Barnard College: The Early Years (1889-1929)

Historical montage of photographs and film footage taken during the first 40 years of Barnard College. Cameos by Léonie Adams, Mary Antin, Marie Carmody, Mabel Choate, Thomas Scott Fiske, Virginia Gildersleeve, Laura Drake Gill, Isabel Greenbaum, Zora Neale Hurston, Eleanore Myers Jewett, Kang Tung Pih, Eleanor Pelham Kortheuer, Irene Langhorne (Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson), Mrs. N. W. Liggett, Margaret Mead, Alice Pollitzer, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Mary Harriman Rumsey, Emily James Smith, Ella Weed, and others. Film footage of the Greek Games, ca. 1927. Photos by George Grantham Bain, A. Tennyson Beals, Brown Brothers, Byron Studios, Knowlton Studios, H. H. Sidman, Paul Thompson, Raphael Tuck & Sons, Carl Van Vechten, Clarence White, White Studios, and others. Images and video courtesy of Barnard College Archives, Library of Congress, and New York Public Library. Song: Whirl by Wiretree. Created at http://animoto.com.

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