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Through our digital collections, Vassar College Libraries aim to provide access to high-quality digital content generated by the Libraries for research and study, as open as possible; support the teaching, learning, and research needs of the College; preserve at-risk or fragile physical collections through digitization, or at-risk born-digital collections through reformatting; expose hidden, less-used physical collections through access to digital surrogates; and foster experimental, cutting-edge, and innovative projects through technology. Learn More

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[Excerpts from an unidentified radio broadcast]: Audio disc side 1

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[Excerpts from orchestral works]

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[between 1950 and 1959?]
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[Excerpts from orchestral works]: Audio disc side 1

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[Excerpts from orchestral works]: Audio disc side 2

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[Excerpts from] La Rosaura / A. Scarlatti

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[between 1950 and 1954]
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[Excerpts from] La Rosaura / A. Scarlatti: Audio disc side 1

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[Exhibition] Elizabeth Bishop: A Growing Legacy

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2024-January-16
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Collection building is an important function of the library. In this case, the focused and persistent interest in Elizabeth Bishop has lead to an unparalleled collection. This development supports the work of students from Vassar and other colleges and universities...

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[Exhibition] Mary McCarthy: Adding to the Legacy

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2024-January-16
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On view in the Vassar College Thompson Library October 2001. The Vassar College Library has been collecting materials relating to Mary McCarthy since her earliest days as a writer. Of special note are several publications that document McCarthy's participation in...

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[Exhibition] Reexamining Books: Book Objects and Artist's Books by Werner Pfeiffer

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2024-January-16
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On view in the Vassar College Main Library, the Art Library, and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center from September 6-December 15, 2012. 2012 marked the 75th birthday of Werner Pfeiffer, an artist who for half a century has worked...

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[Exhibition] Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Sources and Editions

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2024-January-16
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Vassar has a long tradition of using integrating primary sources into the undergraduate curriculum, and books relating to Johnson and his circle have often been displayed in classroom settings. In addition, these books have been brought to the attention of...

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[Exhibition] The Artist's Book in Wales: Shirley Jones and the Red Hen Press

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2024-January-16
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Physical exhibition was on view at Vassar College Thompson Library January–May, 2013. This exhibition was also on view in 2013 and 2014 at the University of Vermont, Smith College, and Swarthmore College. This is an essay written by Martin Antonetti...

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[Exhibition] The Morris and Adele Bergreen Albert Einstein Collection at Vassar College

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2024-January-16
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We hope to convey through the exhibit some sense of the great life and remarkable work of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers. In addition, the exhibition can be seen as a chance to reflect upon not only Albert...

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[Exhibition] Treasures of Americana, 1760-1830

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2024-January-16
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The purpose of the exhibition “Treasures of Americana, 1760-1830” is to provide a view of what historians have traditionally called the Revolutionary Era (1763-1783) and the Federal Era (1789-1829) of United States history. The presentation of printed and manuscript material...

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[Exhibition] Votes for Women: Vassar and the Politics of Women's Suffrage

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2024-January-09
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2020 marked the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. That victory had been the goal of suffrage activists since the middle of the 19th century and was the result of countless...

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[Exhibition] W.K. Rose and the Rose Fellowship

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2024-January-16
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Overview by Colton Johnson, Vassar College Historian, Dean Emeritus of the College and Professor Emeritus of English. Includes video interviews of Rose Fellowship Recipients. Physical exhibition was on view in the Vassar College Thompson Library August-May 2013. Catherine Pelton Durrell...

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[Exhibition] Work Prints: Eric Lindbloom’s Panoramas of the Hudson Valley

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2024-January-09
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During his lifetime, Eric made many photographs of the region where he lived. Some of them have appeared in print; others have not. In 2019, Vassar’s Archives and Special Collections Library acquired a collection of twenty-eight of Eric’s Hudson Valley...

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[Flora de Dios II (Incipit)]

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1994T01:00:01Z-1994T23:59:59Z
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Cardboard painted burgundy/brown and an abstract yellow figure draw in chalk.,Condition assessment (2014): Good

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[Forward], Oliver, undated

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[Home movie]

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[Home movie]
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1930-1932
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Personal camera footage from Founder's Day 1931 and 1932 as well as Class Day 1932. Scenes from Founder's Day 1931 begin with a treasure hunt, followed by the faculty-student baseball game, the hoop-rolling contest (won by Marcia Wheelock, VC 1931), and dancing the Virginia Reel to a performance by

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