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Georg von Peschke exhibit, archived website
Title:
Georg von Peschke exhibit, archived website
Description:
A collection of images and documents related to the art and career of Georg von Peschke (1900-1959). Peschke lived and worked in Greece as a painter, an archaeological illustrator, and architect.
Date:
2012
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Web Archives Collection
Jeannette, Jehanne, Jeanne, Joan, Shepherdess, Soldier, Savior, Saint exhibit, archived website
Title:
Jeannette, archived website
Description:
Online exhibition on Bryn Mawr College's collection of materials related to Joan of Arc.
Date:
2003
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Web Archives Collection
Mapping new worlds : the cartography of European exploration and colonization 1450–1750, exhibit, archived website
Title:
Mapping new worlds : the cartography of European exploration and colonization 1450–1750, archived website
Description:
This exhibition looks at the transformation of Europe's position in the world and Europe's interactions with the newly-encountered peoples of Asia, Africa and the Americas through a particular form of visual documentation: the map.
Date:
2005
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Web Archives Collection
"The very best woman's college there is" : M. Carey Thomas and the making of the Bryn Mawr Campus exhibit, archived website
Title:
"The very best woman's college there is" : M. Carey Thomas and the making of the Bryn Mawr Campus exhibit, archived website
Description:
This exhibition examines how M. Carey Thomas worked with a group of distinguished designers, architects and artists to create a look for Bryn Mawr that mirrored her academic ambitions for the college - to make it, as she wrote in an early letter to her mother, the very best woman's college there is.
Date:
2020-10-20
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Web Archives Collection
Darwin's ancestors : tracing the origins of the "Origins of Species" exhibit, archived website
Title:
Darwin's ancestors : tracing the origins of the "Origins of Species" exhibit, archived website
Description:
Exhibition exploring some of the major figures in natural history over the three hundred years before Darwin and how their efforts at collecting, classifying, and explaining the natural world laid the groundwork for Darwin’s breakthrough.
Date:
2010
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Web Archives Collection
From the factory to the table : advertising cookbooks and the changing face of American domestic cookery 1880-1941 exhibit, archived website
Title:
From the factory to the table : advertising cookbooks and the changing face of American domestic cookery 1880-1941 exhibit, archived website
Description:
This exhibition draws from Bryn Mawr's growing collection of cookbooks a selection of advertising cookbooks ranging from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th which document the increasing standardization and mechanization of American cooking as it is marketed to the female consumer, who is at once acknowledged to be busy outside of the home and yet expected to continue in her traditional role as primary cook.
Date:
2001
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Web Archives Collection
Beyond the text : Illustrations in eighteenth centurt French novels exhibit, archived website
Title:
Beyond the text : Illustrations in eighteenth centurt French novels exhibit, archived website
Description:
This exhibition draws from Bryn Mawr’s collection of eighteenth century French novels to examine how illustrations influenced the readers’ understanding and interpretation of the text. It appeared in the Eva Jane Romaine Coombe ’52 Special Collections Suite in 2011.
Date:
2011
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Web Archives Collection
"The best thing in a girl's life" : early women's colleges in fiction and fact exhibit, archived website
Title:
"The best thing in a girl's life" : early women's colleges in fiction and fact exhibit, archived website
Description:
Exhibit about popular fiction on the subject of "college girls."
Date:
2009
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Web Archives Collection
Mawrtyrs : Bryn Mawr women in the arts exhibit, archived website
Title:
Mawrtyrs : Bryn Mawr women in the arts exhibit, archived website
Description:
An exhibition covering seven of the most prominent Bryn Mawr College alumnae/i who became writers, actresses, poets, and artists: Margaret Ayer Barnes, Theresa Helburn, Sheila Eaton Isham, Mary Meigs, Marianne Moore, Cornelia Otis Skinner, and Anne Dean Truitt.
Date:
2011
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Web Archives Collection
Bryn Mawr plays : dramatic productions at Bryn Mawr College 1885-1920 exhibit, archived website
Title:
Bryn Mawr plays : dramatic productions at Bryn Mawr College 1885-1920 exhibit, archived website
Description:
Exhibit on the history of college theater at Bryn Mawr College. The photographs in this exhibition are drawn from the College's photo archives and provide evidence of a long tradition of college drama at Bryn Mawr, starting with the cast photo for a class play titled Princess Ida performed in 1889.
Date:
2003
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Web Archives Collection
The invention of antiquity exhibit, archived website
Title:
The invention of antiquity exhibit, archived website
Date:
2004
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Web Archives Collection
Pointing fingers : women, sin, crime, and guilt exhibit, archived website
Title:
Pointing fingers : women, archived website
Description:
Exhibition of crime and trial accounts from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries.
Date:
2006
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Web Archives Collection
Luxuriant nature smiling round exhibit, archived website
Title:
Luxuriant nature smiling round exhibit, archived website
Description:
Exhibit about the Castle Collection of 200 illustrated natural history books, predominately in ornithology and botany.
Date:
2006
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Web Archives Collection
Books, printers, and the information revolution in early modern Europe exhibit 1450-1600, archived website
Title:
Books, archived website
Description:
This exhibition shows some of the finest examples from the extraordinarily rich collections of fifteenth and sixteenth century books and manuscripts in the Bryn Mawr College Library. The collection includes more than 1200 incunabula, or books printed by 1500, one of the largest collections in the country.
Date:
2001
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Web Archives Collection
The Sargent portrait : M. Carey Thomas and John Singer Sargent exhibit, archived website
Title:
The Sargent portrait : M. Carey Thomas and John Singer Sargent exhibit, archived website
Description:
Online exhibition about the history of the John Singer Sargent portrait of M. Carey Thomas.
Date:
2001
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Web Archives Collection
Building muscles while building minds : athletics and the early years of women's education exhibit, archived wesbite
Title:
Building muscles while building minds : athletics and the early years of women's education exhibit, archived wesbite
Description:
Exhibition on the history of athletics at Bryn Mawr College.
Date:
2005
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Web Archives Collection
Breaking ground, breaking tradition : Bryn Mawr and the first generation of women archaeologists exhibit, archived website
Title:
Breaking ground, archived website
Description:
This exhibition examines Bryn Mawr’s leading role in training the first generations of American women archaeologists, and focuses particularly on the careers of five women who helped change the face of classical archaeology.
Date:
2007
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Web Archives Collection