Women's colleges
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Ann Taylor Updegraff Allen Letters, 1920 - 1959
Series — Box 1, Folder: 10-13
Scope and Contents
Letters written by Ann Taylor Updegraff Allen to her family from the 1920s to the 1950s (folders divided by decade). The letters follow her through boarding school (the Kodaikanal School for Missionaries' Children, Highclerc Campus, as well as schools in England and Switzerland) to Bryn Mawr College, from where she graduated in 1942. Ann was the third child of David Benjamin Updegraff and Melanie Atherton Updegraff, following David Dirick (1919-1920), who died in infancy, and Melanie Parke...
Dates:
1920 - 1959
Bryn Mawr Trans Men and Transmasculine Alumni Oral History Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: BMC-RG12-OHTM
Scope and Contents
This collection contains nine oral history interviews with trans men/transmasculine alumni conducted by Anderson Witiak, Bryn Mawr College class of 2022, as part of his Pensby Center Fellowship "The Histories of Trans Men and Transmasculine Students at Bryn Mawr College." This collection is intended to preserve the histories of the trans alumni interviewed, to guide current and future trans men and transmasculine students who may be feeling lost or out of place, and to reckon...
Dates:
2020 - 2021
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Emily Lyman Storer Scrapbook
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: BMC-9LS-45
Scope and Contents
The Emily Lyman Storer scrapbook contains the one volume scrapbook of Emily Storer, Bryn Mawr College Class of 1910. The scrapbook consists of materials from 1906-1927, largely comprising Bryn Mawr memorabilia and documentation of cultural events and extracurriculars specific to this institution. Coverage of the last decade of this range is sparse, but meaningful. It offers a valuable perspective on the social life and traditions of Bryn Mawr Students during the early twentieth century,...
Dates:
1906-10 - 1927-06
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Dorothy Foster papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-12H-Foster-1904
Abstract
Dorothy Foster was a student at Bryn Mawr from 1900-1904. The papers consist of her letters written by Foster to her mother, Genevieve Stimpson, during her junior and senior years of college (1902-1904). The letters primarily concern her school work, her duties as class president, news about the college, guests she hosted, and lectures she attended. They are arranged in folders by date, with the exception of the first folder of miscellaneous items including academic records and an essay...
Dates:
1902 - 1904
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Helen Clements Kirk College Diploma , 1892
File — Box 1, Folder: 13
Dates:
1892
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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Helen Clements Kirk papers
Helen Clements Kirk papers
Collection
Identifier: A12-45
Abstract
Helen Clements Kirk was a student at Bryn Mawr from 1888-1892. She studied History and Economics. This collection consists of papers belonging to Helen and her family, particularly her mother, Emma Newbold Clements, and her father, Samuel Clements. Most of the collection consists of correspondence from Helen to her mother, which spans two decades, 1888-1908. In her letters from college, Helen writes about her social life, academics, professors, and events on campus. In letters written after...
Dates:
1881 - 1917
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College Lantern Collection
Collection
Identifier: BMC-lantern
Scope and Contents
The Lantern Collection houses student lanterns designed and owned by Bryn Mawr College undergraduate students. This collection, which dates from c. 1889 to c. 2018, consists of hand-held candle-lit lanterns of varying designs, colors, and sizes, evidencing the practice of initiation ceremonies in Bryn Mawr College undergraduate student life. The collection is not a full run of lanterns from every academic year but contains a small sampling of lanterns representing design trends and metalwork...
Dates:
circa 1889-2018
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Melanie Atherton Updegraff Collection
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M145
Abstract
Melanie Atherton Updegraff (1886-1973) was a 1908 graduate of Bryn Mawr who went on to do missionary work for the Presbyterian Mission Board alongside her husband, Reverend David Benjamin Updegraff. The two were primarily stationed in Kolhapur and later Nipani, in West India. The collection includes correspondence between Updegraff and her sisters, children, and sister-in-law, among other family members, photographs of the Atherton and Updegraff families, an autograph collection, and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1910s-1980s; 1685-2020
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College songbook collection
Collection
Identifier: BMC-Songbook
Scope and Contents
The Songbook Collection houses the student songbooks published by Bryn Mawr College. This collection, which dates from 1889 to 2017, consists of printed booklets, published bound books, printed sheets, and handwritten sheets with annotations and music notations, evidencing the tradition of oral songs and singing in Bryn Mawr College undergraduate student life. The collection is not a full run of songbooks from every year, but contains a sampling of songbooks from every decade with large gaps...
Dates:
1889 - 2017
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
