Hahn, Dorothy A.
Hahn papers,
ca. 1843, 1876-ca. 1968
Manuscript Collection: MS 0786
2
boxes
Agency History/Biographical note:
Dorothy Anna Hahn was born on April 9, 1876 in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. Her father, Carl S. Hahn, born in Germany, was a
teacher and a scholar and her mother was Mary Deborah Beaver Hahn.
Hahn attended Bryn Mawr College from 1895-1899, graduating with a
B.A. in 1899. She taught at Pennsylvania College for Women from
1899-1906. Hahn attended the Universitat Leipzig from 1906-1907, and
was a Fellow at Bryn Mawr College from 1907-1908. She received a
Ph.D. from Yale University in 1916. Hahn was a member of the Mount
Holyoke College faculty in the Chemistry Department from 1908 until
her retirement in June 1941. Hahn wrote many publications and
co-authored three books in the field of organic chemistry. She was
seventy-four years old when she died on December 10, 1950 in South
Hadley, Massachusetts.
Scope and Content:
The collection consists of correspondence, a scrapbook (compiled
after her death by Alice G. Renfrew and Janet Evans Austin),
writings, biographical information, a pair of laboratory safety
glasses and photographs. Most of the material relates to her
association with Mount Holyoke College as a chemistry professor from
1908-1941. The correspondence mainly consists of Hahn's four letters
from 1914-1915 to James M. Foster, father of Mount Holyoke English
professor Dorothy Foster, regarding Foster's research trip to
England. There are twenty-three publications included in the
collection, dating from 1913-1940. The collection also contains a
book, co-authored by Hahn, published in 1932. All of the writings
relate to Hahn's work as an organic chemist. The scrapbook contains
photographs, personal information related to Hahn and her family, a
biographical sketch probably written by Dorothy Foster, and a list of
publications. The biographical information includes numerous press
clippings, including those documenting her retirement from Mount
Holyoke and her death in 1950. The three photographs in the
collection include one probably taken during her undergraduate years
at Bryn Mawr College, 1895-1899, and two probably dating from her
tenure at Mount Holyoke, 1908-1941. Material relating to a box given
to Hahn as a retirement gift and a memorial fund set up in her name
are available in Hahn's faculty biographical file.
Cite as: Dorothy A. Hahn Papers, Mount Holyoke College,
Archives and Special Collections, South Hadley,
MA.
Access Restrictions: Unrestricted.
Series List:
- Scrapbook
, ca. 1843-ca. 1968
, 1 box, 1.2 linear feet
- Correspondence
, 1914-1915
, 1 folder
- Writings
, 1913-1940
, 2 folders
- Biographical Information , 1933-1951 ,
1 folder
- Laboratory Glasses
, ca. 1915
, one pair of laboratory goggles
- Photographs
, ca. 1895-1941
, 1 folder
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