Finding Aids
Please note: Some collections in the archives do not have available online inventories.
Manuscript Collections
The following is a list of Wellesley College presidents, faculty, alumnae, related individuals and associations whose papers are housed at the archives. Finding aids and folder lists for some collections at the Wellesley College Archives are available below. This is not a complete list. In addition, some inventories are currently available in-house only.
- Autograph Letters Collection
- Jean Baker Miller
- Katharine Lee Bates
- Alice H. Bushee
- Mary Whiton Calkins
- May-ling Soong Chiang | Finding Aid (HTML) | Finding Aid (PDF)
- Margaret Clapp (President, 1949-1966)
- Ada M. Coe
- Katharine Coman
- Harriet Baldwin Creighton
- Helen I. Davis
- Alona E. Evans | Finding Aid (HTML) | Finding Aid (PDF)
- Margaret C. Ferguson
- Jorge Guillen
- Caroline Hazard (President, 1899-1910)
- Louise Manning Hodgkins
- Mildred McAfee Horton (President, 1936-1949)
- Estelle Hurll
- Elizabeth Kimball Kendall
- Hubert W. Lamb
- Edith B. Lehman
- Elizabeth W. Manwaring
- John McAndrew
- Emma DeLong Mills | Finding Aid (HTML) | Finding Aid (PDF)
- Lorraine O' Grady | Finding Aid (HTML) | Finding Aid (PDF)
- Alice Freeman Palmer (President, 1881-1887)
- Ellen Fitz Pendleton (President, 1911-1936)
- Justina Ruiz de Conde
- Margaret P. Sherwood
- Owen S. Stratton
- Edith Souther Tufts
- Carla Wenckebach
- Sarah Frances Whiting
- Anne Whitney | Finding Aid (HTML) | Finding Aid (PDF)
College Records
The following is a list of Wellesley College administrative, academic, and research departments whose records are housed at the archives. Finding aids and folder lists for some collections at the Wellesley College Archives are available below. This is not a complete list. In addition, some inventories are currently available in-house only.
The collections are organized into a classification scheme partially based on Wellesley College administrative hierarchy.
1 COLLEGE | College Publications, Presidents' Papers and Correspondence |
2 GOVERNING BOARDS | Board of Trustees and Committee Records |
3 CURRICULUM |
Curricular Materials, Academic Department Records |
4 ACADEMIC AFFAIRS | Admission and Deans' Records |
5 STUDENT SERVICES | Student Services Records |
6 STUDENTS | Class Records, Student Organizations |
7 ALUMNAE | Biographical Information and Publications, Reunion Materials |
8 DEVELOPMENT | Resources Records and Fundraising Materials |
9 BUSINESS MANAGEMENT | Financial, Budgetary Records |
10 LEARNING RESOURCES | Museum, Library, Research Center Records |
- 1A Publications
- 1AA Catalogues
- 1AC Courses of Instruction
- 1AD Directories
- 1C Clippings
- 1D President's Office
- 1DB1 Ada Howard (1875-1881)
- 1DB2 Alice Freeman (1881-1887)
- 1DB3 Helen Shafer (1888-1894)
- 1DB4 Julia Irvine (1894-1899)
- 1DB.1899-1966 | Finding Aid (HTML) | Finding Aid (PDF) [contains administrative records from the presidencies of Caroline Hazard (1899-1910); Ellen Fitz Pendleton (1911-1936); Mildred McAfee Horton (1936-1949); Margaret Clapp (1949-1966)]
- 1DB9 Ruth Adams (1966-1972) | Finding Aid (HTML) | Finding Aid (PDF)
- 1DB10 Barbara W. Newell (1972-1981) | Finding Aid (HTML) | Finding Aid (PDF)
- 1DB11 Nannerl Overholser Keohane (1981-1993) | Finding Aid (HTML) | Finding Aid (PDF)
- 1E Administrative
- 1ED Executive Vice President
- 1EM Affirmative Action Officer; EEO
- 1F Self Studies
- 1H Histories
- Articles in newspapers or periodicals
- 1H/1975 Centennial Historian
- 1K Buildings
- 1K Buildings
- 1KB Blueprints and Plans
- 1KM Maps
- 1M Donors
- 1P Outside Affiliations
- 1PC China Colleges
- 1PW Committee for the Concerns of Women
- 1S Public Relations
- 1SD Publicity, 1912-1969 | Finding Aid (HTML) | Finding Aid (PDF)
- 1SD Information Services, 1969-1975
- 1SI Information Bureau
- 1SP Press Releases
- 1V College Events
- 1VA Anniversaries
- 1VC Convocations and Commencements
- 1VD Coordinator of Special Events
- 1VF Fire [College Hall]
- 1VI Inaugurations
- 1VK Dedications and Groundbreakings
- 1VS Conferences and Meetings Held on Campus
- 1VT Group 20 Players
- 1VV Famous Visitors
- 1VW World War I
- 1VW World War II
- 1X Institutional Materials [songs, seal and coat of arms, etc.]
- 1Z not elsewhere classified
- 1ZV Books of Views
- 2B Board of Trustees
- 2BI Individuals
- 2BP Standing Committee
- 2BR Special Committee
- 2D Treasurer
- 2E Secretary of College
- 2G Board of Visitors
- 2GI Individuals
- 2H Committee on Use of Humans as Experimental Subject
- 2L Commission on Community Life
- 2R Academic Council
- 2RP Standing Committees
- 2RR Special Committees
- 2S Special or Ad Hoc Committees
- 2SS Special or Ad Hoc: Search
- 2S1 The Wellesley - MIT Exchange Program Review Committee
- 2S2 Task Force on Racism
- 2S3 Committee on Wellesley in the 90's
- 2S4 Plans & Priorities Committee
- 2S5 Master Plan
- 2S6 Technology Task Force
- 2W Administrative Council
- 2WP Standing Committees
- 2WR Special Committees
- 3A Publications (of faculty as a group)
- 3C Curricular Material
- 3D Dean of the College
- 1938-1973 | Finding Aid (HTML) | Finding Aid (PDF)
- Alice Stone Ilchman
- Maud H. Chaplin
- Dale Rogers Marshall
- 3DF Office of Faculty Records
- 3DH Associate Dean of the College
- 3DP Publications
- 3E Faculty as a Whole
- 3I Office of Institutional Research
- 3L Departments (alphabetically)
- 3P Individuals (alphabetically)
- 3PZ Association for Women in Mathematics
- 3S Academic Computing
- 3T Summer School
- 3TP Summer School: Publications
- 3W Winter Term
- 3Z Not Elsewhere Classified
- 3ZC Faculty Club
- 4B Admission Office
- 4D Dean of Students
- 4E Other Deans
- 4E Dean of Studies
- 4EC Class Deans
- 4ECS Dean's Cards
- 4EF Dean of Foreign Students
- 4EG Dean of Graduate Students
- 4EH Academic Assistance
- 4G Exchange Coordinator
- 4K Continuing Education
- 4M Director of Educational Research & Development
- 4R Registrar
- 4RI Individual Student Files
- 4S Science Center Office
- 4Z
- 4ZA Atlanta Internship
- 4ZW Washington Internship
- 4ZU Urban Internship
- 5D Director of Schneider Center
- 5E Harambee House
- 5F Student Financial Services
- 5G Chaplaincy
- 5H Health Services
- 5HI Infirmary
- 5I Slater International Center
- 5N Stone Center
- 5P Counseling
- 5R Residence, Director
- 5RF Fire Brigade
- 5RH Heads of House
- 5RS Residence
- 5RW Domestic Department (1875-1896)
- 5V Coordinator of Student Activities
- 5W Career Center [Center for Work & Service]
- 5WP Placement files
- 5WW Internship Coordinator
- 6A Publications
- 6AD Directories
- 6AG Masters Theses
- 6AG/L Masters Theses, accepted in lieu of
- 6AH Honors Papers
- 6AM Graduate Papers [not accepted as theses]
- 6AP Prize Papers
- 6AS Undergraduate Student Papers
- 6C Classes [chronologically -- subseries for significant papers of individual members of a class]
- 6C/special special students
- 6C/graduate graduate students
- 6C.1879 Class of 1879
- 6C.1880 Class of 1880
- 6C.1881 Class of 1881
- 6C.1882 Class of 1882
- 6C.1883 Class of 1883
- 6C.1884 Class of 1884
- 6C.1885 Class of 1885
- 6C.1886 Class of 1886
- 6C.1887 Class of 1887
- 6C.1888 Class of 1888
- 6C.1889 Class of 1889
- 6C.1890 Class of 1890
- 6C.1891 Class of 1891
- 6C.1892 Class of 1892
- 6C.1893 Class of 1893
- 6C.1894 Class of 1894
- 6C.1895 Class of 1895
- 6C.1896 Class of 1896
- 6C.1897 Class of 1897
- 6C.1898 Class of 1898
- 6C.1899 Class of 1899
- 6C.1900 Class of 1900
- 6C.1901 Class of 1901
- 6C.1902 Class of 1902
- 6C.1903 Class of 1903
- 6C.1904 Class of 1904
- 6C.1905 Class of 1905
- 6C.1906 Class of 1906
- 6C.1907 Class of 1907
- 6C.1908 Class of 1908
- 6C.1909 Class of 1909
- 6C.1910 Class of 1910
- 6C.1911 Class of 1911
- 6C/1912 Class of 1912
- 6C/1913 Class of 1913
- 6C/1914 Class of 1914
- 6C/1915 Class of 1915
- 6C/1916 Class of 1916
- 6C/1917 Class of 1917
- 6C/1918 Class of 1918
- 6C/1919 Class of 1919
- 6C/1920 Class of 1920
- 6C/1921 Class of 1921
- 6C/1922 Class of 1922
- 6C/1923 Class of 1923
- 6C/1924 Class of 1924
- 6C/1925 Class of 1925
- 6C/1926 Class of 1926
- 6C/1927 Class of 1927
- 6C/1928 Class of 1928
- 6C/1929 Class of 1929
- 6C/1930 Class of 1930
- 6C/1931 Class of 1931
- 6C/1932 Class of 1932
- 6C/1933 Class of 1933
- 6C/1934 Class of 1934
- 6C/1935 Class of 1935
- 6C/1936 Class of 1936
- 6C/1937 Class of 1937
- 6C/1938 Class of 1938
- 6C/1939 Class of 1939
- 6C/1940 Class of 1940
- 6C/1941 Class of 1941
- 6C/1942 Class of 1942
- 6C/1943 Class of 1943
- 6C/1944 Class of 1944
- 6C/1945 Class of 1945
- 6C/1946 Class of 1946
- 6C/1947 Class of 1947
- 6C/1948 Class of 1948
- 6C/1949 Class of 1949
- 6C/1950 Class of 1950
- 6C/CE [Continuing Education/Davis Scholars not affiliated with a class]
- 6G College Government
- 6GX Student Government before College Government formally organized in 1901
- 6L Student Life
- 6P Publications
- 6PL Literary magazines
- 6PN Newspapers
- 6PY Yearbook
- 6Q Performing Arts
- 6QD Dramatics
- 6QM Musical
- Beethoven Society
- Chamber Music Society | Finding Aid (HTML) | Finding Aid (PDF)
- Choir
- Glee Club
- Orchestra | Finding Aid (HTML) | Finding Aid (PDF)
- Widows
- 6S Organizations
- 6SD Departmental
- 6SH Honor
- 6SS Societies
- 6T Athletics
- 6V Events
- 7A Publications [as a group]
- 7B Alumnae Biographical Files
- 7D Alumnae Association, Executive Director
- 7DC Classes [liaison]
- 7DR Clubs [liaison]
- 7E Editor, alumnae magazine
- 7F Fundraising
- 7H Hygiene and Physical Education Section
- 7P Publications [of individual alumnae]
- 7P/special [publications by special students]
- 7P/graduate [publications by graduate students]
- 7P/1879 [publications by members of Class of 1879]
- 7P/1880 [publications by members of Class of 1880]
- 7R Alumnae Council
- 7RC Wellesley Clubs
- 7S Class Secretaries Association
- 7V Events
- 7Z
- 7ZT Wellesley College Teachers Association
- 7ZW Wellesley College Relief Unit [World War I]
- 8D Resources, Vice President
- 8DW Estate and Donor Files
- 8E
- 8F Fundraising Campaigns
- 8F1
- 8F2 Restoration and Endowment
- 8F3 Semi-Centennial
- 8F4 75th Anniversary
- 8F5 Centennial
- 8F6 $150 Million
- 8P Publications
- 8T Trusts
- 8W Donor and Estate files
- 9B Bookstore
- 9C Wellesley College Club
- 9D Business Manager (Historical); Finance & Administration, Vice President
- 9D.1923-1928 Business Manager | Finding Aid (HTML) | Finding Aid (PDF)
- 9D.1928-1938 Business Manager | Finding Aid (HTML) | Finding Aid (PDF)
- 9D/1938-1952 Business Manager
- 9D/1952-1956 Business Manager
- 9D/1957-1970 Business Manager
- 9D/1970-1976 Vice President for Business Affairs
- 9D/1976-1985 Vice President for Financial and Business Affairs
- 9D/1985-1989 Vice President for Finance and Administration
- 9D/1957-1974 Business Manager: College/Union Relations
- 9DA VP for Planning & Administration [after 7/2000]
- 9DF VP for Finance & Treasurer [after 7/2000]
- 9E Controller
- 9F Food Services
- 9H Budget Office
- 9K Physical Plant
- 9KS Safety Officer
- 9L Campus Police
- 9M Purchasing
- 9P Post Office
- 9S Systems [administrative computing]
- 9W Personnel
- 9WP Publications
- 9WZ Employee groups
- 9X Duplicating
- 10I Information Services [technology]
- 10IP Information Services Publications
- 10L Library
- 10LA Archives
- 10LD Librarian
- 10LM Friends of Library
- 10LP Publications of members of Library staff
- 10S Museum/1875-1972
- 10S Exhibitions
- 10SM Friends of Art
- 10W Center for Research on Women / Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW)
- 10WP Women's Review of Books
- 10WP Research & Action Report