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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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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Latin class play

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1923-11-23
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The Menaechmi of Plautus

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Laura Johnson Wylie

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1920-1932
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Split negative of two portraits of Laura Johnson Wylie. One includes her dog

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Vassar College Early Images

Laura Webster, daughter of Dr. Helen W. Webster, Vassar College physician:

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Head and shoulders photograph of Laura Webster, daughter of Dr. Helen W. Webster, Vassar College physician

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The Library Café

Laurence McGilvery

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September 24, 2014
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La Jolla Bookseller Laurence McGilvery talks about his role in one of the Twentieth Century's most important literary censorship battles, the attempt on the part of a coalition of conservative groups to censor Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, and McGilvery's own arrest and trial (People v. McGilvery

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Laurie Lisle

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May 12, 2021
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"The author and biographer Laurie Lisle returns to the program to talk about her new memoir, Word for Word: A Writer's Life, newly published by Artemis Editions."\n"With Word for Word, Laurie Lisle enters the pantheon of great memoirists . . . Bolstered by exquisite, evocative observations of the

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Laurie Lisle

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October 14, 2020
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Author Laurie Lisle returns to the program to talk about another of her landmark artist biographies: Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe (Seaview 1980). "Portrait of an Artist is a sensitive and beautifully documented biography. It moved me deeply--I can't remember when a book

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Laurie Lisle

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March 25, 2020
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Author and biographer Laurie Lisle discusses her book Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life (Simon & Schuster 1990; Rev. Ed., Open Road, 2016.) "From her birth in Russia, her girlhood in Maine, to her years as an artist in Manhattan, Nevelson's life was difficult, dramatic and, after years of struggle

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Lawrence Webster

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November 7, 2012
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Author Lawrence Webster discusses her book: Under the North Light: The Life and Work of Maud and Miska Petersham, published by WoodstockArts, on the influential Woodstock-based husband-wife team of children's book illustrators. "Maud, a 1912 Vassar graduate, had deep Yankee roots; Miska immigrated

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Vassar College Early Images

Laying Vassar College Chapel cornerstone

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1902
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A crowd of mostly women are watching men use a hoist to set the cornerstone upon the brick foundation of the Vassar College Chapel. Large trees in leaf are in the background.

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Le bourgeois gentilhomme. Act 4, Cérémonie turque / Lully. Les fastes de la grande menestrandise / François Couperin

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[between 1950 and 1960?]
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Le bourgeois gentilhomme. Act 4, Cérémonie turque / Lully. Les fastes de la grande menestrandise / François Couperin: Audio disc side 1

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Le bourgeois gentilhomme. Act 4, Cérémonie turque / Lully. Les fastes de la grande menestrandise / François Couperin: Audio disc side 1

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Le jeu de Robin et Marion. Robin m'aime / Adam de la Halle. Acis and Galatea [excerpts] / Handel

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[between 1950 and 1960?]
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Le jeu de Robin et Marion. Robin m'aime / Adam de la Halle. Acis and Galatea [excerpts] / Handel: Audio disc side 1

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Le jeu de Robin et Marion. Robin m'aime / Adam de la Halle. Acis and Galatea [excerpts] / Handel: Audio disc side 2

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Le jeu de Robins et de Marion. Robins m'aime / Adam de la Halle

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[between 1950 and 1959?]
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Le jeu de Robins et de Marion. Robins m'aime / Adam de la Halle: Audio disc side 1

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