Scrapbook of Bulletin Board Notices, 1896-1945

Collection context

Abstract:
This collection consists of scrapbooks containing notifications from administration to the students. The scrapbooks detail events and regulations at Barnard College.
Extent:
9.63 Linear Feet (6 binders and 1 oversized box)
Language:
English .
Scope and content:

These scrapbooks spanning from 1899 to 1945 contain notifications from administration to the students on a nearly daily basis. Changes in policy and campus expansions were documented.

The materials include letters from the Dean's Office, the Bursar, an issue of the Barnard Bulletin, reminders about mail and locker policies, lists of admitted students separated by whether or not they were admitted with conditions in particular subjects, handwritten midyear and final examination schedules, commencement announcements, funeral and service notices, scholarship offers, entrance examination reminders, call for time cards, chapel services conductors, requirements for department honors based on class standing, class cancellation notes, and an announcement that Barnard had purchased 3 and a half acres of land from 116th St to 119th on Broadway due to a $1,000,000 anonymous donation. These scrapbooks display the events and regulations of the college.

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection has no restrictions. This collection is located on-site.

Terms of access:

Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Barnard College Archives. The Barnard College Archives approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes.

Preferred citation:

Scrapbook of Bulletin Board Notices, 1896-1945 ; Box and Folder; Barnard College Archives, Barnard Library, Barnard College.

Location of this collection:
Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning 423
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027, USA
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Contact:
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