Chemistry Department records
Scope and Contents
This collection includes course materials, administrative records, budgets, and grant information dating from 1883 to 2010. Collection also includes records of the Wellesley College Institute in Chemistry.
Dates
- Creation: 1883-2011
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research, but contains some material which has been restricted as per the Wellesley College Archives Access Policy: https://www.wellesley.edu/lts/policies/archivesaccess. To make an appointment to view unrestricted materials, please contact the Archives staff by email at archives@wellesley.edu or by phone at (781) 283-3745.
Conditions Governing Use
The Wellesley College Archives welcomes researchers to use materials in the public domain, to make fair use of copyrighted materials as defined by copyright law, and to request permission to use works whose copyright is held by Wellesley College. All materials from the Archives, regardless of copyright status, should be attributed to the Wellesley College Archives, Library and Technology Services, Wellesley College when cited, quoted, or reproduced.
Extent
30.5 Linear Feet (In 20 Hollinger letter boxes, 16 record cartons, 2 half-document boxes, 2 archival shoe boxes, 1 half-Hollinger letter-sized box, 1 half-Hollinger legal sized box, and 1 oversized flat box.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection includes course materials, administrative records, budgets, and grant information dating from 1883 to 2010. Collection also includes records of the Wellesley College Institute in Chemistry.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in the following series and subseries:
I. Department administration
II. Science Center Committee
II. Wellesley College Institute in Chemistry
III. Course materials
IV. Eleanor R. Webster
A. Student papers
B. Subject files
V. Personnel files
VI. Restricted materials
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection is made up of accessions that were all given to the archives by the Chemistry Department at different points in time.
- Title
- Chemistry Department Records, 1883-2011: A Guide
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- File-level description by Student Assistant Paige Befeler, collection-level description by Natalia Gutierrez-Jones, Project Archivist. Reprocessed by Abigail Wilson 2023 October.
- Date
- 2020 January 10
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Wellesley College Archives Repository