The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center at Bryn Mawr College is home to hundreds of the college's archival collections and provides insight into the history of higher education for women throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These archives include letters, photographs, student newspapers, and late nineteenth century entrance exams to the institution. Many of these archival materials are helpfully curated (often by recent Bryn Mawr students) into online exhibits. Recent exhibits include an examination on the experience of LGBTQ students at Bryn Mawr from 1970-2000; a look into the history of athletics and physical education at the college; and a collection of materials about the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, a summer educational program for female industrial workers that took place between 1921-1937. This website also includes six complete lesson plans that utilize materials from the archives. One such lesson facilitates classroom examination of early twentieth century education scholarship positing that education was detrimental to women's health, alongside the response of former Bryn Mawr College president M. Carey Thomas.
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