Bryn Mawr College
Organization
Found in 3 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
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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- Travel 2
- correspondence 2
- notebooks 2
- notes 2
- Archaeological expeditions 1
- Archaeology 1
- Archaeology and history 1
- Authors 1
- Beijing (China) 1
- Bergen County (N.J.) 1
- Charities 1
- China -- History -- 20th Century 1
- China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949 1
- Chinese Students 1
- Classical Antiquities 1
- College teachers -- China -- Correspondence 1
- Concentration camps 1
- Drawing 1
- Education 1
- Education -- United States 1
- Education, Higher 1
- Europe 1
- Excavations (Archaeology) 1
- Greece 1
- Huntingdon County (Pa.) 1
- Iran 1
- Itineraries 1
- Journalism 1
- Lakeville (Conn.) 1
- Law 1
- Literature 1
- Missionaries 1
- Missionaries -- China 1
- Missionaries -- China -- Correspondence 1
- Missions, American 1
- Missions, American -- China 1
- Murder -- Massachusetts 1
- Northfield (Mass.) 1
- Northfield Schools 1
- Pennsylvania -- Politics and Government -- 1865-1950 1
- Phillips Academy 1
- Preparatory schools -- United States 1
- Princeton (N.J.) 1
- Private schools -- Pennsylvania 1
- Repatriation -- United States 1
- School management and organization -- United States 1
- Schools -- Pennsylvania 1
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 1
- Undergraduates -- United States 1
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1869-1877 1
- Universities and colleges -- China 1
- Women -- Education -- China 1
- Women -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1
- Women college students -- China 1
- Women in charitable work 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Young Men's Christian Associations 1
- clippings (information artifacts) 1
- photographs 1
- postcards 1
- publications (documents) 1
- school records 1
- speeches (documents) 1
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