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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection: Miscellaneous Vassar, 1900-1935

118 plates

Selected highlights from this set include group portraits of the Good Fellowship Club men's and women's basketball teams, a classroom scene of a "preparedness course" on shorthand taught shortly after the U.S. entered World War I, and students working at Lincoln Center, the Poughkeepsie organization that assisted the poor.

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Student group on steps

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Date
1900-1910
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Copy photograph of an unidentified group of students sitting on steps

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Student group outside in hats

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Date
1900-1910
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Copy photograph of an unidentified group of students sitting outside wearing heavy coats and hats

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Student on a bicycle

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Date
1900-1910
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Unidentified student riding a bicycle

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Student on a bicycle

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Date
1925-1930
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Unidentified student riding a bicycle

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Students ourside wearing fur wraps

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Date
1900-1910
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Copy photograph of two students outside one of the dorms in winter coats and furs

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Students sitting on dorm steps

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Date
1900-1910
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Students sittin on the steps of either Davison or Raymond

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Students with George Shepard Chappell

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Date
1922-11-28
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Students from Professor Burgess Johnson's journalism class with George Shepard Chappell posing in the snow with a dog. One student is in costume on a sled. The scene appears to be meant as a reference to Chappell's satire, "My Northern Exposure," which represents Native Americans and First Peoples

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Students with George Shepard Chappell and Burgess Johnson

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Date
1922-11-28
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Students from Professor Burgess Johnson's journalism class with Johnson and George Shepard Chappell posing in the snow with a dog. One student is in costume on a sled. The scene appears to be meant as a reference to Chappell's satire, "My Northern Exposure," which represents Native Americans and

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Students with George Shepard Chappell and Burgess Johnson

93192-Service File.jpg
Date
1922-11-28
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Students from Professor Burgess Johnson's journalism class with Johnson and George Shepard Chappell posing in the snow with a dog. One student is in costume on a sled. The scene appears to be meant as a reference to Chappell's satire, My Northern Exposure, which represents Native Americans and First

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Two women on horses, one in costume

94264-Service File.jpg
Date
1910-1940
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Two unidentified women on horses, one in costume

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Unidentfied group of students on a stage

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Date
1928
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Unidentfied group of students on stage

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Unidentified family

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Date
1920-1940
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Portrait of an unidentified group of children

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Unidentified group

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Date
1925-1931
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Group portrait, possibly related to the Blodgett Hall of Euthenics. From left to right: Minnie Cumnock Blodgett, Henry Noble MacCracken, two unidentified women, Queene Ferris Coonley (maybe), Ada Thurston (maybe), William Bancroft Hill (maybe), Elsie Hill (maybe), two unidentified women, one

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Unidentified student

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Date
1931-06-01
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Unidentified member of the Class of 1931 on Class Day

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Unidentified student

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1931-06-01
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Unidentified member of the Class of 1931 on Class Day

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Unidentified student

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1931-06-01
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Unidentified member of the Class of 1931 on Class Day

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Unidentified student

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1931-06-01
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Unidentified member of the Class of 1931 on Class Day

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Unidentified woman

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Date
1920-1939
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Formal portrait of a woman. Possibly a member of the Vassar College faculty

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Unidentified young woman

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Date
1920-1939
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Studio portrait of an unidentified woman, possibly a member of the Vassar College Class of 1929

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Unidentified young woman

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Date
1920-1939
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Studio portrait of an unidentified woman, possibly a Vassar College student

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