VINTAGE SMITH COLLEGE

Smith alum Julia Child would have turned 100 today. To celebrate, PBS remixed her very best bits of wisdom. 

Sylvia Plath at Smith College in 1952/1953

A time-lapse photo of Illumination Night, 1902. 

Hoop rolling, 1960's. 

From the Smith College Archives: 

Chen-Hua Yang (Wu) and Chia-Ling Changon. Ivy Day, 1948

In 1922 the College's new laundry facility opened up on State Street at the site of the Capen School. Hailed as 'admirably equipped with modern machinery and a fire-proof building' it still relied on human beings to get the job accomplished. This laundry worker stands in front a one of those machines in 1950.

Madeleine Newell, Class of 1903, her sister Marjorie Newell, and their father Arthur Webster Newell were traveling from the Middle East to their home in Lexington, Massachusetts on the Titanic. Madeleine and her sister survived the disaster, but their father perished in the sinking of the ship.