Bryn Mawr College
Organization
Found in 95 Collections and/or Records:
Marion Edwards Park papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-RG1-DD3
Overview
Marion Edwards Park (1975-1960) graduated Bryn Mawr College in 1898. After continuing her studies at the University of Chicago, American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Colorado College, and Johns Hopkins University, she earned her PhD in classics from Bryn Mawr College in 1918. As president of Bryn Mawr College (1922-1942), she significantly increased enrollment, broadened the curriculum, and expanded cooperation with Haverford, Swarthmore, and the University of Pennsylvania. The...
Dates:
1922 - 1942
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Marion Parris scrapbook
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: BMC-9LS-8
Overview
Marion Parris Smith was a student at Bryn Mawr, who later became a Professor of Economics at the college. Her scrapbook spans from 1897 to 1906 and gives an excellent overview of the undergraduate and post-graduate life of a Bryn Mawr student.
Dates:
1897 - 1906
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Constance Grenelle Wilcox papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M133
Overview
Constance Grenelle Wilcox, Bryn Mawr Class of 1917, was a successful playwright and novelist. Some of Wilcox's written works include: Pan Pipes (1919), The Princess in the Fairy Tale (1919) and Told in a Chinese Garden (1932). The Constance Grenelle Wilcox papers include her unpublished manuscript, The Unsophisticate. The papers also include a series of other unpublished plays and children's stories. There is also correspondence in the collection.
Dates:
1897 - 1955; Majority of material found within 1925 - 1935
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Mildred Pressinger (Kienbusch) scrapbook
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: BMC-9LS-13
Overview
Mildred Pressinger (later Kienbusch) graduated from Bryn Mawr College with an A.B. in Philosophy and Psychology. She was a member of the Mayflower Descendants, the National Society of Colonial Dames, Founder and Patriots, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was also active in a number of charities in New York City. She married Carl Otto von Kienbusch, the owner of an internationally celebrated collection of medieval arms and armor. Mildred Kienbusch died in 1968. The Mildred...
Dates:
1905 - 1909
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Esther B. Rhoads papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1153
Overview
The papers of Esther Rhoads (1896-1979), a member of an influential Philadelphia Quaker family, Rhoads was a teacher, later head, of Friends Girls' School in Tokyo for over 50 years. She was also of great importance in work with Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia and with the American Friends Service Committee, to assist Japanese-Americans affected by the War Relocation Act (forced removal and incarceration). Materials include correspondence, documents, typescripts and manuscripts,...
Dates:
circa 1895-1979
Margaret Scattergood papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BMC-12H-A87-10
Overview
Margaret Scattergood was an undergraduate student at Bryn Mawr College from 1913-1917 who was exceptionally involved in athletics while at school. Her collection, which ranges from 1909 to 1985, is primarily composed of academic notebooks and correspondence.
Dates:
1909 - 1985
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Sylvia Scudder (Bowditch) scrapbook
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: BMC-9LS-6
Overview
Sylvia Scudder (later Bowditch) was born in 1875. She was prepared by the Cambridge School for Girls in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She matriculated with the Bryn Mawr class of 1899, but received her degrees—in Greek and French—in 1901. From 1901-1902, she did graduate work in Greek at Radcliffe College. She taught Greek and English as the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Maryland from 1902-1904. She married Ingersoll Bowditch in 1904. For 21 years, she was the treasurer of the Bryn Mawr Club of...
Dates:
1895 - 1906
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Katharine Shepard papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M81
Overview
Katharine Shepard (1905-1986) attended Bryn Mawr College in the late 1920s and early 1930's, and received degrees in Latin, Classical Archaeology, and Greek. She went on to a career in archaeology, and was employed by the National Gallery of Art. The Katharine Shepard Papers contains letters to and from her family and friends, primarily from her many trips abroad, as well as a few family momentos.
Dates:
1906 - 1960; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1939
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
Henrietta Baldwin Sperry papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M99
Overview
Henrietta Baldwin Sperry was a student at Bryn Mawr from 1917-1921. This collection consists of approximately 1000 of her letters. Of those letters, most are written by her to her mother about her time applying to and attending Bryn Mawr College (1916-1921). The subjects of the letters include social life at Bryn Mawr, disease quarantines, the college war effort. The collection also contains letters to Henrietta from her friend and admirer, Sheldon Clarke, who wrote to her while he was...
Dates:
1916 - 1921
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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