Bryn Mawr College
Organization
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Constance Applebee papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-1981-58
Overview
Constance Applebee introduced the sport of field hockey to the US and was for many years the director of physical education at Bryn Mawr College. Her papers occupy ten boxes and contain miscellaneous correspondence, memorabilia, sports programs, and publications that probably belonged to her
Dates:
1898 - 1981
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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
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
Marcelle Parde materials
Collection
Identifier: BMC-1976-20
Overview
Marcelle Parde (1891-1945) was a Bryn Mawr College French professor and leader of a French Resistance unit in WWII. This collection includes miscellaneous correspondence, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and official documents.
Dates:
1919 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1950
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Esther B. Rhoads papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1153
Overview
The papers of Esther Rhoads (1896-1979), a member of an influential Philadelphia Quaker family, Rhoads was a teacher, later head, of Friends Girls' School in Tokyo for over 50 years. She was also of great importance in work with Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia and with the American Friends Service Committee, to assist Japanese-Americans affected by the War Relocation Act (forced removal and incarceration). Materials include correspondence, documents, typescripts and manuscripts,...
Dates:
circa 1895-1979
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, 1939-1945 6
- Bryn Mawr (Pa.) 4
- correspondence 4
- Education 3
- Education -- United States 3
- diaries 3
- Europe 2
- Travel 2
- Women -- Education -- Pennsylvania 2
- notebooks 2
- notes 2
- photographs 2
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
- 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, Higher 1
- Excavations (Archaeology) 1
- Field hockey for women 1
- France 1
- Greece 1
- Huntingdon County (Pa.) 1
- Iran 1
- Itineraries 1
- Japan -- History 1
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 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
- Quakers 1
- Quakers -- Education -- Japan 1
- Refugees 1
- Repatriation -- United States 1
- School management and organization -- United States 1
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- Society of Friends -- Japan 1
- Undergraduates -- United States 1
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1869-1877 1
- Universities and colleges -- China 1
- Women -- Education -- China 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1
- Women college students -- China 1
- Women in charitable work 1
- Women in education 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Young Men's Christian Associations 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan 1
- clippings (information artifacts) 1
- family papers 1
- manuscripts (documents) 1
- photograph albums 1
- postcards 1
- publications (documents) 1
- school records 1
- speeches (documents) 1
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