Bryn Mawr College
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Grace de Laguna papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-1994-01
Overview
Grace de Laguna was a professor of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr, a past president of the American Philosophical Association, and mother of Frederica de Laguna, the noted anthropologist. This collection consists of Personal Material, Correspondence, Reprints, and Typescripts.
Dates:
1899 - 1969
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Nathalie Gookin papers
Collection
Identifier: A82-39
Abstract
Nathalie Gookin was a student at Bryn Mawr from 1916-1920. Her collection consists of daily letters written to her parents and aunt during her time in college, as well as some letters from before she matriculated and some from after she graduated. She was admitted to Bryn Mawr with a $100 Western States Scholarship at the age of sixteen and she was the youngest person in the college. She lived in Rockefeller dorm all four years, majored in English and Latin, and graduated 5th in her class,...
Dates:
1916 - 1920
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Henrietta Baldwin Sperry papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M99
Overview
Henrietta Baldwin Sperry was a student at Bryn Mawr from 1917-1921. This collection consists of approximately 1000 of her letters. Of those letters, most are written by her to her mother about her time applying to and attending Bryn Mawr College (1916-1921). The subjects of the letters include social life at Bryn Mawr, disease quarantines, the college war effort. The collection also contains letters to Henrietta from her friend and admirer, Sheldon Clarke, who wrote to her while he was...
Dates:
1916 - 1921
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Speer Family papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: BMC-M72
Overview
The Speer Family papers represent four generations of that family, with the bulk of material attributed to the last two generations, especially Robert Elliott Speer and his wife and three of his five children: Emma Bailey, Elliott, Margaret Bailey, and William Speer. The family was active in the Presbyterian Church, serving that institution in a variety of different capacities. The children, in addition to their religious roles, held prominent positions in academic administration. The...
Dates:
1802 - 1982; Majority of material found within 1883 - 1943
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Dorothy Burr Thompson diaries and papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-2010-14
Overview
Dorothy Burr Thompson (1900 – 2001) was a prominent archaeologist who graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1923. She specialized in Greek terracotta. Burr Thompson and her husband, Homer A. Thompson, were both heavily involved with the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. The collection includes her diaries, personal correspondence, and professional papers. It also includes contains both personal and research related photographs and postcards.
Dates:
1912 - 1991
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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- World War, 1914-1918 4
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- Influenza Epidemic (1918-1919) 2
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- Women -- Education 2
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- Women's colleges -- Archives 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- letters (correspondence) 2
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- Beijing (China) 1
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- China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949 1
- Chinese Students 1
- Classical Antiquities 1
- College students -- United States -- Diaries 1
- College teachers -- China -- Correspondence 1
- Concentration camps 1
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- Education, Higher 1
- Excavations (Archaeology) 1
- Greece 1
- Huntingdon County (Pa.) 1
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- Pennsylvania -- Politics and Government -- 1865-1950 1
- Phillips Academy 1
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- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Young Men's Christian Associations 1
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