Bryn Mawr College Special Collections is proud to be part of the community offering campus wide activities for admitted students who will begin their Mawter lives in the Fall. Over the past few weeks we have welcomed dozens of students and their families into the Special Collections Reading Room on the Second Floor of Canaday Library.

As part of the active program of events at Bryn Mawr College, Special Collections staff and student workers spoke with admitted students and their families about the holdings we have spanning the College Archives, the Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection and the Art and Artifacts Collection.

Treasures on show include old scrapbooks from students in the early twentieth century, illuminated manuscripts of Chaucer’s collected works, first editions of novels by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen and Asian and African art. These are a small selection of the wonderful pieces we have in our collections, and if you would like to know more about our holdings visit the Special Collections website here

If you have not yet visited with your family, this is the last week of our admitted students activities so please make sure you come along!

All images courtesy of Marianne Weldon, Collections Manager, Art and Artifact Collections