Bryn Mawr College

Digital Collections

Digital Collections at Bryn Mawr College feature materials such as photographs, maps, newspapers, letters, reports and other media from Special Collections and Visual Resources at Bryn Mawr College. Many of the databases and repositories that house these collections are created as part of the Tri-College Digital Initiatives and also include materials from Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges as well. The collections emphasize rare and unique materials as well as archival materials related to the history of the College.

Databases, Repositories and Collection Guides

Bryn Mawr College on the Internet Archive

archive.org/details/brynmawrcollege

Find college yearbooks (through 1949), annual reports, early issues of student literary magazines (Fortnightly Philistine, Tipyn O'Bob, Counterpoint, The Title), college calendars and course guides, and early issues of the Alumnae Bulletin (through 1940). We've also uploaded a selection of older publications in the public domain, including an extensive collection of books about women and crime, as well as some other volumes that have been digitized upon request.

Bryn Mawr College Finding Aids at PACSCL Finding Aids

dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/index.html

Finding aids for a select group of manuscript and archive collections are available through the PACSCL Finding Aids Site. In addition, search finding aids for manuscript and archival collections for all of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) members.

Digital Collections at Bryn Mawr College

http://libguides.brynmawr.edu/bmcdigitalcollections

This guide provides a comprehensive list of Digital Collections at Bryn Mawr College, which comprise digitized primary source materials from Special Collections at Bryn Mawr College. This includes items from the Rare Book and Manuscript collection, the College Archives, and the Art and Artifact Collections. It also includes some image collections from Visual Resources.

Scholarship, Research and Creative Work

at Bryn Mawr College

repository.brynmawr.edu

Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College is an open access repository of the scholarship and publications of the Bryn Mawr community.

Triarte: The Art and Artifacts Database of the Tri-Colleges

triarte.brynmawr.edu

Triarte features art and artifacts from collections at Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges.

Triptych | Tri-College Digital Library

triptych.brynmawr.edu

Triptych is a digital initiative of the Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore College Libraries that features digitized versions of collections owned by Special Collections at Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, and Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College. This includes letters, ephemera, scrapbooks, photo albums, images, book plates and more. It also includes archival materials from all three colleges.

 

Rare Books & Manuscripts

Individual volumes and collections online:

MS16

an early 16th century Italian treatise on the gods and commentary on Virgil's Aeneid

MS 21

the Castle Hours number 3, which is part of the University of Pennsylvania's Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image database

Single Leaf Manuscripts at Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College’s Single Leaf Manuscripts Collection comprises an eclectic assembly of manuscript leaves in a variety of languages and given by a number of donors.