Category Archives: Archives

Stories from the Archives: Wellesley College in the 1910s

About the Author: Shelby Daniels-Young is a senior at Dana Hall School. These short articles are a product of her Senior Project, which was a two-and-a-half-week-long internship at the Wellesley College Archives, researching students and aspects of student life in the … Continue reading

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Lorraine O’Grady: A Conversation and Celebratory Event

Lorraine O’Grady: a Conversation and Celebratory Event Collins Cinema, Wellesley College November 15, 2012, 5pm The Wellesley College Archives is pleased to announce an event to celebrate internationally acclaimed artist and writer Lorraine O’Grady ’55, who will return to the … Continue reading

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A Broadside Project Inspired by the Letters of Anne Whitney

This semester, Library and Technology Services (LTS) and Professor Jacqueline Musacchio of the Art Department are collaborating on a project involving the letters of nineteenth-century American poet and sculptor Anne Whitney, which are held by the Wellesley College Archives. Students … Continue reading

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Papers of Emma DeLong Mills Open for Research

A spirit of adventure, though not mandatory for completion of an archives project, certainly enhances the journey of collection processing.  Here at the Wellesley College Archives, I was afforded the opportunity explore the paper trail left by a life of … Continue reading

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A Memory in Ink

… [I]t is hoped that the Courant may serve not only as literary gymnasium and as a memory in ink, but that it may become, as well, an open channel of communication between students of earlier days and the College in whose history they … Continue reading

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