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Bryn Mawr College Library

 Organization

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Arabic and Persian Manuscripts

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BMC-Arabic-Persian
Scope and Contents The manuscripts listed here are part of the collection of the Bryn Mawr College Libraries. Most of the descriptions were created in the course of the Manuscripts of the Muslim World project, which includes digital editions of more than 500 manuscripts in Arabic and Persian, along with examples of Coptic, Samaritan, Syriac, Turkish, and Berber. The primary partners were Columbia University, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsylvania with signifiant contributions from...
Dates: Majority of material found within 900 - 1900

Bound Business Records Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-M147

Bryn Mawr College Exhibit Files

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-RG7-M1
Scope and Contents This collection consits of records related to material from Bryn Mawr College's collections of art, artifacts, rare books, manuscripts, and archives. It includes both internal exhibition documentation and material written for the public. Series I: Collection-Based Exhibitions is made up of records related to exhibits planned by College staff, faculty, and/or students, although not all of these were physically located at Bryn Mawr College. Series II: Loan Exhibitions...
Dates: Event: Majority of material found within 1911 - 2022

Copy Books and Commonplace Books

 Collection — Container: BV (bound volume)
Identifier: BMC-copies

Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-diary
Dates: circa 1800s

Jewish Mawrters Oral History Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BMC-RG12-OHJ
Scope and Contents

This collection includes eight oral history interviews with Jewish alumnae/i conducted by Caitlin Haskett (class of 2020) during a fellowship project, "Mid Century Jewish Mawrtyrs: A Collection of Oral Histories," through the Pensby Center between June and July 2019. Includes audio files, release forms, interviewer notes, and audio transcription.

Dates: 2019-06-17 - 2019-07-22

Letters and Documents Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BMC-M146
Scope and Contents The Letters and Documents Collection is mainly composed of individual, unrelated cards and letters, but also includes some manuscripts, autographs, and other small ephemera that are not part of other manuscript collections at Bryn Mawr College. Some of the letters have been removed from or are tipped into books in the Rare Book collection. Some letters that have been in the Library since the early years of the College have unknown provenance. Occasionally, letters of note from unprocessed...
Dates: Majority from the 19th into the mid-20th century.

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BMC-Western-Medieval
Dates: Majority of material found in 13th to 16th century

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Jewish women 1
Oral histories 1
Women -- Education (Higher) 1
Women college students -- Pennsylvania 1