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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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Vassar College Glee Club, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y: Audio disc side 1

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Vassar College Glee Club, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y: Audio disc side 1

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Vassar College Glee Club, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y: Audio disc side 2

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Vassar College Greek class, 1881

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1881
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Ten female students wearing long dresses, seated, holding books. Also shows flowers, lawn and trees in leaf.

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Vassar College in 1865

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1865
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Main Building of Vassar College with lawn and young trees.

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Vassar College Junior-Senior Boatride

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1920-05-22
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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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Students preparing to serve punch and doughnuts aboard the steamer Seagate (misdated by photographer)

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Vassar College Junior-Senior Boatride

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Date
1920-05-22
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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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Students dancing aboard the steamer Seagate

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Vassar College Junior-Senior Boatride

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Date
1920-05-22
Content Warning
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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Students gathered aboard the steamer Seagate. Some are in costume including one person in blackface

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Vassar College Junior-Senior Boatride

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Date
1920-05-22
Content Warning
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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Students gathered aboard the steamer Seagate. Some are in costume including one person in blackface

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Vassar College Junior-Senior Boatride steamship at dock

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Date
1920-05-22
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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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The steamer Seagate docked at Poughkeepsie before the Junior-Senior Boatride

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Vassar College LGBTQ Oral History Project

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2013-01-01
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The Vassar LGBTQ Oral History Project is a partnership between the LGBTQ Center, the Women's Studies Program and the Vassar College Archives that began in the fall of 2012. The goal of the project is to capture the experiences, stories, and reflections of LGBTQ and ally alumnae/i as well as former

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Vassar College Library Gargoyles and Grotesques

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Vassar College Library was built in 1905, the architecture and the style of the building is perpendicular Gothic, with many embellishments. Among those embellishments are approximately thirty-six gargoyles and grotesques. Gargoyles are decorative water-bearing fixtures meant to redirect rainwater

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Vassar College Main Building

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Date
18-?
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Main Building of Vassar College with Vassar Lake. Trees, row boats and people are in the foreground.

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Vassar College Main Building

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Date
189-?
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Northeast view of Main Building of Vassar College with paths and lawn. Building is partially covered by bare vines.

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Vassar College Main Building

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Date
193-?
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Northwest view of Main Building of Vassar College with paths, lawn, trees and people.

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Vassar College Main Building

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18
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Northwest view of Main Building of Vassar College with paths, lawn, trees and people.

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Vassar College Main Building ca. 1865

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1865?
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Picture of drawing of Main building of Vassar College with paths, lawn, shrubs and people.

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Vassar College Main Building seen through entrance gates, ca. 1887

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ca. 1887
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Main Building of Vassar College seen through entrance gates of the Lodge with evergreen-lined drive.

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Vassar College Main Building, ca. 1865

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ca. 1865
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Southeast view of Main Building of Vassar College with lawn and trees.

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Vassar College Main Building, ca. 1865

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ca. 1865
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Southeast view of Main Building of Vassar College with lawn and trees.

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