Collection Summary
Collier, Katharine Brownell
Katharine Brownell Collier Papers
1890-1977
1904-1934
6.8 cubic feet (8 boxes)
Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries
Correspondence, notebooks, manuscripts and drafts, memorabilia, artwork, publications, and photographs relating to and/or created by Katherine Brownell Collier, covering her turn-of-the-century childhood as well as her time at Vassar and her life post-graduation.
Biographical Note
Katharine Brownell Collier was born on March, 7 1887, in Lakeview, New Jersey. Her mother, Laura Brownell Collier, was a member of a prominent New England family and her father, John Austin Collier, was a scientist. While she was still a baby, the family moved to Brooklyn, where Laura Collier taught at Packer Collegiate Institute, a private, all-girls academy. Both Katharine and her older sister Elizabeth attended Packer, and then followed in their mother's footsteps and went to Vassar College.
While at Vassar, Katharine seems to have thrown herself into a number of different organizations. The Vassarions from 1905 to 1908 list her as a member of everything from the Wake Robin Club to the Christian Association to the Society of Granddaughters to the Athletic Association. She did well at Vassar and was chosen as a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the honor list for the class of 1908.
After graduating from Vassar College in 1908, Katharine moved to Bay Shore, Long Island, where she taught English and History at Bay Shore High School. In 1911 she moved back to Brooklyn, where she found a job teaching Latin and English at an annex of Bushwick High School.
Once she had returned to Brooklyn, Katharine began taking courses at Columbia University with the intention of receiving her Ph.D. However, having taken only the required history class during her sophomore year at Vassar, plus having a career, she had her work cut out for her. She was awarded her Ph.D. by Columbia in 1933. While at Columbia, her faculty advisor was Lynn Thorndike, a noted medievalist who was interested in the history of scientific thought.
Katharine Collier's Ph.D. dissertation was published by Columbia University in 1934 as part of a series of studies in history, economics, and public law edited by the faculty of the Department of Political Science. It was titled Cosmogonies of Our Fathers: Some Theories of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Critics referred to it as "a very thorough piece of investigation" of the clash between scientific and religious beliefs. It is still used in classrooms today. Katharine donated a copy of her work to the Vassar College Library shortly after its publication, inscribed "To my Alma Mater."
Always an admirer of the New England countryside, during the summer of 1933, Katharine built a home on some family property in Burlington, Vermont. Originally it was used as a summer home, but after her retirement in 1942 she moved there year round. Katharine never married, once referring to her state as "single blessedness." However, it appears that at least two men during her lifetime competed for her affections, Charles Harlow Harris and Raymond L. Lunt. During her final years she lived a "peaceful and unexciting life," surrounded by family and friends. She remained active, volunteering at a local hospital and participating in various organizations, from the Green Mountain Club to the League of Women Voters. She was also instrumental in bringing about the Vermont Vassar Club. In addition, she read 350 books each year, from favorite classics to detective stories. Katharine Brownell Collier died peacefully in her sleep on July 3, 1977, at the age of 90 years.
Scope and Content Note
The Katharine Brownell Collier Papers range in period from her turn-of-the-century childhood and years at Vassar College through her career as a schoolteacher and her eventual retirement. The collection's strength lies in the amount of personal correspondence she saved over the years, especially correspondence from Packer friends and her mother, Laura Brownell Collier. The section of miscellaneous correspondence to Katherine Collier includes items such as wedding invitations, greeting cards, postcards, and letters. However, any group of two or more letters was separated by the author's last name and placed with the personal correspondence to Katharine Collier. The letters in miscellaneous correspondence are from people who wrote to Collier only once, such as former pupils, colleagues, or friends of the family. The section of miscellaneous programs and pamphlets in the memorabilia series includes programs from concerts and theatrical productions that Collier apparently attended.
Different researchers may be attracted to these papers for different reasons. For example, the advertisements that each Vassar student received from the Poughkeepsie area may give some clue as to how Vassar was perceived by the citizens of Poughkeepsie. The Vassar College material is interesting because it provides a snapshot of Vassar at the turn-of-the-century, during President Taylor's administration and before the modernization program launched by President MacCracken.
The researcher should be warned, however, that these papers are weak on substance in areas, and tend to contain superficial information. The aspect of Katharine Collier's life in which this is most noticeable is her book, Cosmogonies of Our Fathers. Very little information is available concerning her research notes, data, or any preliminary manuscripts. A few notes or papers from her classes at Columbia University are there, but little else. Wherever possible, cross-references have been added to the manuscript register so the researcher is made aware of certain connections between people and organizations.
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 unpublished or previously published material must be obtained as described in the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library.
Related Materials
Researchers interested in more of the personal aspects of Katharine Brownell Collier's
life are encouraged to examine the Class of 1908 Bulletins, as well as the Alumnae/i Biographical Files in the Archives and
Special Collections Library:
Katharine Brownell Collier File, Alumnae/i Biographical Files
The papers Katharine's sister, Elizabeth Brownell Collier (VC 1906), and mother,
Laura (Brownell) Collier (VC 1874), are also available for research:
Elizabeth Brownell Collier Papers
Laura Brownell Collier Papers
Subject Headings
Names:
Atwater, Bertha
Bourdon, Alice
Collier, Laura Brownell
Harris, Charles Harlow
Lunt, Raymond L.
Rhame, May
Stone, Mabel
Organizations:
Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn
Vassar College--Alumni and alumnae
Alden Kindred of America
Blue Pencil Club (Vanderbilt University)
Places:
Vassar College
New York
Document Types:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence
Diaries
Photographs
Postcards
Printed ephemera
Scrapbooks
VCL Categories:
Family
Vassar College
Encoding Information
Encoded by Madeleine Amodio, June 2011. Updated by Emma Gronbeck, June 2025.
Processing Information
Collection processed by the Vassar College Archive in May 1994. Last updated 3 August 2011.
Preferred Citation
Katharine Brownell Collier Papers, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.
Series List
[ Series I.](series1) PERSONAL CORREPSONDENCE,
1895-1968
[Series II.](series2) EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS,
1895-1947
[Series III.](series3) ORGANIZATIONS,
circa 1904-1977
[Series IV.](series4) NOTES AND NOTEBOOKS,
1895-1977
[Series V.](series5) PERIODICALS AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES,
1890-1962
[Series VI.](series6) PHOTOGRAPHS,
1900-1973
[ Series VII.](series7) ADVERTISEMENTS SENT TO KATHARINE COLLIER,
1896-1969
[Series VIII.](series8) POSTCARDS,
circa 1904-1909
[Series IX.](series9) MEMORABILIA,
1903-1972
Container List
SERIES I. PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1895-1968
Correspondence to Katharine Brownell Collier
Folder 1.1Atwater, Bertha (friend from Bay Shore High School), 1911(14 items)
Folder 1.2Atwater, Bertha, 1912(15 items)
Folder 1.3Atwater, Bertha, 1913(14 items)
Folder 1.4Atwater, Bertha, 1914 Jan-Jun(9 items)
Folder 1.5Atwater, Bertha, 1914 Jul-Dec(6 items)
Folder 1.6Atwater, Bertha, 1915(9 items)
Folder 1.7Atwater, Bertha, 1916-1927, undated(6 items)
Folder 1.8Bell, Cora N. (friend from Bay Shore High School), 1910-1911(9 items)
Folder 1.9Bell, Cora N., 1912-1913(3 items)
Folder 1.10Bell, Cora N., 1914, undated(11 items)
Bell, Cora N. -- see also: folder 4.41
Folder 1.11Bishop, Grace and Calvin (relatives of KBC), 1903-1911(5 items)
Folder 1.12Bourdon, Alice, circa 1918(3 items)
Folder 1.13Bourdon, Alice, 1921-1922(19 items)
Folder 1.14Bourdon, Alice, 1923(22 items)
Folder 1.15Bourdon, Alice, 1924(8 items)
Folder 1.16Bourdon, Alice, 1925(5 items)
Folder 2.1Bourdon, Alice, 1926(5 items)
Folder 2.2Bourdon, Alice, 1927-1929(6 items)
Folder 1.17Bourdon, Alice, 1930-1931, undated(7 items)
Bourdon, Alice -- see also: Fatherless Children of France, folders 3.105-3.106 *most correspondence in French
Folder 1.18Correspondence re: Alice Bourdon, 1925(1 item)
Folder 1.19Bushnell, Ethel (friend from Bay Shore High School), 1914-1915(3 items)
Folder 2.3Bushnell, Ethel, 1942-1943(11 items)
Folder 1.20Bushnell, Ethel, 1944-1945, undated(14 items)
Bushnell, Ethel -- see also: folder 4.67
Folder 1.21Coffin, Philip L., 1928-1932, undated(7 items)
Folder 1.22Collier, Elizabeth Brownell (sister of KBC), 1908-1912(7 items)
Folder 1.23Collier, Elizabeth Brownell, undated(3 items)
Folder 1.24Collier, John A. (father of KBC), 1905-1906(11 items)
Folder 1.25Collier, John A., 1907-1911, undated(4 items)
Folder 1.26Collier, Laura Brownell (mother of KBC), 1905(10 items)
Folder 1.27Collier, Laura Brownell, 1906(9 items)
Folder 1.28Collier, Laura Brownell, 1907 May-Oct(23 items)
Folder 1.29Collier, Laura Brownell, 1907 Nov(11 items)
Folder 1.30Collier, Laura Brownell, 1907 Dec(25 items)
Folder 1.31Collier, Laura Brownell, 1908 Jan(21 items)
Folder 1.32Collier, Laura Brownell, 1908 Feb(16 items)
Folder 1.33Collier, Laura Brownell, 1908 Mar(21 items)
Folder 1.34Collier, Laura Brownell, 1908 Apr(7 items)
Folder 1.35Collier, Laura Brownell, 1908 May(17 items)
Folder 1.36Collier, Laura Brownell, 1911-1913, undated(19 items)
Folder 1.37DeFlaude, Charles, 1925-1928, undated(11 items)
Folder 1.38Dench, Ernest and Iva, 1928-1931, undated(5 items)
Dench, Ernest and Iva -- see also: Blue Pencil Club, folders 5.6-5.24
Folder 1.39Denman, Helen, 1902-1903(7 items)
Folder 1.40Dixon, Robert S., 1917(11 items)
Folder 1.41Dixon, Robert S., 1918-1919(5 items)
Folder 1.42Eichinger, Romain (correspondence in French), 1917 Mar-Jul(9 items)
Folder 1.43Eichinger, Romain, 1917 Oct-Dec(11 items)
Folder 1.44Eichinger, Romain, 1918 Jan-Apr(8 items)
Folder 1.45Eichinger, Romain, 1918 May-Aug(8 items)
Folder 1.46Eichinger, Romain, 1919-1921(6 items)
Folder 1.47Eichinger, Romain, 1926-1931, undated(9 items)
Folder 1.48Gross, Elizabeth (friend from Bay Shore High School), 1911-1912(4 items)
Folder 1.49Harris, Charles Harlow, 1911-1912(6 items)
Folder 1.50Harris, Charles Harlow, 1913(6 items)
Folder 1.51Harris, Charles Harlow, 1914 Jan-Apr(6 items)
Folder 1.52Harris, Charles Harlow, 1914 May(7 items)
Folder 1.53Harris, Charles Harlow, 1914 Jun-Dec(6 items)
Folder 1.54Harris, Charles Harlow, 1915 Mar-Jul(7 items)
Folder 1.55Harris, Charles Harlow, 1915 Aug-Oct(6 items)
Folder 1.56Harris, Charles Harlow, 1916(9 items)
Folder 1.57Harris, Charles Harlow, 1917-1918(9 items)
Harris, Charles Harlow -- see also: folder 3.25
Folder 1.58Harris, Gertrude (sister of Charles Harris), 1914-1915(3 items)
Folder 1.59Hobson, Mary, 1933, undated(5 items)
Folder 1.60Holbrook, Edith, 1909-1915(6 items)
Folder 1.61Ives, Edna, 1907-1911(6 items)
Folder 1.62Jaklitsch, Frank, 1922-1926(10 items)
Folder 1.63Jaklitsch, Frank, 1927(4 items)
Folder 1.64Jaklitsch, Frank, 1928-1933, undated(7 items)
Jaklitsch, Frank -- see also: folder 4.67
Folder 1.65Jameson, Ruth, 1912-1913(3 items)
Folder 1.66Karagueziau, A.H., 1906-1907(2 items)
Folder 1.67King, Annie G. (VC 1909), 1908-1909(10 items)
Folder 1.68King, Annie G., 1910-1914(5 items)
Folder 1.69King, Annie G., 1916-1928, undated(8 items, including 1 fragile item in mylar sheets)
King, Annie G. VC 1909 -- see also: folder 4.42
Folder 1.70Kingsbury, Peggy, 1918-1925, undated(8 items)
Folder 1.71Laval, Marie (most correspondence in French), 1918-1920(6 items)
Laval, Marie, see also: Fatherless Children of France, folders 3.105-3.106, *most correspondence in French
Folder 1.72Loder, Marion (teacher at Packer, 1887-1914), 1895(4 items)
Folder 2.4Lunt, Raymond L., 1906(14 items)
Folder 2.5Lunt, Raymond L., 1907 Jan-Mar(10 items)
Folder 2.6Lunt, Raymond L., 1907 Apr-Jul(15 items)
Folder 2.7Lunt, Raymond L., 1907 Aug-Oct(14 items)
Folder 2.8Lunt, Raymond L., 1907 Nov-Dec(15 items)
Folder 2.9Lunt, Raymond L., 1908 Jan-Mar(16 items)
Folder 2.10Lunt, Raymond L., 1908 Apr-Jun(16 items)
Folder 2.11Lunt, Raymond L., 1908 Jul-Sep(15 items)
Folder 2.12Lunt, Raymond L., 1908 Oct-Dec(9 items)
Folder 2.13Lunt, Raymond L., 1909 Jan-Aug(21 items)
Folder 2.14Lunt, Raymond L., 1909 Sep-Dec(9 items)
Folder 2.15Lunt, Raymond L., 1910(4 items)
Folder 2.16Lunt, Raymond L., undated(1 fragment)
Lunt, Raymond L. -- see also folder 4.43
Folder 2.17Martin, Marjorie (friend from Packer), 1901-1905(4 items)
Folder 2.18Martin, Marjorie, 1906-1907, undated(9 items)
Martin, Marjorie (friend from Packer) -- see also folders 3.27, 4.49
Folder 2.19Morton, Pearl and James, 1928-1944, undated(9 items)
Morton, Pearl and James -- see also: Blue Pencil Club, folders 5.6-5.24
Folder 2.20Nannie, 1899(1 item)
Folder 2.21Nicosia, Josephine, 1928-1930(6 items)
Folder 2.22Nicosia, Josephine, 1932-1933, undated(3 items)
Folder 2.23Orinsbee, Mary Royce, 1905(3 items)
Folder 2.24Palmer, Madge (friend from Packer), 1903-1905(10 items)
Folder 2.25Palmer, Madge, 1906-1914(8 items)
Folder 2.26Pearce, Viola Walker(friend from Bay Shore High School), 1910-1912(9 items)
Folder 2.27Pearce, Viola Walker, 1913-1915, undated(11 items)
Folder 2.28Poléntier, Simone, 1920-1921(3 items)
Folder 2.29Powell, Mary B., 1902-1903, undated(3 items)
Folder 2.30Pullis, Jessica Kennedy (friend from Bay Shore High School), 1911-1912(8 items)
Folder 2.31Pullis, Jessica Kennedy, 1914, undated(5 items)
Pullis, Jessica Kennedy -- see also folder 4.45
Folder 2.32Rathjen, Ruth, 1929-1965(5 items)
Folder 2.33Rhame, Eleanora "May" Davis (friend from Packer), 1904(2 items)
Folder 2.34Rhame, May, 1906(7 items)
Folder 1.73Rhame, May, 1907(7 items)
Folder 1.74Rhame, May, 1908(6 items)
Folder 1.75Rhame, May, 1909 Jan-Apr(10 items)
Folder 1.76Rhame, May, 1909 May-Dec(8 items)
Folder 1.77Rhame, May, 1910(5 items)
Folder 1.78Rhame, May, 1911 Mar-Aug(3 items)
Folder 1.79Rhame, May, 1911 Oct-Dec(5 items)
Folder 1.80Rhame, May, 1912(3 items)
Folder 1.81Rhame, May, 1913-1914(4 items)
Folder 1.82Rhame, May, 1917-1918(4 items)
Folder 1.83Rhame, May, 1930-1933(5 items)
Folder 1.84Rhame, May, 1934-1944(4 items)
Folder 1.85Rhame, May, undated(8 items)
Folder 1.86Rhame, May, undated(7 items)
Folder 1.87Rhame, May, undated(4 items)
Rhame, Eleanora "May" Davis -- see also folder 4.45
Folder 1.88Rhame, Sophie May (daughter of May Rhame), 1926-1933(6 items)
Folder 1.89Rhame, William (son of May Rhame), 1927-1933(6 items)
Rhame, William (son of May Rhame) -- see also folder 4.47
Folder 1.90Safford, Anne and Helen, 1900-1906(6 items)
Folder 1.91Safford, Anne and Helen, 1907-1925, undated(11 items)
Folder 1.92Smith, Clarence E., 1912-1913(3 items)
Folder 1.93Smith, Ruth Carey, 1928-1943(9 items)
Folder 1.94Smith, Ruth Carey, 1944-1968(4 items)
Smith, Ruth Carey -- see also: folder 4.49
Folder 1.95Stone, Mabel (friend from Packer, Smith Class of 1909), 1902-1903(15 items)
Folder 1.96Stone, Mabel, 1904 Jan-Aug(13 items)
Folder 1.97Stone, Mabel, 1904 Sep-Dec(7 items)
Folder 3.1Stone, Mabel, 1905 Jan-May(7 items)
Folder 3.2Stone, Mabel, 1905 Aug-Dec(12 items)
Folder 3.3Stone, Mabel, 1906 Jan-Jul(11 items)
Folder 3.4Stone, Mabel, 1906 Aug-Dec(14 items)
Folder 3.5Stone, Mabel, 1907(9 items)
Folder 3.6Stone, Mabel, 1908(6 items)
Folder 3.7Stone, Mabel, 1909-1911(9 items)
Folder 3.8Stone, Mabel, undated(11 items)
Stone, Mabel (friend from Packer, Smith Class of 1909) -- see also folder 3.28
Folder 2.35Sullivan, Ruth, 1914-1918, undated(9 items)
Folder 2.36Talmage, David "Budd" Jr., 1906(3 items)
Folder 2.37Vinçon, Roger, 1918-1921(5 items)
Vinçon, Roger -- see also: Fatherless Children of France, folders 3.105-3.106, 4.81
Folder 2.38[Wales, Theodosia H.] VC 1906, 1906-1907(2 items)
Folder 2.39Webb, Ethel, 1919(6 items)
Webb, Ethel -- see also: folder 4.65
Folder 2.40West, Ethel, 1899-1903(8 items)
Folder 2.41West, Ethel, 1906 Feb-May(11 items)
Folder 2.42West, Ethel, 1906 Jul-Dec(4 items)
Folder 2.43West, Ethel, 1907-1908(9 items)
Folder 2.44West, Ethel, 1909-1915, undated(6 items)
West, Ethel -- see also: folder 4.48
Folder 2.45Wheeler, Loraine H. (cousin of KBC) includes one letter re: Elizabeth Collier, 1931-1969(7 items)
Wheeler, Loraine H. (cousin of KBC) -- see also: folders 4.38, 4.63
Folder 2.46Wood, Frank R., 1930-1932(5 items)
Wood, Frank R. -- see also: Blue Pencil Club, folders 5.6-5.24
Folder 2.47Woodbury, Ella A., 1913-1915, undated(7 items)
Folder 2.48Wright, Anna Collier (relative of KBC), 1903(1 item)
Folder 2.49Wright, Donald Collier (cousin of KBC), (3 items)
Wright, Donald Collier (cousin of KBC) -- see also: folder 4.67
Folder 2.50Wright, Eleanora F., 1912(4 items)
Folder 2.51Wright, Eleanora F., 1913-1918(7 items)
Wright, Eleanora F. -- see also: folder 3.30
Folder 3.9Miscellaneous Letters, 1895-1900(11 items)
Folder 3.10Miscellaneous Letters, 1902-1903(8 items)
Folder 3.11Miscellaneous Letters, 1904-1908(4 items)
Folder 3.12Miscellaneous Letters, 1909-1918(12 items)
Folder 3.13Miscellaneous Letters, 1919-1925(8 items)
Folder 3.14Miscellaneous Letters, 1927-1928(8 items)
Folder 3.15Miscellaneous Letters, 1929-1930(6 items)
Folder 3.16Miscellaneous Letters, 1931-1965(10 items)
Folder 3.17Miscellaneous Letters, undated(6 items)
Folder 3.31Thurp, E. H. to Chauncey [Brownell], 1925(1 item)
Folder 3.18Miscellaneous Greeting Cards and Postcards, 1905-1914(8 items)
Folder 3.19Miscellaneous Greeting Cards and Postcards, 1919-1945(7 items)
Folder 3.20Miscellaneous Greeting Cards and Postcards, undated(8 items)
Folder 3.21Miscellaneous Greeting Cards and Postcards, undated(7 items)
Folder 3.22Miscellaneous Calling Cards, 1906-1910, undated(9 items)
Folder 3.23Wedding Invitations, undated(9 items)
Folder 4.76Correspondence to Katharine Brownell Collier (KBC), undated
Folder 3.120Correspondence to KBC: Miscellaneous Notes, undated
Folder 3.121Correspondence to KBC: Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 3.122Correspondence to KBC: From Friend in Bayshore, LI, undated
Folder 3.123Correspondence to KBC: Vassar College, undated
Folder 4.91Correspondence to KBC: Vassar College, undated
Folder 4.92Correspondence to KBC: South Willard Street, undated
Folder 4.93Correspondence to KBC: De Kalb Avenue, undated
Folder 4.94Correspondence to KBC: De Kalb Avenue, undated
Folder 4.95Correspondence to KBC: De Kalb Avenue, undated
Folder 4.96Correspondence to KBC: De Kalb Avenue, undated
Folder 6.1Correspondence to KBC: De Kalb Avenue, undated
Folder 6.2Correspondence to KBC: De Kalb Avenue, undated
Folder 6.3Correspondence to KBC: Vassar College, undated
Folder 6.4Correspondence to KBC: Letters from VC Friends While in College, circa 1904-1908
Folder 6.5Correspondence to KBC: Letters from VC Friends While in College, circa 1904-1908
Folder 6.6Correspondence to KBC: Letters from VC Friends While in College, circa 1904-1908
Folder 6.7Correspondence to KBC: Letters from Vassar Friends after College, undated
Folder 6.8Correspondence to KBC: Vassar College, undated
Folder 6.9Miscellaneous Correspondence to KBC, undated
Folder 6.10Miscellaneous Correspondence to KBC, undated
Correspondence from or about Katharine Brownell Collier
Folder 3.24Grand Central Station, 1908(1 item)
Folder 3.25Harris, Charles Harlow, 1914-1918(6 items, 1 fragment)
Folder 3.26Langman, Jeanette, 1914(1 item)
Folder 3.27Martin, Marjorie, 1941(2 items)
Folder 3.28Stone, Mabel, 1903(5 items, 1 fragment)
Folder 3.29Unknown persons, 1918-1926, undated(6 items, 1 fragment)
Folder 3.30Wright, Eleanora, 1913(1 item)
Folder 3.31Thurp, E.H. to Chauncey [Brownell], 1925(1 item)
Folder 3.119Correspondence from KBC, undated
SERIES II. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, 1895-1947
Packer Collegiate Institute
see also: folders 5.45-5.50, 4.3, 4.46, 4.17
Folder 2.52Report Cards, 1895-1898(8 items)
Folder 2.53Report Cards and teachers' comments, 1899-1900, undated(11 items)
Folder 2.54The Packer Alumna, 1906 Jun(TS, 16 p.)
Folder 2.55The Packer Alumna, 1906 Dec(TS, 18 p.)
Folder 2.56The Packer Alumna, 1907 Dec(TS, 18 p.)
Folder 2.57The Packer Alumna, 1908 Jun(TS, 21 p.)
Folder 2.58The Packer Alumna, 1942 Jun(TS, 29 p.)
Folder 2.59Annual Report of the President to the Board of Trustees, 1945-1946(TS, 21 p.)
Folder 2.60Packer Associate Alumnae re: membership and dues, 1906(4 items)
Folder 2.61Packer Association Alumnae events; including songbook of Packer songs, 1906-1909, undated(7 items)
Folder 2.62Correspondence From Truman J. Backus, President of Packer, 1902-1904(2 items)
Folder 2.63Other Packer-related correspondence, 1906-1907(5 items)
Folder 2.64Programs-- "Little Women" role of Beth played by KBC, 1901 May(6 items)
Folder 2.65Programs-- Other programs, 1903-1904(7 items)
Folder 2.66Programs-- Packer's Centennial Celebration, 1944-1945(7 items)
Folder 6.13Programs-- Packer Collegiate Institute, undated
Vassar College
see also folders 4.1, 4.73, 3.81, 3.111, 5.125-5.128
Folder 2.67Entrance Record, circa 1904(1 item)
Folder 2.68Examination Questions — Freshman Greek, Freshman English, and Solid Geometry, 1905(5 items)
Folder 2.69Examination Questions — Intro to Philosophy, General Biology, Principles of Economics, A French, 1907(4 items)
Folder 2.70Examination Questions — Ethics, Classicism and Romanticism, Geology B, B French, 1908(7 items)
Folder 2.71Schedule of Classes, 1904-1905, undated(4 items)
Folder 2.72AAVC re: life membership, revision of by-laws, annuity payment, includes 1 annotated item, 1923-1942, undated(8 items)
Folder 2.73Correspondence re: events, reunion, alumnae fund, 1908-1947, undated(17 items)
Folder 3.32Vassar Club of New York events, annual report, etc., 1932-1933, undated(12 items)
Folder 3.33Athletic Association of Vassar College — Election Ballots, 1905-1906(1 item)
Folder 3.34Athletic Association of Vassar College — Field Day Programs, 1905-1908(3 items)
Folder 3.35Athletic Association of Vassar College — Record of Physical Measurements, undated(1 item)
Folder 3.36Christian Association of Vassar College — Annual Reports, 1905-1907(TS, 97 p.)
Folder 3.37Christian Association of Vassar College — Bible Study/Mission Study, 1904-1908, undated(8 items)
Folder 3.38Christian Association of Vassar College — By-laws annotated by KBC, undated(2 items)
Folder 3.39Christian Association of Vassar College — Election Ballots, 1905, 1908(3 items)
Folder 3.40Christian Association of Vassar College — Prayer Meeting Topics some annotated by KBC, 1904-1908(21 items)
Folder 3.41Class of 1908 — Freshman Year, 1904-1905(9 items)
Folder 3.42Class of 1908 — Sophomore Year sign "Grinding Sophomore," 1905-1906(1 item)
Folder 3.43Class of 1908 — Senior Year Mohonk, Senior Parlor, "The Gassarion," 1907-1908(3 items)
Folder 3.44Class of 1908 — Commencement programs, luncheon, etc., 1908 Jun 10(10 items)
Folder 3.45Class of 1908 — Class Songs, undated(MS, 6 p.)
Folder 8.1 (Oversize)Class of 1908 — Class Songs, undated(TS, 1 p.)
Folder 3.46Class of 1908 — Class Songbook, undated(TS with MS notes, 76 p.)
Folder 3.47College Settlement Association — Brochures, etc., undated(TS, 4 p.)
Folder 3.48Correspondence from Faculty arranged alphabetically by last name, including Laura J. Wylie and Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, circa 1904-1908(13 items)
Folder 3.49Correspondence from students, 1906-1908, undated(5 items)
Folder 3.50Miscellaneous Correspondence, circa 1904-1908(15 items)
Folder 3.51Philalethias Membership, 1904(1 items)
Folder 3.52Society of Grand-daughters of Vassar College —Membership, meeting notices, circa 1904-1908(7 items)
Folder 3.53Vassar College Students' Association — Election Ballots, 1905-1906(1 item)
Folder 3.54Advertisements for Vassarion, 1905(1 item)
Folder 8.2 (Oversize)Advertisements for Vassarion, circa 1904-1908(2 items)
Folder 4.78Vassar College, undated
Folder 6.14Vassar College, Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 6.15Vassar College, Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 6.16Vassar College, Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 6.17Vassar College, Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 6.18Vassar College, Vassar-Yale Affiliation, undated
Folder 6.19Vassar College, Trustees Proposal to the Faculty, undated
Folder 6.20Vassar College, Report of the Comprehensive Planning Committee, undated
Folder 6.21Vassar College Alumnae/i Affairs- Publications, undated
Bay Shore High School
Folder 3.55Correspondence from other faculty members, circa 1911(1 item)
Folder 3.56Program "First National Bank," circa 1908-1911(1 item)
Bushwick High School
Folder 3.57Correspondence from Brooklyn Public Library re: books loaned to the school, 1918(1 item)
Folder 3.58Correspondence from Brooklyn District Attorney re: chapter 158 of Education Laws of 1918 and its effect on a French teacher at Bushwick, 1918(2 items)
Folder 3.59Correspondence from Departmental of Education re: denial of KBC's application for license as assistant teacher, 1911(1 item)
Folder 3.60Correspondence from other faculty members, 1918-1930(4 items)
Folder 3.61Correspondence from High School Teachers Association of New York City, 1930(1 item)
Folder 3.62Correspondence from parents of students re: students' tardiness, 1913-1914(2 item)
Folder 3.63Correspondence from students re: a reunion planned by KBC, 1913(11 items)
Folder 3.64Correspondence from students re: illness of KBC, 1925(1 item)
Folder 3.65Correspondence to students from KBC — open letter to first-year students; advice as grade advisor; info for parents (in 3 languages), 1923(5 items)
Folder 8.3 (Oversize)Election Poster "Miss Collier for Treasurer," undated(2 items)
Folder 3.66Evaluations of KBC, change in salary, 1913-1942(4 items)
Folder 3.67Programs — Graduation exercises, Bushwick High School Dramatic Society, 1918-1927(5 items)
Folder 8.3 (Oversize)The 3N-4J News published weekly at Bushwick Annex in PS 75, 1916
Folder 3.68Bushwick Beacon yearbook, 1914(TS, 159 p.)
Folder 3.69Bushwick Beacon, 1916(TS, 108 p.)
Folder 8.3 (Oversize)The High School Teachers Association Bulletin, 1934(TS, 4 p.)
Folder 6.11KBC's Students in LI: Teacher Reviews, undated
Folder 6.12KBC's Students in LI: Miscellaneous, undated
Columbia University
see also folders 5.55-5.58
Folder 3.70Syllabus(?) for a history course, some pages missing annotated by KBC, undated(TS, 5 p.)
Folder 3.71General correspondence to KBC from Columbia University, 1917-1928(7 items)
Folder 3.72General correspondence, 1929-1930(4 items)
Folder 3.73General correspondence, 1934-1949(6 items)
Folder 3.74Correspondence re: publishing KBC's book Cosmogenies of Our Fathers, 1934-1967(4 items)
Folder 3.75Correspondence from Lynn Thorndike, KBC's faculty advisor, 1928-1931(2 items)
Folder 3.76Correspondence from Lynn Thorndike, including a draft of KBC's reply, 1932(14 items)
Folder 3.77Correspondence from Lynn Thorndike, 1933-1934(6 items)
Folder 3.78Correspondence to Lynn Thorndike from KBC, 1928, undated(2 items, 1 fragment)
Folder 3.79Programs — Columbia University Library, Commencement 1934, 1930-1934(2 items)
Folder 4.77Columbia University, undated
Other Educational Institutions
Folder 3.80Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences: Extension Courses, School of Pedagogy, 1930-1931(2 items)
Folder 3.81College of the City of New York letter to KBC re: her thesis in Feminism, 1914(1 item)
Folder 3.82Annual Report of the Penn Normal, Industrial, and Agricultural School, SC, 1906-1907(TS, 48 p.)
Folder 3.83University of Vermont re: summer session credit for KBC, 1927(2 items)
SERIES III. ORGANIZATIONS, circa 1904-1977
Alden Kindred of America
Folder 3.84Correspondence: from Edward Alden, Secretary, 1927(5 items)
Folder 3.85Events: programs of events, 1931-1932(TS, 4 p.)
Folder 3.86Genealogy: Tracing the name "Paybodie" or "Peabody," undated(TS, 2 p.)
Folder 3.87Genealogy: Tracing Alden family, undated(TS, 12 p.)
Folder 3.88Membership: Election of KBC as an absentee member, 1939(1 item)
Folder 3.89Newsletter : Alden Kindred Gossip, 1931 Oct(TS, 7 p.)
Folder 3.90Newsletter : Alden Kindred Gossip, 1934 May(TS, 6 p.)
Folder 3.91Newsletter : Alden Kindred Gossip, 1934 Summer(TS, 6 p.)
Folder 3.92Newsletter : Alden Kindred Gossip, 1934 Nov(TS, 4 p.)
Folder 3.93Newsletter : Alden Kindred Gossip, 1939 Jan(TS, 6 p.)
Folder 3.94Newsletter : Alden Kindred Gossip, 1939 Apr(TS, 5 p.)
Folder 3.95Newsletter : Alden Kindred Gossip, 1939 May(TS, 6 p.)
American Red Cross
Folder 3.96Correspondence: from Adrian Van Sinderen, Chairman of Brooklyn Chapter, 1920(2 items)
Folder 3.97War Relief Materials includes sweater patterns and small Red Cross logo, circa 1941-1945(4 items)
Anti-Saloon League
Folder 3.98Correspondence: from Ernest Cherrington, Director of Education and Publicity, 1933(1 item)
Folder 3.99Pamphlets and brochures: policy statements, undated(2 items)
Folder 5.1Pamphlets and brochures: "Prohibition Facts," "The Lady or the Serpent?" undated(3 items)
Folder 5.2Pamphlets and brochures: "It Takes Two To Make A Bootlegger," "If Not Prohibition, What?" by Carrie Chapman Catt, undated(3 items)
Folder 5.3Publications: The American Issue, 1931 Jun 20(TS, 16 p.)
Folder 5.4Publications: The American Issue, 1932 Nov 5(TS, 16 p.)
Folder 5.5Publications: Anti-Saloon League Yearbook, 1931(TS, 220 p.)
Blue Pencil Club
Folder 5.6Correspondence: among club members re: club organization, meetings, and various written works, 1925-1944, undated(12 items)
Folder 5.7Programs: banquet programs, 1929-1932(2 items)
Folder 5.8Publications: memorial booklets for Hazel Pratt Adams and Alice Lovett Lewis, VC 1904, 1922, 1927(TS, 48 p.)
Folder 5.9Publications: The Brooklynite, official organ of the BPC, 1917-1918(TS, 12 p.)
Folder 5.10Publications: The Brooklynite, 1921(TS, 6 p.)
Folder 5.11Publications: The Brooklynite, 1923(TS, 16 p.)
Folder 5.12Publications: The Brooklynite, includes annotated issue, 1924(TS, 16 p.)
Folder 5.13Publications: The Brooklynite, includes annotated issue and 17th anniversary issue, 1925(TS, 20 p.)
Folder 5.14Publications: The Brooklynite, includes annotated issue, 1926(TS, 16 p.)
Folder 5.15Publications: The Brooklynite, includes annotated issue, 1927(TS, 20 p.)
Folder 5.16Publications: The Brooklynite, 1928(TS, 12 p.)
Folder 5.17Publications: The Brooklynite, includes 21st anniversary issue, 1929(TS, 20 p.)
Folder 5.18Publications: The Brooklynite, 1930(TS, 8 p.)
Folder 5.19Publications: The Brooklynite, includes annotated issue, 1931-1932(TS, 12 p.)
Folder 5.20Publications: The Brooklynite, includes 25th anniversary issue, 1933(TS, 34 p.)
Folder 5.21Publications: The Brooklynite, 1935-1936(TS, 16 p.)
Folder 5.22Publications: The Brooklynite, includes annotated issue, 1937-1939(TS, 16 p.)
Folder 5.23Publications: The Brooklynite, includes annotated issue, 1940-1944(TS, 12 p.)
Folder 5.24Publications: The Brooklynite, undated(TS, 2 p., fragments)
Folder 4.80Blue Pencil Club, undated
Congregational Church and Related Organizations
Folder 5.25Clinton Avenue (Brooklyn) Congregational Church: church bulletins, 1914-1932(4 items)
Folder 5.26Clinton Avenue Congregational Church: booklet "My Church and Its National Work," circa 1927(TS, 23 p.)
Folder 3.100Clinton Avenue Congregational Church: correspondence from pastors, 1925-1929(2 items)
Folder 3.101Clinton Avenue Congregational Church: Business and Professional Women's Club, KBC, Chairman correspondence, programs, 1926-1928(5 items)
Folder 3.102Clinton Avenue Congregational Church: Women's League for World Service, undated(2 items)
Folder 3.103First Congregational Church Bay Shore, NY: programs, bulletins, 1910-1911(6 items)
Folder 3.104Miscellaneous Churches First Congregational Church, Washington D.C.; First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn; First Reformed Church: bulletins, undated(6 items)
Folder 5.27Religious Union for World Peace, 1938(5 items)
Folder 6.22Congregational Church and Related Organizations, undated
Folder 6.23Congregational Church and Related Organizations, undated
Folder 6.24Congregational Church and Related Organizations, undated
Fatherless Children of France
Folder 3.105Correspondence to KBC re: Alice Bourdon and Roger Vinçon, 1919-1921(6 items)
Folder 3.106Receipts for sending money to France, 1921-1930(14 items)
Folder 4.81Fatherless Children of France, undated
Green Mountain Club, Burlington (VT) Section
Folder 3.107Program from annual meeting, 1948 Jan 14(1 item)
League of Nations Non-Partisan Association
Folder 3.108Letter from George Wickersham, President, to KBC, 1928(3 items)
League of Women Voters
Folder 3.109Events, 1930(2 items)
Folder 5.28Publications: "Weekly News" New York LWV, 1930-1933(TS, 6 p.)
Folder 5.29Publications: "Green Mountain Citizen," Vermont LWV including Dumbarton Oaks United Nations proposal information, 1945(TS, 10 p.)
Folder 5.30Publications: "Let Freedom Ring," 1945-1946(TS, 11 p.)
National Amateur Press
Folder 5.31Dues and membership info, 1930(1 item)
National League of Women Voters
Folder 5.32Publications: "The Working Women's Club, What It Is…;" "The Club-Worker," 1906, undated(TS, 31 p.)
Phi Beta Kappa
Folder 5.33Membership and dues, 1908(4 items)
Folder 5.34Events, advertisements, 1930-1941(4 items)
Student Volunteer Movement
Folder 5.35Correspondence from SVM leadership, including brochures, etc., 1907-1908(10 items)
Folder 5.36Correspondence from SVM leadership, including brochures, etc., 1915-1917(3 items)
Williston (VT) Historical Society
Folder 5.37Membership card, 1977(1 item)
Folder 6.26Williston [VT] Historical Society, undated
Women's University Club
Folder 5.38Membership card, circa 1904-1908(1 item)
Folder 4.79Women's University Club, undated
Folder 6.25Women's University Club, undated
Young Women's Christian Association
Folder 5.39Correspondence, 1906-1907(3 items)
Folder 5.40Events and programs, 1906-1932(24 items)
Folder 5.41Memoranda, 1908(TS, 2 p.)
Folder 5.42Publications: State Executive Committee Report, 1905-1906(TS, 33 p.)
Folder 5.43Publications: "Bible Study Courses" and "This Year's Books," 1906(TS, 17 p.)
Folder 5.44Publications: Annual Report of Territorial Committee of the National Board of YWCA, 1906-1907(TS, 17 p.)
SERIES IV. NOTES AND NOTEBOOKS1895-1977
Notes Written by Katharine Brownell Collier
Folder 5.45The Indian school composition, 1895(MS, 8 p. 2 drafts)
Folder 5.46List of girls in 2nd Prep. B "I like, passable, I dislike," 1899(MS, 1 p.)
Folder 5.47A Girl I Know school composition, 1899 Dec 13(MS, 3 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.48History, test or quiz, 1900 Nov 15(MS, 2 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.49The Italian Fruit Vendor school composition, 1902 Feb 21(MS, 2 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.50A Little Journey school composition, 1903 Apr 27(MS, 5 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.51Paragraph beginning "Orpheus cuma Manibus timeretur…," circa 1904-1908(MS, 1 p.)
Folder 5.52Sketch of turkey, 1907 Nov 28(pen sketch, undated1 p.)
Folder 5.53Notes and a draft of a letter by KBC to principal of Bay Shore High School, including annotations by Laura Collier, circa 1908(MS, 3 p.)
Folder 5.54Story beginning: "St. Peter stood guard at the golden gate…," circa 1910(MS, 4 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.55European History [Columbia(?)], 1926 Jul 28(MS, 5 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.56European History [Columbia(?)], 1926 Aug 12(MS, 7 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.57Columbia University Department of History, Foreign Language – French, 1927 May-Aug(TS, 4 p., 4 drafts)
Folder 5.58Columbia University Department of History, Foreign Language – Latin, circa 1927(TS, 4 p., 3 drafts)
Folder 5.59List of Christmas cards received, 1930(TS/MS, 2 p.)
Folder 5.60Those were the days poem, circa 1937(MS, 2 p., 1 draft, 1 fragment)
Folder 5.61Oh That I Were a Bird poem, 1938 May 21(TS, 1 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.62There's a housing shortage in my garden… poem, circa 1946(MS, 1 p., 2 drafts)
Folder 5.63American Nation series… booklist, undated(MS, 3 p.)
Folder 5.64anstatt or statt… German vocabulary list, undated(MS, 8 p.)
Folder 5.65Are you some god or mortal? excerpts from the Odyssey (?) some in Greek, undated(MS, 2 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.66Beautiful eyes are those… verses, undated(MS, 9 p.)
Folder 5.67Canoeing Time short essay, undated(TS, 1 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.68Class-meeting after luncheon… verses, undated(MS, 1 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.69Classic Slang, undated(MS, 2 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.70Coming from NY by car…, undated(MS, 3 fragments)
Folder 5.71Echoes from Birdland, undated(TS, 2 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.72Famous Pairs, undated(TS, 9 p., 2 drafts)
Folder 5.73Famous Pairs, undated(TS/MS, 8 p., 1 draft, 2 fragments)
Folder 5.74Famous Pairs: answer key, undated(MS/TS, 1 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.75For Mary G… verses relating to various friends, undated(MS, 9 p.)
Folder 5.76The foregoing generations beheld God… short essay, undated(MS, 1 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.77Half our knowledge… list of quotes from various authors, undated(MS, 25 p.)
Folder 5.78Il y a plusieurs… various notes in French, undated(MS, 22 p.)
Folder 5.79It's easy enough to be pleasant… poem, undated(MS, 1 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.80Lakeview 1887 list of KBC's summer destinations, undated(MS, 1 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.81The last traces of snow…, undated(MS, 4 p., 3 drafts)
Folder 5.82Latin, undated(MS, 3 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.83My first wears my second… riddles and key, undated(MS/TS, 3 p.)
Folder 5.84No one thinks of… essay about minimum wage, undated(MS, 1 p., 1 fragment)
Folder 5.85Old Sayings, undated(TS, 8 p., 8 drafts)
Folder 5.86Peter Heylyn… notes regarding books, undated(MS, 2 p.)
Folder 5.87Power of Emperor… notes and outline, undated(MS, 4 p.)
Folder 5.88Scene 2 excerpts from a play, undated(TS, 12 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.89She determined to change… verses, undated(MS, 1 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.90The sun drops down… poem, undated(MS, 1 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.91Thorns and Roses verses, undated(MS, 2 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.92Topics for Discussion, undated(TS, 1 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.93Until recent times… essay about gold mining, undated(MS, 1 p., 1 draft)
Folder 5.94When that April… verses, possibly removed from notebook, undated(MS, 13 p.)
Folder 5.95Women, undated(TS with MS notes, 8 p., incomplete draft)
Folder 4.82Marches sitting room. Play.undated
Folder 4.83Playsundated
Folder 4.84The Septemvirateundated
Folder 4.85Academic Papersundated
Folder 4.86Short Storiesundated
Folder 4.87Short Storiesundated
Folder 4.88Verse, 1935 Apr 3(1 item, photocopy)
Folder 4.89Notebooks: Biology, circa 1908
Folder 4.90Notes by KBC: Biology, 1935 Aug 9(1 item, photocopy)
Folder 3.113Notes by KBC, circa 1976(1 item)
Folder 6.27Famous Pairs, undated
Folder 6.28Girl's Names, undated
Folder 6.29Riddles, undated
Folder 6.30Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 6.31Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 6.32Miscellaneous, undated
Notes Written by Others
Folder 5.96Sketch of turkey by R. Batas, 1907(sketch, 1 p.)
Folder 5.97Notes from a meeting of the NYC Association of High School Teachers of English, 1913(TS, 2 p.)
Folder 5.98If I Were a Boy and "A Christmas Spirit;" written by a pupil, 1932(MS, 4 p., 2 drafts)
Folder 5.99Verses and quotations written by others, undated(MS, 4 p.)
Notebooks Belonging to Katharine Brownell Collier
Folder 3.110Katharine Brownell Collier: PCI school notebook from Packer, 1899(MS, 24 p.)
Folder 3.111Spelling book from Packer, circa 1900(TS with MS notes, 178 p.)
Folder 3.112Daybook, 1901(MS, 32 p.)
Folder 4.1History class notes, probably from VC, circa 1904-1908(MS, 136 p.)
Folder 4.2Account book, 1905-1908(MS, 72 p.)
Folder 4.3Daybook, 1909(MS, 16 p.)
Folder 4.43-ring notebook, circa 1941(MS, 109 p.)
Folder 4.5Daybook, 1971(MS, 108 p.)
Folder 4.6Articles about KBC, Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 4.7Articles about KBC, Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 4.8Articles about KBC, Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 4.9Articles about KBC, Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 4.10Articles about KBC, Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 4.11Articles about KBC, Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 8.4 (Oversize)One of Vermont's Great Ladies source: The Burlington Free Press, 1977 Mar 2(2 items)
Folder 4.12Obituary for Katharine Collier source: The Burlington Free Press, 1977 Jul 5(1 item, photocopy)
Folder 6.33Notebooks Belonging to KBC, Block Pads, undated
Folder 6.34Notebooks Belonging to KBC, Block Pads, undated
Folder 6.35Notebooks Belonging to KBC, Religious Convictions, undated
SERIES V. PERIODICALS AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, 1890-1962
Articles Collected by Katharine Brownell Collier
Folder 4.13Articles about animals sources unknown, 1890, undated(6 items)
Folder 4.14Articles about art, sources: The New York Times, unknown, undated(3 items)
Folder 4.15Cartoons and jokes, sources unknown, undated(3 items)
Folder 4.16Miscellaneous articles, sources unknown, undated(4 items)
Folder 4.17Articles about or of poetry and prose, sources: The Burlington Free Press, The New York Times, The [NY] Evening Sun, 1903-1962(3 items)
Folder 8.4 (Oversize)Article about or of poetry and prose,undated(1 item)
Folder 4.18Article about or of poetry and prose, sources unknown, undated(12 items)
Folder 4.19Articles about politics: WWI, sources: The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, unknown, 1914-1918(18 items)
Folder 4.20Articles about politics, sources unknown, 1932, undated(5 items)
Folder 4.21Articles about Vassar College, sources: The New York Times , unknown, 1905, undated(2 items)
Folder 4.22Articles about philosophical and religious mattersundated
Folder 4.23International Conciliation, 1912
Folder 4.24Hints, 1915
Folder 4.25The Family, 1927
Folder 4.26Journal of the AAUW, 1945
Folder 4.27Leisure Hours, 1929
Folder 4.28The Social Hygiene Bulletin, 1920
Folder 4.29The Meliorist, 1929-1930
Folder 3.114Articles Collected by KBC, undated
Folder 6.36Periodicals Collected by KBC, Vassar, undated
Folder 6.37Articles Collected by KBC, undated
Folder 6.38Articles Collected by KBC. "To the Women Students of America", undated
SERIES VI. PHOTOGRAPHS, 1900-1973
Katharine Brownell Collier, Family, and Friends
Folder 4.30Snapshot of KBC in bathing costume, 1906 Aug(1 item)
Folder 4.31Senior portrait from Vassar College head and shoulders, wearing a white blouse, photographer: E.L. Wolven, 1908(2 items)
Folder 4.32Snapshot of KBC, outside, wearing black dress coat and hat, ref. number 3.557, 1931(1 item)
Folder 4.33Undated snapshots of KBC: next to a boat, seated on the steps of a building, canoeing, next to a tree, including ref. numbers 6.557 and 6.558, undated(8 items)
Folder 7.1 (Oversize)KBC with Packer class of 1906, 5th from right, middle row, 1903 Jan(1 item)
Folder 4.34KBC with other Bay Shore teachers, circa 1908-1911(2 items)
Folder 4.35KBC with class groups, Bay Shore High School(?), circa 1908-1911(2 items)
Folder 7.1 (Oversize)KBC with class groups, Bushwick High School, circa 1911-1942(3 items)
Folder 4.36KBC with 6 unidentified women, standing on steps of a building, holding trays, undated(1 item)
Folder 3.115Photographs, Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 4.37Dr. Peter Collier, elder brother of John A. Collier, portrait, circa 1920s(1 item)
Folder 4.38Billy Wheeler, son of Loraine Wheeler, cousin of KBC, snapshots, 1931(2 items)
see also folder 2.45
Folder 4.39Jameson Collier Brownell snapshots, 1973(2 items)
Folder 4.40Bay Shore High School teachers and principal, snapshots, circa 1908-1911(2 items)
Folder 4.41Bell, Cora N. with Jessica Kennedy Pullis, snapshots, circa 1908-1911(2 items)
Folder 4.42King, Annie G., VC 1909 head and shoulders portrait, photographer: Gustave Lorey, undated(1 item)
Folder 4.43Lunt, Raymond L. full length portrait, photographer: Finley, Chicago, circa 1906-1910(1 item)
Folder 4.44MacMahon, Ada "Latin VI," 1906-1907(1 item)
Folder 4.45Martin, Marjorie, senior portrait, Packer photographer: Butler, NY, 1906(1 item)
Folder 4.46Rhame, Eleanora "May" Davis, full length portrait, photographer: Scherer, NY, circa 1909(1 item)
Folder 4.47Rhame, William sitting on steps of building, circa 1931(1 item)
see also folder 6.39
Folder 4.48West, Ethel, full length portrait, photographer: Butler, NY, 1900(1 item)
Folder 4.49Two unidentified women, snapshot, undated(1 item)
Trips taken by Katharine Brownell Collier
Folder 4.50Snapshots of a trip to Mt. Mansfield, VT: lake, mountain, lodge, 2 unidentified women "friends of Mabel [Stone(?)]," circa 1910s(4 items)
Folder 4.51Snapshots of a trip to Maine Sebago Lake, Portland, Kennebunkport, circa 1920s(9 items)
Folder 4.52Snapshots of a trip to Wiscasset, Maine: Bemis-Hobson house, 1930(2 items)
Folder 4.53Trip to Florida taken by KBC and Laura Brownell Collier "Uncle Ervin's winter home," circa 1930s(4 items)
Folder 4.54Trip to Mediterranean region Rome, Italy: ruins, tour group at final dinner, etc., 1967(5 items)
Folder 4.55Trip to Mediterranean region Jerusalem, Gethsemane, Jordan, etc., 1967(8 items)
Folder 6.39Miscellaneous trips, undated
Landscapes
Folder 4.56Bay Shore High School, NY exterior view, circa 1908-1911(1 item)
Folder 4.57Bay Shore, NY: "the cliff," harbor, wooded area, circa 1908-1911(6 items)
Folder 4.58Camel's Hump showing 'couching [sic] lion' shape photographer: T.S. Dean, 1925 Aug 28(1 item)
Folder 4.59Lake Champlain, snapshot, undated(1 item)
Folder 4.60Middlebury (?) VT: "outer creek," undated(1 item)
Folder 4.61Vassar College: Main Building, Sunset Lake, Ely Hall, photographer: Wolven mounted on Saltford Florist ad, circa 1904-1908(3 items)
SERIES VII. ADVERTISEMENTS SENT TO KATHARINE BROWNELL COLLIER, 1896-1969
Folder 5.100Connecticut: New London, The Brainerd and Armstrong Co., 1908(5 items)
Folder 5.101Illinois: Chicago, The Albert Teachers Agency, 1908(4 items)
Folder 5.102Massachusetts: Boston and Holyoke, Emerson Shoes, American Stenophile School, White and Wyckoff Mfg. Co., 1905-1908(5 items)
Folder 5.103Michigan: Detroit, Pathfinders of America, circa 1930(3 items)
Folder 5.104New Jersey: East Orange, Anna Elizabeth Wade, Specialist in Fund-raising Plans, undated(5 items)
Folder 5.105New York: Adirondack region, Lake Placid Club, resorts, camps, 1934, undated(4 items)
Folder 5.106New York: Albany, Albany Teachers' Agency, Gustave Lorey, photographer includes application partially completed by KBC, 1907-1908(9 items)
Folder 5.107New York: Bay Shore ladies' tailor, circa 1908-1911(1 item)
Folder 5.108New York: Brooklyn, "morning musicales," Frederick Loeser and Co., waitress/maid, Standard Tour and Travel Bureau, 1907-1929(8 items)
Folder 5.109New York: Brooklyn, apt. building, dentist, Lincoln Savings Bank of Brooklyn, Botanical Garden, 1930-1934(9 items)
Folder 5.110New York: Brooklyn, National City Bank, Edison Electric Co., Brooklyn Engineering Inst., Martin's Department Store, undated(4 items)
Folder 8.5 (Oversize)New York: Brooklyn, advertisement, undated(1 item)
Folder 5.111New York: Manhattan, Pond's Extract, Colgate, Oliver typewriter, dressmaker, Kellogg's Teachers' Agency, Fisk Teachers' Agency, The Tribune, scientific astrologer, 1896-1909(14 items)
Folder 5.112New York: Manhattan, Life Extension Inst., Malkin Conservatory of Music, Girls Vacation Fund, 1919-1945(10 items)
Folder 5.113New York: Manhattan, antique dealer, glassworker, interior decorator, undated(12 items)
Folder 5.114New York: Poughkeepsie, Consolidated Dry Goods, Luckey Platt, Saltford Florist, 1904-1906(9 items)
Folder 5.115New York: Poughkeepsie, tailors, dressmakers, sporting goods, 1907(12 items)
Folder 5.116New York: Poughkeepsie, dentist, Luckey Platt, Collingwood Opera House, 1908(14 items)
Folder 5.117New York: Poughkeepsie, Luckey Platt, Collingwood Opera House, Peter Adriance and Sons, circa 1904-1908(8 items)
Folder 5.118Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Penn Publishing Co., undated(1 item)
Folder 5.119South Carolina: Charleston, Chamber of Commerce, undated(1 item)
Folder 5.120Vermont: Burlington and Williston Green Mountain Camp, VT Association for the Crippled, 1931-1969, undated( 8 items)
Folder 5.121Washington, D.C. Hills Publishing Co., National Resources Planning Board, 1907-1941, undated(9 items)
Folder 5.122Wyoming: Cheyenne, The Handicraft, 1907(2 items)
Folder 6.40Advertisements sent to KBC, Miscellaneous, undated
SERIES VIII. POSTCARDS, circa 1904-1909
Postcards of Europe
Folder 5.123Olympia Museum, Athens; French soldiers; The Cathedral, Berlin, undated(3 items)
Postcards of the Midwestundated
Folder 5.124High School, Joplin, MO; Grand River, Grand Rapids, MI, 1908-1909(2 items)
Postcards of the Northeast
Folder 5.125New York: Poughkeepsie area, Mohonk, Lake Minnewaska, The College Inn, Slabsides (home of John Burroughs), Gov. Clinton's house, circa 1904-1908(4 items)
Folder 5.126New York: Vassar College Class Day, Class Tree, 1908(4 items)
Folder 5.127New York: Vassar College, The Lake, The Circle, The Pines, VC colors, circa 1904-1908(7 items)
Folder 5.128New York: Vassar College, Main, Avery, Library, Chapel, Strong, Main Gate, circa 1904-1908(11 items)
Folder 5.129New York: Minnehaha Falls, undated(1 item)
Folder 5.130Pennsylvania: Muddy Creek Forks, Horseshoe Curve, 1908, undated(2 items)
Postcards of the Southwest
Folder 5.131Fort Worth, TX, 1909(1 item)
Locations Unknown
Folder 5.132Breakwater; cliffs. Coastal village, village street, undated(4 items)
Folder 5.133River scene, Boscastle Harbor, Carnarvon Castle, undated(3 items)
Folder 3.116Postcards, Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 6.41Postcards, Miscellaneous, undated
SERIES IX. MEMORABILIA, 1903-1972
Honorarium
Folder 5.134Junior Teacher's License and Assistant Teacher's License, Dept. of Education, City of New York, 1911, 1913(2 items)
Non-Print Material
Folder 5.135The Fool's Alphabet, illustrated wall hanging; print of village with mountains in the background, undated(2 items)
Folder 5.1361913 small wall hanging; small tag with illustration of 3 children and a tree; small illustrated calendar, 1913, undated(3 items)
Personal Business
Folder 5.137Bills: photographers, piano company, home maintenance, 1908-1970(8 items)
Folder 4.62Itinerary for trip to Japan taken by Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Brownell and KBC, 1972 Apr(TS, 3 p.)
Folder 4.63Address cards kept by KBC, some including biographical information of friends and family, arranged alphabetically, undated(33 notecards)
Folder 4.64Return address labels of others saved by KBC, undated(24 items)
Folder 4.65Name cards of others saved by KBC, undated(7 items)
Folder 4.66KBC's stationary with letterhead, undated(2 p.)
Political Material
Folder 4.67Women Watcher's Certificates, instructions for women watchers at the polls, 1915-1917(3 items)
Folder 4.68Program from 20th Annual Entertainment and Reception, 10th Assembly District Republican Club, 1918 Jan(1 item)
Map CaseWorld War I poster, fragile condition, circa 1914-1918(1 item; MISSING as of June 2025)
Folder 4.69Program from Capitol Theatre Grand Gala in honor of Maréchal Foch, 1921 Nov(1 item)
Folder 4.70Sample ballot, 10th Assembly District (Brooklyn), 1931 Nov(1 item)
Folder 4.71War ration books, WWII, circa 1941-1945(2 items)
Programs and Pamphlets
Folder 4.72Miscellaneous programs and pamphlets, 1903-1906(7 items)
Folder 4.73Miscellaneous programs and pamphlets, 1907-1915(3 items)
Folder 4.74Miscellaneous programs and pamphlets, 1916-1932(4 items)
Folder 4.75Miscellaneous programs and pamphlets, undated(6 items)
Folder 3.118Programs and Pamphlets, Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 6.42Programs and Pamphlets, Vassar College, undated
Folder 6.43Programs and Pamphlets: Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 6.44Programs and Pamphlets, Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 6.45Programs and Pamphlets, Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 6.46Programs and Pamphlets, Miscellaneous, undated
Miscellaneous
Folder 3.117Memorabilia, Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 6.47Memorabilia, Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 6.48Memorabilia, Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 6.49Memorabilia, Miscellaneous, undated
Folder 6.50Memorabilia, Miscellaneous, undated
Scrapbook
Box 7Scrapbook belonging to KBC, including newspaper clippings, postcards, and programs from trips to England, Norway, Germany, and France. Note: pages are loose, cover and strings were removed, and extra, blank pages discarded, circa 1952, undated(63 p.)