Wellesley College Archives

Scope and Contents Contains records from faculty and staff social clubs, dating from 1916-1978.

Scope and Contents This collection contains biographical files on faculty and instructors created by Wellesley College. Files often include CVs, questionnaires, articles, and clippings. There are also a few files on non-Wellesley people who had a connection to the College.

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...

Overview This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Germaine Lafeuille, professor of French at Wellesley College dating from 1940 to 1976. Materials found in the collection include correspondence, speeches, notes, and book reviews.

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.