Vassar College Digital Library
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Glass plate negatives

Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Maria Mitchell Observatory interior

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Date
approximately 1925
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Living space on the ground floor of the observatory while it was occupied by Professor Caroline Furness. A console radio and Western Electric loudspeaker are visible at the back right

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Maria Mitchell Observatory interior

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Date
approximately 1925
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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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Living space on the ground floor of the observatory while it was occupied by Professor Caroline Furness

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Maria Mitchell Observatory interior

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Date
approximately 1925
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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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Living space on the ground floor of the observatory while it was occupied by Professor Caroline Furness

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Maria Mitchell Observatory interior

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Date
1900-1910
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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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Living space on the ground floor of the observatory, possibly when it was occupied by Professor Mary Whitney

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Maria Mitchell Observatory interior

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Date
1925
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Professor Caroline Ellen Furness and two students in the clock and chronograph room. Furness is seated at a desk, one student is at the chronograph, and the other is in front of the clock

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Maria Mitchell Observatory prints

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Date
1925
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Two prints of the exterior of the observatory rephotographed on one glass plate

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Maria Mitchell Observatory prints

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Date
1925
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Two prints of the observatory rephotographed on one glass plate. One print is of the interior and one of the exterior

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Mary D. Dodge

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Date
1900-1940
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Copy photograph of an 1877 photograph of Mary D. Dodge (VC 1901), aged 16 months

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Mary Whitney in the Maria Mitchell Observatory

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Date
1900-1910
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Professor Mary Watson Whitney seated at a desk in the observatory's clock and chronograph room

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Maypole dance

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Date
1922-05-01
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Class of 1922 students doing a May Pole dance on May Day

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Maypole dance

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Date
1936-05-11
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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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Class of 1936 students doing a May Pole dance

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Maypole dance

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Date
1936-05-11
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Class of 1936 students doing a May Pole dance

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Maypole dance

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Date
1922-05-01
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Class of 1922 students doing a May Pole dance on May Day

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Mid-Hudson Bridge under construction

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Date
1925-1929
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Early stage of construction of the Mid-hudson Bridge, which spans the Hudson River between Poughkeepsie and Highland, New York

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Minor Hall Play

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Date
1925-03-14
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Tickless Time

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Minor Hall Play

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Date
1925-03-14
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Wisdom Teeth

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Minor Hall Play

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Date
1925-03-14
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How He Lied To Her Husband

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Minor Hall Play

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Date
1925-03-14
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How He Lied To Her Husband

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Minor Hall Play

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Date
1925-03-14
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Tickless Time

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Minor Hall Play

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Date
1925-03-07
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Columbine

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