Vassar College

The collection consists of notes
taken by Genieve Lamson, Vassar College Professor of Geography 1922-1952, during her
undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago. Also included are academic
papers written by Vassar students attending Lamson's classes.

Letters from George Sherman Dickinson to Oliver M. Sayler and Joan Stambaugh. Also includes three letters from Bess Dickinson to Sayler.

Papers primarily concerning Flanagan's teaching and theater activities at Vassar College and her work with the Federal Theater Project. Includes correspondence, curriculum materials, scripts and other play records, reports, speeches, programs, playbills, photographs, scrapbooks, and clippings.

Journals kept by Lucy Skeel, 1864, Fannie Denniston, 1865, and Ella Weed, 1868-1869, while attending the school. Denniston's journal also reports on a boat trip to Poughkeepsie and a visit to Vassar College grounds.

Papers pertaining to her interest in folk dances and singing games including her arrangements of music scores for dances, a notebook containing descriptions of folk dances and a glossary to dance positions, and sheet music and dance instructions she used in classes, 1881-1916, including works by Elizabeth Burchenal and Louis H. Chalif.

Correspondence, notes, manuscripts,
and diaries relating to Lockwood's life and work a professor of English at Vassar
College and her interests in euthenics, labor and the press.

Correspondence, photographs, clippings, and floor plans from Crego's positions at the Vassar College Alumnae House and as the Vassar College Class of 1932 Correspondent, as well as some personal papers.

The collection consists of journalist and educator Jeanne R. Lowe's correspondence, writings, notes, and substantial research materials pertaining to urban renewal, urban housing, the role of women in the sciences, race, public housing, and community planning in the United States. Specific cities covered include New York, New Haven, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Miami, Sunnyvale (CA), Chicago, Rochester, and Washington, D.C.. Writings include drafts of Lowe's book (1967), as well as numerous other publications written for the Ford Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and other non-governmental organizations. Also included are personal and professional materials related to Lowe's life and career, including her work with academic organizations as a lecturer and organizer for Goucher College, Vassar College, and New York University.

Material from the film version of Mary McCarthy’s "The Group." Includes photographs, clippings, and a bound typescript of the screenplay by Sydney Buchman.

Scrapbooks, logbooks, album, diploma, and daguerreotypes, primarily concerning Wheeler's family. Other items include programs from Vassar College events, 1878-1879.

Letters (in Dutch) from van der Maas to her family in the Netherlands while she was a student at Vassar College.

Material relating primarily to Schwartz's writing but also her Vassar College education and other aspects of her personal life.

Correspondence, notebooks, manuscripts and drafts, memorabilia, artwork, publications, and photographs relating to and/or created by Katherine Brownell Collier, covering her turn-of-the-century childhood as well as her time at Vassar and her life post-graduation.

The collection consists of correspondence, notes, diaries, and other material relating to and created by
Laura Brownell Collier (VC 1874), covering her time at Vassar and beyond.

Correpondence and other material documenting Wylie's work, health, travels, and family; as well as her friendships with Fanny Borden, Fanny Hart, Mrs. Nathan S. Hart, and Nina Katherine Hart; her career at Vassar College, and her relationship with Gertrude Buck.

Research files, survey data, oral
history transcripts, photographic prints and academic writings by Lawrence Mamiya,
documenting his research on the Nation of Islam and its role within African American
communities and the Black church.

Memoirs, manuscripts, diaries, correpondence and other materials documenting the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons affiliated with Vassar College.

Material relating to Koempel's work
as a sociologist and a professor at Vassar College. Of particular interest is the
data she compiled relating to education and housing in Poughkeepsie and Dutchess
County.

Sketches of faculty members and campus scenes and sketchbooks produced throughout Rubenstein's career at Vassar, and two copies of his film "Time Painting."

Pamphlets, reports, clippings, and other printed
materials relating to the Second World War.