Wellesley College Archives

Scope and Contents Collection consists of records from college anniversaries, dating from 1925-2000, including correspondence, event materials and programs, planning documents, publicity records, and fundraising records, related conferences, reports, and publications. Collection is arranged in four series. Series I. 50th Anniversary (1925) consists of records from the college’s 50th Anniversary in 1925, including letters of congratulations, event programs, records from Semi-Centennial Fund campaign, records of...

Scope and Contents Collection consists of the records of College Government, dating from 1939-1968, including an outline of College Government, forms and stationary, the Constitution and By-Laws, the Bursar’s records and other financial records, records of ‘Aquaintanceships,’ the 75th Anniversary Fund, appointments, and building; also includes records of the Cabinet, the Constitutions Committee, the college curriculum, extra-curricular and social activities, publicity records, records of the Student Organization...

Scope and Contents Collection consists of records relating to the 1914 College Hall fire and subsequent reconstruction and community reflection on the event, dating from 1914 to 1974. Includes personal accounts of the fire, telegrams of condolence and offers of help following the fire, related letters to President Ellen Fitz Pendleton and alumnae, records of fundraising and reconstruction efforts, news articles covering the fire, scrapbooks of Eleanor Blair (Class of 1917) and Barbara Bach Phipps (Class of 1916),...

Scope and Contents Collection consists of records from Commencement and Baccalaureate events, dating from 1879-2017. Collection is arranged in three series. Series I. Baccalaureate programs (1884-2006) includes sermons and programs from Baccalaureate services. Series II. Commencement records (1879-2017) includes documentation of Commencement and Commencement Week activities, such as programs, invitations, clippings, press releases, press kits, photograph slides, and speeches. Series III. Commencement Recordings...

Scope and Contents Collection consists of the records (dating from 1970 to 1977) of the Commission on Community Life, an ad hoc committee of the Board of Trustees active from 1973 to 1977. Collection includes several files on the Commission's Articles, goals, structure, membership, leadership, and meeting minutes, as well as subject files relating to particular activities and concerns of the Commission including the creation of an affirmative action program, academic computer selection, budgets, benefits and...

Scope and Contents Collection consists of records of Continuing Education students, or Davis Scholars (including the "Special Students" of the College's early years) dating from 1885-1895 and 1992-2006. Includes news articles on alumnae and their achievements, correspondence and course materials from students' time at Wellesley, notes from the Registrar's Office on classes taken by Special Students, and photo albums and scrapbooks of Special Students (including students of the Department of Hygiene and Physical...

Scope and Contents Collection consists of the records of the Coordinator of Special Events, dating from 1936, 1950-1981. Includes files on Wellesley College events such as academic convocations, admissions events, lecture programs, awards events, alumnae events, art exhibitions and festivals, dance, music, and theater performances, Centennial events, conferences and symposiums, Commencement-Reunion Weekends, and inaugurations of college presidents Ruth Adams and Barbara Newell.

Scope and Contents Collection consists of the records of the Coordinator of Student Services, dating from 1963-1986, arranged in alphabetical order by folder title. Includes files on affirmative action, Alcohol Policy (including a survey on its use and licensing information), the Alumnae Association, affiliated external organizations (including multiple on the Association of College Unions), Annual Reports, student organizations at Wellesley and their Houses, student activities in Boston, budgets, transportation...

Scope and Contents Collection consists of curricular material from various departments over the course of Wellesley College's history (1876-2004). Contents include syllabi, examinations (Entrance, General, and Reading Knowledge), and course reserve lists.

Scope and Contents Office files of the Dean of Studies, formerly the Dean of Students; dating from 1956 to 1974; consisting of minutes, correspondence, lists, budgets, reports; including material on minority groups, budgets, chapel, counseling, dormitories, rules, Senate, student organizations and activities, Academic Council and administrative committees.