Wellesley College Archives

Scope and Contents Faculty publications are comprised mostly of journal articles, with some musical compositions, reports, and book chapters.

Scope and Contents 1VV Famous Visitors collection is an artificial collection (compiled by Archivists from multiple sources based on subject) dating from 1883-1978. Includes records of visits to Wellesley College by these groups and individuals: Zuni Native Americans, sociologist and civil rights activist Dwight O. W. Holmes, Hawaiian Princess Victoria Kaʻiulani and Queen Kapi'olani Napelakapuokaka'e, author and historian Edward Everett Hale, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, French actor M. Coquelin, British...

Scope and Contents Collection consists of the records of the Food Service Administration (previously called the Food Services Department) at Wellesley College, dating from 1954-2003. Includes schedules and instructions for student workers in dining halls, lists of staff members, holiday dinner schedules, dietitians’ schedules, communications from the Director of Food Services (later called the Director of Dining Services), a 1986 college-wide letter about food service management, menus from 1974-1995, pamphlets,...

Scope and Contents Collection consists of the records of Wellesley College's founders, Henry Fowle Durant and Pauline Adeline Durant, dating from 1837, 1851-1991. Collection includes four series. Series I. Durant family biographical and subject files (1837-1991) includes multiple biographical files on Henry and Pauline Durant, including specifically on Henry’s name change from Henry Welles Smith to Henry Fowle Durant (to distinguish himself from the other Henry Smiths in his field), on Henry’s birthplace...

Scope and Contents Collection consists of the records of graduate students at Wellesley College, dating from 1936 to 2000. Includes a file with multiple small news clippings, press releases, correspndence, and lists of courses taken relating to graduate students Shirley Brander, Geneva Virgina Brill, Annella Braun, Elizabeth J. Cole, Katy Hodgman, Ruth Eleanor McKibbin, Janet Mealy and Jean Merrill. For more biographical information on these alumnae, please refer to the 1942 Record Number of the Wellesley College...

Overview This collection includes financial records, programs, music, and correspondence related to the Wellesley College Guild of Carillonneurs from 1905 to 2014.

Overview The personal and professional papers of Hannah Dustin French, who was the Order Librarian at Wellesley College (1939-1944) as well as the Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections (1944-1972).

Scope and Contents This collection includes records of Harambee House, dating from 1970-2005. This collection is closely related to the collection 6S Ethos records. Ethos is the student organization which established Harambee House in 1969. Collection consists of two series. Series I. Administrative records and publications (1970-2001) includes documents such as a list of speakers brought by Harambee House, the transcript from Oprah Winfrey's Commencement Address, and a letter to Ethos from President Diana...

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