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1876Best.-Nr. 182331876. Archive of two Hartford Female Seminary Catalogue and Circulars. 1876 and 1877. Measure 7 x 4.5 inches. 12 pages. Original soft wrappers brown and green respectively. Catalogues include list of trustees faculty calendar fees and students. The Hartford Female Seminary was established in 1823 by Catharine E. Beecher and based in the belief that the possibility of true gender equality was contingent on the quality of female education. Light shelfwear to both. Cover text worn on 1877 catalogue with light stain to front wrapper does not affect text. Pencil marked computations for basic arithmetic on inside of front wrapper for the 1876 catalogue. Overall good condition. unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 178321950. African American Education Photo archive of African American schoolgirls in the 1950s. 15 silver gelatin print photos. Photos range in size from 3" x 3" to 4.25" x 3" all are black and white silver gelatin prints printed on Kodak Velox paper. These vernacular photos document jovial times at the end of the school year for a group of African American girls. It is around the beginning of June and the students are congregating outside of the school auditorium hugging and rejoicing before summer break sets in. This school seemed to be predominately Black but there also seem to be some white students photographed. The fashion of the students pictured suggests this was taken in the mid to late 1950s and the Kodak Velox paper was very popular at that time. Some of the students are wearing semi-formal clothing. There are also three group photos taken elsewhere which appear to depict a school field trip for younger African American students two of which have a photographers timestamp stating "Mar 1956." Location unclear. In very good condition overall. unknown books
1923Best.-Nr. 178791923. Photograph archive 1923-1947 documenting student life institutional traditions and ceremonial practices at Vassar College New York a leading women's college established in 1861 and associated with the Seven Sisters network of elite institutions for women's higher education. The images focus on recurring campus rituals such as Class Day and Commencement including extensive coverage of the daisy chain procession in which selected sophomore students carry a long chain of daisies and laurel as part of graduation ceremonies. The photographs provide visual evidence of how such traditions reinforced community identity leadership roles and gendered expectations within early twentieth-century academic environments for women. Additional images depict Commencement gatherings campus architecture and student labor in garden settings as well as participation in nursing training activities situating the archive within broader developments in women's education professional preparation and civic engagement across the interwar and immediate postwar periods. Archive of 36 black and white silver gelatin photographs dated between 1923 and 1947 with individual images marked by years including 1923 1924 1925 1930 and 1947 and measuring approximately 4.5 x 2.75 inches to 8 x 10 inches. Twelve photographs document the daisy chain tradition showing students in white dresses carrying the ceremonial chain; one image includes a contemporary clipping noting the participants as "the 22 prettiest sophomores." Nineteen photographs depict Commencement ceremonies including views of graduating classes faculty processions and assembled spectators. Additional images include views of Taylor Hall campus landscapes and students engaged in gardening and nursing-related activities. The archive captures changes in dress ceremony and campus use across multiple decades. Thirty-six photographs with light wear consistent with handling and age; overall very good condition. A cohesive visual record of institutional traditions and student experience at a major American women's college during the first half of the twentieth century. unknown books
1912Best.-Nr. 179481912. Lot of 2 silver gelatin photos of students and faculty at Udupiddi Girls' School in India. 1912. Each photo Approx. 5" x 3.5" inches. Pasted to brown paper with inscriptions on both sides one reading "Udupiddi Girls' School 1912" and the other "Matron teachers and graduating class of the Udupiddi GIrls Boarding School March 1912." Women's education in India was uncommon in the early 1900's with very few options available. Among the higher castes who could afford private schooling girls were married before puberty and expected to take on domestic life at that time. If they were lucky they were taught at home. The first photo shows 59 young female students a male and female adult presumably instructors both Indian and a white female adult. The other photo shows a smaller class of 15 girls with the same white adult female who appears to be the "matron" mentioned in inscription. All of the subjects wear white some of the girls in simple long dresses others with more adornments. The girls appear to range in age from around 5 to 18 many of them looking directly at the camera their faces studious as if instructed to look serious some with half smiles. These classes show a group of girls who would have been anomalous during their time paving the way for future generations. These images predate the 1930 law where the age for marriage was raised to fourteen years old that improved female literacy rates substantially. Slight tear to bottom corner has been repaired. Very good condition. unknown books
1912Best.-Nr. 179381912. Rickert Edith. Exclusiveness Among College Women What Can We Do About It 10 pages. 9.5" x 6.5" inches. 1912 Loose pages taken from Vassar's student journal. An editorial by Edith Rickert on the elitism of Greek life on campus. In the piece she considers whether the system might be reformed or whether its aristocratic foundations are too flawed to be made more democratic. Edith Rickert graduated from Vassar College in 1891 and went on to be a prolific writer World War I cryptographer and medieval scholar at the University of Chicago. This editorial marks her tenure as an undergraduate just developing her distinct worldview one informed by a commitment to democratic principles and collective good. An editor's note mentions an earlier article by Rickert in which she established Greek life as aristocratic and against the common rights of all. In this editorial Rickert expands on her earlier position describing various reforms while wondering if the system can be reformed. She concludes "We need a new religion to teach the subordination of personal good to communal welfare. We believe in it theoretically we are anxious that our neighbors should practice it; but when it cuts home we falter and fail." Editorial includes 5 attractive illustrations of sorority girls in common scenes. The last page includes a poem by Shaemas O Sheel titled "The Pitilessness of Desire".Women's Education. unknown books
1928Best.-Nr. 179191928. University of Michigan Medical School Class Portrait includes four women and one Indian doctor in 1928. A large photo Measures 22" x 17.5" inches. The large image is made of smaller portraits of students and faculty each measuring 1.5" x 1" inches with students names below each one. Of the over 150 medical students 4 are women 3 of them white and one Indian. The medical faculty is entirely male. Aside from the Indian female student the entire class is white. The group all together highlight the slow diversification of the medical field to incorporate women and minorities. The photo has a small tear to one margin but not affect class images or text. Overall very good condition. unknown books
1889Best.-Nr. 179281889. Smith College course list student directory and more school information for the year 1889-90. Northampton Mass. Soft cover. 5.5" x 8.5" inches. The first page description of the school reads in part " This college is not intended to fit woman for a particular sphere or profession but to perfect her intellect by the best methods which philosophy and experience suggest so she may be better qualified to enjoy and do well her work in life whatever that work may be." The book breaks down courses and tracks of study across majors for all four years and shows the rigor of women's education from its inception. An interesting close look at the makeup of women's education at the end of the 19th century. Light foxing to front and back covers. Damp stain on first 12 pages does not affect text. Overall good condition. unknown books
1912Best.-Nr. 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
1903Best.-Nr. 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
1837Best.-Nr. 180221837. Small archive of 3 pieces of ephemera from Mount Holyoke College. The archive includes the 1837-45 annual catalogue pamphlet measuring 9" x 6" inches the 1840 address delivered at the third anniversary of the school's founding measuring 5.25" x 8.5" inches and an invitation to the 1915 commencement ceremony measuring 5.5" x 7" inches. Mount Holyoke College was founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon an iconic foremother in women's education and is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges the elite set of historically women's colleges in the Northeast. Mount Holyoke served as a model for later institutions and for women's higher education more broadly. The anniversary address delivered by Mark Hopkins reads in part "The omens of the future are full of promise. If the connection of this cause with the best destinies of the country and o the world is less perceptible than that o some others it is not less intimate. That period for which the world waits can never come till woman shall assume her proper place in intelligence and moral influence. Woman as she ought to be was reserved originally to give completeness to the creation of God; and it is only when she shall again become what she ought to be that we can expect to see the moral elements which are now in commotion arranging themselves into a permanent and happy order of things." Address is missing front and back soft covers and has annotations in pen on margin of title page. In 2014 Mount Holyoke became the first of the Seven Sisters to admit transgender students with admissions limited to female transgender and nonbinary students. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 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
1920Best.-Nr. 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
1871Best.-Nr. 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
1900Best.-Nr. 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
1865Best.-Nr. 174181865. Women's Education Women's History. This handwritten letter from George B. Emerson educator and women's rights advocate is dated from 1865 and speaks of a bright female student. Signed. Octavo. 3 pages. Comes with CDV albumen print of Emerson circa 1870s. Emerson praises the student Chasy as follows: "She is one good bright creature who would be most likely to find the right path by herself. and take it of her own full choice and yet of whom we teachers are proud as though we had had a hand in guiding that beautiful spontaneous choice." Emerson was a pioneer who dedicated his efforts as an educator to his female students. Mounting remnants on one page as well as tape repair - not affecting text or signature. Overall in very good condition. unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 181161930. African American Education - Silver gelatin photograph of integrated high school students in graduation caps and gowns holding their diplomas. 13.5 x 11.5 inches. Circa 1930s. Mounted on photographer's board with small white signature reading "Bussa" across the bottom of the photograph. 3 young men one of them African American and four young women pose almost identically every one looking directly into the camera cradling their rolled diplomas the papers tied with satin ribbon. Behind them is a painted forest backdrop. Though the Civil Rights Act of 1876 prohibited discrimination against African Americans in public spaces Plessy V Ferguson in 1896 made "separate but equal" legal and was applied broadly to school segregation. School segregation was not mandated by the law in Northern cities but most still conformed to discriminatory practices. An integrated graduating class during this period would have been exceptional made more so by the number of women pictured. A testament to the outliers no matter how rare. Some staining to the board does not affect the image. Very good condition. unknown books
1829Best.-Nr. 174341829. The Importance of Female Education" in The Unitarian Advocate Vol. IV- No. III. Boston: Leonard C. Bowles 1829. Original pamphlet in original printed wrappers. 5" x 8" inches. 6 pages 144 total. "It is conceded by all parties that women have an extensive influence in the affairs of the world. It is not alone those who are willing to admit that women enjoy an equal proportion of the gifts of God in their intellectual and physical nature who admit it . Those who deny equality in every sense and even those who disbelieve that women have souls if there are any such will yet admit their power over mankind to be great and important." An early argument for the importance of educating women. Only three years earlier the very first American public high schools for girls were opened in New York and Boston; and the year this was published the first public examination of an American girl in geometry was held. An interesting argument on the necessity of educating women from a Unitarian perspective. Pages toned some staining to margins not affecting text. Wrappers soiled. In good condition. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 17456Women in Science Medicine. Circa 1900. Original Dry plate negative black and white. 7" x 5" inches. The image is showing a group of 8 nurses working in a medical laboratory circa 1890s. Comes with modern reprint photograph. The women wear nurses' caps aprons and gowns. Their caps have slightly different shapes .The laboratory is equipped with Bunsen burners and cabinetry with mortars beakers and various other containers. There is also a large device which resembles a furnace. This is a silver gelatin-coated dry plate negative. Invented by Dr. Richard L. Maddox and first made available in 1873 dry plate negatives were the first economically successful durable photographic medium. Dry plate negatives are typically on thinner glass plates with a more evenly coated emulsion. Dry plate glass negatives were in common use between the 1880s and 1920s. Gelatin dry plates were commercially produced and came ready to use. The photographer just had to expose them to light and develop them. The negative has some imperfections along left side though they do not seem to have affected the reprinted image. Overall this negative is in very good condition. unknown books
1905Best.-Nr. 175131905. Original photo mounted on board of the coeducational Pomona College class of 1909 taken as freshmen in 1905. Photo measures 6.75" x 5" inches on a 8.5" x 6.75" inches board A class of around 70 students with almost half being young women. Handwritten inscription on verso states: "Dec. 21st 1905.- 09's class on top of Holmes' Hall Pomona College Claremont." Pomona College is one of the oldest colleges in Southern California and was established as a coeducational and nonsectarian Christian institution on October 14 1887 amidst a real estate boom and anticipated population influx precipitated by the arrival of a transcontinental railroad to Southern California. In very good condition. unknown books
1903Best.-Nr. 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
1964Best.-Nr. 509352New York City: Board of Education 1964. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 158pp. Blue printed wrappers. The spine and extremities of the wrappers are slightly tanned else a nice near fine copy. Laid in is a mimeographed typed letter from Alexander Hamilton Vocational High School laid into book. The letter addressed "To All Teachers:" briefly praises the book and reprints the foreword. Board of Education unknown books
1922Best.-Nr. 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
1930Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
1930Best.-Nr. 168251930. Bowling Green HS Memory album with photographs newspaper clippings and rare mementos from a high school girl in 1930 in Ohio. 23 original gelatin print photos approximately 4.5 x 2.75 in. Signatures and handwritten inscriptions from over 100 classmates teachers and friends. "The Girl Graduate Her Own Book" Designed and Illustrated by Louise Perrett and Sarah K. Smith. Chicago: The Reilly and Lee Co. n.d. 9 x 6 in. Original boards. "The Girl Graduate Her Own Book" in gilt and illustrations of flowers and a young lady on the front cover. 190 pages. Original owner's name and high school written on label printed inside front cover: Gertrude M. Avery Graduated from Bowling Green Senior High "1930". Table of contents include space for handwritten entries on: Class Yell or Motto Photographs Autographs Class Officers Teachers Class Prophecy Invitations Programmes Social Events Press Notices Gowns Presents Jokes and Frolics and the Baccalaureate Sermon. One newspaper clipping lists all of the graduates who were bound for college; notably 18 of the names listed are women. 75 signatures and handwritten inscriptions from classmates. Many include short lines about friendship and school memories. "School days are your happiest days Enjoy them while you're young And become old another day". "Count me as a brick in your chimney of friendship." Some write a shorter but more personal line: "A fellow sufferer in English". Many look towards their futures as wives: "May your life be bright and sunny and your hubby fat and funny." "Come and see me hubby April 28 1935". "When you are married and living at your ease Remember you have a friend who is single and does as pleases. -"Al" Aline Allison". Several sign off with colorful nicknames such as Zoot Midge and Bud. 18 photos of classmates. People are identified by given names although one is simply labeled "pals" though not the context. Many photos appear to be outside of a large school building and two images show "our bus" including the driver and all 28 students who rode it. Two show young ladies labeled "me" Elthel & Maria standing in slacks. Two others shows the subjects in costumes "Lyle & Sally" are dressed in vintage costumes and "Paul Smith" appears to wear a dress and pearl necklace on the following page. 15 additional signatures from classmates p. 120. 22 signatures from teachers and 3 photos. Also portrait of the album owner and photo of her and friend in their Graduation Dresses. 50 pieces of ephemera including programs for musical performances and school plays. Napkins paper flowers press clippings about school dances. Ticket to the Senior Day Steak Roast at City Park. 3 invitations including enveloped pasted in with commencement invitation inside. Includes a handwritten list of gifts received such as: Three Dollars Modernistic Vanity Looking Glass Fancy Hanger and Perfume Atomizer. 4 cards and letter that accompanied gifts pasted in. Scarlet and gray ribbons in school colors. Check receipts for items related to academic fees and class finances. Newspaper clippings list school events and graduation announcements. "Seniors Look Like Gay Nineties Making Whoopee Whoopee Whoopee!" Also a notice about a girls basketball tournament: ".the last game of the girls interscholastic basketball to be played in Bowling Green." Final pages include newspaper clippings of school friends marriage announcements from the years following their graduation. Light scuffs to cover. Some wear to interior front hinge. Very good condition. unknown books