Women--Societies and clubs

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.

Materials relating to Whitney's position at Vassar College as well as her involvement with the American Association of University Professors, the International Council of Women, the National Council of Women, Connecticut Association of Working Girls' Clubs, and other women's groups. There are also biographical materials, including correspondence and diaries, containing information about Whitney's family, intellectual pursuits, travels and other personal issues.

Materials from various graduating classes including alumnae questionnaires, programs, bulletins, invitations, songbooks, clippings and articles on class members, and some notes and letters, 1867-1981; a reunion survey with photographs of the Class of 1914, 1964; minutes and account books from class organizations, 1871-1922; and correspondence, publications, and miscellaneous items from the Class of 1898.

Materials relating to the creation and subsequent activities of the Vassar Club of Philadelphia.

Four volumes of minutes and financial
accounting of the early incarnations of the Vassar Club of Washington, D.C., as well as photographs of a scholarship event in 2012.

An artificial collection of materials
documenting the history of Vassar College, collected by various departments of the
Library over several decades. Materials include letters, photographs, programs,
college circulars and other publications, building specifications, contracts, bills
and receipts, inventories, accounts, committee minutes, architectural and landscape
drawings, reports, and club constitutions and records.

Materials from the various classes of Vassar College, mostly concerning graduation, reunion, and alumnae/i activities.

An artificial collection of materials documenting the history of Vassar College, collected by various departments of the Library over several decades. There are also some materials on Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, the Hudson Valley, students in general, and other colleges.

Records from the Vassar Student
Association and its predecessors, including minutes, membership lists, rules and
regulations, reports, and other items pertaining to student clubs, self-government
activities, dormitory regulations, and other issues and events.

Materials relating to the creation and subsequent activities of the Washington State Vassar Club.

An artificial collection of
petitions, speeches, correspondence, publications, scrapbooks, and broadsides
relating to the struggles for woman suffrage and other women's rights. Includes
documents relating to debates over the suffrage issue at Vassar College.