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Furness, Caroline E. (Caroline Ellen), 1869-1936

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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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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Formal portrait of Vassar Professor Caroline Ellen Furness

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Caroline Ellen Furness

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94578-Service File.jpg
Date
early 1930s
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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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Formal portrait of Vassar Professor Caroline Ellen Furness

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Caroline Ellen Furness in the Vassar College Observatory

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1910s
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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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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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Commencement

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1918-06-01
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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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Faculty and trustees in the commencement procession. Caroline Furness is in the center facing the camera

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Commencement

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1925-06-01
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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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Faculty and trustees in the commencement procession, including Caroline Furness

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Furness, Caroline Ellen, 1869-1936 | Memorial Minute

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[After 1936]
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Furness, Caroline Ellen, 1869-1936 | Memorial Minute:

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[After 1936]
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Furness, Caroline, 1891

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Guide to the Caroline Furness Papers, 1840-1938

Collection Title
Caroline Furness Papers
Abstract
The Caroline Furness Papers consist
of correspondence, personal and professional papers, writings, research, and
photographs created and assembled by American astronomer and Vassar faculty member
Caroline E. Furness. Notable correspondents include Furness’s father, Henry B.
Furness; Vassar faculty member Mary W. Whitney; Kan'ichi Asakawa; Sakusaburo
Uchigasaki; Rose O'Neill; Vilhjalmur Stefansson; and other astronomers, including
Jan van der Bilt, Phoebe Waterman Haas, and Ruth E. Smith.
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Guide to the Vassar College Student Materials Collection, 1859 - circa 1989 (bulk 1867-1950)

Collection Title
Vassar College Student Materials Collection
Abstract
Diaries, letters, scrapbooks,
photograph albums and other materials documenting student life at Vassar
College.
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Maria Mitchell Observatory interior

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Date
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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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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