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Theresa Helburn collection
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M55
Abstract
Bryn Mawr alumna Theresa Helburn (B.A. 1908) had a long and distinguished career behind the scenes on Broadway, and made important contributions to the professions of film and television from the 1930s to the 1950s. As a producer with New York's Theatre Guild from 1919, Helburn served as a literary manager and casting director, before becoming a co-producer, with Lawrence Langner. The Theatre Guild specialized in bringing the highest-quality drama of Europe and America to Broadway stages. ...
Dates:
1900s
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Helen Calder Robertson letters
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BMC-3H-Robertson
Abstract
Helen Calder Robertson (1894-1982) was a member of the Class of 1916 who took her A.B. in French and Modern History. The Helen C. Robertson letters contain the personal correspondence of Helen Robertson. The collection, which ranges from 1913-1916, primarily consists of Robertson’s correspondence during her time at Bryn Mawr. These letters were donated to the Archives by Margaret Gilman McKenna, A.B. 1942, whose mother, Margaret Williams Gilman, A.B. 1914, was a close friend of...
Dates:
1913 - 1916
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Helen Taft Manning and Frederick Manning Papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M142
Abstract
This collection contains the official documents and letters, as well as personal memorabilia, correspondence, and photo albums (bulk dates from 1907-1960s) of Helen Taft Manning and Frederick Manning. Helen Herron Taft Manning, daughter of President William Howard Taft and Helen Herron Taft, graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1915. She was named Dean of Bryn Mawr College in 1917, and became acting President in 1919. After obtaining a doctorate in history from Yale University, she returned...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1862 to 1980
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Rita Rubinstein Heller Collection on the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Collection
Identifier: BMC-13D
Abstract
Rita Rubenstein Heller, a Bryn Mawr College graduate of the Class of 1959 was a co-producer of the award-winning documentary "Women of Summer: A History of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, 1921-1935." Heller also directed "Chanceman's Brothers & Sisters: The Origins of the 20th Century Morris County Black Community." The collection consists of material from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, a two-month program on the Bryn Mawr campus designed to...
Dates:
1921 - 1938
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Phoebe Helmer scrapbook
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: 9LS-10
Abstract
Phoebe Helmer was born in 1899. She attended Bryn Mawr from 1916 to 1920. After World War I, she joined Miss Anne Morgan’s Committee for the Reconstruction of Devastated France. Up until her first marriage in 1928 to Seymour Wadsworth, she taught at the Nightingale-Bamford School. Helmer married twice more, to Gerritt Weston from 1965-1968, and David R. Hawkins from 1972-1982 and had four children. She was interested in libraries, education and international affairs. Helmer died in 1996. ...
Dates:
1916 - 1917
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Hilda Worthington Smith faculty papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 3H-Smith
Scope and Contents
The Hilda Worthington Smith faculty papers contains materials related to Hilda Smith, a worker’s rights and education activist (Bryn Mawr College class of 1910). The collection, which contains materials from 1916-1960s, largely consists of Xeroxed biographical materials pertaining to Smith.
The collection consists of one box and several books.
The box contains 11 folders. Folder 1 contains correspondence, primarily letters written from Smith to her aunt in the 1930s....
Dates:
1916-1960s
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Margaret Hilles (Johnson) scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BMC-9LS-3
Abstract
Margaret Hilles was born in 1870. She went to secondary school in Wilmington and later attended Bryn Mawr College, graduating in 1893. Her husband was a mining engineer, and she did a large amount of travelling until his death in 1919. Hilles was involved in a number of groups. She was active in Friends organizations and a founder of the Chester County Library Association. She was a member of the Downingtown Friend’s Meeting and the Downingtown Auxiliary to Chester County Hospital. Hilles...
Dates:
1890 - 1910
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
History of Publishing and Printing Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BMC-Publishing
Abstract
This collection contains prints and book fragments that contain mostly or entirely text (rather than images). Included here are Quaker Announcements, 18th century newspapers (The Tatler), Civil War era ephemera, modern letterpress and print studio materials, illustrations for books, announcements and posters, and single sheets from books. Part of the collection was already processed at an earlier date (Series "Previously Sorted"), and seems to be related to early American print history,...
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Ralph Hodgson and Aurelia Bolliger Hodgson papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M49
Abstract
Very little is known about the early life of Ralph Hodgson (1871-1962), a British poet. In the 1890s, he worked as a newspaper and magazine illustrator, signing some of his works 'Yorick', and, in 1913, founded "The Sign of the Flying Fame" publishers along with Claud Lovat Fraser and Holbrook Jackson. Hodgson published a variety of poetry volumes prior to joining that army at the beginning of World War I. In 1923, he accepted a position as a lecturer in English at Sendai University in...
Dates:
1896 - 1984
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Hope Emily Allen Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BMC-M16
Description of the Papers
The papers consist primarily of research notes by Allen, photostats and typescripts of manuscripts, and professional correspondence. Topics include the Book of Margery Kempe, the Ancrene Riwle,and Richard Rolle.
Dates:
1883 - 1960
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
