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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 Amy Bartlett Papers, 1979-2000

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Collection Summary

Repository: Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries
Creator: Bartlett, Amy
Title: Amy Bartlett Papers
Dates: 1979-2000
Quantity: 1 cubic feet (1 box)
Abstract: Poems and manuscripts from the life and career of American poet and poetry editor, Amy Bartlett.
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Biographical Note

Amy Bartlett was a poet and poetry editor. She was born March 18, 1949 to Eliot Fitch and Christine Price Bartlett and grew up in Concord, Massachusetts. In 1972, she graduated from Vassar College and in 1985 she received a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from New York University. She died in 2004 at the age of 54.

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Scope and Content Note

The collection includes typescript poems and manuscripts with handwritten editorial notes. Most materials are not dated.

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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 previously published material must be obtained in writing from Persea Books. Permission to quote (publish) from unpublished material must be obtained in writing from Byron Bartlett.

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Subject Headings

Organizations:

  • New York University--Graduate School of Arts and Science--Dissertations, Academic

Subjects:

  • American poetry--20th century--Women authors
  • Women poets

VCL Categories:

  • Literature and Writing
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Encoding Information

Encoded by Adrienne Turner, October 2008. Updated by Emma Gronbeck, October 2025.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Amy Bartlett Papers, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.

Processing Information

Collection processed by Adrienne Turner, October 2008.

Acquisition Information

Bequest of the Bartlett Estate, 2005. (M2005-015)

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Container List

Folder 1 Counting Your Friends, 1981 Jul 1 (10 pages)
Folder 2 Counting Your Friends, undated (1 page)
Folder 3 Snow, undated (1 page)
Folder 4 Snow, undated (1 page)
Folder 5 The Wake, undated (3 pages)
Folder 6 Miscellaneous poem drafts (original folder titled "MS"), undated (41 pages)
Folder 7 Temporary Measures, undated (4 pages)
Folder 8 Home, undated (6 pages)
Folder 9 Parents Sleeping, undated (9 pages)
Folder 10 Tenebrae, undated (6 pages)
Folder 11 Pound Ridge, 1982 Mar 10 (11 pages)
Folder 12 Uncle Morris, 1982 May 2 (9 pages)
Folder 13 Everything Personal, undated (19 pages)
Folder 14 Awaiting Trial, 2 Nov 1981 (11 pages)
Folder 15 From My Window, undated (2 pages)
Folder 16 Miscellaneous poem drafts (original folder titled "Amy Bartlett Poems"), undated (12 pages)
Folder 17 Eating Out, undated (2 pages)
Folder 18 Miscellaneous poem drafts (original folder titled "Amy Bartlett Poems"), undated (13 pages)
Folder 19 Miscellaneous poem drafts (original folder titled "Amy Bartlett Poems"), undated (5 pages)
Folder 20 Empire State Building, undated (2 pages)
Folder 21 On Learning of…, undated (1 page)
Folder 22 Mudfish, undated (1 page)
Folder 23 For a Boy…, undated (2 pages)
Folder 24 Windfall, undated (1 page)
Folder 25 For My Brother…, undated (1 page)
Folder 26 Old House, undated (1 page)
Folder 27 Now, undated (1 page)
Folder 28 New Ice, undated (82 pages)
Folder 29 Award letter from the Academy of American Poets at New York University acknowledging Bartlett’s 1982 "Prize for Poetry" win, 1983 Jun 1 (1 page)
Folder 30 Visiting Hour, 1982 Mar 24 (6 pages)
Folder 31 The Visiting Hour, 1984 Apr 3 (64 pages)
Folder 32 Hart Crane paper NYU, 1984 Mar 3 (20 pages)
Folder 33 The Walk, undated (8 pages)
Folder 34 In Winter, undated (3 pages)
Folder 35 One Childhood, undated (79 pages)
Folder 36 Across the River, undated (17 pages)
Folder 37 On a Sixty-fifth Birthday, undated (7 pages)
Folder 38 Millennium, 2000 Jan 1 (3 pages)
Folder 39 On the Escalator, undated (39 pages)
Folder 40 Short stories – Dean Albarelli, 1992 Aug (58 pages)
Folder 41 Short story drafts and news clipping (original folder titled "Memoir") , circa 1993 (19 pages)
Folder 42 The East River, undated (5 pages)
Folder 43 At Church, undated (6 pages)
Folder 44 Going Back, undated (29 pages)
Folder 45 Mathews tutorial, 1986 Spring (11 letters)
Folder 46 Mathews tutorial, 1987 Spring (30 pages)
Folder 47 Childhood prose poem, 1979 (4 pages)
Folder 48 Alicia, undated (77 pages)
Folder 49 The Strays, undated (15 pages)
Folder 50 The Lichen, undated (43 pages)
Folder 51 Memorial service, 1992 May 9 (2 pages)
Folder 52 On the Corner, undated (14 pages)
Folder 53 Looking for my Father’s Father, undated (34 pages)
Folder 54 Willoware – see "The Strays", undated (4 pages)
Folder 55 Leukepheresis, undated (10 pages)
Folder 56 On the Subway, undated (8 pages)
Folder 57 The Other Wife, undated (95 pages)
Folder 58 Afterwards manuscript, 1984 Jun 11
Folder 59 Graduate thesis: The Window on the Ground, undated
Folder 60 The 86th Street Transverse, undated (11 pages)
Folder 61 Sunday Afternoon, undated (14 pages)
Folder 62 Holding Back, undated (20 pages)
Folder 63 The End (Holding On), undated (33 pages)
Folder 64 The Rainbow Room, undated (16 pages)
Folder 65 The Dead, undated (24 pages)
Folder 66 Avery’s Gore, undated (14 pages)
Folder 67 Avery’s Gore, undated (14 pages)
Folder 68 Late in the Day, undated (35 pages)
Folder 69 Flying, undated (7 pages)
Folder 70 The Estuary, undated (33 pages)
Folder 71 The Estuary, undated (33 pages)
Folder 72 To a Traveler, undated (16 pages)
Folder 73 The Valley Road, undated (39 pages)
Folder 74 The Potato Chip, undated (3 pages)
Folder 75 2 A.M., undated (9 pages)
Folder 76 Bone Marrow Harvest, undated (7 pages)
Folder 77 Urgent Care, undated (20 pages)
Folder 78 Scars, undated (11 pages)
Folder 79 Mastectomies, undated (13 pages)
Folder 80 Chest X-ray, undated (9 pages)
Folder 81 Antarctica, undated (16 pages)
Folder 82 Drafts, 1983 Summer/Fall (51 pages)
Folder 83 The Wake, undated (22 pages)
Folder 84 Love in the Same Name, undated (23 pages)
Folder 85 Draft for "Afterwards", undated (53 pages)
Folder 86 The Spotted Seal, short story draft, undated (40 pages)
Folder 64 The Rainbow Room, undated (16 pages)
Folder 65 The Dead, undated (24 pages)
Folder 66 Avery’s Gore, undated (14 pages)
Folder 67 Avery’s Gore, undated (14 pages)
Folder 68 Late in the Day, undated (35 pages)
Folder 69 Flying, undated (7 pages)
Folder 70 The Estuary, undated (33 pages)
Folder 71 The Estuary, undated (33 pages)
Folder 72 To a Traveler, undated (16 pages)
Folder 73 The Valley Road, undated (39 pages)
Folder 74 The Potato Chip, undated (3 pages)
Folder 75 2 A.M., undated (9 pages)
Folder 76 Bone Marrow Harvest, undated (7 pages)
Folder 77 Urgent Care, undated (20 pages)
Folder 78 Scars, undated (11 pages)
Folder 79 Mastectomies, undated (13 pages)
Folder 80 Chest X-ray, undated (9 pages)
Folder 81 Antarctica, undated (16 pages)
Folder 82 Drafts, 1983 Summer/Fall (51 pages)
Folder 83 The Wake, undated (22 pages)
Folder 84 Love in the Same Name, undated (23 pages)
Folder 85 Draft for "Afterwards", undated (53 pages)
Folder 86 The Spotted Seal, short story draft, undated (40 pages)

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Poems and manuscripts from the life
and career of American poet and poetry editor, Amy Bartlett.

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Dates: 1979-2000
Subject (Topical)
Women poets
American poetry--20th century--Women authors
Literature and Writing
Organization
New York University--Graduate School of Arts and Science--Dissertations, Academic
Collection Title
Amy Bartlett Papers
Creator
Bartlett, Amy
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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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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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Finley, Charlotte (Deming). Letter, 1886

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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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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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