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The collection was later named after the founder of Smith College, Sophia Smith, who upon her death in 1870 willed her fortune of $387,468 (approximately $7,000,000.00 in the current market) to endow Smith College. [6] In 1941, Smith College President Herbert Davis proposed the Friends of the Smith College Library that they take on as a special ...
Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college with coed graduate and certificate programs, located in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States.The Smith College Archives document the life of the College by collecting materials created by students, faculty, administrative and departmental staff during the course of their time here.
A view of Smith's campus c. 1900. The college was chartered in 1871 by a bequest of Sophia Smith and opened its doors in 1875 with 14 students and 6 faculty. [13] When Smith inherited a fortune from her father aged 65, she decided that leaving her inheritance to found a women's college was the best way for her to fulfill the moral obligation she expressed in her will: [14]
Mortimer also oversaw the Smith College library's one-millionth volume purchase, the Epistole devotissime of St. Catherine of Siena. [ 1 ] Mortimer was the first woman elected to serve as president of the Bibliographical Society of America , a position she held from 1988 to 1992.
The Brown Fine Arts Center opened in 2003 after a two-year, $35 million building renovation, and now houses the art library, Art Department, as well as the Smith College Museum of Art. Designed by the New York-based Polshek Partnership Architects , the 164,000-gross-square-foot (15,236m 2 ) building was created to link the college with its ...
Margaret Storrs Grierson (June 29, 1900 – December 12, 1997) was an American archivist, philosophy professor, and the founder [1] and first director of the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. In this capacity, she traveled extensively, in the United States and abroad, assembling manuscripts that document the history of women.
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Sophia Smith (August 27, 1796 – June 12, 1870) founded Smith College in 1870 with the substantial estate she inherited from her father, who was a wealthy farmer, and her six siblings, who had all predeceased her. [1] An avid reader, Smith attended schools in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and Hartford, Connecticut.