Vassar College Memorial Minutes
Cornwell, Antoinette, 1858-1904 | Memorial Minute:
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[After 1904]
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Kendrick, Georgia Avery, 1848-1922
Kendrick, Georgia Avery, 1848-1922
Vassar College Memorial Minutes
Dean, Willard L., 1841-1898 | Memorial Minute:
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[After 1898]
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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection
Founder's Day
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1930-04-25
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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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An unidentified woman placing a wreath on Georgia A Kendrick's grave at the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery, which was visited by a contingent from Vassar on Founder's Day
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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection
Founder's Day
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1930-04-25
Content Warning
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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President MacCracken at Georgia A. Kendrick's grave in the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery
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Guide to the E. L. Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection, 1897-1944
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E. L. Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection
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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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Guide to the John Burroughs Papers, 1850-1991 (bulk 1860-1921)
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John Burroughs Papers
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Includes 53 original Burroughs
journals as well as a typescript of the journals prepared by his granddaughter,
Elizabeth Burroughs Kelley, and another typescript prepared by his literary
executor, Dr. Clara Barrus. In addition, there are manuscripts, sketch books,
scrapbooks and correspondence, including letters to Burroughs from Edith Rickert,
Walt Whitman, and others; as well as letters by Burroughs to family, friends,
colleagues and readers. The bulk of the correspondence is to and from his wife
Ursula and son Julian, but other correspondents include Georgia Avery Kendrick,
Clara S. Reed, Minnie and Orlando Rouland, James M. Taylor, Mary W. Whitney, and
others. Also included are published and unpublished materials and photographs
relating to Burroughs.
journals as well as a typescript of the journals prepared by his granddaughter,
Elizabeth Burroughs Kelley, and another typescript prepared by his literary
executor, Dr. Clara Barrus. In addition, there are manuscripts, sketch books,
scrapbooks and correspondence, including letters to Burroughs from Edith Rickert,
Walt Whitman, and others; as well as letters by Burroughs to family, friends,
colleagues and readers. The bulk of the correspondence is to and from his wife
Ursula and son Julian, but other correspondents include Georgia Avery Kendrick,
Clara S. Reed, Minnie and Orlando Rouland, James M. Taylor, Mary W. Whitney, and
others. Also included are published and unpublished materials and photographs
relating to Burroughs.
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Guide to the Julia Augusta Schwartz Papers, 1899-1953
Collection Title
Julia Augusta Schwartz Papers
Abstract
Material relating primarily to Schwartz's writing but also her Vassar College education and other aspects of her personal life.
Vassar College Memorial Minutes
Kendrick, Georgia Avery, 1848-1922 | Memorial Minute:
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[After 1922]
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