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Nettie Maria Stevens papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BMC-3H-Stevens
Abstract
Nettie Maria Stevens was a research biologist who made important contributions to cytogenetics, embryology and the hypothesis of sex determination by chromosomes. She received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr in 1903, and acted as an Associate in Experimental Morphology from 1905-1912. The Nettie Maria Stevens papers contain her personal and professional papers. The collection ranges from 1896-1979 and contains assorted biographical materials, correspondence, obituary notices, articles about...
Dates:
1896 - 1979
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Helen Rutgers Sturgis scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BMC-9LS-36
Abstract
Helen Rutgers Sturgis was born in 1883 in New York City. She was prepared by Miss Spence’s School. She entered Bryn Mawr with the class of 1905 on the matriculation scholarship for New York, New Jersey, and Delaware. While at Bryn Mawr, she was the secretary of the Self-Government Association and studied Languages (French, Italian, Spanish). After graduation, she worked as a magazine editor. Sturgis died on March 16, 1966. The Helen Rutgers Sturgis scrapbook contains Sturgis' one-volume...
Dates:
1901 - 1903
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Mary Hamilton Swindler papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-2001-01
Abstract
Born in Bloomington, Indiana in 1884, Mary Hamilton Swindler graduated from the University of Indiana in 1905 and received her master's degree from the same university in 1906. Swindler first came to Bryn Mawr College in 1906 as a graduate scholar in Greek. From 1912 until 1949 she taught Archaeology and Classics at the college. The collection consists of loose correspondence received from the Archaeology Department, scrapbooks and notebooks, miscellaneous correspondence and manuscript...
Dates:
1906 - 1949
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
M. Ann Brandi Syfrit Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BMC-2018-Syfrit
Dates:
1976-12-26 - 1995-05-23
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Bertha Szold (Levin) scrapbook
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: 9LS-5/5b-SCP-20/23
Abstract
Bertha Szold (Levin) was a member of the Bryn Mawr College class of 1895. After graduation, she taught English at St. Timothy's School in Baltimore. She later married Hiram Levin in 1901 and had five children. She was highly involved in Jewish charities and organizations, and was the cofounder of Hadassah, a women's Zionist organization. This collection contain's Szold's two volume scrapbook. The first scrapbook covers Szold’s freshman and sophomore years, from 1891-1893, while the second...
Dates:
Volume 1: 1891-1893
Volume 2: 1893-1895
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Tarsus Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BMC-Tarsus
Abstract
The Tarsus Archaeological Collection contains documents from an excavation sponsored by Bryn Mawr College and directed by Hetty Goldman, a pioneering archaeologist. The Tarsus excavation began in 1934 and continued until early 1939, when World War II interrupted it; it resumed after the war in 1947 and 1948. The results of the excavation were published in yearly articles and in three volumes of text and plates on the major periods found in the excavation: the Hellenistic and Roman periods,...
Dates:
1934 – 1963
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Lily Ross Taylor papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-1974-05
Abstract
Lily Ross Taylor was Professor of Latin and Dean at Bryn Mawr College, Director of the American Academy in Rome, and a renowned Classicist. Her papers include lecture notes, correspondence, and personal memorabilia.
Dates:
1886 - 1969
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Nancy S. Taylor papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M-149
Abstract
Anna "Nancy" S. Taylor was a Bryn Mawr Chemistry major in the class of 1941. The Nancy S. Taylor papers consist of letters sent from Taylor, her future husband, her family, and her friends as well as ephemera and other printed materials that document Taylor's academic and social life at Bryn Mawr and the personal lives and thoughts of Taylor and her loved ones. The papers provide a personal look at the life and thoughts of a Bryn Mawr science major as she navigates her final years of college...
Dates:
1929 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1941
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Barbara Auchincloss Thacher papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-12H-Thacher
Abstract
The Barbara Auchincloss Thacher papers contain the professional papers of Barbara Thacher, Bryn Mawr College class of 1940, President of the BMC Alumnae Association (1966-69), and Chairman of the Board of Trustees (1980-87). Thacher was highly involved in education, and also wrote for Harper's, Newsweek, the Herald Tribune, and the New York Times.
Dates:
Majority of material found within Collection has not been dated, but most materials seem to be from between 1960s-1980s.
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