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Vassar College Student Diaries

Brydon, Anne Page. Diary, 1922

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1922
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The volume begins in January 1922, which was the end of the first semester of Brydon's freshman year. Brydon wrote about her daily academic routine, as well as how she spent her free time. She enjoyed socializing with classmates, playing bridge, walking, skating, sledding (coasting), bike riding

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Brydon, Anne Page. Diary, 1923

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1923
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This volume covers September to December of 1923, the start of Brydon's sophomore year at Vassar. In 1923 she vowed to be more reflective in her diary than she was in 1922, but she did cover some of the same topics. Brydon wrote about her daily academic routine, as well as how she spent her free

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The Library Café

Bryn Geffert

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January 29, 2014
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Bryn Geffert, Librarian of the College at Amherst College, talks about the crisis in scholarly book publishing and his new venture to address the crisis, the Amherst College Press.

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Buildings and Grounds, 1897-1939

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Images of the Vassar buildings (interior and exterior) and the landscapes of campus and the surrounding area. Highlights include views of Vassar Lake before the Raymond Avenue elevation change in 1966, the southeast portion of campus before Sunset Lake was created, Raymond Avenue before the Faculty

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Buzz Spector

Date
March 31, 2021
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"The artist Buzz Spector talks about his retrospective exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum on view through May 31, 2021: Buzz Spector: Alterations. Spector is a contemporary Conceptual artist who explores the aesthetic possibilities of language, paper, and books. The exhibition spans the artist's

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C. Stephen Jaeger

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February 10, 2016
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Our series on the role and value of the liberal arts in contemporary society continues with a conversation with the cultural historian C. Stephen Jaeger, Gutsgell Professor Emeritus in Germanic Languages and Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, about his research into

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Printers' Marks in the Vassar College Library

Caligula de Bazaleriis, 1503 -- Printer's Mark

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Date
1503
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Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- End window. The earliest available records concerning Caligula de Bazaleriis (c.14-- – c. 15--) locate him in Bologna in 1490. There he may have begun to work with printer and relative, Bazalerius de Bazaleriis, who published books dated as early as

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Cambridge University and Vassar College debate teams

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1924-10-09
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Members of the Cambridge and Vassar debate teams on the steps of Josselyn Hall. Left to right: A.P. Marshall, Mary Virginia Heinlein (VC 1925), Ruth Driver (VC 1926), Richard Austin Butler, Winifred Comstock (VC 1925), and Gerald Sparrow

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Campus viewed from Sunset Hill

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1909-1938
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View from Sunset Hill of the tops of buildings as well as the power plant chimney

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Campus viewed from Sunset Hill

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1909-1938
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View from Sunset Hill of the tops of buildings. Cropped version of Box269_026

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Vassar College Archives Audio Collection

Carnegie Hall archival DVD

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[2008]
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Carnegie Hall archival DVD

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Carnegie Hall archival DVD

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Carnegie Hall archival DVD

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Carnegie Hall archival DVD

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Carnegie Hall archival DVD

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Caroline Ellen Furness

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early 1930s
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Formal portrait of Vassar Professor Caroline Ellen Furness

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Caroline Ellen Furness

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early 1930s
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Formal portrait of Vassar Professor Caroline Ellen Furness

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Caroline Ellen Furness

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early 1930s
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Formal portrait of Vassar Professor Caroline Ellen Furness

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Caroline Ellen Furness in the Vassar College Observatory

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Date
1910s
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Caroline Furness, Astronomy Professor, in the observatory with Maria Mitchell's twelve inch Henry Fitz telescope. The telescope was later donated to the Smithsonian Institution

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