Papers, 1890-1961, 1898-1919 (bulk)

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Papers, 1890-1961, 1898-1919 (bulk)

Papers primarily consist of personal letters received from Fanny Hart, Mrs. Nathan S. Hart, and Nina Katherine Hart, 1898-1919, concerning requests for research assistance, health, visits, demands of work, family and vacation plans, Wylie's life with her companion Gertrude Buck, Fanny and Katherine's work, and other activities, with a few letters to Fanny Hart from Gertrude Buck. Other correspondence, 1923-1961, includes Wylie's letters to Fanny Borden, Vassar College Librarian, about publications and letters by others concerning the Wylie Memorial Fund, set up by Wylie's bequest to encourage friendly relations between Vassar College and the local community. Other items include clippings, publications, photographs, and postcards.

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Bryn Mawr College. Summer School for Women Workers in Industry

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The Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry (1921–1938) was a residential summer school program that brought approximately 100 young working women—mostly factory workers with minimal education—to the Bryn Mawr College campus, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, each year for eight weeks of liberal arts study. As part of the workers' education movement of the 1920s and 30s, the experimental program was unique in several ways. It was the first program of its kind for women in the United Stat...

Buck, Gertrude, 1871-1922

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Student at the University of Michigan. From the description of Gertrude Buck letters, 1896 and undated. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420291 ...

Vassar College.

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Borden, Fanny

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Wylie, Laura Johnson, 1855-1932

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Wylie, an 1877 Vassar graduate who received her Ph.D. from Yale in 1894, taught English at Vassar from 1895 to 1924. Her other interests included the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers and suffrage work in Poughkeepsie. From the description of Papers, 1890-1961, 1898-1919 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155520382 Wylie, an 1877 Vassar graduate who received her Ph. D. from Yale in 1894, taught English at Vassar from 1895 to 1924. Her other interests included the ...

Hart, Fanny.

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Hart, Nathan S., Mrs.

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Hart, Nina Katherine.

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