Photograph of Priscilla Brewer, right, seated on sofa with dog and unidentified person. Brewer (d. 2008) spent considerable time in the Mount Holyoke Archives & Special Collections researching student life at the Seven Sisters Colleges. Her mother,...
Mount Holyoke College students during a gym class. Students are dressed in gym uniforms and hanging by their hands from bars against the wall of the gymnasium.
A photograph taken outdoors of faculty and/or trustees in academic robes, in procession before a line of female students, all wearing light-colored dresses. At the head of the faculty line are Helen May Cady, associate professor of English...
A photograph taken outdoors of students and faculty standing in a field watching as other students wind ribbon around a Maypole on May Day in 1903. Several spectators hold umbrellas (or parasols).
A photograph of lawyer Leslie Miller, class of 1973, from page 4 of an admissions catalog called "Mount Holyoke College: Careers and the Liberal Arts - Paths."
A photograph taken outdoors of students gathered near a horse-drawn wagon featuring signs about prohibition. Verso reads: “Presidential campaign, prohibition candidate. Helen F. [Frances] Case (1910) on left horse; Gertrude A. [Anna] Merrick...
A photograph of Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown, class of 1920, discoverers of the first anti-fungal antibiotic, Nystatin. Documentation stored with this image reads: “Chemical pioneers Brown and Hazen: Elizabeth Hazen (left) and Rachel...
A photograph of a memorial stained glass window depicting the United States flag with wings. The window was made by Tiffany and Company and given to the Plymouth Congregational Church in New Haven, CT, by Elizabeth Maude Jerome (1864-1939) in...
A photocopy of a newspaper article detailing the suits the class of 1942 chose to wear as their senior emblem. The name of the newspaper is missing. The caption beneath the accompanying photo identifies the students as Margaret Orr, Ruth Derouin,...
A letter from Charlotte Allen Ward, class of 1903, to her family in the United States. Ward describes the improving health of her husband, Edwin Ward, a surgeon at the Medical School of the Syrian Protestant College (later to be called the American...
A letter from Edwin Ward--husband of Charlotte Allen Ward, class of 1903--to his parents announcing the birth of their daughter, Eleanor Bliss Ward. The letter is written in French, as the Wards feared any correspondence written in English would be...
A framed ivory miniature portrait of Mary Lyon, painted in color. The frame is made of wood. Notes stored with this painting identify it as "Painted (for exchange) with Eunice Caldwell Cowles."
A page from “Liber de compositione mundi / excelle[n]tissimi viri Pauli Veneti theologi insignis, philosophi summi, ac astronomi maximi opus aureu[m] de compositione mu[n]di quod Astronomie ianua nu[n]cupari po[tes]t ; i[n] quo omnium celestium...
A page from "Hieronymi Tragi, De stirpivm, maxime earvm, qvae in Germania nostra nascvntvr, usitatis nomenclaturis, proprijsque differentijs, necque non temperaturis ac facultatibus, commentariorum libri tres, germanica primum lingua conscripti,...
A page from "Hieronymi Tragi, De stirpivm, maxime earvm, qvae in Germania nostra nascvntvr, usitatis nomenclaturis, proprijsque differentijs, necque non temperaturis ac facultatibus, commentariorum libri tres, germanica primum lingua conscripti,...
