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Johnson, Burgess, 1877-1963

Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Founder's Day play

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Date
1922-04-28
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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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The Turtle Dove by Margaret Scott Oliver, featuring stereotypical Chinese costuming and set design. Burges Johnson (wearing solid black) played the "Property Man"

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Founder's Day play

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1922-04-28
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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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The Turtle Dove by Margaret Scott Oliver, featuring stereotypical Chinese costuming and set design. Burges Johnson (wearing solid black) played the "Property Man"

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Founder's Day play

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Date
1922-04-28
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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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The Turtle Dove by Margaret Scott Oliver, featuring stereotypical Chinese costuming and set design. Burges Johnson (wearing solid black) played the "Property Man"

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Guide to the E. L. Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection, 1897-1944

Collection Title
E. L. Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection
Creator
Wolven, Edmund L.
Abstract
This collection includes 3,538 glass plate negatives created by photographer Edmund L. Wolven. Most of the images are of Vassar College people, events, buildings and grounds, but there is a subset that relates to Poughkeepsie and other local educational institutions.
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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Miscellany News staff

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Date
1925-1926
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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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Group portrait of the staff of the college newspaper with professor Burgess Johnson

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Miscellany News Staff

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Date
1923-1924
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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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Group portrait of the students that worked on the college newspaper, with professor Burgess Johnson

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Miscellany News staff

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Date
1924-1925
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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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Group portrait of the staff of the college newspaper with professor Burgess Johnson

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Reunion

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Date
1922-06-01
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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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Salary Endowment Fund Committee, including, from left to right: Bertha Bacon Affeld, Julius H. Barnes, Edna W. Brezee, May Childs Parsons, Arthur L. Lesher, Henry Noble MacCracken, Helen Kenyon, Millie Ross, Ada Thurston, Caroline Barnes Ross, Burges Johnson, and George H. Nettleton

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Students with George Shepard Chappell and Burgess Johnson

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Date
1922-11-28
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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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Students from Professor Burgess Johnson's journalism class with Johnson and George Shepard Chappell posing in the snow with a dog. One student is in costume on a sled. The scene appears to be meant as a reference to Chappell's satire, "My Northern Exposure," which represents Native Americans and

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Students with George Shepard Chappell and Burgess Johnson

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Date
1922-11-28
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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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Students from Professor Burgess Johnson's journalism class with Johnson and George Shepard Chappell posing in the snow with a dog. One student is in costume on a sled. The scene appears to be meant as a reference to Chappell's satire, My Northern Exposure, which represents Native Americans and First

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