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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...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series X. Fowle and Durant family (circa 1775, 1823-1863) consists of objects relating to college founders Mr. and Mrs. Durant’s grandfather, Captain John Fowle, and his time serving in the Revolutionary War, including three bullets from a supply of ammunition stored in a colonial meeting house in Lincoln, Massachusetts, the Insignia of the Order of the Cincinnati, and a framed invitation to attend the Standing Committee meeting of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati. Series also...

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...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series IV. Printing plates, embossing stamps, and seals (circa 1934-1957 and undated) consists of printing plates featuring images of buildings and campus views, and portraits of individuals (Hygiene and Physical Education professors, anonymous students, and Rowland G. Hazard (grandfather of President Caroline Hazard); some printing plates feature simply text, appearing to be titles or mottos, and abstract designs. Also includes embossing stamps featuring various seals (of the Library, the...

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...

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Series V. Textiles and clothing (circa 1884-2000) consists of reunion clothing (class caps, a parasol, a muff), clothing and textiles from travels (fans and a silk hanging from China), and Wellesley-branded pillow cases, a handkerchief, and a banner from the 125th Anniversary of the college. Also includes a fire hat worn by Pomeroy Fire Chiefs for four decades, and a net lace collar worn at Commencement.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Series I. Jewelry (1880-2005) includes pins, rings, a necklace, a West African Baule mask pendant, a Wellesley College seal pendant, and political campaign buttons from Bill Clinton’s 1992 Presidential campaign. Pins and rings show affiliation to various class years, societies (Phi Sigma, Zeta Alpha, Alpha Kappa Chi, Tau Zeta Epsilon, Shakespeare Society, Agora organizations (Wellesley Cheer, Wellesley College Choir, Colorado Club, Association of Collegiate Alumnae), and Wellesley College at...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series VII. Awards, medals, plaques, and memorials (1875-2001) consists of cups won at college competitions, both athletic and academic, and plaques and a vase in memory of Wellesley College affiliated individuals (Mary Whiton Calkins, Carla Wenckebach, and Katharine Lee Bates). Includes medals from various schools (Yale University, Hunter College, University of Brussels, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Athens University), organizations (the Massachusetts Horticultural Society), and...