clippings (information artifacts)

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The Academic and Student Life series contains materials related to the student experience during the early years of the college. Materials cover the commencement ceremonies, student periodicals, student compositions, associated students meeting minutes, gradebooks, academic prospectus' and rosters. Thes materials include formats such as clippings, photographs, artifacts, and ephemera.

Scope and Contents Bulk of box's contents consist of photographs of St. Mary's College's brickpile campus, promotional material, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and CDs containing digitized photographs. Photographs depict the campus, athletic fields, buildings, and the aftermath of fires in 1894 and 1918, as well as earthquake and fire damage from 1906. While the bulk of materials are dated 1888-1924, some later materials from 1950's 1970's are included. These later materials include correspondence from the...

Scope and Contents One folder that contains newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence, an article from the San Francisco Chronicle titled "Moraga Site is Chosen by St. Mary's for New College" from May 3rd, 1927 about the building of the Moraga Campus, "In Retrospect" article about the early history of the school and moraga campus, a list of Faculty and a month by month account of events from 1955, "Saint Mary's Alumnus" magazine from "summer 1968", "The New Saint Mary's" article (possibly promotional...

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The Oakland Brickpile Years series contains materials that relate to the years between 1889 and 1927 when the college was located in Oakland and contains clippings, photographs, ephemera, and correspondence from and about that era.

Scope and Contents One folder that contains newspaper clippings related to the Oakland campus, a "Dedication of St. Mary's College" pamphlet from 1889, commencement programs from 1924, a fundraising letter for the "golden jubilee" 50th anniversary that addresses fire and earthquake damage to the Oakland campus, "Application For Registration of Historical Point of Interest" for the brickpile campus, program for 1909 commencement, photocopied photographs of brothers and alumni, menu for alumni banquet, 2 stapled...

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Single folder containing news clippings and documents recounting the history of the St. Mary's San Francisco campus.

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One oversized scrapbook containing newspaper clippings relted to the news of the day, not particularly related to St. Mary's. materials are pasted into a book over handwritten notes, some of these notes are still visible.

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One scrapbook containing general newspaper clippings that do not appear to be explicitly related to St. Mary's College itself.