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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Field Hockey team portrait

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Date
1933-04-01
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Class of 1936 Field Hockey Team

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Field, C. | oral history, June 30, 2015 (part 1)

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2015-06-30
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Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ; oral history

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Field, C. | oral history, June 30, 2015 (part 2)

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2015-06-30
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Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history

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Field, C. | oral history, June 30, 2015 (part 3)

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2015-06-30
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Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history

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Field, C. | oral history, June 30, 2015 (part 4)

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2015-06-30
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Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history

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Field, C. | oral history, June 30, 2015 (part 5)

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2015-06-30
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Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history

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Field, C. | oral history, June 30, 2015 (part 6)

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2015-06-30
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Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history

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Field, C. | oral history, June 30, 2015 (part 7)

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2015-06-30
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Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history

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Field, C. | oral history, June 30, 2015 (part 8)

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2015-06-30
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Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history

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Field, C. | oral history, June 30, 2015 (part 9)

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2015-06-30
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Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history

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Field, C. | Oral History: June 30, 2015

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2015-06-30
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Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development. Born and raised on Long Island; lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar; moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ; oral history; queer; Long Island; San Francisco; Colgate

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Field, Cait

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June 30, 2015
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Picture of Cait Fields during interview.

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Fielder Ridgeway | to Jasper Parrish, 1813 Oct 3

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1813-10-03
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Guide to the Alternative Press Collection, 1967-1977

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Collection Summary

Repository: Archives and Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries
Title: Alternative Press Collection
Dates: 1967-1977
Quantity: 1.4 cubic feet (3 boxes)
Abstract: Miscellaneous collection of radical, leftist, feminist, and other alternative periodicals from the 1960s and 1970s.
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Scope and Content Note

Miscellaneous collection of radical, leftist, feminist, and other alternative periodicals from the 1960s and 1970s.

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Access and Use

Access

This collection is open for research according to the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library without any additional restrictions.

Restrictions on Use

Permission to quote (publish) from unpublished or previously published material must be obtained as described in the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library.

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Subject Headings

Subjects:

  • Feminism--Periodicals
  • Lesbians--Periodicals
  • Student movements--United States--Periodicals
  • Underground press publications--Periodicals
  • Women--Periodicals

VCL Categories:

  • Literature and Writing
  • Politics
  • Printing and Publishing
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Encoding Information

Encoded by Laura Streett and Elizabeth Clarke, November 2006. Updated by Emma Gronbeck, October 2025.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Alternative Press Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries.

Processing Information

Processed by Laura Streett, September 2005.

Acquisition Information

Transferred to Special Collections by Laura Streett, September 2005 and May 2007.

Custodial History

Most of the publications were collected by Professor Jerome Badanes and abandoned in the Rombout House, Vassar College. The issues of Quash and Workforce were found in the Chapel basement in 2007.

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Container List

Box 1 Autopsy on the A.M.A. [Student Research Facility publication], circa 1971
Box 1 Black and Red — No.3, 1968 Nov
Box 1 Black and Red — Worker and Student Action Committees, France, May '68, 1969
Box 1 Black and Red — The Reproduction of Daily Life, 1969
Box 1 Bread and Puppet Press — Crucifixion, 1967 Easter
Box 1 Bread and Puppet Press — Mr. Miller Stories, No. 3, 1967
Box 1 Bread and Puppet Press — Bread and Puppet Newspaper, No. 3, 1967 Jan
Box 1 Caw! [Students for a Democratic Society publication] — issues 2 and 3, 1968
PS501. H3 Hanging Loose, 1969-1974 [Some bound and shelved in the Main Library, some loose and shelved in Special Collections]
Box 1 Heresies — Issue no. 1, 1977 Jan
Box 3 (Oversize) Holocene Gazette and Country Traveller, 1970
Box 1 Lesbian Feminist — Vol. 1, no. 1, 1973 Aug 25
Box 1 Lesbian Tide — Vol. 2, no. 2, 1973 Jul
Box 3 (Oversize) Majority Report — 2 issues, 1974-1975
Box 3 (Oversize) The Militant — 1 issue, 1972
Box 1 NACLA [North American Congress on Latin America] — The U.S. Military Apparatus, 1972
Box 1 Newsletters, 1974 Jun
Box 2 Off Our Backs — Vol.3, no. 9, 1973 July-Aug
Box 2 Osawatomie [Weather Underground publication] — No. 1, 1975 Spring
Box 2 Quash: Newsletter of the Grand Jury Project — 2 issues, 1976-1977
Box 2 The Realist: Mae Brussell's Conspiracy Newsletter, 1972 Dec
Box 3 (Oversize) Rising Up Angry — Vol. 3, no. 3-11; Vol. 4, no. 5, 7 and 8, 1972
Box 2 The Second Wave — Vol. 1, no. 3-4, 1971-1972
Box 2 Shantih, 1972 Winter/Spring
Box 2 Some, 1973 Winter
Box 2 Stray Dog, circa 1972-1974
Box 3 (Oversize) Whole Cosmep Catalog, 1973
Box 3 (Oversize) Whole Earth Catalog, 1969-1970
Box 3 (Oversize) White lightning [Spirit of Logos publication] — 2 issues, circa 1971-1972
Box 2 Win [peace and freedom through non-violent action] — misc volumes, 1969-1974
Box 2 Workforce [Vocations for Social Change publication], 1974 Sep-Oct

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Miscellaneous collection of radical,
leftist, feminist, and other alternative periodicals from the 1960s and
1970s.

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Dates: 1967-1977
Subject (Topical)
Feminism--Periodicals
Lesbians--Periodicals
Women--Periodicals
Underground press publications--Periodicals
Student movements--United States--Periodicals
Literature and Writing
Politics
Printing and Publishing
Collection Title
Alternative Press Collection
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Vassar Scholarship

Finding Feminism: The Ideologies of Hip-Hop from Black Women in Spaces of Higher Education

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Dickens, Tiarra
Department or Program
Sociology Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

Hip-hop is the most affluent subset of Black Culture today. The globalization and mass appeal of hip-hop has made this genre bigger than music; it's style, it's dance, it's art, and even literature. Hip-Hop music is a genre that is...

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Vassar College Student Letters

Finley, Charlotte (Deming) — to Cousin, Thanksgiving 1886

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Date
25 Nov 1886
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Finley, Charlotte (Deming). Letter, 1886

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1 letter, dated "Thanksgiving Night 1886," from Finley (VC 1889) to her cousin "Effie." Finley writes that an excellent Thanksgiving dinner was served at Vassar College, during which the students costumed themselves as English ladies and gentlemen. She describes the events after dinner as including

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