My Book Collection, 1930-1999

History

I've been collecting books about Mount Holyoke, chiefly for my own research into the history on my postcards. But they began taking on a charm of their own. These are the books, magazines, articles, and pamphlets that date between 1930 and 1999.

The Images

The covers of the books, and some illustrations, are available now. I will be adding text about each item in coming months. The books are listed in chronological order.

• "The History of Physical Education in Colleges for Women" (1930)
  
  • by Dorothy S. Ainsworth, associate professor of hygiene and physical education at Smith College
    
  • published by A. S. Barnes and Company, New York
    

• "An East Midland Recension of The Pride of Conscience" (1930)
  
  • A paper by Charlotte D'Evelyn, English professor at Mount Holyoke College
    

• "A Lost Manuscript of the De Contemptu Mundi" (1931)
  
  • A paper by Charlotte D'Evelyn, English professor at Mount Holyoke College
    

• "Men in Women's Colleges" (1931)
  
  • by Agnes Rogers Hyde
    
  • No Mount Holyoke-specific references, but an interesting read
    
  • the text of this article
    

• Two articles about Mount Holyoke in Needlecraft (June 1932); as much of the first article as would fit on the scanner
  
  • "Home Arts at Mount Holyoke"
    
  • "Mount Holyoke College With a World's Eye View" by Florence Yoder Wilson
    

• "Playshop Laboratory Plays" (1932)
  
  • by Jeannette Marks
    
  • Signed by the author, with two tickets laid in
    
  • Play: A Bowl of Rice
    
  • Play: Bridges
    
  • Play: Vest Pocket Standby
    
  • Play: Three Wise Men and the Star
    
  • Past Productions at the Playshop
    

• "South Hadley in the World War (1932)
  
  • tales of activities in the town in support of the war; memorials of those who died
    

• "Time Newsmagazine" (August 14, 1933)
  
  • cover story of Frances Perkins 1902
    

• "Mount Holyoke College Verse, Second Volume" (1937)
  
  • by Ada L. F. Snell
    

• "Song Book" (1937)
  
  • Mount Holyoke community song book, published by the Debating Society
    

• "Mary Lyon Through her Letters" (1937)
  
  • edited by Marion Lansing
    

• "Holyoke Daily Transcript, Mount Holyoke College Centennial Supplement" (1937)
  
  • 48 pages of photos and articles from May 7, 1937; wonderful history on the College
    

• "Seminary Militant: An Account of the Missionary Movement at Mount Holyoke Seminary and College" (1937); illustration is of the title page since the book has no dust jacket and no interesting cover features
  
  • by Louise Porter Thomas
    

• "On a New England Campus" (1937)
  
  • by Frances Lester Warner 1911, and signed!
    
  • Table of Contents; contains links to all the essays in the book
    

• "The Centenary of Mount Holyoke College: May 7-8, 1937"
  
  • Illustration: Facsimile of the Preliminary Invitation (9x11) to the Centenary
    
  • Illustration: Mary E. Woolley, President 1900-1937
    
  • Illustration: Mary Lyon and Reverend Mr. Condit (represented by Alice N. Wiley 1938 and Reverend Henry David Gray of South Hadley) and the Alumnae Medal of Honor
    
  • Illustration: The Garden
    
  • Illustration: The Court of Honor in Costumes of Ten Decades, and The Canoe Pageant
    
  • Illustration: Seniors Ready to Decorate the Founder's Grave, and Alumnae Recipients of Honorary Degrees
    

• "One Hundred Year Biographical Directory Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, Massachusetts 1837-1937" (1937)
  
  • published and compiled by the Alumnae Association
    

• "An Exhibition of One Hundred American First Editions Paralleling the History of Mount Holyoke College" (1937)
  
  • Williston Memorial Library, May 7 to May 31, 1937
    

• "The Forgotten Girl" (1937)
  
  • by Emily Wilson
    
  • Childhood memories of Mount Holyoke's oldest graduate
    

• "The Car Belongs to Mother" (1939)
  
  • A book of essays by Priscilla Hovey Wright 1919
    

• "Meditations on the Life and Passion of Christ" (1940)
  
  • A review by Charlotte D'Evelyn, English professor at Mount Holyoke College
    

• "A Hundred Years of Mount Holyoke College: The Evolution of an Educational Ideal" (1940)
  
  • by Arthur C. Cole; many interesting illustrations
    

• "Field Guide" (undated; maybe 1940s)
  
  • Blanche Edwards was the owner, but I don't know if she was an alum
    
  • written by Marion D. Weston 1906 for the benefit of the Mount Holyoke College Endowment Fund; she got her PhD in 1917, and taught at Rhode Island College of Education into at least the 1930s; dealer estimated album's date as 1940s
    
  • 40 pages of line drawings of wildflowers, tree leaves, and birds
    

• "A Doctor in Homespun" (1940); scan is of title page because cover is unadorned
  
  • autobiography of Mary Phylinda Dole 1886
    
  • Privately published, and signed!
    

• "Mount Holyoke College" (circa 1941-1944)
  
  • a folder containing eight pages double sided of printed photographs
    
  • no date, but mentions Orchards (bought in 1941) and Student Alumnae Hall (renamed in 1945), so it can be narrowed down to that era
    

• "Silver Class Letter Mount Holyoke College 1918" (1943)
  
  • compilation of letters from the class of 1918 twenty-five years after graduation
    

• "The Women's Reserve, Northampton and South Hadley" (1944)
  
  • photos and text of the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School in Northampton and The Naval Training School in South Hadley
    
  • mailed home by a WAVE at the Northampton school in 1944
    

• "Mt. Holyoke College Class of 1921 Class Letter" (1946)
  
  • compilation of letters from the class of 1921 twenty-five years after graduation
    

• "Lucy Stone: Crusader for Human Rights" (1946)
  
  • by Ramona Sawyer Barth
    
  • Published in The Journal of Liberal Education, summer 1946
    

• "Story of the Big Fire Mount Holyoke College September 27, 1896" (1946)
  
  • An 18-page pamphlet, published in 1946 at the 50th anniversary of the Seminary Building fire, written by Mary Chandler Lowell, who was "the last civilian to leave the flaming building." It is her recollection of the events of that day.

• "Outing Club Calendar" (1947)
  
  • Biweekly desk calendar, with campus life photographs
    

• "For Men Lonely" (1947)
  
  • Ripley Publishing Company, Hanover NH (a Dartmouth publication?)
    
  • "Everything a college man would want to know about a girls' college town"
    

• "Mount Holyoke College Bulletin" (1947)
  
  • published and compiled by the Alumnae Association, March 1947
    

• "Mount Holyoke - Everybody's College" (1948)
  
  • by Phyllis Merrill
    

• "Mount Holyoke College" (1948)
  
  • A viewbook of campus and interior scenes, circa 1948
    

• "Recipe Reunion" (circa 1949)
  
  • A compilation of alumnae recipes, gathered beginning in June 1948
    

• "People and Places" (1949)
  
  • June issue of this magazine had a short article on page 4 about MHC; scan is of the article, not the magazine cover
    
  • The text of the article
    

• "Diplomatic Dishes" (1949)
  
  • Copyright 1949 by the Mount Holyoke Alumnae Club of Washington DC
    
  • A booklet of favorite and traditional recipes contributed by Mrs. Truman and ladies of the diplomatic corps. Copied from handwritten recipes.
    

• "Holyoke in Perspective" (1950)
  
  • A cartoon book of MHC life by Julie E. Bowers
    

• "Annie of Grassie Lea" (1950)
  
  • A biography of Annie Grassie 1857 by her daughter; contains a chapter based at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
    
  • signed by the author
    

• "Souvenir Edition, 200th Anniversary Celebration, Town of South Hadley Massachusetts 1753-1953"
  
  • "Historical Review and Complete Celebration Program"
    

• "Mount Holyoke College" (1953)
  
  • A viewbook of campus and interior views, circa 1953
    

• "In Defense of Criseyde" (1954)
  
  • Written by Constance Saintonge 1928, and signed for Charlotte D'Evelyn, an English professor at Mount Holyoke College
    

• "Sports Handbook Welcome Freshmen" (1955)
  
  • 32 pages; introduces students to sports opportunities at the College
    

• "Life and Letters of Mary Emma Woolley" (1955)
  
  • by Jeannette Marks
    

• "Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Address List" (1957)
  
  • Published every five years by the Alumnae Association
    

• "Mount Holyoke Songbook" (1959)
  
  • published in 1959 by Mount Holyoke College
    
  • Table of Contents
    

• "Profile" (1960)
  
  • A register of the faculty and administration, 1959-1960.
    

• "Mount Holyoke College New Directions" (1964)
  
  • An undated viewbook of Mount Holyoke, but an insert by Admissions describing the fees for academic year 1964-1965, and a campus map, help to date this book. 1837 Hall (built in 1962) and Cowles Lodge (torn down in 1965) are both on the campus map.
    

• "Mary Lyon of Putnam's Hill" (1965)
  
  • a biography by Evelyn I. Banning
    

• "Dauntless in Mississippi: The Life of Sarah A. Dickey 1838-1904" (1965)
  
  • a biography of Sarah A. Dickey 1869 by Helen Griffith
    

• "Where the Girls Are" (1965)
  
  • a "social guide to women's colleges in the East"
    
  • A map to the campus
    
  • The text of the Mount Holyoke chapter
    

• "Where the Boys Are" (1966)
  
  • compiled by the editors of the Smith College Sophian and the Mount Holyoke News
    

• "Speculum" (1967)
  
  • A review by Charlotte D'Evelyn, English professor at Mount Holyoke College
    

• "Mount Holyoke Alumnae Register January 1967"
  
  • published and compiled by the Alumnae Association
    

• "Cooking by Degrees (1968)"
  
  • compiled by the Mount Holyoke Club of Hartford
    
  • Cake-Pan Chocolate Cake, a recipe from the book
    

• "Food for Thought: A Mount Holyoke Cookbook (circa 1971)"
  
  • favorite recipes of alumnae; latest date inside was 1971, though the book itself is undated
    
  • contains many notes from the cook as to which recipes are good or bad
    

• "Mount Holyoke Alumnae Register" (1972)
  
  • published and compiled by the Alumnae Association
    

• "The First Hundred Years" (1972)
  
  • The first 100 years of the Alumnae Association of Mount Holyoke College, 1872-1972, by Mary Higley Mills 1921
    

• "Preludes" (1973)
  
  • Selected poems from the Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest in honor of the 50th anniversary of the competition
    

• "A Taste of the 70s" (1974)
  
  • A collection of recipes compiled and tested by members of the Mount Holyoke Club of Hartford
    

• "Peculiar Institutions: An Informal History of the Seven Sister Colleges" (1975, 1976)
  
  • by Elaine Kendall
    

• "Old Homes of South Hadley" (1976)
  
  • by The Committee on Old Homes of Know Your Town, and the South Hadley Historical Society
    

• "South Hadley's Heritage" (1976)
  
  • Financed by the members of the South Hadley Chamber of Commerce
    
  • Three hundred copies of the first printing were donated to the South Hadley school system for class use
    

• "The Best of Buschbumper" (1976)
  
  • "Whizzer Buschbumper & Her Pals 1973-1976" by Beth Epstein
    
  • A collection of comic strips that originally appeared in Choragos, the MHC student newspaper
    

• "The Old South Hadley Burial Ground" (1976)
  
  • A conservation project coordinated by Jessie Lie and supported by The South Hadley Bicentennial Committee
    

• "Miss Marks and Miss Woolley" (1978)
  
  • By Anna Mary Wells 1926
    
  • Signed by the author
    

• "Mount Holyoke College Employees Social Committee Cook Book" (1978)
  
  • Compiled by Employees Social Committee of Mount Holyoke College
    

• "Bouquet Garni" (1978)
  
  • Cookbook compiled by Mount Holyoke College alumni
    
  • Formerly owned by Tish Mutter 1950
    

• "A Guide to the Uses and Acknowledgment of Sources" (1980)
  
  • My own copy from my college days! My mailing label is on the back cover.
    

• "Mary Lyon and Mount Holyoke: Opening the Gates" (1983)
  
  • by Elizabeth Alden Green
    

• "Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s" by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (1984)
  

• "Breaking the Barrier" (1984)
  
  • An autobiography by Margaret A. Judson 1922
    

• "Minerva J. Chapman" (1986)
  
  • A viewbook of this 1880 alumna's paintings and drawings
    

• "A Memory Book Mount Holyoke College 1837-1987" (1987)
  
  • by Anne Carey Edmonds
    

• "The Woodbridges in South Hadley" (1987)
  
  • by the South Hadley Historical Society
    

• "Old Homes of South Hadley" (1988)
  
  • second edition (see above, 1976, for the first edition)
    

• "Mount Hollyoke Courageous: A Call to the Near East" (1994)
  
  • by Bess P. Vickery
    
  • Signed by the author
    

• "Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries" (1997)
  
  • by Amanda Porterfield
    

• "Winnie Taft" (1997)
  
  • by Anne Romano; a biography of Winifred Thompson Taft x1879
    

• "Bride's Passage: Susan Hathorn's Year Under Sail" (1997)
  
  • by Catherine Petroski
    
  • Based on the diary of Susan Lennan Hathorn 1853, who maintained a record of her first year of marriage and travels aboard her husband's merchant vessel.
    

• "A Vision Realized" (1997)
  
  • A photo book by William Mercer, with quotes by Mary Lyon
    

• "Minerva J. Chapman" (1997)
  
  • An art exhibit book, from two 1997 shows in New York state
    
  • Minerva J. Chapman x1800 (1858-1947); it was the 50th anniversary of her death.
    

• "Images of America: South Hadley" (1998)
  
  • by Irene Cronin 1943 and the South Hadley Historical Society
    
  • This was signed by Irene Cronin and Ruth Ryder of the Historical Society, but the binding was so nice that I didn't want to try and scan it
    

• "Sycamores: Reflections from the House 1928-1929" (1999)
  
  • by Adeline Pates Potter 1931
    

• "The Letters of Mary Sprague" (1999)
  
  • Courtship correspondence between Mary Sprague x1871 and her fiance, March 1875-September 1876
    
  • by Ruth W. Pardoe
    
  • #43 in a limited edition of 200 copies