Bryn Mawr College

Guides to the Collections

General guides:

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.

 

Subject-Specific Guides:

• Topics
• People
• Online Exhibitions

Topics

• Botanical Books
• Bryn Mawr College Scrapbooks
  
• Emblem Books
• French Revolution Pamphlets
• Letters and Documents: An inventory of miscellaneous letters and documents not part of other collections
• Books on London
• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
• Polar Exploration
• Travel Books
• Women's Suffrage Ephemera

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People

• John Quincey Adams-Levett Harris Papers
• Seymour Adelman Letters and Documents Collection
• Hope Emily Allen Papers
• Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton Collection
• Margaret Ayer Barnes Papers
• Carrie Chapman Catt Albums:
  • Guide to the collection
  • Carrie Chapman Catt Photographs
• Joseph Conrad Collection
• Marie Corelli Collection
• Henrietta Cozens Papers
• Caroline Wells Healey Dall Papers
• Louise Heron Blair Daura
• H.D. and Bryher Papers
• Clara Carey Case Edwards Papers
• Susan Walker Fitzgerald Papers
• Claud Lovat Fraser and Grace Crawford Lovat Fraser Collections
• Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Papers
• Dorothy North Haskins Papers
• Rita Rubenstein Heller Collection on the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
• Ralph Hodgson and Aurelia Bolliger Hodgson Papers
• A.E. Housman Papers
• Laurence Housman Papers
• Theresa Helburn Theater Collection:
  • Guide
  • Photographs
• Anne E. W. Kierstead Papers
• Barbara Lane Correspondence with German Architects (1955-1982)
• Richmond Lattimore Papers
• John Masefield Collection
• Mary Meigs Papers
• Christina Georgina Rossetti
• Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant Papers
• Pamela Colman Smith
• M. Carey Thomas Papers
• Katharine Sergeant White Papers

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Online Exhibitions

Beyond the Text: Illustrations in Eighteenth-Century French Novels
April - December 2011, Eva Jan Romaine Coombe '52 Special Collections Suite Gallery

Colonial Perspectives: Works from the Louise Bulkeley Dillingham Collection

October 2009-February 2010

mAwRTyrS: Bryn Mawr Women in the Arts
September 20109-April 2011, Eva Jan Romaine Coombe '52 Special Collections Suite Gallery

Darwin’s Ancestors: Tracing the Origins of the “Origin of Species”

October 2009-February 2010

Intimate Devotion: The Book of Hours in Medieval Religious Practice
January - May 2008

Breaking Ground, Breaking Tradition: Bryn Mawr and the First Generation of Women Archaeologists

September - December 2007

Pointing Fingers: Women Sin, Crime and Guilt

September - December 2006

Luxuriant Nature Smiling Round
January - May 2006

Building Muscles While Building Minds: Athletics and the Early Years of Women's Education
September - December 2005

Mapping New Worlds: The Cartography of European Exploration and Colonization, 1450–1750
January - May 2005

The Invention of Antiquity
September - December 2004

Bryn Mawr Plays: Dramatic Productions at Bryn Mawr College 1889-1920
2002-2003

Jeannette Jehanne Jeanne Joan: Shepherdess Soldier Savior Saint
January - June 2003

Dedicated to the Cause: Bryn Mawr Women and the Right to Vote
September 26 - December 20, 2002

The Very Best Woman's College There Is: M. Carey Thomas and the Making of the Bryn Mawr Campus September 21 - December 20, 2001

The Sargent Portrait: M. Carey Thomas and John Singer Sargent
September 21 - December 20, 2001

Books, Printers, and the Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe: 1450-1600
February 22 - June 1, 2001

It's the Ticket: Nineteenth-Century Bookbinding in the British Isles and the United States
September 23 December, 1998

Leading Bryn Mawr: An Exhibition in Honor of Nancy J. Vickers
1997

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See also:

The Art and Artifact Collections Exhibitions and Projects and our Digital Collections pages for more links to online resources.