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Title: Barnard College Dorm, circa 1940s-1950s
Description: An unidentified Barnard student in her dorm room, circa 1940s-1950s.
Date Created - Approximate Start: circa 1940
Date Created - Approximate End: through 1959

Title: Barnard College Campus with Snow, circa 1960s
Description: Snow on the Barnard College campus with unidentified Barnard student, circa 1960s. Barnard Hall,...
Show moreSnow on the Barnard College campus with unidentified Barnard student, circa 1960s. Barnard Hall, Lehman Hall, and the Lehman Lawn are pictured.
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Date Created - Approximate Start: circa 1960
Date Created - Approximate End: through 1969

Title: Barnard Students with Baskets, circa 1940s
Description: Barnard students with baskets in front of Milbank Hall, circa 1940s.
Date Created - Approximate Start: circa 1940
Date Created - Approximate End: through 1949

Title: Students outside Barnard Hall, circa 1950s
Description: Group of three students in coats walking outside Barnard Hall, circa 1950s.
Date Created - Approximate Start: circa 1950
Date Created - Approximate End: through 1959

Title: Barnard College Christian Association, circa 1950s
Description: The Barnard College Christian Association, shown in the parlor, Barnard Hall, circa 1950s.
Date Created - Approximate Start: circa 1950
Date Created - Approximate End: through 1959

Title: Freshman orientation, circa 1960s
Description: Students in line for food at a freshman orientation event, circa 1960s. Barnard Library is in the...
Show moreStudents in line for food at a freshman orientation event, circa 1960s. Barnard Library is in the background.
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Title: Edith Somborn Issacs Scrapbook
Description: This collection consists of the scrapbook of Barnard College alum Edith Somborn Issacs, Barnard...
Show moreThis collection consists of the scrapbook of Barnard College alum Edith Somborn Issacs, Barnard class 1906. Somborn was the associate editor of the Barnard Bulletin, worked as student manager of the Barnard fund, participated in theatrical production, and was secretary of the Barnard Zoological club. She co-wrote the opera Barnadesia with classmate Banche Marks, which made the case for the Barnard dormitories. The scrapbook contains programs from productions, articles from the Barnard Bulletin, event invitations, personal correspondence, dance cards, and doodles from class notebooks.
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Title: Edith Somborn Issacs Scrapbook, 1903-1906
Description: Scrapbook of Edith Somborn Issacs (Barnard class of 1906), containing programs from productions,...
Show moreScrapbook of Edith Somborn Issacs (Barnard class of 1906), containing programs from productions, articles from the Barnard Bulletin (of which Isaacs was the associate editor for the class of 1906), event invitations, personal correspondence detailing the planning processes of various Barnard events, dance cards, doodles from class notebooks, and materials from her work as chariman of the Barnard Fund Alumnae Committee. Highlights of the scrapbook include a bulls-eye for handgun target practice, a draft of a 1906 plea for donations to the Barnard fund, and a draft of a Sherlock Holmes inspired satire piece for the 1905 Mortarboard. Also included are materials from "Barnardesia," the copic operetta that Somborn co-wrote with classmate Blanche Marks. ("Barnardesia" made the case for Barnard dormitories, and Somborn invited the Board of Directors to the performance. Soon after, an anonymous donor gave funds for the first dormitory.)
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