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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Lacrosse team portrait

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Date
1933-04-01
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Class of 1935 Lacrosse Team

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Vassar College Student Letters

Ladd-Franklin, Christine | to Harry, May 1869:

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Date
May 8, 1869
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VC 1869

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Vassar College Student Diaries

Ladd-Franklin, Christine. Diary, 1860-1866

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1860-1873
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This volume begins with 56 pages of handwriting exercises. The narrative then begins with Christine Ladd's adolescent years during the Civil War. The diary is not simply a daily chronicle; rather, it is a serious journal of self-examination, expressing despondency over the death of her mother, hopes

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Vassar College Student Diaries

Ladd-Franklin, Christine. Diary, 1866-1873

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1866-1873
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In this diary, Christine Ladd-Franklin chronicles her time at Vassar and several years following her graduation in 1869. She escribes her experience as a Vassar student, the challenges of financing her education, and her early years of teaching before beginning her graduate work in mathematics.

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