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Samples of Primary Sources from Five College Collections

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Daguerreotype of Tirzah Porter Snell, circa 1840-45
Daguerreotype photograph		 Letter with pressed flower, circa 1893
Letter with pressed flower
Account book, Williamsburg, Mass., 1783-95
Account book 		Hampshire College motto memo
Handwritten memo
Notice of "Contest Open to Massachusetts Girls," 1920
Printed flier 		Photograph, UMASS Student Union, 1975
Photograph
Map of Mount Holyoke College, 1900
Map 		Newspaper clipping of student production, 1950
Newspaper clipping
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
Book 		Subscriber's ticket signed by Virginia Woolf
Subscriber's ticket
Mathematical instruments
Mathematical instruments 		Letter from John M. Greene to Sophia Smith, 1868
Letter

For more primary sources online, see:
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Last update: May 24, 2004