Here is a list of the sources we consulted for our 2011 exhibition, Fashioning an Education:
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- Champney, Elizabeth Williams. Three Vassar girls abroad: Rambles of three college girls on a vacation trip through France and Spain for amusement and instruction. With their haps and mishaps. Estes and Lauriat, 1883.
- ———. Three Vassar girls in Italy: a holiday excursion of three college girls through the classic lands. Estes and Lauriat, 1885.
- ———. Three Vassar girls in South America: A holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama. Estes and Lauriat, Publishers, 1885.
- Daniels, Elizabeth A. Bridges to the World: Henry Noble MacCracken and Vassar College. College Avenue Press, 1994.
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- Marchalonis, Shirley. “College Girls.” Research / Penn State 17, no. 2 (June 1996). http://www.rps.psu.edu/jun96/college.html.
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- Warner, Patricia Campbell. When the Girls Came Out to Play: The Birth of American Sportswear. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.
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