Vassar College Digital Library
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Vassar College

Sague, Mary Landon, 1885-1971 | Memorial Minute:

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[After 1971]
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Salmon, Lucy Maynard, 1853-1927 | Memorial Minute:

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[After 1927]
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Samuel L. Caldwell, ca. 1883: Vassar College president, 1878-1885

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ca. 1883
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Head and shoulders picture of Samuel L. Caldwell as a mature man wearing a black bow tie, white shirt and dark suit.

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Sanborn Tenney: Vassar College natural history professor, 1865-1868

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between 1865 and 1868
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Head and shoulders picture of Sanborn Tenney with mustache and beard. He is wearing a dark tie, white shirt and dark suit.

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Sanborn Tenney: Vassar College natural history professor, 1865-1868

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between 1865 and 1868
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Head and shoulders picture of Sanborn Tenney with mustache and beard. He is wearing a black suit.

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Sarah Gibson Blanding: Vassar College President, 1946-1964

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between 1946 and 1964
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Half-length picture of Sarah Gibson Blanding as a mature woman sitting behind a desk. She is wearing a necklace, bracelets and dark dress with half sleeves. Papers, pens and blotter are in the foreground. A lamp, part of a painting, papers and shelves are in the background.

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Sasse, Hannah, 1899-1944 | Memorial Minute:

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[After 1944]
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Saunders, Catharine, 1872-1943 | Memorial Minute:

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[After 1943]
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Savitzkaya, Lydia V., 1898-1967 | Memorial Minute

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[After 1967]
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Sawyer, Kitty. Letter, 1866

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1866
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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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1 letter from Sawyer to Belle Greene Sawyer. A short letter saying goodbye to Belle, who is going home while Kitty remains at Vassar.

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Scaravaglione, Concetta, 1900-1975 | Memorial Minute:

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[After 1975]
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Schmitt, Dorothy (Prentiss). Letter, 1918

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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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1 typed copy of a letter from Schmitt (VC 1920) to her mother about the 1918 fire at Vassar College. Schmitt describes the fire as resulting from a defective flue and causing the collapse of an entire wing of Main Building. She reports that the four hundred students who had been living in Main

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Shipp, Margaret M. Letters, 1901-1905

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1901-09-01T00:00:01Z-1905-05-31T23:59:59Z
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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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This collection contains 315 letters: 19 addressed to her family, 248 to her sister, 2 to her father and sister, and 46 to her father. The letters cover her entire time at Vassar. Shipp describes her courses and impressions of faculty members (President James Taylor and Lady Principal Georgia

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Slade, Abigail and Caroline Slade. Letters, 1866

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Many letters in this collection are written by Abigail L. Slade or Caroline S. Slade, and noted accordingly; when letters were co-written, this is also specified. For some letters, it is impossible to determine which person wrote the letter, noted by "Slade, Abigail L. or Slade, Caroline S."\n\n18

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Slade, Abigail L. Diary, 1866

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1866
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Brief daily entries written in 1866 during and after Slade's spring semester at Vassar College. Slade mentions entrance examinations, music lessons, botany expeditions, and compositions. She refers to various faculty members, such as [VC Lady Principal] Miss [Hannah] Lyman, Maria Mitchell, Dr

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Slade, Caroline E. Diary, 1866

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1866
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Brief daily or weekly entries written in 1866 during Slade's spring semester at Vassar College. Slade mentions faculty such as [VC Lady Principal] Miss [Hannah] Lyman, Dr. Raymond, Professor Buckham, Miss Avery, and Professor Tenney. She reports details of VC daily life such as recitations

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Slocum, Harriet (Palmer). Letter, 1869

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1869
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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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1 letter from Slocum to Mollie (Mary) A. Parker. Slocum describes her activities during an unexpected vacation granted to the students. For one day, she and twelve other students proposed a trip to West Point with a professor, but Miss Lyman forbid them to go as the trustees would not approve and

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Smith, Gertrude, 1874-1968 | Memorial Minute:

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[After 1968]
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Smith, Winifred, 1879-1967 | Memorial Minute:

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[After 1967]
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Snyder, Alice Dorothea, 1887-1943 | Memorial Minute:

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[After 1943]
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