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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.

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The Vassar College herbarium holds over 5,000 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.

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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.

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DeMaria, Robert, Jr., 1948-

Cowper's animals

Gender and Class in Eighteenth-Century Satires of London

Literacy and Learning in Mediated Spaces

Musées Imaginaires: "Ut Pictura Poesis" as Critical Agent in the Realization of the Gallery Space in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century English Pictorial Poetry

Mysteries of the sky

Samuel Johnson and the Golden Mean

The Other Side of Late Eighteenth-Century Society: Social Violence and Masquerade in Frances Burney's Evelina

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Cowper's animals

Gender and Class in Eighteenth-Century Satires of London

Literacy and Learning in Mediated Spaces

Musées Imaginaires: "Ut Pictura Poesis" as Critical Agent in the Realization of the Gallery Space in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century English Pictorial Poetry

Mysteries of the sky

Samuel Johnson and the Golden Mean

The Other Side of Late Eighteenth-Century Society: Social Violence and Masquerade in Frances Burney's Evelina

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