraska from 1887 to 1889, several years at the Jacksonville Female Academy (in Jacksonville, Illinois) through May 1892

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Jaspar Parrish Papers

Jasper Parrish Papers

Date
1757-01-01T01:00:01Z-1954-12-31T23:59:59Z
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The collection includes correspondence of Jasper Parrish, 1790-1829, and others, 1757-1869, relating to the Painted Post treaty, payments to Indians, supplies to the Seneca mission, conduct of the St. Regis Indians, and work of the Quakers among the Indians. There are addresses and messages, 1803

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Jaspar Parrish Papers

Jasper Parrish Papers in Vassar College Library (typed transcript), 1954

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Date
1954
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Jasper Parrish Papers in Vassar College Library (typed transcript), 1954

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1954
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Jasper Parrish Papers in Vassar College Library (typed transcript), 1954

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1954
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Printers' Marks in the Vassar College Library

Jean Barril, 1532 -- Printer's Mark

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Date
1532
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Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Sixth window. Jean Barril (c.14-- – c. 15--) spent the majority of his documented career in Toulouse, France working as a writer, merchant, and printer. He is first documented as the author of a book entitled A la requeste de treshaulte et puissante

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Jean Crespin, 1550-1571 -- Printer's Mark

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Date
1550-1571
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Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Fourth window. Jean Crespin (1520 – 1572) was born in the city of Arras in 1520, and attended university in Louvain, where he studied both civil and canon law. By 1542 Crespin had come in contact with French figures in the Reformation, including Claude

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Jean Guyart, 1528-1539 -- Printer's Mark

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Date
1528-1539
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Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Fourth window. Jean Guyart (c.14-- – c. 15--) was documented working in Bordeaux beginning in 1520, when his name appeared in the colophon of a book written by Guillaume Piellée. During this time he was probably apprenticed to Parisian printer Gaspard

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Jaspar Parrish Papers

Jefferson Davis, n.d.

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Autograph; envelope.

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Jeffrey T. Schnapp

Date
February 4, 2015
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Harvard cultural historian and media theorist Jeffrey T. Schnapp (VC'75), Co-director of the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society and founding Faculty Director of the Harvard Graduate School of Design's knowledge design studio metaLAB, talks about his new book, co-authored with Matthew

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Jeffrey Walker

Date
October 31, 2006
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Jeffrey R. Walker, Professor of Geology at Vassar College and editor of a new edition of the naturalist John Burroughs' book Signs & Seasons, talks about Burroughs, his life and work.

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Jennifer Church

Date
December 2, 2015
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Jennifer Church, Professor of Philosophy at Vassar, talks about perception, imagination, and her book Possibilities of Perception, published in 2013 by Oxford University Press. "Possibilities of Perception is a stimulating, wide-ranging treatment of perception in its many guises that should be of

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Jennifer Phegley

Date
May 13, 2008
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Jennifer Phegley, literary historian and professor of English at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, discusses her book: Educating the Proper Woman Reader: Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation, published by the Ohio State University Press.

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Jerome McGann

Date
April 8, 2015
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Jerome McGann, University Professor and John Stewart Bryan Professor of English at the University of Virginia, discusses his new book, A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Harvard, 2014). "A manifesto for the humanities in the digital age, A New

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Jessica D. Brier

Date
September 21, 2022
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Jessica D. Brier, Deknatel Curatorial Fellow in Photography at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, talks about her exhibition and takes us on a tour through the galleries of On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print, on view at the Center from August 20 through December 22, 2022.

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Joan M. Ferrante and Robert W. Hanning

Date
February 13, 2019
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Joan M. Ferrante and Robert W. Hanning, distinguished scholars who have long collaborated in translations and scholarship in comparative literature at Columbia University, discuss their new translation of the medieval roman d'antiquité, The Romance of Thebes (The French of England Translation Series

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Joanne Martin Lukacher

Date
March 6, 2013
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Joanne Martin Lukacher talks about her book, Imitation and Improvement: The Norfolk Sampler Tradition, published by In The Company of Friends Press, 2013. "This new volume identifies and interprets a distinctive body of samplers executed by the girls of Norfolk during a dramatic time of social and

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Joel Smith

Date
February 12, 2008
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Joel Smith, Curator of Photography at the Princeton University Art Museum, discusses his exhibition Saul Steinberg: Illuminations, on View at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar, November 2, 2007 through February 24, 2008.

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Printers' Marks in the Vassar College Library

Johann Albrecht, 1532-1536 -- Printer's Mark

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Date
1532-1536
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Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- End window. Born in a region near the village of Offwiller, France, Johann Albrecht (c. 14-- – 1539) moved to Hagenau, where he pursued a career as a printer beginning in 1500. In 1516, he printed alongside the notable printer Thomas Anshelm, and

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Johann Besicken, 1484-1506 -- Printer's Mark

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Date
1484-1506
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Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- End window. Johann Besicken (c.14-- – c.1509) was born in Besingheim, Germany and, by 1483, he matriculated at the University of Basel. A decade later, he established a printing press in Rome with Sigismundus Mayr; the two printed together, especially

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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