Women's colleges--New York
(State)--Poughkeepsie

Letters with some manuscripts,
speeches, poems, and other items, primarily resulting from an official connection
with Vassar College, written by Vassar students, faculty or staff, or by persons of historical
and cultural significance.

The collection contains
correspondence, ephemera, and photographs, mostly relating to Charlotte and Clara
Barnum's education and continued association with Vassar College. Also included are
materials related to Clarine Warner Curtis (VC 1888), a life-long friend and
correspondent of Clara Barnum, whose daughter, Virginia H. Curtis Milburn Robertson
(VC 1930), continued correspondence with Clara after Clarine's death in
1945.

A collection of papers created by Margaret H. Laidlaw Richardson (VC 1923) during
her time at Vassar College, including a photograph album; Vassar College exams, syllabi, and grades; and College Entrance
Exam exams and scores.

Correspondence, manuscripts,
research material, photographs, and glass plate negatives relating to Mitchell's work as an astronomer and
member of the faculty of Vassar College.

Scrapbook documenting Samuel L.
Caldwell's tenure as president of Vassar College, primarily through event ephemera, notes, and letters.

Bound registers from the Vassar
College Infirmary, containing logs of student and staff sick visits, symptoms,
prescriptions, and treatments.

Photographs of Vassar College events,
programs, buildings, grounds, faculty, students, staff and
administration.

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.