Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1857 - 1935
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
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
Susan Walker FitzGerald papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M19
Abstract
Susan Walker FitzGerald (1871-1943) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While at Bryn Mawr, class of 1893, she founded the Student Government Association and graduated with a degree in history/political science. Susan W. FitzGerald is best known for her commitment to the women's suffrage movement and her involvement in progressive political organizations. The papers are arranged chronologically beginning with a few letters, postcards and memorabilia from Susan's childhood and ending with...
Dates:
1875 - 1924
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
M. Carey Thomas Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: BMC-RG-1DD2
Scope and Contents
M. Carey Thomas was the first Dean and second President—a title she held for twenty-eight years—of Bryn Mawr College. Thomas’s professional and personal lives were both deeply connected to the College, and she is one of the chief architects of the college post-1894, when she began her tenure as President. Even after her retirement, Thomas continued to live on campus in the home she and her life partner Mary Garrett built, The Deanery. Although Thomas was a proponent of women’s education and...
Dates:
1853 - 1940
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Mary Garrett family papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-1970-01
Abstract
Mary Elizabeth Garrett (1854-1915) promoted women's education by founding the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Maryland, helping to finance Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and ensuring that women were admitted to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her family was prominent in Baltimore society, which allowed her to pursue her philanthropic activities. She was an active suffragist and financially helped that cause until her death in 1915. The Mary Garrett family...
Dates:
1874 - 1915
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Speer Family papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: BMC-M72
Abstract
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
Abstract
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
Asa S. Wing correspondence on the presidency of Bryn Mawr College
Collection
Identifier: HCS-000-008
Abstract
This collection consists of letters to and from Asa S. Wing while he was President of the Nominating Committee for Bryn Mawr College's presidential search in 1921.
Dates:
1921
Women's Suffrage Ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M88
Abstract
The Women's Suffrage Ephemera collection includes a variety of ephemera related to the fight for women's suffrage dating from c. 1910 until the early 1920s.
Dates:
1890 - 1920
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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- Bryn Mawr (Pa.) 4
- correspondence 3
- diaries 3
- Pennsylvania -- Politics and Government -- 1865-1950 2
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- Women's rights -- United States 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Adult education of women 1
- Archaeological expeditions 1
- Archaeology 1
- Archaeology and history 1
- Baltimore (Md.) 1
- Beijing (China) 1
- Bergen County (N.J.) 1
- Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry 1
- Charities 1
- Child Labor -- New York (State) 1
- China -- History -- 20th Century 1
- China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949 1
- Chinese Students 1
- Classical Antiquities 1
- College campuses 1
- College presidents 1
- College teachers -- China -- Correspondence 1
- Concentration camps 1
- Drawing 1
- Education 1
- Education -- United States 1
- Education, Higher 1
- Excavations (Archaeology) 1
- Greece 1
- Huntingdon County (Pa.) 1
- Iran 1
- Itineraries 1
- Journalism 1
- Lakeville (Conn.) 1
- Law 1
- Legislators -- Massachusetts 1
- Library exhibits -- Pennsylvania -- Bryn Mawr -- 21st century 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
- Phillips Academy 1
- Preparatory schools -- United States 1
- Princeton (N.J.) 1
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- Repatriation -- United States 1
- School management and organization -- United States 1
- Schools -- Pennsylvania 1
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- Travel 1
- Undergraduates -- United States 1
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1869-1877 1
- Universities and colleges -- China 1
- Women -- Education 1
- Women -- Education -- China 1
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- Women -- Suffrage 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- United States 1
- Women college students -- China 1
- Women college students -- Pennsylvania 1
- Women in charitable work 1
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- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Young Men's Christian Associations 1
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- ephemera (general object genre) 1
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- notes 1
- photographs 1
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