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Documentary Letters of Women College Presidents at Vassar North Texas Female College and Florida State College for Women 1912-1954

1912réf. 180021912. Archive of presidential correspondence 1912-1954 documenting the administrative professional and personal roles of women leading American colleges during a period of expanding opportunities for women in higher education. The letters written on institutional letterhead and signed by female presidents of Vassar College North Texas Female College and Florida State College for Women provide direct evidence of governance practices within women's colleges including faculty appointments institutional decision-making and ceremonial matters such as approval of official college materials. The correspondence reflects the emergence of women in senior academic leadership positions in institutions founded in the nineteenth century to provide advanced education for women excluded from most universities. These documents also illustrate professional networks and mentorship structures that supported the advancement of women within academia as well as the dual public and private roles these administrators occupied. Archive of five autograph and typed letters signed dated between 1912 and 1954 on official college letterhead measuring approximately 6 x 8 inches to 8.5 x 11 inches. Included is a 1912 letter from L.A. Kidd-Key of North Texas Female College discussing faculty appointment terms and candidate selection noting multiple applicants for a position and requesting confirmation of acceptance. A 1954 letter from Sarah Gibson Blanding of Vassar College addressed to a Mr. Saltfords combines personal reflection with professional obligations referencing travel to a meeting in Atlantic City alongside acknowledgment of a birthday gift. Additional letters document routine administrative and institutional communication across the three colleges. One letter retains its original postmarked envelope. Five letters with minor wear consistent with handling including a rust stain from a paper clip on one example not affecting text; overall very good condition. A concise documentary group illustrating the development of women's leadership in American higher education and the administrative responsibilities shaping women's colleges in the twentieth century. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis550,00 $US≈ 490,41 €

Women's Education; England School For GirlsABAA

Women's Education Public Secondary Schools for Girls in Britain 1903 and 1905

1903réf. 180101903. Association of Head Mistresses. List of Public Secondary Schools for Girls 1903 and 1905 records the geographic extent of secondary schooling available to girls in Britain during the early twentieth-century expansion of women's education. Founded in 1874 by Frances Mary Buss and other headmistresses of endowed and proprietary schools the Association developed from efforts to improve the standards and institutional position of girls' secondary education. These two successive lists arrange schools by county providing contemporary evidence of where public secondary education for girls was available and allowing comparison across localities and between the two publication years. Their dates follow three decades in which girls gained broader access to academically oriented schools and universities although educational equality remained contested; in 1897 Cambridge rejected a proposal granting women the titles of degrees followed by riotous celebrations by male undergraduates. Women were not admitted to full membership of Cambridge until 1948. Two pamphlets issued by the Association of Head Mistresses dated 1903 and 1905 each measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Soft blue covers are printed "One Shilling Published by the Educational Supply Association 42 Holborn Viaduct E.C." Entries within each pamphlet are organized by county and identify public secondary schools open to girls at the time of publication. The format turns the changing institutional landscape of girls' education into a contemporary directory recording individual schools by place rather than describing educational reform retrospectively. Both front covers bear stamps reading "Board of Education Library" and "Supplied Public Service" each incorporating the royal crown; the back covers retain red "Board of Education Reference Library" stickers. These official library markings document their presence within a government educational reference collection. 1 Association of Head Mistresses. List of Public Secondary Schools for Girls. London: Educational Supply Association 1903. Arranged geographically by county the pamphlet enumerates secondary schools then available to girls and provides a contemporary reference point for the distribution of female secondary education at the beginning of the Edwardian period. Its Board of Education Library markings also preserve evidence of institutional reference use. 2 Association of Head Mistresses. List of Public Secondary Schools for Girls. London: Educational Supply Association 1905. Issued two years after the first pamphlet this updated county-by-county listing permits direct comparison of the provision of girls' secondary schools between 1903 and 1905. The directory appeared during the continuing expansion of educational opportunities that connected secondary schooling with women's increasing access to higher education; the University of London had begun awarding degrees to women on equal terms with men in 1878 while access elsewhere remained uneven. Textblocks tight bright and clean. Both pamphlets overall very good condition. The consecutive editions preserve a measurable record of girls' secondary education by county at a time when women educators and school leaders were establishing institutions capable of preparing girls for examinations professional training and higher education. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis75,00 $US≈ 66,87 €

Women's Education FeminismABAA

Speeches Delivered to Female High School Students on the Value of Education 1890

réf. 18017Three Addresses to Girls at School" J.M Wilson. Percival and Co: London 1890. 7" x 5" inches. 74 pages. Soft cover pamphlet. A series of speeches delivered by the vice president of the Clifton High School for Girls in Covent Garden 1890. The speeches were given on "Education" "High School Education for Girls" and "Religion" in 1887 1889 and 1890 respectively. In them Wilson the school's vice president and late head master addresses the female students on the value of their education"You are living in a great age when changes of many kinds are in progress in our political and social and religious ideas. There never was a greater need of trained intelligence clear heads and earnest hearts. And the part that women play is not a subordinate one." Whereas in 1840 60% of British women were illiterate that number dropped dramatically to 40% by 1860 and the momentum for female education picked up considerably through the end of the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Wilson's speeches delivered to high school girls give fascinating insight into both the vision and anxiety bound up in educational reform during the time. "We earnestly desire that women should be highly educated" he writes. "And yet is there not a type of educated woman which we do not wholly admire I am not going to caricature a bluestocking but to point out one or two real dangers. Education is good; but perfect sanity is better still. Sanity is the most excellent of all women's excellences.It is a small matter that you should protest against some small maladjustment or folly; but it is a great matter that you should be perfectly sane and well-balanced. Now education helps sanity." The addresses both promote women's education and caution against radically upending existing social structures. Wilson advises the girls throughout to be gentle humble and sane and celebrates the role educated women play in supporting men in positions of power. Front soft cover detached. Textblock is partially detached. Text block clean and bright. Overall good condition. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis225,00 $US≈ 200,62 €

Mount Holyoke; Women's EducationABAA

Women's Higher Education Development Mount Holyoke College Catalogues Archive 1844 to 1889

1844réf. 180201844. Mount Holyoke College annual catalogues 1844 to 1889 documenting the institutional structure and development of one of the earliest and most influential women's colleges in the United States. The material documents women's higher education systems through administrative and academic records revealing how faculty organization student enrollment and curricular frameworks operated within a pioneering female educational institution and providing primary-source evidence for the study of nineteenth-century women's education institutional growth and academic standardization. Archive of 12 printed catalogues issued over a forty-five-year period each listing faculty members enrolled students and institutional information for the respective academic year. Earlier catalogues present primarily textual listings while later issues incorporate illustrated views of campus buildings offering visual representations of the college environment. The catalogues reflect continuity and expansion in faculty composition and student attendance indicating the sustained operation and growth of the institution. Entries provide names of students and instructors enabling identification of individuals within the academic community while the progression toward illustrated content suggests increasing institutional self-presentation and public visibility. Twelve pamphlets measuring approximately 9 x 6 inches ranging from 16 to 40 pages each. Founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon Mount Holyoke College became a model for women's higher education and a foundational member of the Seven Sisters colleges which collectively advanced academic opportunities for women in the northeastern United States. These catalogues document the operational continuity of the institution across the mid to late nineteenth century a period marked by expanding access to formal education for women and the professionalization of teaching and scholarship. Two catalogues lacking original soft covers and with partial loss to text block remaining issues complete with light handling wear; overall good to very good condition. A substantial institutional record illustrating the early formation and sustained administration of women's collegiate education. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 401,25 €

Women's Education illinoisABAA

Women's Sorority Life and Theatrical Traditions at MacMurray College Jacksonville Illinois 1920

1920réf. 179821920. Archive of eight silver gelatin photographs and one albumen portrait documenting the social life theatrical productions and group identity of a women's sorority at MacMurray College in Jacksonville Illinois circa 1920. Photographs range from 7" x 5" to 3.5" x 3.5" and bear the imprint of local photographers Vail & Vail along with negative numbers in the lower margins. The collection offers an unusually intimate view of collegiate women's culture during the early twentieth century. The centerpiece is a large formal group portrait showing dozens of sorority members assembled on the front steps of their residence behind a banner marked "1920." The women wear matching white dresses white stockings and shoes black neck bows and close-fitting caps presenting a carefully organized display of unity and institutional pride. In contrast several other photographs reveal a far more playful side of campus life. A series of images document what appears to be a student theatrical production or costume party with approximately twenty-seven participants dressed in an eclectic assortment of historical literary and gender-bending costumes. Some women appear in male attire while others wear period dress character outfits and theatrical makeup. One participant holds a sign reading "The Cat That Walked Alone" likely referencing Rudyard Kipling's well-known story. Additional photographs show staged scenes rehearsals and informal gatherings capturing moments of humor friendship and performance. Three photographs bear handwritten identifications on the verso. One small portrait depicting a young woman standing alone outdoors is captioned "Pieface" beneath the image suggesting a nickname used within the sorority circle. One photograph has a clipped corner; otherwise the archive remains in very good condition. Throughout the archive the subjects display a striking range of expressions and poses. While some photographs maintain the expected formality of the era others capture candid interactions as women laugh whisper mug for the camera and engage with one another in ways seldom preserved in official college photography. Together the images document both the public and private dimensions of sorority life during a period when women's colleges and campus organizations played a central role in social and intellectual development. MacMurray College founded in 1846 and operating until 2020 was one of the Midwest's longstanding women's educational institutions. These photographs provide a vivid record of the camaraderie ritual and theatrical creativity that characterized student life there in the years immediately following World War I. unknown books

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Early Women's Education;ABAA

Pamphlet "On the Education of Women" Proposing a National Movement 1871

1871réf. 180111871. On the Education of Women. A Paper Read by Mrs. William Grey at the Meeting of the Society of Arts." William Ridgeway: London 1871. Pamphlet. 64 pages. 5.5" x 8" inches. Maria Georgina Grey was a British writer and women's education advocate. In this paper she writes "The subject I have specially to call your attention to this evening is the low condition of female education the inadequate provision made for it out of the endowments of the country and the difficulty of obtaining support from the general public for any scheme having for its object the higher education of women." Much of the paper concerns education for girls as a path to long-term freedom "It is easy to laugh at old maids it is easy to praise them as the sisters of mercy of life it is not easy to measure the amount of silence suffering of slow wasting away of hope of energy of faculty as the woman sees her youth passing away the boundless horizon of earlier years narrowing more and more middle age finding her as helplessly dependent in her father's house as unable to gratify a single taste to follow a single pursuit which does not chime in with his fancies as she was at 18 or left along to struggle untrained and unarmed in the fierce battle of life for the very means of living." In the paper she proposes the formation of a national movement for promoting women's education "Such an Association might be represented in London by a central committee connected with local committees formed in every considerable country town. By common action from all these different centres a body of evidence might be collected on every point connected with the better education of girls of all classes." Grey went on to form just such an organization the National Union of the Improving the Education of Women of All Classes later renamed the Women's Education Union. The union of which Grey was an active member established the Girls' Public Day School Company in 1872 to provide new schools for girls across social classes. Front and back soft covers missing. Inscription in pencil reads "From the Author 25" on title page. Textblock clean. Overall good condition. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis385,00 $US≈ 343,29 €

Women's Education: Homerton CollegeABAA

Women's Higher Education and Campus Life at Homerton College Cambridge 1900-1905

1900réf. 179971900. Archive of five annual reports issued by Homerton College Cambridge covering the academic years 1900-1905. Octavo pamphlets measuring approximately 7" x 5" ranging from 11 to 24 pages each. Illustrated with seven black-and-white photographs depicting campus buildings classrooms and college administrators along with an engraved view of the college. The 1902 and 1903 reports feature photographic views of Homerton College on their front wrappers. Original printed paper covers titled "Report of the Congregational Board of Education for the Year Ending Year." Founded in 1695 Homerton College occupies a significant place in the history of British education and was among the institutions that expanded educational opportunities for women during the nineteenth century. By the mid-1800s women were being admitted to study at Homerton making the college an important center for female teacher training and higher education at a time when academic opportunities for women remained limited. These reports document the institution during a period of growth and modernization at the turn of the twentieth century. The pamphlets provide a detailed record of academic instruction enrollment finances faculty activities campus improvements and student life. The 1901 report opens with a confident assessment of the college's progress noting that "All the students passed the usual tests very satisfactorily" and concluding that "Everything in this College shows marks of progress and bears testimony to the vigour of its administration." Beyond academic matters the reports offer valuable glimpses into everyday student culture. Accounts of clubs and extracurricular activities reveal an active collegiate community including the popular Cycling Club which reported in 1905 that members "visited many of the villages near Cambridge and held its annual picnic at Clayhithe" while noting that a newly constructed bicycle shed had become "a great convenience by all who have brought their machines up with them." Taken together the reports provide an unusually rich portrait of institutional development and student experience at one of Britain's pioneering centers for women's education. They illuminate not only the administrative concerns of the college but also the social networks recreational activities and evolving culture of female higher education during the Edwardian era. Several covers bear institutional Board of Education Library stamps with three retaining library labels on the rear wrappers. Minor contemporary manuscript notations appear on some covers. Light wear and handling consistent with use; overall very good condition. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis320,00 $US≈ 285,33 €

Education South AfricaABAA

Colonial South Africa Outdoor Black School Class in Durban on a 1903 Real Photo Postcard

1903réf. 174951903. A Native School 1903 is a real photo postcard documenting Black education in Durban during the colonial period showing approximately thirty students ranging from young children to adults receiving instruction outdoors from a Black teacher. The image predates the creation of the Union of South Africa and was made during a period when educational provision for Black South Africans varied substantially by colony mission and institution. Contemporary educational policy increasingly connected African schooling with labor and industrial training; in the neighboring Transvaal Inspector of Native Education Rev. W. E. C. Clarke stated in 1903 that an object of Black schooling was to "Teach the Native to work" and separate primary curricula for African students followed there in 1904. Black and white real photo postcard captioned "A Native School." Durban 1903. 3.5 x 5.5 inches. The class meets beneath a copse of trees with tall grasses visible beyond the students. A Black teacher stands at a lectern holding an open book with a single chair immediately behind him. Approximately thirty Black students sit before him on chairs and on a rug spread across the ground; the group includes children adolescents and adults making the mixed ages of the class one of the image's most distinctive features. The verso is addressed in ink to Mademoiselle Mercedes de Guerrico in Buenos Aires and bears an August 3 1903 Durban postmark. The postcard records an actual instructional setting rather than a formal school building: teacher book lectern portable seating and ground covering constitute the visible classroom. Its 1903 date places it within an unsettled period in South African education when schooling for Black students remained sharply unequal and colonial authorities were developing racially differentiated educational policies. The international address to Buenos Aires additionally documents the circulation of this image of Black South African schooling through the early twentieth century postcard trade. Corners slightly worn with some foxing. Overall good condition. A detailed visual record of Black students and a Black teacher conducting an outdoor class in Durban in 1903. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis85,00 $US≈ 75,79 €

Teacher's Album Women's EducationABAA

Rural Education and Community Life in the American Midwest Teacher's Photograph Album of One-Room Schools 1922-1929

1922réf. 168451922. Unidentified compiler. Photograph album 1922-1929 documents rural one-room school education in the American Midwest with particular emphasis on student life teaching practices and community interaction in small farming regions including Michigan. The album provides primary visual and textual evidence of how rural schools operated as social and educational centers capturing the daily realities of multi-age instruction seasonal labor patterns and community involvement. The material supports research into rural education women's teaching labor and the lived experience of children in agricultural communities during the early twentieth century. Unidentified compiler. Photograph album. 1922-1929. Album containing 124 silver gelatin photographs and 32 pieces of related ephemera compiled by a teacher who worked at Pearsall School 1922-23 Eddy School 1923-24 Baker School 1924-25 Country Farm School 1925-26 Dye School 1927-28 and Dorr School 1927-29. The photographs depict small groups of students often fewer than twenty posed outside one-room schoolhouses or engaged in activities reflecting both education and daily life. Clothing and physical presentation indicate economic conditions and seasonal variation with children shown barefoot in some images and bundled in jackets and work boots in others. Group portraits are supplemented by 47 individually identified student photographs from Dorr and Loomis Schools each labeled by name including one of Ronald Bishop annotated "Killed by car" providing rare longitudinal insight into individual fates. Additional images capture classroom performances such as children dressed in capes for a musical presentation and informal scenes including bicycle riding suggesting the integration of recreation into school life. Photographs also document community members including figures identified as "Nora and Hazel" and "Mr. Barnes" a delivery worker pictured with a horse-drawn buggy. The accompanying ephemera including newspaper clippings invitations valentines and student work provide written documentation of school activities and educational practices. Reports describe enrollment numbers attendance rates seasonal nature study and classroom projects including agricultural scrapbooks and holiday crafts. References to teacher attendance at institutes indicate formalized training and professional development underscoring the increasing institutionalization of teaching as a profession for women. Original paper boards; 58 pages; photographs range from approximately 2.5 x 1.5 inches to 4.5 x 6.5 inches; album measures 7 x 12 inches. Light wear consistent with use; overall very good condition. A detailed and cohesive record of rural education and community life in the Midwestern United States during the 1920s. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis485,00 $US≈ 432,46 €

Detroit; MI Girls Education; Women's EducationABAA

Women's Education and Youth Culture Detroit Catholic High School Scrapbook 1929 to 1930 Documenting Female Student Life

1930réf. 168501930. Germaine Smith high school scrapbook 1929-1930 documenting female student life Catholic education and youth social networks in interwar Detroit. Created by a graduating student of St. Anthony High School the album preserves written exchanges photographs and ephemera that record peer relationships institutional culture and expectations for young women at the end of secondary education. The volume supports research on women's education adolescent identity formation and the role of religious schooling in shaping social and moral frameworks during the late 1920s. Scrapbook album titled "The Girl Graduate: Her Own Book" compiled by Germaine Smith of St. Anthony High School in Detroit containing 107 pieces of ephemera including tickets invitations table cards programs letters newspaper clippings and pressed flowers along with 13 photographs depicting female students posing at school and walking with nuns. The album includes 36 handwritten inscriptions from classmates and teachers featuring poems and personal messages such as "In your chain of friendship Consider me a link" and "When you are old and sipping tea Remember your classmate of 1930" alongside reflections on future marriage and adulthood. Additional contents include references to girls' athletics such as speed skating and gymnastics programs honor roll listings theater tickets from Detroit venues and a Japanese language newspaper clipping. A pair of "Shadowgraph Glasses" with colored lenses is also present illustrating contemporary novelty entertainment. Produced at the close of the 1920s this scrapbook captures the intersection of education religion and social life for young women during a period of shifting expectations around gender roles and modern leisure. The presence of Catholic instructional figures athletic participation and popular entertainment materials situates the compiler within both institutional and urban cultural environments. The handwritten entries emphasize friendship morality and anticipated life transitions providing insight into how young women articulated identity and community at graduation. Light toning at page edges with general handling wear; overall very good. A cohesive and content rich example of female student life and social documentation in early twentieth century America. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis700,00 $US≈ 624,16 €

Women's Education Memory AlbumABAA

Arkansas Schoolgirl's Handwritten Poems and Memories 1920s

réf. 16829Handwritten Memory Album from a girl junior high student in mid-1920s Arkansas. Handwritten inscriptions from 45 classmates and friends. Entries from 1925 to 1927. 16 pages. My Memories of School Days. New York City: C. R. Gibson & Company 1924. "Roses are red Violets are blue Think of me and I'll think of you!" Hand-writtten recordings of the school song for West Side Junior High in Little Rock AK. "Here's to West Side Dear of West Side Your the school we love the best Wit your colors gaily flying You have always stood the test When we leave you We believe you will always be our greatest pride And we will show you how much we owe you Will always boost for you our Dear West Side." Comes with October 1934 issue of "West Side Junior Life" student newspaper. Pages are filled with poems and lines from classmates over the years. Many of the inscriptions are pithy short poems or lines. "Dear Charlene I wish you health I wish you wealth I wish you gold in store I wish you heaven after death What could I wish you more" "In your mud puddles of affection Let one tad pole swim for me." "When you're in the kitchen frying meat think of me and my big feet." "If you're within and I'm without I'll think of you without a doubt." Some broke with this convention. "I do not know any poem but I pity the person that worries their head off to get one." Other include more personal notes on their memories together. "Remember our Spanish Class and the study hall before it." Two newspaper clipping portraits of school friends pasted into book. Two large pencil drawings-one of an infant child playing with a toy and one of a fashionable young lady going for a walk. Junior Membership card for the The American National Red Cross in Little Rock AK issued 9/4/25. Handwritten list of 52 girl classmates. Partial image of school from newspaper clipping pasted to inside back cover. West Side Junior High School was founded in 1917 as an educational establishment and a community center. The West Side building is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Very good condition. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis225,00 $US≈ 200,62 €

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