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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Thanksgiving Community Party

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Date
1916-11-30
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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Full cast of the party, which included skits, music and dance performed by faculty, students and staff. Some are wearing stereotypical Native American costumes, others are dressed as "Puritans," Scottish and Irish bagpipers and dancers, and sailors

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Thanksgiving Community Party

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Date
1916-11-30
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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Skits, music and dance performed by faculty, students and staff

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Thanksgiving Community Party

93007-Service File.jpg
Date
1916-11-30
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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Skits, music and dance performed by faculty, students and staff

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Thanksgiving Community Party

93008-Service File.jpg
Date
1916-11-30
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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Skits, music and dance performed by faculty, students and staff

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Thanksgiving Community Party

93009-Service File.jpg
Date
1916-11-30
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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Skits, music and dance performed by faculty, students and staff

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Thanksgiving Community Party

93010-Service File.jpg
Date
1916-11-30
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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Skits, music and dance performed by faculty, students and staff. This scene was set in Hawaii and features stereotypical costumes including grass skirts and dark makeup

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Thanksgiving Community Party

93011-Service File.jpg
Date
1916-11-30
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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Skits, music and dance performed by faculty, students and staff

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Thanksgiving Community Party

93013-Service File.jpg
Date
1916-11-30
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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Skits, music and dance performed by faculty, students and staff. This scene features students and faculty in stereotypical Native American costumes

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Vassar Scholarship

The "touch" versus the "see": tactility as a challenge against digital media in "Subway Therapy"

Publication Date
2017-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Nguyen, Sieu
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

The thesis explores how the tactile aspect of "Subway Therapy," a project in which people could write messages on sticky notes after the 2016 Presidential Election and post them on the subway walls in New York City, fosters an alternative...

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The active time model of concurrent choice

Publication Date
2024-May-21
Authors
Cleaveland, J. Mark
Department or Program
Psychological Science Department
Document Type
Article
Access Level
Open
Abstract

The following paper describes a steady-state model of concurrent choice, termed the active time model (ATM). ATM is derived from maximization principles and is characterized by a semi-Markov process. The model proposes that the controlling stimulus in concurrent variable- interval...

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The Age of Alice: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Nonsense in Victorian England

Publication Date
2015-February
Authors
Patkus, Ronald
Murdoch, Lydia
Firtich, Nikolai
Willard, Nancy
Department or Program
Vassar College Libraries
Document Type
Exhibition Catalog
Access Level
Open
Abstract

A catalogue of the exhibition The Age of Alice: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Nonsense in Victorian England February 12 – June 17, 2015 Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library Vassar College.

Cover design by Nikolai Firtich Layout and typesetting by George...

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