Bryn Mawr College
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Lucy Evans Chew diaries and papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M90
Overview
Lucy Evans Chew graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1918. Shortly after her graduation, she married Samuel Chew, an English professor at Bryn Mawr. For the majority of their married life, the Chews remained in the area surrounding Bryn Mawr. The Lucy Evans Chew Collection is primarily comprised of 58 volumes of her diaries from the years from 1920 to 1968. The diaries include descriptions of her daily life, her association with the college, her travels, and her reflections on her...
Dates:
1912 - 1967
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Louise Heron Blair Daura collection
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M12
Overview
Louise Heron Blair Daura (Bryn Mawr College 1927) was married to the Catalan painter Pierre Daura. He joined the Spanish Republican Army in 1937, and Louise wrote a series of letters to her family about going to visit Pierre while he was on leave in Barcelona in 1938. These letters vividly describe the living conditions and damage done to the towns of Spain during the Spanish Civil War. The collection includes letters to Louise while she was at Bryn Mawr as well as letters written to her...
Dates:
1918 - 1927
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Jacqueline Pascal Morris Evans papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: BMC-M91
Overview
Jacqueline Pascal Morris (later Evans) (1886-1947) graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1908. Following her graduation, she and two cousins, Agnes and Alida, travelled through Europe for three months. Their route took them from Paris into Switzerland, and then down the Italian peninsular. They returned the same way, travelling along the French Riviera before their return from London. This collection contains 26 letters, written to Jacqueline’s father over the course of her travels.
Dates:
1908 - 1928; Majority of material found within 1908 - 1909
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Fritz and Karoline Solmitz papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M94
Overview
Fritz Solmitz (1893-1933) was an early and outspoken leader in the opposition to Nazism, an editor of a Social Democratic newspaper in Lübeck and a member of the City council. Because of his active opposition to the Nazis, and probably because he was a Jew, he died of mistreatment in a German prison shortly after Hitler came to power. Karoline Somitz (1893-1966) was, like her husband, active in civic affairs. Much of the collection contains letters and photographs, some translated from...
Dates:
1929 - 2006
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Georgiana Goddard King papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-1974-15
Overview
Georgiana Goddard King was a professor of art history at Bryn Mawr College. The collection consists of handwritten notes on art subjects, correspondence, and publications.
Dates:
1874 - 1939
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Margaret Trumbull Corwin papers #
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M39
Overview
Margaret Trumbull Corwin (1889-1983) received an A.B. degree from Bryn Mawr College in 1912 with a major in French and a minor in German. After graduation she worked at Yale University Press until 1919. In 1916 she took a leave of absence to work as executive secretary to the Connecticut Women’s Committee of the Council of National Defense in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1919 Miss Corwin went to France with the YMCA and was stationed in Beaune at the American Expeditionary Forces University....
Dates:
1912-1971
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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- Women travelers -- Europe 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Art 1
- Art critics -- United States 1
- Asia -- Description and travel 1
- Authors 1
- Bryn Mawr (Pa.) 1
- Cannes (France) 1
- Education -- United States 1
- Europe -- Description and travel 1
- Florence (Italy) 1
- Interlaken (Switzerland) 1
- Literature 1
- Lucerne Lake (Switzerland) 1
- Middle East -- Description and travel 1
- Nags Head Woods (N.C.) 1
- Naples (Italy) 1
- Palermo (Italy) 1
- Paris (France) 1
- Perugia (Italy) 1
- Quakers 1
- Refugees 1
- Rome (Italy) 1
- Sicily (Italy) 1
- Sorrento (Italy) 1
- Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 1
- Venice (Italy) 1
- Vevey (Switzerland) 1
- Women in education 1
- correspondence 1
- diaries 1
- family papers 1
- manuscripts (documents) 1
- notebooks 1
- notes 1
- photograph albums 1
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