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Bryn Mawr College

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Found in 98 Collections and/or Records:

Chinese Scholarship Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-RG4-JC
Overview The Chinese Scholarship Committee was established by Professor Lucy Martin Donnelly in 1916, to provide Chinese women an education who could not otherwise obtain one in China. It was also intended to “deepen the understanding between China and the United States by bringing to this country the type of students who would represent the highest Chinese traditions, and who would in turn interpret to China our western civilization” (“Bryn Mawr Chinese Scholarship Committee,” pamphlet). The fund,...
Dates: 1916 - 1988
Found in: Bryn Mawr College

Compleat Guide to Success in the Bi-College Community

 Collection
Identifier: HCL-003-055
Overview

This publication is a student guide put together by Haverford and Bryn Mawr College students to orient incoming first-year students to college.

Dates: circa 1973

Louise Congdon (Balmer) scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: BMC-9LS-17
Overview

Louise Congdon spent her freshman year at Northwestern University, and graduated from Bryn Mawr wtih mahors in both French and Latin. She later moved to La Jolla, California, and in 1926 founded what is now La Jolla County Day School. The Louise Congdon scrapbook houses the Congdon's college scrapbook. The scrapbook covers the years 1904-1908, and contains characteristic Bryn Mawr memorabilia: programs, invitations, BMC-related clippings, some SGA-related materials, etc.

Dates: 1904 - 1908
Found in: Bryn Mawr College

Constance “Zinnia” Maravell papers

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-M138
Overview Constance Maravell was a Bryn Mawr graduate of the class of 1965. In the years follower her time at graduate school at the University of Chicago, Maravell delved into the world of art. She adopted the name Zinnia to represent her artistic identiy, and has exhibited her work of high art photography in the Washington D.C. area numerous times. Zinnia’s work has been recognized and praised in a number of newspapers and newsletters. This collection contains the clippings from the articles that...
Dates: 1979 - 1995
Found in: Bryn Mawr College

Henrietta Cozens papers

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-M3
Overview Henrietta Cozens (fl. 1900-1930s) was a horticulturalist and a friend of the artists Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott (1872-1954), Violet Oakley (1874-1961), and Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935). In 1902, the three artists held their first group exhibition at the Plastic Club, a professional organization for women artists on Camac Street in Philadelphia. After their experience renting studio space at Bryn Mawr College to escape the summer heat of the city, they decided in 1902 to lease the...
Dates: 1889 - 1956; Majority of material found within 1901 - 1938
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

Frederica de Laguna papers

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-1975-06
Overview

The papers of Frederica de Laguna consist of family and personal photographs, collections of clippings, typescripts, and publication materials of this Bryn Mawr College professor and scholar in anthropology, who studied Arctic cultures.

Dates: 1922 - 1975
Found in: Bryn Mawr College

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

Theodore de Laguna collection

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-1974-16
Overview

Theodore de Laguna (1876-1930) was a professor of philosophy at Bryn Mawr College for 23 years and an author. The Theodore de Laguna collection, dating from 1896 to 1989, contains diverse writings and annotated books by de Laguna. This collection focuses mainly on de Laguna's manuscripts, off prints, and poetry, but also contains original musical arrangements, annotated works by others, and correspondence regarding de Laguna's death in 1930.

Dates: 1896 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1896 - 1930
Found in: Bryn Mawr College

Deanery Files, Bryn Mawr College

 Collection — Box 1-4
Identifier: BMC-M129
Abstract

The Deanery was the home of the first Dean and second President of Bryn Mawr College, M. Carey Thomas, from 1885 to 1933. From 1933 until 1968, when the building was demolished for the construction of Canaday Library, the building served as the college's Alumnae Center and Inn. The collection is comprised primarily of Deanery records, mostly inventories of the building, and the files of Carol Campbell, Curator of Art and Artifacts in Bryn Mawr College's Special Collections

Dates: 1917 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1991
Found in: Bryn Mawr College

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Collection 95
Archival Record 3
 
Subject
correspondence 18
Education 14
Women in education 12
Bryn Mawr (Pa.) 11
Women -- Education 11
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diaries 10
photographs 10
Student publications 8
Education -- United States 7
Travel 7
Women -- Education -- Pennsylvania 7
Women's colleges 7
clippings (information artifacts) 7
Archaeology 6
World War, 1939-1945 6
Archaeology and history 5
College students -- United States -- Correspondence 5
Women's colleges -- Archives 5
World War, 1914-1918 5
family papers 5
notebooks 5
photograph albums 5
Art 4
Law 4
Schools -- Records and correspondence 4
Undergraduates -- United States 4
Universities and colleges -- China 4
Women college students -- China 4
financial records 4
letters (correspondence) 4
manuscripts (documents) 4
Archaeological expeditions 3
Europe 3
Greece 3
notes 3
postcards 3
publications (documents) 3
research notes 3
Chinese Students 2
Education, Higher 2
France 2
Indians of North America 2
Influenza Epidemic (1918-1919) 2
Mental health 2
Missionaries 2
Philosophy 2
Philosophy -- Study and teaching 2
Preparatory schools -- United States 2
Quaker businesspeople 2
Quakers 2
Quakers -- Family relationships 2
Rome (Italy) 2
School management and organization -- United States 2
Schools -- Pennsylvania 2
Women travelers -- Europe 2
business records 2
pamphlets 2
Africa 1
African American youth -- Education -- Southern States 1
African Americans -- Education -- Southern States 1
African Americans -- Education -- Virginia 1
African Americans -- Services for -- Southern States 1
Aging 1
Agriculture 1
Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
American periodicals 1
Anthropology 1
Archaeology -- History 1
Architecture 1
Art critics -- United States 1
Art, American -- 20th century -- Catalogs 1
Art, American -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- 20th century -- Exhibitions 1
Asia -- Description and travel 1
Authors 1
Bedford (Westchester County, N.Y.) 1
Beijing (China) 1
Bergen County (N.J.) 1
Cameroon 1
Cannes (France) 1
Caricatures and cartoons 1
Charities 1
Charities -- Pennsylvania 1
Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Child Labor -- New York (State) 1
China 1
China -- History -- 20th Century 1
China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901 1
China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949 1
Chinese Students -- Foreign Countries 1
Classical Antiquities 1
Classicists 1
College student newspapers and periodicals -- Pennsylvania 1
College students -- United States -- Diaries 1
College teachers -- China -- Correspondence 1
College theater -- United States 1
Colonies 1
Commencement ceremonies 1
Company of strangers. Motion picture 1
Computers 1
Concentration camps 1
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