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M. Carey Thomas and Helen Sturgis
Title:
M. Carey Thomas and Helen Sturgis
Description:
Photo of M. Carey Thomas with Helen Sturgis, 1905 class president. Both are seated on the lawn next to what appears to be a maypole as students in dressed in white look on.
Date:
1905
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
May Day, 1966
Title:
May Day, 1966
Description:
Students celebrating May Day.
Date:
1966-04-29
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, May 06, 1920
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1920
Description:
Gookin tells her mother about her day.
Date:
1920-05-06
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Little May Day 1972
Title:
Little May Day 1972
Description:
Photograph of students dancing around the maypole.
Date:
1972
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
May Day, 1924
Title:
May Day, 1924
Description:
May Day by the Scholars of Bryn Mawr College, May 9th and 10th, 1924.
Date:
1924
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Postcards
Elizabeth Holliday Hitz photograph album, circa 1916
Title:
Elizabeth Holliday Hitz photograph album, circa 1916
Description:
Photo album compiled by Elizabeth Holliday Hitz, class of 1916. This photo album contains predominantly cast photos and May Day photos, as well as group portraits and candids of students, and photographs of college buildings.
Date:
(approximate)1916
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Scrapbook and Photo Album Collection
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, May 02, 1920
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1920
Description:
Gookin writes about preparing for her Garden Party, the recent junior-senior supper, and the havoc wrought by the freshman class.
Date:
1920-05-02
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Elizabeth Yarnall Maguire photograph album, 1908-1913
Title:
Elizabeth Yarnall Maguire photograph album, 1908-1913
Description:
Photo album compiled by Elizabeth Yarnall Maguire, class of 1913. This photo album contains photographs of students playing sports and doing gymnastics drills on the roof of the gym, college buildings, images of May Day, and formal and informal portraits of students. Summer vacation photographs are interspersed throughout. The photographs are all captioned. The album also contains notes from friends, small memorabilia from plays, dinner, and large campus events, clippings from the College News, including a few articles on the changing nature of Rush/Parade Night.
Date:
1908 - 1913
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Scrapbook and Photo Album Collection
Little May Day, 1946
Title:
Little May Day, 1946
Description:
A group of students and a few adults gather near Rockefeller Arch. Most are wearing white dresses with cardigans and jackets. Some look up to the top of the building, where there appears to be a group of women in academic robes on the roof of Rockefeller Hall between the two turrets.
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
May Day, 1900
Title:
May Day, 1900
Description:
Two students in costume on Merion green, with Merion Hall visible in the background. One student is wrapped in a dark cloth and wears a scruffy wig with a beard and moustache attached; in one hand she raises a hatchet or a mallet. The other student wears a hooded costume and sits astride a saddled donkey, carrying a large basket overflowing with cloth. Back of the photograph is inscribed "Big May Day." May Day celebrates spring and honors parting seniors featuring parades, theater, and maypole dancing. Big May Day occurs once every four years and is marked by even more extravagant celebrations.
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Little May Day, 1946
Title:
Little May Day, 1946
Description:
A procession of students (led by a girl in a flowered tiara, possibly class president) in white dresses and sashes walks onto Merion Green from the path between Taylor Hall and Thomas Library. They are singing and carrying tiny baskets of flowers. Nearby, a man in a band uniform plays the trumpet. Several spectators are visible. The tethered strands of a maypole are visible in the corner. Thomas Library in the background.
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, April 25, 1920
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1920
Description:
Gookin requests a list of attendees for her Garden Party, and tells her mother about her day.
Date:
1920-04-25
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Images of May Day
Title:
Images of May Day
Description:
A scrapbook page with two clipped images attached. The images are of May Day celebrations.
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Images of May Day
Title:
Images of May Day
Description:
A scrapbook page with two clipped images attached. The images are of May Day celebrations.
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Images of May Day
Title:
Images of May Day
Description:
A scrapbook page with two clipped images attached. The images are of May Day celebrations.
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Images of May Day
Title:
Images of May Day
Description:
A scrapbook page with two clipped images attached. The images are of May Day celebrations.
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Images of May Day
Title:
Images of May Day
Description:
Scrapbook pages containing images of May Day celebrations.
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Images of May Day
Title:
Images of May Day
Description:
Scrapbook pages containing images of May Day celebrations.
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Images of May Day
Title:
Images of May Day
Description:
A scrapbook page with three clipped images pasted onto it. The images, clipped from a newspaper or other printed publication, appear to be photographs but may contain some enhancement with a pen to darken lines. Front, upper-left: captioned "Ye Daunce of ye Chimney Sweeps, students in loose-fitted costumes stand in a group holding brooms. Front, upper-right: captioned Masque of Queenes, five women in elaborate costumes, possibly meant to portray queens from different historic times and places, stand facing towards the camera. Front, lower: captioned The Heralds 'gorgeously arrayed in blue and gold, '" six students stand, possibly in the cloisters of Thomas Library, in a formation of two columns, wearing costumes and playing bugles.
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
May Day Costumes
Title:
May Day Costumes
Description:
A scrapbook page with two clipped images pasted onto it. The images, clipped from a newspaper or other printed publication, appear to be photographs but may contain some enhancement with a pen to darken lines. Back, upper: captioned "Characters in 'The Plaies of St. George, '" four students pose sitting dressed in elaborate Medieval costumes; two as ladies, one as a king, one as a wizard. Back, lower: captioned "Attendants at Queen Elizabeth's Court, a group of young women wearing matching white or light-colored Elizabethan dresses and draped in garlands of flowers.
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives

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