The Vassar College Digital Library will be moving to a new platform in June 2022. You may now view the following BETA collections in the NEW Digital Library: Finding Aids, Institutional Repository, and the Herbarium.
The Vassar College Libraries Digital Initiatives Program provides guidance and makes available the framework to preserve and disseminate, in digital format, selected resources held by the Libraries or created by members of the Vassar community. Furthermore, the Program creates and enriches digital collections to be used for instruction. Learn more »
The collections seen here are available and searchable within the Digital Library search bar at the top of each page. For additional Vassar College resources visit the "Other Collections of Interest" page here: https://digitallibrary.vassar.edu/about/other.
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Albert Einstein Digital CollectionA gift of Morris and Adele Bergreen in 2003, Vassar College Libraries' Albert Einstein collection documents a lesser-known aspect of Albert Einstein’s career: his social and political work in the United States and abroad, with special attention to Jewish affairs. |
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Antonio Marquez CollectionDr. Antonio Márquez (b. 1923 - d. 2010), poet, painter and academic, was born in Arriate, Malaga, Spain. As a young man he studied in Spain under the Jesuit order, and went on to study in Ecuador (1951- 1953) as a member of that order, then went on to to study in the U.S. at the Seminary of St. Andrew’s in Hyde Park, NY. Márquez completed his Doctorate in Philosophy of Religion from Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain in 1970. |
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The Associated Emeritae/i of Vassar College (AEVC) Oral HistoryThe Associated Emeritae/i of Vassar College (AEVC) was founded in the fall of 2007 with the principal goal of representing the interests and concerns of more than eighty retired members of the Vassar Faculty. In support of this goal, the AEVC began compiling oral histories from its members in 2018. Additional interviews are available on-site only in VCL Archives and Special Collections spcoll@vassar.edu |
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Bidloo's Anatomia humani corporis (Vassar's Millionth Volume)Bound in Moroccan leather, Anatomia humani corporis by Govard Bidloo comprises 105 engraved plates of anatomical drawings by Gerard de Lairesse. In 2011, the 150th anniversary of the college's founding, the Vassar Libraries acquired the college's millionth volume — Anatomia humani corporis by Govard Bidloo, a 17th-century anatomy atlas. |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton PapersPapers include correspondence with Susan B. Anthony, Paulina Wright Davis, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Gerrit Smith, and others relating to family matters, her children, the woman's movement, her lectures and travels, publication of her books and articles, women and religion, abolition, temperance, and other social causes. |
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Glass Plate NegativesThe Glass Plate Negatives Collection contains materials from 1904-1935, depicting events, students, and buildings at Vassar College. Most photographs were taken by E.L. (Edmund L.) Wolven. Funding note: the digitization of the glass plate negative collection from 1904-1935 was made possible by the Vassar Class of 1950. |
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Images of Early VassarThe Images of Early Vassar collection consists of materials relating to the early history of Vassar College, from its founding in 1861 to the early years of the 20th century. |
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Jasper Parrish PapersThe collection includes correspondence of Jasper Parrish, 1790-1829, and others, 1757-1869, relating to the Painted Post treaty, payments to Indians, supplies to the Seneca mission, conduct of the St. Regis Indians, and work of the Quakers among the Indians. |
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John Burroughs JournalsJohn Burroughs (1837-1921) was a noted naturalist, essayist and a significant figure in the history of environmentalism. |
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Landauer Longfellow CollectionThe Landauer Longfellow Collection consists of approximately 300 pieces of sheet music and some bound volumes (totaling more than 6500 pages) featuring the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. |
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The Library Cafe ArchiveThe Library Café is a weekly program of table talk with scholars, artists, publishers and librarians about books, scholarship, and the formation and circulation of knowledge. It is hosted by Thomas Hill, Vassar College Art Librarian. http://library-cafe.org |
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Mathew Vassar PapersMatthew Vassar, founder of Vassar College, was born in the County of Norfolk, England, emigrated with his parents and other family members to Dutchess County, N.Y., in 1796. Vassar College was chartered in 1861 and opened its doors to students in 1865. |
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Memorial MinutesThe Memorial Minutes collection consists of short biographical pieces from Vassar faculty members, read in their honor at faculty meetings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
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Printer's MarksThis collection provides images of, and information about, all of the extant printer's marks in the windows of the Vassar College Library. Printer's marks are visual emblems that identify the printer of a particular book. |
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Student DiariesThe Student Diaries collection provides access to more than fifty diaries from Vassar students from the nineteenth century. |
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Student LettersThe Student Letters collection contains letters from Vassar students primarily during the nineteenth century. |
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Student Photo AlbumsThe Student Photo Album collection contains material from Vassar students primarily during the nineteenth century. |
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Student ScrapbooksThe Student Scrapbooks collection provides access to scrapbooks from Vassar students from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
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Susan B. Anthony CollectionMost letters are hand-written and have an accompanying transcript. Digitization of the collection was made possible by a generous grant from Dr. Georgette Bennett in honor of Dr. Leonard Polonsky CBE. |
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Transactions of the Association of Russian-American Scholars (ARAS)This collection houses the complete set of the bilingual almanacs published by the Association of Russian-American Scholars in the USA (ARAS) titled – in two languages – Transactions of the Association of Russian-American Scholars in the USA / Записки Русской Академической Группы в США. |
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Vassar College ANTH-AFRS 386 Interview ProjectThe interviews in this collection are a result of the projects by students in Vassar College's "ANTH/AFRS 386: Situating Blackness" course in Spring 2015. The course encouraged students to explore the meanings of blackness (and raced identity categories) as lived experience at Vassar College and beyond. |
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Vassar College LGBTQ Oral History ProjectThe Vassar LGBTQ Oral History Project is a partnership between the LGBTQ Center, the Women’s Studies Program and the Vassar College Archives that began in the fall of 2012. The goal of the project is to capture the experiences, stories, and reflections of LGBTQ and ally alumnae/i as well as former and current LGBTQA staff members. |
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Vassar College Library Gargoyles and GrotesquesVassar College Library was built in 1905, the architecture and the style of the building is perpendicular Gothic, with many embellishments. Among those embellishments are approximately thirty-six gargoyles and grotesques. |
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Vassar SongsThe Vassar Songs collection features volumes from 1881-1915, and a special seventy-fifth anniversary book from 1940. |