inventory of a collection in progress

(inventory also in progress!)

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yearbooks

ephemera

photos

china

event programs

books

 


yearbooks

Wellesley '84 senior class yearbook

1894 Legenda

1908 Legenda

1909 Legenda

1910 Legenda

1917 Legenda

1918 Legenda

1919 Legenda

1920 Legenda

1925 Legenda

1929 Legenda

1931 Legenda

1932 Legenda

1935 Legenda

1940 Legenda

1941 Legenda

1948 Legenda

1949 Legenda

1961 Legenda

1964 Legenda

 


event programs

1885 commencement program

1887 commencement program

1900 commencement and activities programs

1900 Float program

1905 Tree Day program

1905 Float program

1905 commencement week program

1910 commencement invitation (2)

1910 commencement program

1910 Float program

1911 program for inauguration of President Pendleton

1894 Reunion booklet for the Class of 1884

1914 Reunion booklet for the Class of 1884

two "W" nametags for Class of 1884, for 1914 Reunion

1919 Reunion booklet for the Class of 1884

1934 commencement program

1942 Reunion booklet for the Class of 1934

1951 Reunion booklet for the Class of 1934

1964 Reunion booklet for the Class of 1934

1974 commencement program

1994 commencement program

 


photos

album of cabinet photos, c. 1889: Alice Freeman Palmer and George Herbert Palmer  

6"x9" photo of College Hall from north

6"x9" photo of College Hall Centre

H.F. Holland photo of four women, dated 1889, from Class of 1884

photo of student room "Room 134," from Class of 1884

photo of Tupelo crew (1889)

photo of students in cap and gown: Eis Kalon Kagathon (1889)

print of Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial (1909)

photo of students (1909)

candid snapshots from 1904-05 and 1909-11

group photo of students (c.1918)

portraits of students (c.1918)

later portrait of Martha Giltner Cook 1884

portrait of Anna W. Johnson '20, inscribed to "Sammy" (Harriet Gordon Sampson)

 


letters, magazines, other ephemera

Wellesley College Circular for September 1881

Wellesley College Song Book (1897)  

"A Lesson in English" booklet by Louise Manning Hodgkins (1889)

newspaper clippings from 1912 and 1913 re: Oregon Wellesley gatherings

The Youth's Companion magazine (1912)

freshman portrait directory for the Class of 1924 (1920)

letter from Katharine Lee Bates to Prof. Hillyer, March 1923

Wellesley College 50th anniversary fund-raising appeal (1925)

1932-33 gray book

1933-34 Bulletin, course catalog

1938 alumnae directory

Time magazine (1949)

Holiday magazine (1954)

1972 alumnae directory

1999 alumnae directory

 


china and souvenirs

Minton bread plate, "Waste Not Want Not" from College Hall, 1875

commemorative plate c.1909

Wedgwood blue transferware plate: President's House, 1936

Wedgwood blue transferware plate: Houghton Memorial Chapel, 1936

Wedgwood blue transferware plate: Founders Hall, 1936

letter opener with pre-1917 seal  

 


books

Wellesley College campus photos (1889)

Wellesley Lyrics (1896)

Persephone and Other Poems (1905)

Life of Alice Freeman Palmer by George Herbert Palmer (1908)

The College Year by Caroline Hazard (1910)

Cap and Gown (1910)

The Story of Wellesley College by Florence Converse 1893 (1915)

A Short History of England by Katharine Coman and Elizabeth Kendall (1921)

Life of Henry Fowle Durant by Florence Morse Kingsley x1880 (1924)

Wellesley Verse: 1875-1925

The New Wellesley (1930)

America the Dream by Katharine Lee Bates 1880 (1930)

A Girl of the Eighties by Martha Pike Conant 1890 et al. (1931)

Wellesley College: 1875-1938 by Florence Converse 1893 (1938)

Wellesley: Part of the American Story by Alice Payne Hackett '21 (1949)

Dream and Deed: The Story of Katharine Lee Bates (1952)

Wellesley: College and Community by Eleanor Blair '17 (signed) (1974)

A Woman's Place (1974)

Wellesley After-Images (1974)

Wellesley College 1875-1975: A Century of Women (1975)

Chapel Talk by Margaret Clapp '30 (1980)

Alma Mater by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz '63 (1984)

In Adamless Eden by Patricia Ann Palmieri (1995)

A Community Worthy of the Name by Nannerl Overholser Keohane '61 (1995)

The Landscape & Architecture of Wellesley College (2000)