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Collection
Identifier: BC-0004
Abstract
The Bard College Historic Fraternities Collection consists of records and ephemera from the College's two major fraternities, the Eulexian Society and Kappa Gamma Chi. The materials in this collection cover a period of over 80 years, from 1860 to 1947, representing the entirety of each fraternity's duration on Bard's campus. Contained within this collection are minute books, constitutions and canonical texts, histories, membership rolls, financial ledgers, event programs and fraternity...
Dates:
1860 - 1947
Collection
Identifier: BC-0009
Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of letters from Edward Jackson Bartlett to his parents detailing his time at Bowdoin College, Bard College, and his service during World War II. It also contains report cards from the Browne and Nicholas School, Governor Dummer Academy, and Bowdoin College. Photographs, postcards describing his travels, a poetry book, and a journal are also present in the collection.
Dates:
1928 - 1969
Series
Identifier: BC-0003
Abstract
Heinrich Blücher came to Bard College as a visiting professor in 1952, at the invitation of James Case, then President of the College. He developed the Common Course for freshmen at the college and became its director as well as the primary lecturer for the course, which took as its subject the history of philosophy. Over the course of the next seventeen years he taught at Bard and at the New School for Social Research (now The New School: a University in New York City), leaving scores of...
Dates:
January 1, 1951-January 1, 1971
Abstract
The Mari Lyons Collection consists of exhibition ephemera, press clippings, correspondence and artwork documenting the life and career of Mari Sharon Blumenau Lyons (1935-2016) an American modern artist who was based in New York City and Woodstock, NY. Graduating from Bard College in 1957, Lyons career as an artist spanned the rest of her life and encompassed several solo and group exhibitions of which many are represented in this collection.
Dates:
1938 - 2018; Majority of material found within 1990 - 2016
Collection
Identifier: BC0005
Abstract
This collection of cassette and open reel tapes encompasses poetry readings and lectures at Bard College over the last 50 years. The collection was initially established with funds provided by the Carter A Towbin Poetry Fund in1982 and first located in Albee Hall before moving to the Olin Building. In addition, the collection also contains content from the “John Ashbery Poetry Series” that ran from approximately 1995 to 2007 and brought leading contemporary poets to Bard for readings and...
Dates:
1965-2007
Collection
Identifier: BC-0008
Abstract
This collection consists of a series of black and white photographs of Greek architecture taken by Bauhaus-Dessau student Ricarda Schwerin (1912-1999), likely taken while Schwerin was travelling with Hannah Arendt in 1963.
Dates:
1963
Collection
Identifier: BC-0006
Dates:
Existence: 2022 - 2025
