College Archives Image Gallery

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Women's education
Student life
Women's war work
Landscape architecture

Women's education

Ivy Day, 1895
Photographer unknown

Participants in Smith's first Junior Year
Abroad program, 1925-26, in front of
the Sorbonne, Paris.

"Apparatus" work in the
Alumnae Gymnasium, 1904.
Photographer: Kath. E. McClellan

Art class, 1893
Photographer unknown

Sophia Smith (1796-18709),
founder of Smith College
Portrait, c. 1858

Science laboratory, 1904
Photographer: Kath. E. McClellan

Student life

Miss Eastman reading aloud
in Haven House, c. 1911.
Photographer unknown

Hatfield House, c. 1888. Mary Augusta
Jordan, faculty resident, is at far right;
Fanny C. Hesse, Lady in Charge, is in the center.
Photo by Epler & Arnold, Saratoga, NY

"A Memorial of exams, essays,
metrical travilations [sic] and the
like." Tea party with Bertha
Allen and Helen Lambert, 12
March 1892

"Ball about to be tossed up at centre"
(Senda Berenson holding ball).
Illustration for 1903 edition of
Basket Ball for Women.
Photographer: Kath. E. McClellan

Park House group, 1925.
Photographer unknown

Haven House dining room, 1904.
Photographer: Kath. E. McClellan

Haven House fireside, 1904.
Photographer: Kath. E. McClellan

Women's war work

Smith graduates in the first
group of WAVES being served
tea by Florence Snow '04,
Nov. 1942. Photo by Fred G.
Chase, Northampton

Members of the Smith College
Relief Unit packing supplies in
front of hotel Petrograd, the
YWCA Hostess House in Paris
during World War I.

Landscape architecture

Lyman Plant House from
the herbaceous garden, n.d.
Photo by White

View of smith College campus
from the College Hall tower, c. 1880.
Photo by Epler & Arnold, Saratoga, NY

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