Drifting through Occupied Architectures: Confining Necessity and Apophenic Resistance
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Move It Along: The Social-Spatial Imaginaries of Urban Spaces and the Exclusion of Homeless Populations
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Breaking the "Spell of Tradition": Ezra Pound's Co-Creation of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
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New Ape Idea
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"Always True to You (In My Fashion)": Female Agency in Musicalized Shakespeare
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Vehicle To Grid: Plugging In the Electric Vehicle
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Positive Transitions in a Changing World
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"Life Is, All, Transformation": Desire and Lightness in John Berryman's Poetry
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"Life Stand Still Here": The Prone "I" and Deixis in the Work of Virginia Woolf
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Unrolling the Roll: Toilet Paper as a Socially Constructed Symbolic Artifact
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Digital Collections
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.
Collections Overview
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.