Vassar College Archives

• Founder
• President
• Trustees
• Committees and Boards
• Administrative Offices and Functions
• Academic Departments and Programs
• Special Programs and Projects
• Buildings and Grounds
• Campus Organizations
• Alumnae/i Organizations
• Events and Issues
• Non-campus Organizations
• Miscellaneous Files and Collections
• Audiovisuals and Realia

Founder

• Vassar, Matthew, 1797-1890
• Vassar Matthew (microfilm), 1797-1890

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President

• Jewett, Milo Parker (President 1861-1864), 1828-1913
• Raymond, John H. (President 1864-1878), 1823-1913
• Caldwell, Samuel L. (President 1878-1885), 1878-1885
• Taylor, James Monroe (President 1886-1914), 1865-1916
• MacCracken, Henry Noble (President 1915-1946), 1907-1968
• Blanding, Sarah Gibson (President 1946-1964), 1911-1969
• Simpson, Alan (President 1964-1977), 1949-1979
• Smith, Virginia B. (President 1977-1986), 1951-1990
• Fergusson, Frances D. (President 1986-2006), 1951-2011 [RESTRICTED]
• Hill, Catharine Bond (2006-2016) [RESTRICTED]
• Bradley, Elizabeth H. (2017 - present)
• Assistant to the President, 1929-1979

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Trustees

• Board of Trustees, 1861-2014
• Churchill, Ruth Hornblower, 1932-1963
• Hadley, Helen Morris, 1880-1928
• Kendrick, James Ryland, 1877-1927
• Lossing, Benson John, 1861-1891
• Magoon, Elias L., 1861-1885
• Smiley, Daniel, circa 1902-1927
• Swan, Cyrus, circa 1842-1898
• Thompson, Mary Thaw, 1880-1928
• Wilkie, John

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Committees and Boards

• Administrative Council/Group
• Beadle Fund Committee (Phebe H. Beadle Funds for Scientific Departments)
• Carolyn Grant Endowment Fund Committee
• Committee on Admissions
• Committee on Assessment
• Committee on Committees
• Committee on Curricular Policies
• Committee on Educational Policies
• Committee on Student Records
• Comprehensive Planning Committee
• Curriculum Committee
• Faculty Club
• Faculty Committee on Scholarships
• Faculty Minutes, 1865-2018
• Faculty Policy & Conference Committee
• Friends of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
• Master Planning Committee
• President's Advisory Committee on Archives

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Administrative Offices and Functions

• Academic Program Support
• Advancement (Development)
• Jeh Vincent Johnson ALANA Cultural Center
• Athletics Association
• Campus Activities, 1985-2006
• Campus Life and Diversity, 1988-2022
• Center for Career Education (formerly Career Development)
• College Historian
• College Research Center
• Communications (College Relations)
• Computing and Information Services (CIS)
• Conferences and Summer Programs
• Counseling Service (see also the Mary Conover Mellon Foundation)
• Dean of Student Life
• Dean of Students, 1877-2003
• Dean of Studies
• Dean of the College (see also McCaleb, Ella)
• Dean of the College / Dean of the Faculty, 1917-1997
• Dean of the Faculty, 1901-2009
• Exploring Transfer Program
• Field Work
• Finance and Administration, Vice President for, 1948-2000
• Financial Affairs
  • Book of Wills, circa 1891
  • Controller's Office
  • Treasurer
• Financial Aid
• Food Service
• Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (VC Art Gallery)
• Infirmary, circa 1880s-1931
• Institutional Research
• International Programs
• International Students
• Laundry Register, 1883-1884
• Lady Principal (see Dean of Students)
• LGBTQ Center (Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Center)
• Library
• Media Cloisters
• Natural History Museum, 1866-1969
• Office of Fellowships
• Personnel Office
• Registrar, 1865-1998
• Religious and Spiritual Life
• Residential Life
• Secretary of the College (see also McCaleb, Ella)
• Social Museum
• Student Admissions
• Student Employment
• Student Living and Wellness
• Vice President for Administrative and Student Services (see Dean of Students)
• Vice President for Student Affairs (see Dean of Students)
• Vocational Bureau (see Center for Career Education)
• Warden (see Dean of Students)
• Women's Center

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Academic Departments and Programs

• Africana Studies, 1969-2004
• American Studies
• Anthropology
• Annual Reports (Multiple Departments)
• Art
• Astronomy
• Biology
• Botany
• Chemistry
• Child Study (see also Wimpfheimer Nursery School)
• Computer Science
• Drama, circa 1905-2014
• Earth Science and Geography
• Education
• English
• Environmental Studies
• French & Francophone Studies
• German
• Graduate Division of Conservation, 1946-1953
• Greek and Roman Studies
• Hispanic Studies
• History, 1915-1985
• Mathematics
• Music
• Philosophy
• Physical Education
• Physics
• Psychology
• Reading Lists
• Religion
• Science, Technology and Society
• Urban Studies
• Women's Studies, 1977-2007

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Special Programs and Projects

• College Course Program
• Coordinating Council for War Activities, 1942-1945
• Exploring College Summer Intensive
• Folklore Foundation, 1919-1938
• Hudson River Radio
• Interdepartmental courses
• Shakespeare Prize essays
• Training Camp for Nurses, 1917-1999
• Mary Conover Mellon Foundation (see also the Counseling Service)
• Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI), 1986-2005
• Vassar Summer Institute (formerly the Vassar Summer Institute of Euthenics)
• Vassar Summer [Orientation] Program
• War Service Committee
• Wimpfheimer Nursery School, circa 1927-2009
• Women's Health Initiative

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Buildings and Grounds

• Buildings and Grounds Department Files, 1879-2007
• Buildings and Grounds Department Plans
• Blueprints and Plans
• Blodgett
• Director of Grounds
• Ferry House
• General Manager
• Observatory
• Sanders Classroom Building
• Sanders Physics Building
• Skinner Hall
  (see also the Keane Richards Papers in our Manuscript Collection)

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Campus Organizations

• Association of Collegiate Specials, 1888-1894
• Christian Association, 1913-1933
• Coalition for Social Responsibility, 1978-1982
• Community Church, circa 1940-1959
• Community Religious Association, 1952-1953
• Current Topics Club, circa 1892-1914
• Debate Society, 1922-1924
• Employees Golf Association, 1939
• Flora Doras, 1952-1962
• Goodfellowship Club, 1902-1957
• Latin Journal Club, 1902-1935
• LGBTQ (Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) Center, circa 1998-2013
• Microscopical Club, 1887-1890
• Missionary Society (see Society for Religious Inquiry)
• Night Owls, 1996-1997
• Outing Club, 1932-1976
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Philalethean Society, 1866-1939
• Political Association
• Qui Vive Club, 1882-1892
• Sigma Xi (see Beadle Fund Committee)
• Society for Religious Inquiry, 1859-1904
• Steadfast Club, 1890-1891
• Students' Aid Society
• T & M Club, circa 1895-1913
• Thekla and Composer's Clubs, 1928-1945
• Vassar Miscellany News, circa 1947-1960
• Vassar Students' Association, 1868-2017
• WVKR Radio Station

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Alumnae/i Organizations

• AAVC (Alumnae and Alumni of Vassar College)
• Class Guest Books
• Class Records, 1865-2007
• LAGA-VC (Lesbians and Gay Alumnae/i - Vassar College)
• Vassar Clubs
  • Atlanta
  • Boston, 1867-2004
  • Cincinnati
  • Grand Rapids
  • Mohonk Valley
  • Memphis
  • New Jersey
  • New York
  • Philadelphia, 1903-2011
  • Pittsburgh
  • Poughkeepsie
  • Washington, D.C., 1887-1934
  • Washington State, 1909-1956
  • Worcester

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Events and Issues

• 1969 Black Studies Sit-In, 1966-1974
• 1971 Student Sit-In, 1970-1971
• 1983 All College Assembly
• 1990 Main Building Takeover, 1990-1991
• Baccalaureate and Commencement Records
• Coeducation and Men's Education, 1958-1979
• College Anniversaries
  • 25th Anniversary
  • 50th Anniversary
  • 75th Anniversary
  • Centennial Anniversary
  • 125th Anniversary
• Fellers Incident, 1949-1967
• Founder's Day, 1866-2001
• Roosevelt, Eleanor (Centennial Exhibit and Conference Materials)
• Second World Youth Congress
• Vassar College Programs and Events Collection
• Vassar College Programs Scrapbooks, 1866-1982
• Vassar-Yale Study
• Vietnam Era Protests, 1962-1972

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Non-campus Organizations

• American Association of University Professors. Vassar College Chapter
• American Red Cross, Vassar Relief Unit
• Middle States Association, 1897, 1959-2009
• Seven College Conference

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Miscellaneous Files and Collections

• Alumnae/i Author Files
• Alumnae/i Biographical Files (AAVC), circa 1865-2015
• Alumnae/i Biographical Files (Library)
• Archives Files, 1860-1969
• Biographical Files, circa 1900-2010
• Chronological Files, 1860-1998
• Faculty Reprint Collection, circa 1860-2012
• Memorial Minutes
• Subject Files, 1864-2018
• Student Materials Collection, 1859 - circa 1989
• Testimony of the Past [course]

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Audiovisuals and Realia

• Glass Plate Negative Collection (E. L. Wolven), 1897-1944
• Negatives
• Photograph Collection, circa 1865-2014
• Postcards
• Slide Collection
• Tintypes
• Realia Collection
• Vassar College Audio Recordings Collection
• Vassar College Class Monograms Collection, 1868-1924
• Vassar College Film and Video Collection
• Vassar College Scrapbooks, 1860-1978
• Vassar Oral Histories. Class of 1935 and Others, 1980-1995
• Vassar Oral Histories. Class of 1935 Study
• Vassar Oral Histories. Faculty

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