Heraldry, 1838-2001

• Bertha E. Blakely: TD, Mount Holyoke seal and College color
• Sally Trabulsi: TLS to Elaine Trehub re: Mount Holyoke Blue (attachment: ribbon swatch)
• Clipping: The Mount Holyoke, June 1893 Re: Light blue decided as College color
• Fabric samples of Mount Holyoke College blue for hood lining
• Logo notes
• Miscellaneous logo samples: general; 150 year anniversary; energy report
• Article: William J. Hannon, "Talk About Trademarks: Trademark Programs: Resistance to Change"
• Invoices related to printing of new logo
• Correspondence concerning request for permission to print logo in "Ivy Scene - '68"
• TL, Al Desrosiers to Elizabeth Brothers Re: repro proofs of MHC logo
• TL, Mary E. Tuttle to Mrs. T. Archibald Eaton (alumna) Re: new logo
• Newspaper clipping: "Award Winning Symbols" (logos, including MHC's, designed by Malcolm Grear, Providence, RI, which have won awards), Springfield Union
• Misc. notes and short articles on MH's seal
• Note and correspondence re: meaning of MH's seal
• Article: "The College Seal," by Marion Marsh Randall. Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly, Feb. 1937, pp. 189-191[unannotated version]
• Article: "The College Seal," by Marion Marsh Randall. Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly, Feb. 1937, pp. 189-191[annotated version]
• Text of Psalm 144 (photocopy)
• MHC Library: ALS to Miss Copeland enclosing brief history of seal
• Notes on Trustee's vote on adoption of seal and color
• Florence Clement: TLS to Frank Licher, L.G. Balfour Co. Re: request of copy of seal
• Helen MacM. Voorhees: correspondence to President Richard G. Gettell and Nassau China Compan Re: seal for use on mugs
• Article: "Palm Trees, Mountains Supply Symbolism of College Seal," MHC News
• Mary C. Thornton: TLS to R. G. Gettell Re: Use of College seal
• Elaine L. Weygand (President's Office), TL to Mary C. Thornton. Re: L.G. Balfour Company
• Correspondence re: Tip Dorsel's proposed revisions to seal design
• Archivist's note re: pillow case and stamped fabric, both depicting seal, placed in museum cases
• Elizabeth T. Kennan (MHC President), TLS to Carol J. Blinn. Re: 3 coppercut MHC seals received
• Symbols of Office (excerpt from program for inauguration of Joanne V. Creighton as President)
• Article: "Students redefine meaning of college seal design," MHC News
• Photograph reproduction of pencil vignette by Orra White Hitchcock, prepared for use on original MH Female Seminary certificates of graduation. A simplified version of this vignette appears on the school's official seal. ( Original vignette is attached to a sample certificate in Mary Lyon's handwriting, filed in: LD 7080.3 Folio)
• Photograph reproduction of vignette as used on MH diplomas, based on Orra White Hitchcock design
• Vignette as published in MH Alumnae Quarterly
• Transcription of Latin text of MH diploma
• 3 photographs of American college banners, including MH's, lining the walls of the reading room of the library at Louvain, France. MH was one of 65 American colleges and universities that contributed to the restoration of the library after its destruction in World War I. [See MH Telescope, May 1931]
• Photograph: stone tablet on wall of unidentified building
• Nassau China Company: letter and proofs of new versions of MHC china pattern design
• China pattern design with colors penciled in
• China pattern design in blue ink
• Cover page of Centennial Supplement [to MHC News?] with College seal surrounded by the four class animal symbols (lion, pegasus, sphinx, griffin) 10" x 14 3/4"
• MHC Christmas card with cover etching of Mary Lyon's birthplace
• Official MHC Seal: Composite proof sheet - six seals
• Official MHC Seal: From a commencement announcement (color)
• Official MHC Seal: Undated proof
• Official MHC Seal: Decal 1 (blue on yellow)
• Official MHC Seal: Decal 2 (white on blue)
• Official MHC Seal: Decal 3 (blue on yellow)
• Official MHC Seal: Decal 4 - sheet of 6, suitable for sealing envelopes
• Official MHC Seal: 2 zinc cuts" and accompanying memo, Dec. 27, 1955
• Official MHC Seal: Diploma
• Official MHC Seal: MHC catalogue cover (white on blue)
• Official MHC Seal: Blue on white
• Official MHC Seal: Modern w/ticked edges, no circle
• Official MHC Seal: Cover of Alumnae Quarterly, Centenary Edition (blue on gold)
• Official MHC Seal: Seal on decorative square (white on black)
• Official MHC Seal: From invitation to inauguration of Richard Glenn Gettell as President
• Official MHC Seal: Gold embossed seal
• Official MHC Seal: Bookplate, Williston Memorial Library
• Official MHC Seal: Catalogue: stylized redesign
• Unofficial MHC Seal: "Education Lights the Future"
• Unofficial MHC Seal: One hundred years of Holyoke"
• Unofficial MHC Seal: $3,000,000 endowment campaign
• Unofficial MHC Seal: "Mount Holyoke 1837-1912"
• Unofficial MHC Seal: "Mary Lyon 1797-1849" (place card)
• Unofficial MHC Seal: MH Alumnae Fund

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