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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Vassar Chapel

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Date
1912-1936
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View of Vassar Chapel from the east

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Vassar Chapel

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Date
1912-1936
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View of Vassar Chapel from the north

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Vassar Chapel

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Date
1910-1912
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View of Vassar Chapel from the east

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Vassar Chapel

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Date
1912-1936
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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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View of the chapel from the north

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Vassar Chapel and Vassar Lake

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Date
1904-1912
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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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View of Vassar Chapel from the west across Vassar Lake and Raymond Avenue

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Vassar Chapel cloisters

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Date
approximately 1912
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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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View of the President's House and Main Building through the cloisters at the front of the chapel

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Vassar Chapel entrance

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Date
1906-1915
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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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Copy photograph of the Vassar Chapel entrance from the south west

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Vassar Chapel interior

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Date
1905-1920
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One of the two stained glass windows designed by Robert Leftwich Dodge, which sit on either side of the chapel's organ

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Vassar Chapel Rose Window

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Date
1906-1920
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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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Stained glass window designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany for the chapel

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Vassar Chapel Rose Window

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Date
1906-1920
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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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Stained glass window designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany for the chapel

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Vassar Chapel sketch

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Date
1932-1940
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Copy photograph of a sketch of the Vassar College Chapel dated 1932

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Vassar Co-Operative Book Shop Committee

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Date
1927-1928
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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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Group portrait of members of the committee that oversaw the subscription-based campus book store

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Vassar College Archives Film and Video Collection

Vassar Collage

Vassar Collage
Date
1973 or 1974
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Roughly chronological series of historical images and film clips set to music from the respective eras of Vassar College history. The soundtrack also includes readings from early Vassar letters. Many or most of the clips came from other films available in the Digital Library. The film was made by

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Vassar College ANTH-AFRS 386 Interview Project

Vassar College ANTH-AFRS 386 Interview Project

Date
2015-01-01T00:00:01Z-2015-05-31T23:59:59Z
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The interviews in this collection are a result of the projects by students in Vassar College's "ANTH/AFRS 386: Situating Blackness" course in Spring 2015. The course encouraged students to explore the meanings of blackness (and raced identity categories) as lived experience at Vassar College and

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Vassar College Archives Audio Collection

Vassar College Archives Audio Collection

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The Vassar College Archives Audio collection captures nearly 80 years of collegiate music traditions, oral histories, and intercollegiate and local collaborations between faculty, students, and the surrounding community. These unique recordings help to document changes in higher education, including

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Vassar College Archives Film and Video Collection

Vassar College Archives Film and Video Collection

Vassar College Archives Film and Video Collection
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The Vassar College Film and Video Collection is part of the holdings of the College Archives. It consists of several thousand items in a variety of formats which together provide important documentation for the history of the college in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The examples

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Vassar College Early Images

Vassar College art class, ca. 1889

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Date
ca. 1889
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Professor Henry Van Ingen wearing a black hat and dark suit. He is seated, holding a book. Also shows two female students wearing hats and long dresses, standing in front of Vassar Lake and trees. A bridge crosses the lake.

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Vassar College Astronomical Observatory

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Date
187-?
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Observatory at Vassar College with path, lawn, and trees. Several buildings are in the background.

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Vassar College Astronomical Observatory

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Date
187-?
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Observatory of Vassar College with path, lawn, evergreens and bare trees.

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Vassar College Early Images

Vassar College Astronomical Observatory

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Date
187-?
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Observatory of Vassar College with path, lawn, trees and lamp post. Building is partially covered by vines.

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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