Box 7

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Note reads: "1988/12/8 Doris, Thank you to RA from Ruth Adams she gave it to Doris Harriet Cohrs, in back of the… [illegible] given to her when she retired...may have her name on it… that she gave it to College. Handmade just for her."

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series II. Dining ware (1882-1992) consists of plates, saucers, platters, cups, bottles, pitchers, a jar, napkin rings, sugar bowls, salt and butter dishes, spoons, a tankard, and bowls. Multiple are Wedgwood fine china, and many feature designs related to Wellesley College, such as the College Seal, images of college buildings, or the Wellesley symbols acorns and oak leaves. Some dining ware is commemorative, and was sold to alumnae for fundraising. Includes pieces of the first set of china...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series II. Dining ware (1882-1992) consists of plates, saucers, platters, cups, bottles, pitchers, a jar, napkin rings, sugar bowls, salt and butter dishes, spoons, a tankard, and bowls. Multiple are Wedgwood fine china, and many feature designs related to Wellesley College, such as the College Seal, images of college buildings, or the Wellesley symbols acorns and oak leaves. Some dining ware is commemorative, and was sold to alumnae for fundraising. Includes pieces of the first set of china...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Tools and games (circa 1775, 1882, 1915-1975) includes tools such as letter openers, a stereoscope, a wall sconce, an ashtray, a megaphone used for Float Night, a bell and stand that was used to close the library, trowels used a cornerstone laying ceremonies, a Nuclear Absorber set (likely used in the Physics Department), the gavel of the Debating Club, and a kettle. Also includes a Wellesley baseball, two jigsaw puzzles of Galen Stone Tower (sold to fundraise for the...

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Tag reads: "Alice Freeman Palmer, 1855-1902. An unsigned portrait in oils painted by Winifred Rieber." Accompanying note reads: "1/22/96. [To:] Wilma. This portrait of Alice Palmer was in our "Minns Case" on the bridge. We have been clearing it out and putting things in our new steel file case. Do you think this belongs in Archives? (We thought so) the only information we have is on the back of the frame... Ruth" Later annotation reads: "We are not sure that it came from Ms. Minns."