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Carter, Edna, 1872-1963 | Memorial Minute:

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[After 1963]
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Catching Herself In the Middle: How Chinese-American Adoptees and Their Parents Construct Narrative and Ethnic Identity

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2014-January-01
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Since 1992, over 85,000 children have been adopted from China by U.S. citizens (Miller-Loessi and Kilic 2001:246; U.S. Department of State 2013). Most of these adoptees are girls. They were abandoned as infants due the combined factors of patrilineal culture...

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Catherine (Valentine) Vassar, ca. 1825: wife of Matthew Vassar

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19-?
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Half-length picture of Catherine Vassar wearing jewelry, lace collar, shawl and dark, long-sleeved dress. She is seated. A landscape painting is in the background.

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Catherine (Valentine) Vassar: wife of Matthew Vassar

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19-?
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Half-length picture of Catherine Vassar as a mature woman wearing jewelry, lace collar, shawl and long-sleeved, black dress. She is seated on a striped chair.

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Cave Enoravinc

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A black figure, possibly an animal, is centered in the piece with black boxes etched to its right. A cloud of gray foregrounds the piece. Given its name, perhaps Márquez sought to resemble a cave painting.,Condition assessment (2014): Great

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Caves of Hella: Visual and Environmental Clues for the Early Medieval Christian Settlement in Southern Iceland

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2024-April-30
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This thesis explores the early medieval Christian settlement in Iceland through an interdisciplinary approach that combines Art History and Earth Science. The primary focus of the thesis is the artificial caves in Hella, Iceland. By examining literature, regional climate changes...

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Celebrating Dante at Vassar

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October 27, 2021
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"Nancy Bisaha, Simona Bondavalli, Alberto Gelmi, Emma Iadanza, Elizabeth Nogrady and Ronald D. Patkus discuss the teaching of Dante at Vassar through the College's history, and the opening of a series of three simultaneous exhibitions on view through December 4, 2021 in the Thompson Memorial

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Certification of damage to Parrish property by U.S. Troops, 1819 May 18 (1 leaf)

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[1819-05-18]
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Challey, Jim

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Jim Challey was a senior lecturer in physics and former director of the Science, Technology, and Society (STS) program. Challey, who arrived at Vassar in 1973 retired in spring 2013.

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Changing Forms

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November 17, 2021
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"Elizabeth Nogrady (VC'99), Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programs at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar, Lara Yeager-Crasselt (VC'06) Curator of The Leiden Collection, and Ronald Patkus, Associate Director of the Libraries for Special Collections and Associate Professor of History

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Chapel cornerstone laying event

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1902-10-04
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A crowd watching a crane lifting the cornerstone for the new building into place

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Chapel cornerstone laying event

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1902-10-04
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A crowd watching a crane lift the new building's cornerstone into place. President James Monroe Taylor is visible in the foreground

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Chapel cornerstone laying event

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1902-10-04
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A crowd watching a crane lift the new building's cornerstone into place

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Chapel Gate Dedication

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1932-06-12
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Dedication of the Chapel Gate on Raymond Avenue, a gift of the Class of 1882

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Chapel Gate Dedication

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1932-06-12
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Dedication of the Chapel Gate on Raymond Avenue, a gift of the Class of 1882

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