"Every day is a story." Julie's restaurant.
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« Les Français de l'orient » : Persian art in the cultural imagination of fin-de-siècle France
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« Les Français de l'orient » : Persian art in the cultural imagination of fin-de-siècle France
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"One unified person": the role of narrative in healing and identity creation
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Movement building, activism, feminism and celebrity culture in the digital age: an analysis of politics and political identity on social media
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The personal archive unfolded: remediating ephemeral experiences
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"For the girls, scare the boys": social media as a means of access for women in skateboarding culture
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Why we still "watch tv": remediating television and viewer experiences in the digital age
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Navigating masculinty through portrait photograpy
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Adding insult to injury: how clinical research of today highlights disparities for the disadvantaged human participant
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Here you will find digitized archival collections, oral histories, and more. We are continually expanding the collections and improving access. You may find additional digital resources that reside outside the digital library here, and a selection of Online Exhibitions here.
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Finding Aids
The Archives & Special Collections Library is part of the Vassar College Libraries system. It holds the rare book, manuscript, and archival collections of the college. It collects, preserves, and makes available rare and unique collections, and also engages in teaching and outreach activities. This collection of finding aids describe items in both the Virginia B. Smith Memorial Manuscript Collection and the College Archives.
Herbarium
The Vassar College herbarium holds over 8,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, and algae. Holdings are primarily from northeastern North America, and include collections made by several notable 19th century botanists. To learn more about this project visit the website here.
Vassar Scholarship
Vassar College's institutional repository reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community. It provides access to senior theses, peer reviewed open access articles, and projects from a wide range of disciplines.