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Salmon, Lucy Maynard, 1853-1927

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Founder's Day

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Date
approximately 1932
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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 Lucy Maynard Salmon's grave, Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Founder's Day

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approximately 1932
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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Professor Lucy Maynard Salmon's grave, Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery

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

Collection Title
Benson J. Lossing Papers
Creator
Lossing, Benson J. (Benson John), 1813-1891
Abstract
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 Julia Augusta Schwartz Papers, 1899-1953

Collection Title
Julia Augusta Schwartz Papers
Creator
Schwartz, Julia Augusta, 1873-1957
Abstract
Material relating primarily to Schwartz's writing but also her Vassar College education and other aspects of her personal life.
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Guide to the Lucy Maynard Salmon Historical Materials Collection, 1690-1982 (bulk 1790-1899)

Collection Title
Lucy Maynard Salmon Historical Materials Collection
Creator
Salmon, Lucy Maynard, 1853-1927
Abstract
An artificial collection of letters,
diaries, account books, land grants, deeds, wills, and other historical materials
originally established by the History Department at Vassar College.
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Guide to the Lucy Maynard Salmon Papers, 1818-1992 (bulk 1854-1933)

Collection Title
Lucy Maynard Salmon Papers
Creator
Salmon, Lucy Maynard, 1853-1927
Abstract
The Lucy Maynard Salmon Collection
includes the personal papers of Lucy Maynard Salmon along with two smaller collections
of papers belonging to her mother, Maria Clara Maynard Salmon, and her brother, Pomeroy L. Salmon. The materials relate
to her work as an historian and professor at Vassar College as well as her work with
the suffrage movement and local political issues. There are also materials relating
to her family, education and personal life. Formats include correspondence,
manuscripts, printed material, clippings, minutes, reports, notes, and
photographs.
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The Library Café

Miriam Cohen and Mark G. Seidl

Date
November 4, 2020
Abstract

"Miriam Cohen, Professor of History on the Evalyn Clark Chair at Vassar College, and Vassar Special Collections Librarian and Cataloger Mark G. Seidl will discuss the exhibition entitled Votes for Women: Vassar and the Politics of Women's Suffrage, sponsored by the Vassar College Libraries to

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Vassar College Memorial Minutes

Robinson, Bertha, [?]-1890 | Memorial Minute:

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[After 1890]
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Ronald Patkus, Nikolai Firtich, Dan Ungurianu

Date
April 10, 2019
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Historian and Associate Director of the Library for Special Collections Ronald D. Patkus joins Professors Nikolai Firtich and Dan Ungurianu of the Vassar Department of Russian to discuss the great Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) and the exhibit on view 23 January through June 10, 2019 in

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Vassar College Memorial Minutes

Salmon, Lucy Maynard, 1853-1927 | Memorial Minute:

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[After 1927]
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Thomas Edward Hill

Date
October 10, 2018
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In this installment of our series on the value of the liberal arts in contemporary society, Milly Budny (VC'71), Founding Director of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, turns the table to interview Library Cafe host and Vassar College Art Librarian Thomas Hill about the Library Cafe, his

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Yvonne Elet

Date
October 16, 2019
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Yvonne Elet, Associate Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Vassar College, discusses her article, co-authored with Virginia Duncan for Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes (39:2, 2019) entitled: "Beatrix Farrand and campus landscape at Vassar: pedagogy and

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