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Gertrude C. K. Leighton papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC.2006-11
Abstract
Gertrude Leighton was born in Belfast, Ireland. Leighton first came to Bryn Mawr College as a member of the class of 1938 and majored in classical archaeology. In 1940, she was hired by Barnard College as a lecturer in the English Department. She entered law school at Yale in 1942, graduated in 1945. Leighton returned to Bryn Mawr in 1950 as Assistant Professor of Political Science. Later promotions made her full professor and department chairman. The collection consists mainly of...
Dates:
1930 - 1982
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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.
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
James Leuba papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BMC-3H-Leuba
Abstract
James Leuba was an influential professor of Psychology at Bryn Mawr. Howard Gray was a professor of History at Bryn Mawr. This collection, which ranges from 1896 to 1950, primarily consists of research notes from the two professors.
Dates:
1896 - 1950
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Marie Leyendecker Cashel scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BMC-9LS-30-CA
Abstract
The Marie Leyendecker Cashel scrapbook houses the one volume scrapbook of Marie Leyendecker, Bryn Mawr class of 1944. The scrapbook roughly covers the years 1937 to 1944. It contains a great deal of material detailing the social life of an active high school and college age young woman—dances, teas, parties, theater, restaurants, outings in Pennsylvania, and NYC.
Dates:
1937 - 1944
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Marie P. Litzinger Papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M124
Abstract
Marie Litzinger (1899-1952) was a 1920 graduate of Bryn Mawr College and taught mathematics at Mount Holyoke College from 1925 until her death in 1952. The collection consists primarily of Litzinger’s letters to her parents and sisters during her years as an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr from 1916 to 1920, and during her year studying in Rome, from July 1923 to June 1924. In addition, there are a small number of photographs of Litzinger and her friends at Bryn Mawr, including several taken...
Dates:
1916-1924
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Angeline H. Lograsso papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BMC-3H-A85-33
Abstract
Angeline H. Lograsso taught Italian at Bryn Mawr for 35 years, also chairing the department from 1952-1965. This collection houses her papers. The majority of the materials in the collection come from the late 1930s and 1940s, but some are undated. The collection is useful for its insights into relief organizations in Italy during World War II and into the career of Don Luigi Sturzo, an anti-Fascist statesman, for whom Lograsso served as a secretary for some time.
Dates:
Majority of material found within of materials from 1930s-1940s, some materials undated
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Katherine Lower papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-1981-18
Abstract
Katherine Lower came to the Carola Woerishoffer Graduate Department of Social Work and Social Research in the fall of 1946 as a part time lecturer in social research. Eventually she progressed to lecturer, associate professor, professor and finally director and dean of the department. During her administration as director, the social work faculty grew as did the student enrollment. She greatly expanded and enriched the graduate curriculum. The bulk of the collection consists of office...
Dates:
1946 - 1970
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
M. A. Irvine Papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M115
Abstract
The M. A. Irvine Papers contains materials related to Bryn Mawr alumnae Mary Agnes Irvine (Class of 1910)'s work during World War One in the Y.M.C.A. Canteen Service. It contains four scrapbooks related to her service, as well as correspondence and photographs. This collection would be of interest to anyone interested in women's work in France during WWI.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1916 - 1921
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
Mabel H. Austin (Converse) diaries
Collection — Volume: 9
Identifier: BMC-12H-Austin
Abstract
Mabel H. Austin was a student at Bryn Mawr from 1901 to 1905. The Mabel H. Austin (Converse) diaries is comprised of nine volumes spanning from 1897-1905. The diaries chronicle her daily life, from her years at Friends Central School to her career at Bryn Mawr College.
Dates:
1897 - 1905
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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