Annotated Checklist

By Jenna Effenberger

Case 1: Going to Vassar

  1. Published photograph of Mary McCarthy going to Vassar College, 1929
  2. Vassar College Catalogue, 1929

Case 2: The Campus

  1. Photograph of Main Building with Frederick Ferris Thompson Annex, Nov. 1936
  2. Photograph of Cushing Hall
  3. Photograph of Thompson Memorial Library front entrance, ca. 1930s

Case 3: Life at Vassar

  1. Photograph of Mary McCarthy at Vassar College, 1932
  2. Vassar College Catalogue, 1931

Case 4: Student Papers

  1. Mary McCarthy's senior thesis, "Robert Greene: An Omnigatherum," 1933
  2. Mary McCarthy, "The Nightingale and the Rose," 193-

Case 5: Faculty

  1. Photograph of Helen Drusilla Lockwood
  2. Photograph of Helen Sandison
  3. Photograph of Anna Theresa Kitchel
  4. Photograph of Elizabeth Hazelton Haight

Case 6: Classmates

  1. Photograph of Frani Blough, Class of '33
  2. Photograph of Martha McGaham, Class of '33
  3. Photograph of Frances Rotter, Class of '33
  4. Photograph of Elizabeth Strong, Class of '33

Case 7: Publications

  1. Con Spirito, Feb. 1933

Case 8: Publications, cont.

  1. Vassar Journal of Undergraduate Studies (VJUS), 1933
  2. Mary McCarthy, "Touchstone Ambitious," in VJUS, 1933

Case 9: Yearbook

  1. Vassarion, 1933
  2. Photographic portrait of Mary McCarthy, 1933

Case 10: Commencement

  1. Vassar College Sixty-Eighth Commencement program, 1933
  2. Alice Again program, June 10, 1933

Case 11: Holiday Article

  1. Richard L. Field, Typed letter signed, May 11, 1950
  2. Harry Sions, Typed letter signed, Feb 13, 1951

Case 12: Holiday, cont.

  1. Mary McCarthy, "The Vassar Girl," Holiday, May 1951

Case 13: The Group

  1. Mary McCarthy, The Group (New York), 1963
  2. Mary McCarthy, The Group (London), 1963

Case 14: The Group: the Movie

  1. Publicity broadside for The Group, 1966
  2. Photograph of actresses from The Group, 1966?

Case 15: Addresses

  1. AAVC Centennial Program, 1971
  2. Mary McCarthy, "Proper Studies" (Vassar College Commencement Address), 1976

Case 16: Distinguished Visitor

  1. Vassar College Quarterly, Spring 1982
  2. Albin Krebs and Robert McG. Thomas Jr., "A Vassar '33 Returns," The New York Times, February 8, 1982

Case 17: Donating Papers

  1. Mary McCarthy, Novelist, Literary Critic, Social observer, Reporter, Traveler, Teacher, 1985.

Case 18: Autobiography and Anniversary

  1. Mary McCarthy, How I Grew, 1987
  2. "Mary McCarthy Returns to Read The Group—The 30's Meet the 80's" (Vassar College press release), 1988

Case 19: Tribute

  1. "Mary McCarthy—A Tribute" poster, May 5, 1990

Case 20: Tribute, cont.

  1. "Mary McCarthy—A Tribute" reception invitation, May 5, 1990
  2. "Vassar Honors writer McCarthy," Poughkeepsie Journal, May 6, 1990