Records of the Class of 1906
Scope and Contents
Records of the Class of 1906, dating from 1899 to 1994, consisting of articles, clippings, correspondence, diaries, invitations, notebooks, photos, poems, programs, memorabilia, songs; concerning class activities as students and alumnae; also concerning individual class members and reunions; including diaries and scrapbook of Mary Elizabeth Emerson, scrapbook of Gertrude Francis Houghton, class notebooks of Ione Pettit Morrison Overfield, Honors Day address by Connie Guion (1965); also including the "wing" emblem of Class's 25th Reunion, a reunion beret, and a reunion cloth bag. Of note are the papers of Connie Guion, who was the first woman to be a Professor of Clinical Medicine (1946) and the chief of Cornell University's New York City medical clinic.
Dates
- Creation: 1899-1994
Creator
- Guion, Connie, 1882-1971 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. To make an appointment to view 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 when cited, quoted, or reproduced.
Historical Note
Wellesley College, first named The Wellesley Female Seminary, was founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant. In 1875, 314 students enrolled as part of the first class. 18 of those women graduated in 1879.
Extent
9.8 Linear Feet (7 boxes, 7 oversize boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
6C Classes collections are artificial collections. Artificial collections are created by Archivists bringing together multiple smaller acquisitions to the archives from multiple creators, and organizing them based on their subject. This is unlike most archival collections which are organized by provenance, meaning by the original creator, and which maintain the original creator’s arrangement of the collection. Given that 6C Classes collections include contents from multiple creators, Archives staff have imposed criteria for when files from one individual should be grouped into its own series (a sub-grouping within the collection that gives supplementary description about the creator): series are established when there are ten or more files from one creator present in a collection.
- Title
- Wellesley College. Class of 1906. Records of the Class of 1906, 1899-1994: a guide.
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Wellesley College Archives Repository