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publications (documents)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Dorothy Burr Thompson diaries and papers

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-2010-14
Overview

Dorothy Burr Thompson (1900 – 2001) was a prominent archaeologist who graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1923. She specialized in Greek terracotta. Burr Thompson and her husband, Homer A. Thompson, were both heavily involved with the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. The collection includes her diaries, personal correspondence, and professional papers. It also includes contains both personal and research related photographs and postcards.

Dates: 1912 - 1991
Found in: Bryn Mawr College

James Garrett Vail papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1355
Overview James Garrett Vail (1886-1951) was an American Quaker and industrial chemist with a focus on silicates. Vail frequently engaged in service missions outside of the United States, beginning with child-feeding efforts in Germany in combination with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) after the First World War. This collections consists primarily of correspondence with his wife, Ruth Masters Russell Vail, while abroad and material related to those foreign missions and other aspects of...
Dates: 1917 - 1952

World's Fair materials

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-801-11-019
Overview

This collection consists of photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, a playbill, magazines, and flyers from the Brussels World’s Fair in 1958. Much of the content is in reference to the American Pavilion, a part of which still stands today in Belgium. There is also information regarding the controversial “Unfinished Work” exhibition, focusing on race in America at the time.

Dates: 1958 - 1967