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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

Nathalie Gookin papers

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Identifier: A82-39
Abstract Nathalie Gookin was a student at Bryn Mawr from 1916-1920. Her collection consists of daily letters written to her parents and aunt during her time in college, as well as some letters from before she matriculated and some from after she graduated. She was admitted to Bryn Mawr with a $100 Western States Scholarship at the age of sixteen and she was the youngest person in the college. She lived in Rockefeller dorm all four years, majored in English and Latin, and graduated 5th in her class,...
Dates: 1916 - 1920
Found in: Bryn Mawr College

Helen Clements Kirk papers

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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

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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

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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

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Identifier: BMC-M99
Abstract 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

Woodrow Wilson materials

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-1975-29
Abstract

Besides serving as the twenty-eighth president of the United States from 1913-1921 Woodrow Wilson was a member of the original faculty of Bryn Mawr College from 1885-1888. Papers on file at Bryn Mawr College about Woodrow Wilson include material about the 1956 celebration at Bryn Mawr College of Wilson's Centennial as well as miscellaneous materials collected from various sources.

Dates: 1885 - 1956
Found in: Bryn Mawr College
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