Bryn Mawr College
Organization
Found in 99 Collections and/or Records:
Lucy Evans Chew diaries and papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M90
Abstract
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
Chinese Scholarship Committee records
Collection
Identifier: BMC-RG4-JC
Abstract
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
Abstract
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
Abstract
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
Abstract
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
Abstract
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
Abstract
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
Abstract
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
Abstract
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
Abstract
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
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