Vassar College Archives
"President" Collections
"President" Collections
Jewett, Milo Parker, 1808-1882.
- Title: Papers, 1828-1913, 1856-1882 (bulk)
Physical Details: ca. 1.5 cubic ft.
Notes:
Originals are at University of Rochester.
Originals are at Dartmouth College.
Jewett was an original Trustee and first President of Vassar College, 1861-1865. He moved to Milwaukee in 1867 where he was active in educational, philanthropic, and religious affairs.
Summary: Papers primarily concern women's education and Vassar College and include his letters to Matthew Vassar, Nathan Bishop, Martin B. Anderson, and others relating to the proposed female college, staff and teaching appointments, his resignation, and other college affairs, 1856-1864; letters and essays from educators in response to Jewett's circular letter about the organization of Vassar Female College, 1861-1863; Jewett's essays and statements on the organization and curriculum for Vassar Female College, 1856-1864; other letters received on college business, his essay on Vassar College, and the benefits of teaching applied science (cooking), 1861-1880; his report on a trip to Europe, 1863; photocopy and typescript of his ORIGIN OF VASSAR; obituaries of Jewett, 1882, and his wife, 1889; a Vassar family letter, 1828; and letters to James Monroe Taylor about Jewett, 1888-1913.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Vassar, Matthew, 1792-1868.
Bishop, Nathan, 1808-1880.
Anderson, Martin B.
Taylor, James Monroe, 1848-1916.
Vassar College--Presidents.
Vassar College--Employees.
Vassar College--Faculty.
Family--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Women's colleges--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Women--Education.
Cookery--Study and teaching.
Europe--Description and travel.
College presidents.
Vassar family.
Vassar Female College.
Raymond, John H. (John Howard), 1814-1878.
- Title: Papers, 1823-1913, 1823-1878 (bulk)
Physical Details: 3 linear ft.
Notes: Raymond was a minister who left his position at Colgate to help found the University of Rochester. He was on the first Board of Trustees of Vassar College and became its President in 1865.
Summary: Correspondence includes letters by Raymond, 1823-1878, concerning religious issues and themes, family events, troubles with an Irish servant over alleged stealing, educational theory, the birth of his children, death of a son in a stage accident, changes at Colgate College, and other issues; includes letters while a schoolboy to his brother and his courtship letters to Cornelia Morse; letters received from Henry Fowle Durant, James Harper, and others, 1865-1875; and letter books containing copies of his outgoing correspondence as Vassar College President, 1864-1878, concerning appointments, students, his views on women's education, and other issues. Other items include manuscripts of sermons, verse, and an autobiographical sketch; propositions regarding Vassar College salaries and other issues, 1866-1868; his scrapbook on women's education, women's work, and women's rights, 1869; tributes to him, 1878 and 1913; and some letters by his wife, Cornelia Morse Raymond, relating to Vassar College concerns, 1885-1886.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Durant, Henry Fowle, 1822-1881.
Harper, James, 1795-1869.
Raymond, Cornelia Morse, 1861-1952.
Colgate University.
University of Rochester.
Vassar College--Presidents.
Vassar College. Board of Trustees.
Vassar College--Students.
Courtship--New York (State)
Family--New York (State)
Women--Education.
Women's rights.
Women's colleges--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Women--Employment.
Irish Americans.
Domestics.
Clergy.
College presidents.
College administrators.
Raymond family.
Genre Or Form:
Poems.
Sermons.
Scrapbooks.
Taylor, James Monroe, 1848-1916.
- Title: Papers, 1865-1916.
Physical Details: 6 linear ft.
Notes: Baptist minister, President of Vassar College, 1886-1914.
Summary: Papers primarily concern Vassar College and the education of women and include his manuscript addresses, articles, and sermons, 1868-1913; records of faculty appointments at Vassar, ca. 1887-ca. 1913; correspondence, including his letters to Cornelia M. Raymond, 1886-1916, concerning offer of the Presidency at Brown University, lecture at Vassar by Charles Zueblin, student issues, woman's suffrage, founding date of Mount Holyoke College, religious questions, protection of Vassar students, Vassar students and the New York shirtwaist workers strike of 1910, faculty matters including a conflict between Abby Leach and Grace H. Macurdy, and other issues related to women's education; copies of his publications; notes, research materials, and manuscript of his book BEFORE VASSAR OPENED; and clipings, photographs, passport, certificates, and other miscellaneous items.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Raymond, Cornelia Morse, 1861-1952.
Zueblin, Charles, 1866-1924.
Leach, Abby, 1855-1918.
Macurdy, Grace Harriet, 1866-1946.
Brown University.
Mount Holyoke College.
Vassar College--Presidents.
Vassar College--Faculty.
Vassar College--Students.
Women college students--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Women--Education.
Baptists--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Strikes and lockouts--Clothing trade.
Women's colleges--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Poughkeepsie (N.Y.)--Religious life and customs.
Clergy.
College presidents.
Genre Or Form:
Photoprints.
Sermons.
MacCracken, H. N. (Henry Noble), b. 1880.
- Title: Papers, 1914-1968.
Physical Details: ca. 210 linear ft.
Notes: MacCracken (1880-1970) was President of Vassar College, 1915-1946.
Summary: Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, contracts, publications, and other materials pertaining to Vassar College Trustees and administration, Buildings and Grounds, faculty, students, alumnae, programs, and activities, 1914-1950; to the World Youth Congress of 1938; to his own teaching activities; to Sarah Lawrence College, 1926-1937; to World War I, 1915-1920; to the Dutchess County Health Association, 1919-1945; and to the Kosciuszko Foundation (New York City), 1923-1962. Correspondence files from his personal involvement in such organizations as the American Civil Liberties Union, the Congregational Church, American Red Cross, International Migration Service, National Student Federation, the Southern Women's Educational Alliance, and the National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1915-1946. Personal and business correspondence with Felix Frankfurter, F.J. Furnivall, Herbert Hoover, Charles Evans Hughes, G.L. Kittredge, Herbert Lehman, John M. Manley, Henry Morgenthau, Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Constance Rourke, Alfred E. Smith, William Howard Taft, M. Carey Thomas, Mary E. Woolley, and others, 1915-1946. His speeches, manuscripts, typescripts, publications, and related correspondence, some of which concern Dutchess County history. Scrapbook of letters and clippings concerning his radio talk on religious liberty in the United States, 1928.
Letters and a notebook of miscellaneous records from the U.S. Committee for the Care of European Children, 1940-1942. Photographs and biographical information.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965.
Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910.
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.
Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948.
Kittredge, George Lyman, 1860-1941.
Lehman, Herbert H. (Herbert Henry), 1878-1963.
Manley, John M.
Morgenthau, Henry, 1891-1967.
Pupin, Michael Idvorsky, 1858-1935.
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945. Rourke, Constance, 1885-1941.
Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944.
Taft, William Howard, 1857-1930.
Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935.
Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947.
Vassar College. Board of Trustees.
Vassar College. Buildings and Grounds.
Vassar College--Presidents.
Vassar College--Administration.
Vassar College--Students.
Vassar College--Faculty.
Vassar College--Alumnae.
World Youth Congress (1938)
Sarah Lawrence College.
Dutchess County Health Association.
Kosciuszko Foundation.
American Civil Liberties Union.
American Red Cross.
International Migration Service.
National Student Federation.
Southern Women's Educational Alliance.
National Conference of Christians and Jews.
United States Committee for the Care of European Children.
Congregational churches--United States.
Charities.
International relief.
World War, 1914-1918.
World War, 1939-1945--Europe--Civilian relief.
Women's colleges--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Women--Education.
Radio programs.
Polish Americans.
Children--Europe.
Social work with children--Europe.
United States--Emigration and immigration.
United States--Religious life and customs.
United States--Social conditions.
College presidents.
College teachers.
Genre Or Form:
Photoprints.
Scrapbooks.
Blanding, Sarah Gibson, 1898-1985.
- Title: Papers, 1946-1985.
Physical Details: 1.5 cubic ft.
Notes: Educator. Blanding studied at the London School of Economics with Harold Laski. She was head of the New York State College of Home Economics at Cornell University, 1941-1946; and the first woman president of Vassar College, 1946-1964.
Summary: Correspondence, memoranda, clippings, articles, speeches, and press releases during her tenure at Vassar, 1946-1964, concerning women's education, academic freedom, 1950's politics, her stand against Congressional investigation of Communist influence in education, her introduction to Adlai Stevenson on a radio program, and her 1962 statement on pre-marital sex and Vassar students. Correspondence is largely letters received, including those from Marian Anderson, Elizabeth Bowen, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Robert Oppenheimer, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Adlai Stevenson, and letters of the Vassar College publicity departments. Other items include an undated travel diary on the British Isles, scrapbooks, biographical articles, diplomas, and citations, 1946-1985.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Anderson, Marian, 1902-
Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973.
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965.
Vassar College--Presidents.
Vassar College--Public relations.
Vassar College--Students.
Communism in education.
Communism--United States.
Women--Social conditions.
Women--Education.
Women in politics.
Premarital sex.
Women--Diaries.
United States--Social conditions.
United States--Politics and government--20th century.
British Isles--Description and travel.
Women college presidents.
Women educators.
Genre Or Form:
Diaries.
Scrapbooks.
Vassar College. Assistant to the President.
- Title: Records, 1949-1954.
Physical Details: 2 cubic ft.
Summary: Office files containing correspondence, minutes, memoranda, calendars, and questionnaires relating to students, endowments, lecture series, library committee, international relations committee, and other college business.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Vassar College--Administration.
Vassar College--Students.
Vassar College--Endowments.
Vassar College. Library.
Women's colleges--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
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McCaleb, Ella, 1856-1933.
- Title: Papers, 1895-1927.
Physical Details: ca. 1 cubic ft.
Notes: McCaleb (Vassar College Class of 1878) served in administrative positions at Vassar from 1885 to 1923, including Secretary of the College, Secretary to the President, and Dean of the College.
Summary: Correspondence includes her letters regarding admission examinations, the President's house, and other Vassar affairs, and her personal letters to family members; other items include her articles, speeches, and notes pertaining to Vassar; photographs; and clippings and tributes about McCaleb.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Vassar College--Entrance examinations.
Vassar College--Administration.
Women college administrators.
McCaleb family.
Genre Or Form:
Photoprints.