- Classification Number: 1VF
- Title of Record Series: College Hall Fire
- Record Group: College
- Date: March 3, 1977
- Accession Number: Existing files
- Sub Group: Events
- Restrictions: None
- Volume: 3 boxes
Description:
Records pertaining to College Hall Fire of March 17, 1914; dating 1914-1915, 1925, 1971-1974;
consisting of correspondence, magazine and newspaper accounts, scrapbooks, desk calendar page,
progams; concerning College Hall Fire, expressions of sympathy, and offers of help from others,
efforts to replace facilities lost; including personal accounts, and letters to Myrtilla Avery,
Alice Van Vechten Brown, Mary Whiton Calkins, Mary T. Caswell, President Ellen Fitz Pendleton, Edith Tufts.
Box 1
- College Hall Fire: general
- College Hall Fire: Personal Accounts
- Telegrams of condolences (March, 1914) and offers of help
- Letters to President E. F. Pendleton of condolence
- Letters to President E.F. Pendleton of condolence
- Letters to President E.F. Pendleton from alumnae, Wellesley College Clubs
- Letters to President E.F. Pendleton from colleges
- Letters to President E.F. Pendleton from organizations (other than alumnae; colleges)
- Letters to Miss Mary Whiton Calkins; Edith Tufts; President of Alumnae Association
- Letters to Myrtilla Avery
- Letters to Alice Van Vechten Brown
- Letters to Mary T. Caswell
- Olive Davis desk calendar (March 17, 1914) framed
- Newspaper Articles (paper-mounted): fire
Box 2
- Newspaper Articles: Fundraising; new buildings and effect of fire
- Newspaper Articles: fire; estimated losses; people involved
- Wellesley College News: fire issue
- Magazine Articles: fire
- New England Magazine (Oct. 1914): fire
- Eleanor Blair's Scrapbook: clippings on fire (mostly)
- Fundraising Programs
- Scrapbook on fire compiled by Barbara Bach Phipps '16
Box 3
- B. P. McCrum (March 13, 1945), exhibition material: clippings on fire
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