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Mitchell, Maria, 1818-1889

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Founder's Day play

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Date
1920-04-30
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Professors Isabel Nelson Tillinghast as Maria Mitchell, Professor James Fosdick Baldwin as Matthew Vassar, and Professor Elizabeth Hatch Palmer as Hannah Lyman in a presentation at the end of Founder's Day

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Founder's Day play

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Date
1920-04-30
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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 Isabel Nelson Tillinghast as Maria Mitchell in a presentation at the end of Founder's Day

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Guide to the Benson J. Lossing Papers, 1861-1891

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Benson J. Lossing Papers
Creator
Lossing, Benson J. (Benson John), 1813-1891
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Correspondence concerning Vassar College activities, speeches, and engagements with Lyman Abbott, Nathan Bishop, Stephan M. Buckingham, Charles S. Farrar, Milo P. Jewett, Maria Mitchell, John H. Raymond, Lucy M. Salmon, James Monroe Taylor, Matthew Vassar, and Henry Van Ingen, with some family correspondence. Other items include his notes from a trip to Washington, D.C. in 1861, and miscellaneous programs.
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Guide to the Maria Mitchell Papers, 1843-2016 (bulk 1853-1889)

Collection Title
Maria Mitchell Papers
Creator
Mitchell, Maria, 1818-1889
Abstract
Correspondence, manuscripts,
research material, photographs, and glass plate negatives relating to Mitchell's work as an astronomer and
member of the faculty of Vassar College.
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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Maria Mitchell bust, Maria Mitchell Observatory

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Date
1920-1936
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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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Bronze bust of astronomer and professor Maria Mitchell at the top of the stairs of the first Vassar observatory

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Maria Mitchell bust, Maria Mitchell Observatory

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Date
1920-1936
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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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Bronze bust of astronomer and professor Maria Mitchell at the top of the stairs of the first Vassar observatory

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Maria Mitchell, 1865: Vassar College astronomy professor, 1865-1888

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1865
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Facial picture of Maria Mitchell.

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Maria Mitchell, 1865: Vassar College astronomy professor, 1865-1888

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Date
1865
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Full-length picture of Maria Mitchell wearing a dark hat, long, button-down dress and shawl. She is seated behind a table, her chin is resting on her right hand and her left hand is holding the page of an open book.

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Maria Mitchell, 1872: Vassar College astronomy professor, 1865-1888

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Date
1872
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Head and shoulders picture of Maria Mitchell wearing a white blouse and dark clothing. Her cheek is resting on her right hand.

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Maria Mitchell: Vassar College astronomy professor, 1865-1888

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not after 1874
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Half-length picture of Maria Mitchell wearing a dark hat, white ruffled blouse and dark suit. She is seated.

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Maria Mitchell: Vassar College astronomy professor, 1865-1888, and her father

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Date
187-?
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Full-length picture of Maria Mitchell and her father, William. She is wearing a dark headpiece, white collar and long, dark button-down dress. She is seated on the right of a small, round table, her cheek is resting on her right hand and her left hand is pointing to papers on the table. Her father

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Maria Mitchell: Vassar College astronomy professor, 1865-1888, and her father

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Date
187-?
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Full-length picture of Maria Mitchell and her father, William. She is wearing a dark headpiece, white collar and long, dark button-down dress. She is seated on the right of a small, round table, her cheek is resting on her right hand and her left hand is pointing to papers on the table. Her father

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Vassar College Astronomical Observatory with classes of 1871-1874

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Date
19-?
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Observatory of Vassar College with path, lawn, trees and lamp post. Also shows Maria Mitchell, members of the classes of 1871-1874 using astronomical instruments and a boy seated on the steps. Woman halfway up the steps is Abby Farwell Ferry, VC 1872.

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