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Smith College students practice the proper technique and posture for stowing luggage

(Yale Joel. 1958?)

Smith College Chambre Singers on a European tour

(Nat Farbman. 1952)

Member of the Smith College Chamber Singers during their European tour

(Nat Farbman. 1952)

Students at Smith College, 1949 | Peter Stackpole

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Vintage Smith

HAPPY 89th BIRTHDAY, my dearest Sylvia! ♥ RIP!

(27 October 1932, Boston, USA – 11 February 1963, London, UK)

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POPPIES IN OCTOBER

Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts.
Nor the woman in the ambulance
Whose red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly —

A gift, a love gift
Utterly unasked for
By a sky

Palely and flamily
Igniting its carbon monoxides, by eyes
Dulled to a halt under bowlers.

O my God, what am I
That these late mouths should cry open
In a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers.

–Sylvia Plath, written 27 October 1962, in: Ariel, 1965

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Photo credits: Sylvia Plath photographed by studio photogapher Eric Stahlberg in Northampton, Massachusetts during her final months as a student at Smith College in May 1955

This and two other photographs by Stahlberg were sold at the Sotheby’s auction “Your Own Sylvia: Sylvia Plath’s letters to Ted Hughes and other items, property of Frieda Hughes” in July 2021 for 1,764GBP.

Image source: https://www.sothebys.com/