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March 01, 2011

Students wait for the weekly Jazz Night at The Mug to begin, 2009. Photo by Ryan Muir '06. Read about the history and current status of The Mug.

March 02, 2011

An annex to the front of Main was built to house the library in 1893. The annex, known affectionately as "Uncle Fred's Nose" after the trustee who funded it, was razed in 1960. Read more...

March 03, 2011

A hoop rolling event on Founders Day in the early 1930s. See vintage video of hoop rolling, daisy picking, and other pastimes in 1930s Vassar.

March 04 - March 6, 2011

Students meet for lunch in the Retreat, one of the campus dining locations, 2009. Photo by Dixie Sheridan '65.

March 07, 2011

The 1887 Room in the Belle Skinner Hall of Music is used as a parlor by the department. Miss Skinner's portrait is on the wall (her class year was 1887). Learn more about the Music Department. Photo by Francis Smith, Class of 1987.

March 08, 2011

Students hold a demonstration objecting to Vassar's investments in apartheid South Africa, 1980s. Vassar completed its South African divestiture in 1988.

March 09, 2011

The fencing team practicing lunges in the fencing room in Kenyon Hall, c. early 1950s. See how today's women's fencing team is doing.

March 10, 2011

Students laying out the Shakespeare Garden in 1916. Vassar’s Shakespeare Garden is the second oldest in the U.S. Read more…

March 11 - March 13, 2011

A night view of the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film, 2009. Photo by Evan Abramson ’00. Read more about the Vogelstein Center…

March 14, 2011

A blackboard in Sanders Physics, 2009. Learn more about the Physics and Astronomy Department. Photo by Francis Smith '87

March 15, 2011

A rendering of the waterfront brewery built by Matthew Vassar in Poughkeepsie in the 1830s. Read more about Matthew's earlier life before founding the college.

March 16, 2011

Jumping hurdles during Field Day, 1918. The first women's field day in the U.S. was held on Vassar campus in 1895 (where Noyes circle is currently). Read more about the first women's field day...

March 17, 2011

The college's original dining hall in Main Building, located where the Villard Room is now. Listen to a description of one of those early dinners written by Maria Mitchell's father and read by Dean Emeritus Colton Johnson.

March 18 - March 20, 2011

Students gather around a telescope with Professor Fred Chromey in the Class of 1951 Observatory, 2009. Read more about the observatory and its program of open nights.

March 21, 2011

A 1959 art history class with Professor Linda Nochlin, Class of 1951, who became famous for her groundbreaking 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" Read a recent conversation between Linda Nochlin and Molly Nesbit.

March 22, 2011

Students at work in the chemistry lab with Associate Professor Stuart Belli. The framed portrait at center is Wilhelm Ostwald, one of the founders of physical chemistry. Read more about the Chemistry Department. Photo by Francis Smith '87

March 23, 2011

A student makes herself comfortable while talking on the telephone in the 1950s - when Vassar got dial phones! Read more about the history of the telephone on campus.

March 24, 2011

Children and teacher on the grounds of the Wimpfheimer Nursery School, c.1950s. The Wimpfheimer opened in 1927 as an early example of a laboratory nursery school. Read more.

March 25 - March 27, 2011

The Chapel was designed by Shepley Rutan & Coolidge, and completed in 1904. The angel-head hammerbeam ceiling is a much-loved feature, along with the rose window by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Learn more about the chapel and its many stained-glass windows. Photo by Francis Smith '87.

March 28, 2011

A sleepy student grabs for the alarm clock, c.1950s. Learn more about today’s residential halls at Vassar.

March 29, 2011

Raymond Avenue in the 19th century. This view looks south with Vassar Lake on the right. The road was once used for student walks and required exercise. Listen to a student letter from the 1860s about the wish to go a little further from campus.

March 30, 2011

An all-student production of Clue in Fall 2009, written by Nate Silver '10 and featuring (left to right) Seth Biberstein '10, Baize Buzan '10, and Chris Root '10. The play turned Main Building into the locale of an interactive murder mystery. Want to see a play this semester? Check the Drama Department's upcoming schedule. Photo by Ben Rutkowski '09.

March 31, 2011

Students seated in Taylor Lecture Hall, c. 1950s. Renovations to the hall in 2007 retained the 1915 feature of individual lights for note-taking in a darkened room. Read more about the Vassar president for whom Taylor Hall is named.

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Late 1800s - 2013

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Starting in 2011, Vassar’s 150th anniversary, the college’s homepages have been available for browsing in this archive. Each image is captioned, and the caption links to related information. Enjoy!