Reunion
Class of 1882 at the Alumnae Parade
Class of 1882 at the Alumnae Parade
Class of 1882 at the Alumnae Parade
Class of 1878 at the Alumnae Parade
Class of 1919 in the Alumnae Parade
Alumnae gathered outside the President's House
Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Third window. Richard Grafton (c. 1511-1573) was born in Shrewsbury in 1511 and was apprenticed to a grocer in 1526, through whom he became affiliated with the Grocers' Company in London. This involvement did not concern trade as much as it did
Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Second window. Originally from Normandy, Richard Pynson (1449 - c.1529) integrated the methods of his French contemporaries into his work in England. It is likely that he contracted his printing firm in London from English printer William de Machlinia
Group portrait of the cadets from the military school in Poughkeepsie, New York
Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Third window. Little is known about the early life and schooling of Robert Copland (c. 14-- – 1548). Based on his work with William Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde, however, it is clear that Copland received a fine education, specifically in French and
View of Rockefeller Hall while undergoing renovations
View of Rockefeller Hall from the south
View of Rockefeller Hall through trees from the southwest
Private room, possibly a student's or faculty member's, with a piano, hanging fur pelt, and an animal skin with an image of a Native American
Stream, possibly the Casperkill or Fonteynkill
Sarcophagus in Taylor Hall
Casts of classical scultpure in the Taylor Hall art museum
Casts of classical scultpure in the Taylor Hall art museum
Main (Thompson) Library location: Class of '51 Reading Room. Sébastien Nivelle (c.1523 – 1603) was born in Troyes, France circa 1523 to the stationer Jean Nivelle. He first began work in Paris for the press of Charlotte Guillard, one of the first documented female printers, in 1549, and in the next
Candida with Edna St Vincent Millay as Eugene Marchbanks
The Yellow Jacket
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