Category Archives: Digital Collections

Stories from the Archives: Wellesley College in the 1910s

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Jane Callahan

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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Happy Valentine’s Day from Special Collections!

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Jenifer Bartle

One of my favorite collections that we have is the Browning Collection, composed of the published works, manuscripts, love letters, and other items belonging to Victorian poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning. If you’ve ever visited Special Collections, you … Continue reading →

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Old Clocks and Watches & Their Makers

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Jenifer Bartle

What is a “Jack,” and what was he doing on the top of Southwold Church? Who owned Death’s-head watches inscribed with scenes from Judgment Day (surely one of the creepiest 16th Century Memento Mori around)? Are you curious about the … Continue reading →

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A Memory in Ink

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Jenifer Bartle

… [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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Wellesley College’s Browning Love Letters have been digitized

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Jenifer Bartle

The love letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning are surely some of the most famous ever written. As a tale of intellectual sympathy, mutual love, and a daring elopement, they need no editing to tell their thrilling story. Romantics … Continue reading →

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The Wellesley Prelude

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Jenifer Bartle

On September 21, 1889, a new Wellesley student paper called The Wellesley Prelude released its inaugural issue.  The Prelude was published weekly during the academic year from September 1889 to June 1892. Annual subscriptions were available for $2.00, and individual issues for … Continue reading →

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