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1945Best.-Nr. 168591945. Photographs Teacher's scrapbook from academic year 1945-1946 at primary school in Detroit MI with 38 handwritten notes from students photos and ephemera from school dances. Typed label on first page: "School Functions of the Marion Law School / September 1945 - June 1946". Original green boards. 11.5 x 8.25 inches. 34 pages. 38 handwritten inscriptions and notes from students to their teacher. 8 silver gelatin print photographs 5 x 3.5 in. 10 dance programs and student reports. The programs list dances such as the Fox Trot Waltz Rumba Schottische "Paul Jones" Ko-Ke-Ko Balloon Dance Singing Quadrille and Samba among others. 8 original photos show children dancing in pair or posing at school dances in suits and nice dresses. Thirty-eight warm notes to a beloved gym teacher from graduating students. "To a dear teacher I will always remember and love." Several mention how they love the material that she teaches. "I enjoy gym very much especially dancing." "I wish I could tell how how much I'll miss gym." "When ever I go dancing I think of you." "I will always think of you when ever I go to a dance." Many express simple gratitude for her work in their education and kindness towards students. "I can't think of anything to say so I thank you for every thing you have done for us." "P.S. I think you're the best teacher". Colorful handmade programs for the Christmas cutout in the shape of a Christmas Tree and Santa Clause Valentine's Day heart and St. Patrick's Day Dance 4 Leaf Clover. One-page typed student report on the St. Patrick's Day Dance: ".The St. Patrick's Day Dance was anything but dismal.And say did you notice Audrey Bendena's nylons Gee I think I'll get better acquainted with her. And another thing did you see Tony Lewis'es new shoes Sharp!.We began our dancing with a lovely surprise.May I thank you Mrs. Belf for all your work in making our dance possible" Similar write-ups about the May Barn Dance and the May Party. 1 page detached. Very good condition. unknown books
1923Best.-Nr. 168781923. Chamberlain Ola. The Girl Graduates Record Book 1923 to 1925 documents rural Texas girls' education adolescent friendship school ritual athletics domestic expectations and female self-expression at Goree High School. Kept by Ola Chamberlain of Goree Texas the album captures a young woman's final high school years through photographs teacher and classmate inscriptions certificates invitations press clippings and an original "Class Prophecy" providing direct evidence of how one Texas student recorded academic achievement peer culture humor courtship-inflected friendship extracurricular life and the movement "Out of school life into life's school." Kubinyi Victor de designer. The Girl Graduates Record Book. New York: Barse & Hopkins copyright 1920. Manuscript memory book and scrapbook kept by Ola Chamberlain Goree Texas 1923 to 1925. 190 pages. Original cloth boards with embossed floral motif 10.25 x 7 inches. Contains 85 silver gelatin photographs most approximately 4.5 x 2.75 inches more than 25 handwritten inscriptions from friends and teachers an original handwritten class prophecy and approximately 85 pieces of ephemera including ribbons party invitations commencement materials press clippings seven perfect-attendance certificates a Texas public school report card and a pressed sweet pea dated May 15 1925. Photographs and captions identify Goree High School called by Chamberlain "The Prison" classmates with nicknames including "Pie Face" "Preacher" "Shot Gun" "Lilliums" and "Hankie" class officers the Spanish Class Pep Club "Senior Girls" basketball players and eight images of students in colonial costume for "The Virginia Reel." The inscriptions preserve affectionate student memory and gendered academic praise including one classmate's statement that in mathematics Ola was "a wizard-ess" while teacher entries address her transition from school into adult life: "Life's School is open to you." The album's strongest research value lies in its unusually full record of a girl's educational world in small-town Texas during the 1920s including formal coursework in Geometry English Physics Civics Economics and Arithmetic alongside a parent-signed "Home Report" grading Cooking Care of Stock General Farm Work Providing Fuel Washing Dishes and Obedience. Chamberlain's manuscript "And How It All Came Out" imagines the futures of her graduating class through a supernatural vision prompted by the class flower placing classmates in roles from department-store worker to sheriff mayor and secretary and giving the album a rare sustained example of student-authored narrative. First two pages detached front hinge detached edges toned some pages brittle with small edge chips good. A substantial documentary record of women's education rural Texas youth culture school sociability athletics and the gendered expectations surrounding a young woman's graduation in the mid-1920s. unknown books
1866Best.-Nr. 167271866. Cleveland Female Seminary Catalog: 1866-1867. Cleveland OH founded by Rev. Eli N. Sawtell the seminary opened on 3 May 1854 an earlier enterprise by the same name had been established in Apr.1837. Located in a new $50000 building the school commanded a hefty $300 annual tuition. The seminary had 2 major departments Preparatory which admitted girls under 12 years of age and Academic for those over 12 . Emphasis was placed on teaching both languages and science so that students could acquire a wholesome mental discipline. In a Telegraph Dept was established to provide instruction in the principles of telegraphy for students in natural philosophy and chemistry. It was reincorporated in 1871 as the Cleveland Seminary for Girls at which time it acquired the rights and privileges of a college. including the authority to grant degrees but closed in 1883. At the time that this description is being written no copies are recorded in American institutions. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can vary over time. Women's Academy and Seminary Archive recording the first important movement of women into higher education in the United States seminary was synonymous with "academy" and did not have the religious connotation of today. In the 1800's the Female Academy and Seminary Movement transformed American educational norms allowing women the opportunity to receive secular non-religious college-level education. Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. unknown books
1913Best.-Nr. 169621913. Willamette University Oregon student photo album 1913-1915 documenting coeducational student life and women's education in early twentieth century Oregon through a sustained visual record of academic social and recreational activity. Many of the photos include brief captions identifying the location or event. Compiled by a woman student the album captures daily life within one of the earliest coeducational institutions in the United States where women and men studied in shared academic environments while navigating institutional rules governing gender interaction. The photographs provide direct evidence of women's participation in higher education campus organizations and social life during a period when access to collegiate training for women was expanding but still structured by formal and informal constraints. Photo album containing 53 original silver gelatin photographs of various sizes most with handwritten captions identifying locations events and individuals. The images include campus scenes student performances and outdoor excursions around the university and nearby areas such as Silver Creek. Several photographs document academic life including mixed groups of students studying outdoors one captioned "They said they were studying Zoology" and another showing students writing together with "Corvallis" visible in the background. Women students appear prominently in both academic and social contexts including images labeled "Ornithologists" depicting women with books observing birds and portraits such as "Gertrude Alice / Inseparable friends." Social events are extensively documented including the "Soph Frosh Formal Reception 1913" with large groups of men and women in formal dress and gatherings such as the "Junior Feed in Gym" and its aftermath. Additional images depict theatrical performances with labeled scenes including "Queen Mary Enthroned" and "In Battle Array" as well as student organizations and leisure activities. Outdoor life is represented through camping and picnic scenes including "A full table under the Lausanne Maples" and activities at Silver Creek where students are shown cooking washing dishes and reading. Created during a period when coeducation was established but still regulated the album documents how students formed academic and social relationships within institutional boundaries that restricted interaction outside formal settings. Willamette University founded in 1842 with women among its earliest graduates provides a significant context for studying the normalization of coeducation in the American West. The presence of women in academic study performance athletics and social gatherings demonstrates the breadth of their participation in campus life. The captions often informal or humorous offer insight into student culture and interpersonal dynamics while the photographs collectively document the integration of education leisure and community in collegiate environments. Light wear to album with well preserved photographs and legible captions; overall very good. A detailed visual record of women's collegiate experience and coeducational life in early twentieth century America. unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 169671939. Wellesley College student scrapbook 1939-1943 documenting women's higher education campus traditions and social life during the early years of the Second World War. Compiled by a student at one of the leading women's colleges in the United States the album records academic study institutional culture and peer networks at a moment when global conflict began to shape collegiate experience and future expectations. The contents provide direct evidence of women's participation in higher education alongside emerging wartime realities including military service among family members and shifting social priorities. Scrapbook and photo album containing 160 original silver gelatin photographs and approximately 205 pieces of ephemera including invitations dance cards Western Union telegrams newspaper clippings travel souvenirs and correspondence. The album documents academic life through materials such as a report card listing courses in English composition mathematics music theory hygiene biblical history philosophy physics economics and sociology annotated by the student with the remark "saved by the gong." Campus traditions are extensively represented including Float Night and Tree Day as well as participation in student organizations such as Tau Zeta Epsilon Zeta Alpha and Phi Sigma. Newspaper clippings describe events such as the disruption of Float Night by Harvard students noting that "the Wellesley girls just booed right back and cheered for Yale." The album also includes materials relating to Wellesley alumna Soong Mei ling with a clipping reporting: "Madame Chiang Makes History at Alma Mater.The eyes and ears of the nation were on Wellesley" accompanied by a ticket to her campus appearance. Photographs depict friends on campus commencement exercises in June 1943 including the tradition of hoop rolling and numerous social events such as dances beach outings and travel. Created during the opening years of World War II the scrapbook situates collegiate life within broader national and international developments. Wedding announcements referencing military ranks a photograph of the compiler's brother captioned "in the marines" and travel materials such as an American Airlines ticket for a Boston to Newark flight reflect the intersection of education mobility and wartime service. The album also documents leisure and social networks across regions including visits to Chicago Cleveland Minneapolis Cape Cod and Maine as well as correspondence with students at other institutions. Final pages extend into post graduation life with employment identification for Irving Trust and family photographs marking transition from student to professional life. First page detached with some heavier ephemera items loosened; otherwise sound with light wear; overall very good. A comprehensive record of women's collegiate experience and social networks during the early World War II period. unknown books
1911Best.-Nr. 169931911. Photo album compiled by a female student at Wellesley College between 1911 and 1919 documents women's higher education collegiate ritual and professional transition into teaching during the Progressive Era. The album traces the compiler's path from secondary schooling through her collegiate years and into her early career as an educator offering sustained visual evidence of female academic community at a time when women's access to advanced scientific and liberal education was expanding but remained institutionally distinct. Founded in 1870 Wellesley College had by the early twentieth century established itself as a leading center for women's study particularly in the sciences employing more female scientists than any other American institution of higher education. The photographs record campus architecture traditions intellectual life and female peer networks situating the album within the broader history of women's collegiate culture and professionalization in the years immediately preceding and during the First World War. Album contains 143 original silver gelatin print photographs dating from 1911 to 1919 mounted on approximately 100 pages within original black cloth boards measuring 9 x 12 inches; photographs range in size from approximately 2 x 3 inches to 4 x 9.5 inches. Numerous images depict Wellesley College campus scenes including Lake Waban and the chapel student residences labeled "Wellesley 1911-1912" and groups of students identified as "Students." Candid captions document daily academic life: six women bundled in hats and coats captioned "Off for math exam" students reading outdoors communal meals and informal portraits labeled with nicknames such as "Chub" "Selina" "Honey" and "Marion." Five photographs record the May Day 1912 "Senior Hoop Rolling" tradition. Additional academic images include interiors labeled "Drawing Room" "Mr. Wilson's Room" "Assembly Room" "Physics Lab" and "Library" at "M.H.S." as well as a group of sixteen boys wearing "M" shirts with three coaches and a trophy banner reading "OCIAA Relay Race 1912." Other collegiate references include "Harmony Hall" with caption "Inmates of H.H. 1913" and two large group photographs of women in white dresses before a banner reading "ETA Clionian" one dated 1914 associated with the teachers' college at New Paltz. Geographic excursions are documented through images labeled Frontenac Point Minnewaska Mohonk Yankee Lake in upstate New York and Digby Nova Scotia. Later photographs depict the compiler's transition into teaching with groups of children labeled "Primary" and "Intermediates" a staged school production featuring children in Pilgrim costumes and a building identified as "Quassaick Hall." Spanning the years 1911 to 1919 the album bridges the final prewar era of Progressive reform and the wartime transformation of American educational institutions. The visual record emphasizes female intellectual labor in mathematics and science campus ritual sororal association and the socially sanctioned pathway from collegiate training to professional teaching. Wellesley's prominence in scientific instruction for women situates the album within broader developments in women's access to laboratory education and academic employment. The inclusion of regional travel and teacher-training imagery further contextualizes the educational mobility of middle-class women in the northeastern United States. One page detached but present; minor handling wear to boards; photographs generally clear with strong contrast; overall very good condition. A cohesive and expansive visual archive documenting women's higher education peer culture and professional formation in the early twentieth century. unknown books
1911Best.-Nr. 169921911. Jessie Gutshall Colorado Women's College photo album circa 1911-1912 documenting women's higher education and sorority life at a newly established institution in Denver. Created within the first years of the college's operation the album records student participation in academic social and organizational life with particular emphasis on the Greek society Eta Upsilon Gamma. The material supports research on women's education in the American West the formation of collegiate identity and the role of sororities in structuring social and intellectual communities among women students in the early twentieth century. Photo album containing 56 original silver gelatin photographs and 41 pieces of ephemera including invitations newspaper clippings table and dance cards menus drawings and organizational materials associated with Eta Upsilon Gamma. The album includes a certificate of induction a 1911 songbook the sorority constitution and an annual report with updates from local chapters including the Lambda chapter at Colorado Women's College noting student involvement with the YWCA and campus activities. Ephemera includes invitations to events at Denver's Brown Palace Hotel illustrated table cards and a "Summons to Initiation" designed with burnt edges and decorative imagery. Photographs depict sorority members in a range of settings including group portraits at a train station outdoor excursions on farms students climbing a windmill and scenes of leisure such as tennis played in full length dresses. Additional handwritten notes and inscriptions reflect social bonds and student culture including verses such as "Here's to those who'd love us if we only cared. Here's to those we'd love if we only dared." Created shortly after the founding of Colorado Women's College in 1909 this album documents the early development of institutional traditions and student organizations within a women's college environment. Sororities such as Eta Upsilon Gamma played a central role in organizing social life leadership opportunities and connections beyond campus through regional chapters and affiliated institutions. The inclusion of printed materials creative drawings and formal invitations illustrates the integration of artistic expression and structured social ritual in collegiate culture. Minor wear to suede covers with toning and fading at edges and small tears at spine and front cover; contents well preserved; overall very good. A detailed record of early women's collegiate life and sorority organization in the American West. unknown books
1935Best.-Nr. 169941935. Skidmore College student photo album New York 1935-1943 documenting women's higher education campus traditions and the transition from collegiate life to professional and wartime roles in the United States. Compiled by a student in Saratoga Springs New York the album records academic social and political activity at a women's college during the late interwar period and extends into the early years of World War II. The photographs provide direct evidence of student participation in institutional traditions leisure culture and civic engagement including political rallies and later wartime developments that shaped opportunities for women. Photo album containing 215 original silver gelatin photographs of various sizes along with six postcards of Skidmore College and two Christmas greeting cards. Images document campus locations including the Chapel Hathorn House and Studio Peabody Hall Scribner Library and Salisbury Dormitory many with handwritten captions. Interior views of dormitory rooms at Skidmore Hall Peabody Hall and North Hall show personal arrangements with furnishings flowers and decorations including one captioned "Ready for Spring!" The album records student life through events such as Class Day Senior Assembly May Day Pageant Drill Team Horse Show the 1936 Junior Prom and the 1937 Tennis Finals. A November 7 1936 political rally is documented with students holding signs supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt or Alf Landon. Additional photographs depict recreational activities including skiing skating and candid campus scenes. Travel images extend the geographic scope to Lake George Niagara Falls and the western United States including views labeled "Flooded Orange Grove" "Long Beach Foot Bridge" and "Santa Ana trees overflow" from California flooding as well as construction views of Hoover Dam identified as "Boulder Dam." Spanning the late 1930s through 1943 the album situates women's collegiate experience within broader national developments including the New Deal political climate and the onset of World War II. Later photographs document the compiler's transition into teaching with images from schools in Connecticut and conclude with a 1943 portrait of a woman in military uniform indicating expanding roles for women during wartime. The combination of campus life travel and professional transition provides a longitudinal record of education and early career pathways for women in this period. Minor chipping to edges of first pages with light overall wear; contents well preserved; overall very good. A comprehensive visual record of women's college life and its connection to wider social and historical change. unknown books
1879Best.-Nr. 170111879. Farbush May. Handwritten memory album 1879-1885 documenting women's higher education and student networks at Iowa College during the late nineteenth century a formative period in the expansion of collegiate opportunities for women in the United States. The album preserves written exchanges among classmates and acquaintances recording intellectual training language study and social relationships within an academic environment that encouraged women's participation in formal education. The entries provide direct evidence of women's engagement with subjects such as French and Latin as well as the social structures that supported early cohorts of women students. Farbush May. Floral Album. 1879-1885. Manuscript album containing approximately 30 filled pages with 28 handwritten entries signed by friends and classmates from Iowa and New Jersey. The volume includes printed floral illustrations and gilt page edges with entries primarily in English alongside verses in Latin and French demonstrating multilingual education. The content reflects common nineteenth century memory album practices with poetic inscriptions and personalized sentiments including a notable entry by Mary Bye Everett: "Ever remember the happy hours we have spent together at the Iowa College. How well the Conversational Hour was improved in studying French. Happy time never to be again but always to be remembered." Additional entries reference Grinnell Iowa further situating the album within regional academic networks. Created during a period when institutions such as Iowa College played a significant role in advancing coeducational and women's higher education in the American Midwest the album contributes to the study of student life intellectual training and the cultural practices of remembrance among women students. Memory albums functioned as precursors to modern yearbooks preserving both standardized and personal expressions of friendship and identity. The presence of multilingual entries underscores the academic rigor and cultural aspirations associated with women's education during this era. Loss to lower spine with one illustration detached light foxing and toning; overall very good. A cohesive manuscript record of women's collegiate experience and social networks in the late nineteenth century. unknown books
1888Best.-Nr. 170161888. LaRue Edith memory album 1888 to 1892 documents girls' education school friendship and adolescent memory culture in Bear Lake Michigan during the late nineteenth century. Kept by a female student and filled by classmates and friends the album records how young women used autograph books to preserve school relationships moral sentiment poetry and parting messages in a period when female education was becoming a more visible part of American social life. LaRue Edith. Memory album. Bear Lake Michigan 1888 to 1892. Handwritten autograph album with 18 manuscript entries from friends and classmates. Decorative cover with color portrait of a girl holding a letter and gilt title "Autographs." 80 pages. 5 x 8 inches. Original 6 x 4 inch black-and-white portrait photograph of the album owner pasted inside front cover with "Edith LaRue" written in blue ink along the lower edge. Includes color illustrations and decorative cutouts pasted throughout including hands books letters birds bouquets and an American flag as well as a loose portrait photograph of a young man. Entries include schoolmate inscriptions and conventional friendship verse including: "Your album is a garden spot Where all your friends may sow. So I will plant forget me not And see if it will grow." The album offers a localized record of schoolgirl sociability and the sentimental forms through which young women marked educational transitions before modern yearbooks became standard. Only the last few pages remain attached to the binding; dampstaining appears at the upper right corner of pages from the middle toward the rear good to very good. A useful documentary artifact of girls' education friendship inscription and female student identity in late nineteenth-century Michigan. unknown books
1880Best.-Nr. 170131880. Women Education Photography Bradford Female Seminary. First all-female academy in MA. From a collection of stereoview photographs of Haverhill Massachusetts. c. 1880s. A memorabilia recording many aspects of the first major movement of women's education in the United States brings depth to a movement that was groundbreaking in its time but today is largely at risk of disappearing from the historical record. Dimensions 4 x 7 inches. J.W. & J.S. Moulton Landscape Photographers. #30 "Bradford Female Seminary." Double stereoscopic image of the seminary building with approximately 16 female students standing out front. Bradford opened in 1804 as the first coeducational institution in Massachusetts but due to overwhelming interest from parents of girls with no other option for education Bradford soon transitioned to become the first all-female academy in Massachusetts and among the first in the United States in 1836. Stereoscopic photographs are viewed through special lenses to create the illusion of depth. Light toning. In very good condition. unknown books
1873Best.-Nr. 170201873. Sargeson L. manuscript composition book 1873 to 1874 documents a young woman's literary scientific historical and moral education through the nineteenth-century classroom practice of copying and composing texts by hand. Signed "Miss L. Sargeson" the notebook records how female students were trained in handwriting spelling grammar literary memory elocution and general knowledge through selected passages from canonical writers as well as original or assigned compositions on natural science and history. Sargeson L. Composition book. 1873 to 1874. Manuscript student notebook with 119 handwritten pages including a two-page index at the conclusion. Original boards with floral decorative pattern in white blue and gold on both covers gilt page edges 9 x 7.5 inches. Contents include copied poems and prose associated with Edgar Allan Poe James Montgomery William Wordsworth Charles Dickens Elizabeth Barrett Browning Shakespeare Washington Irving and Oliver Goldsmith as well as "The Monk" from Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy a text often used in nineteenth-century elocution instruction. Scientific and historical entries include a composition on "The Eye" discussing human and animal vision starfish and eyeless creatures material on Thermopylae and a letter from Martin Luther to his son. The volume provides a substantial example of young women's schoolwork in the 1870s showing an education that combined literary refinement moral instruction scientific observation history religious biography and performance-oriented reading. Thirteen pages have stray marks or scribbles from a later hand in purple blue and orange ink mostly in margins and not affecting legibility; first page has a vertical tear at the upper left edge along the binding; spine has losses and damage good to very good. A strong manuscript record of female education and classroom literary practice in the post-Civil War period. unknown books
1875Best.-Nr. 170211875. Sargeson L. manuscript composition book 1875 documents a young woman's literary and moral education through the nineteenth-century classroom practice of copying poetry essays and prose by hand. Signed "Miss L. Sargeson" and dated "9-6-75" the notebook records how female students were trained in handwriting spelling grammar literary memory elocution and general knowledge through selections from Shakespeare Milton Harriet Martineau Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Walter Scott and John Wilson. Sargeson L. Composition book. 1875. Manuscript student notebook with 111 handwritten pages. Original boards with decorative green and purple floral design gilt page edges 9 x 7.5 inches. Contents include verses from Shakespeare including lines from A Midsummer Night's Dream beginning "Night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast" and an excerpt on "The Moon" from Milton's Paradise Lost: "Rising in clouded majesty at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light." Women's intellectual writing is represented through Harriet Martineau's "Continuance of Moral Education" placing Sargeson's schoolwork within a curriculum that included both canonical male authors and a major woman social theorist. The volume offers a focused example of female student literary formation in the 1870s with copied texts used to cultivate penmanship memorization moral reflection literary taste and spoken performance. Spine damaged with losses; four pages have stray blue-ink marks or scribbles in the margins from a later hand not affecting text good to very good. A strong manuscript record of women's education and classroom literary practice in the post-Civil War period. unknown books
1842Best.-Nr. 170431842. Key C. F. schoolgirl memory album 1842 to 1877 documents women's education friendship inscription domestic expectation and sentimental literary culture across the mid-nineteenth century. Signed "C.F. Key / January 19th 1842" the album records how young women and their schoolmates used memory books to preserve verse moral reflection courtship humor wax seals printed images and hand-drawn embellishment as part of the social and literary world surrounding female education. Key C. F. Memory album. 1842 to 1877. Manuscript and ephemera album with 20 handwritten entries and 39 pieces of ephemera including 24 printed paper items and 15 color wax seals from friends and schoolmates most of them women. Green marbleized boards with red leather binding 64 pages 9 x 7.5 inches. Printed material includes engravings and newspaper images such as "Her majesty leaving Buckingham Palace June 28 1838" and "Marriage of Henry the 6th." The wax seals include music ledgers initials trees dogs and lions. The album also contains a large pencil drawing of a small thatched-roof building in a forest. Manuscript entries address subjects including happiness marriage domestic life and courtship with poems such as "A Lady's Choice of Husband" and "Making Love" the latter using comic dialogue between Jane and Charles to explore youthful uncertainty about love. The album provides evidence of the literary visual and social forms through which schoolgirls and young women recorded friendship gender expectations and domestic ideals before standardized yearbooks. Binding loose with loss to foot of spine; first two pages and last three pages detached good. A rich manuscript and ephemera record of women's education schoolgirl friendship and nineteenth-century courtship culture. unknown books
1853Best.-Nr. 170771853. 19th c. Women Education Autograph Letter Signed from Student at Augusta Female Seminary in Staunton VA 1853. Letter from a female student to her father. 2 pages 8 x 6.5 in. Dated "Mar 2nd 1852". Comes with original mailing envelope. Envelope has blue seal from "Augusta Female Seminary" on rear flap. She writes on health updates and asks for her Mother to sew her some items. "Dr. Laud came up to see me yesterday and examined my foot. He said he would send me some bismuth and he wanted me to have my foot rubbed every night." The Augusta Female Seminary was founded in 1842; in 1923 it became Mary Baldwin College. The school maintained its original mission to serve women and in 2017 the institution welcomed its first residential men to campus joining day students and graduate students which had been co-educational since the mid-1970s. Today Mary Baldwin University is the oldest institution of higher education for women in the nation affiliated with the Presbyterian Church and it is home to the only all-female corps of cadets in the world. Writing on envelope and page 2 is very faded. In good condition. A unique and personal piece of early Female Education history. unknown books
1866Best.-Nr. 170761866. 19th c. Women's Education Autograph Letter Signed by a mother to a her daughter at Ipswich Female Seminary MA.1866: 4 pages folded from a single sheet. 8 x 5 in. Original mailing envelope with stamp and address. She writes on the girl's academic studies as well as the regulations with living in student life. ": "I am glad to hear from you so often & that you are getting along so well.I am satisfied that you try to have good lessons.I think it would be a good plan for you to go with a Latin class - if you will not have to work too hard." She also writes: "I do not expect you can always be perfect. I know that you will not break any of the rules of the school knowingly.I don't know as I understand what you wrote about Mrs Coats not allowing you to buy things to eat if it was that you should not go to the stores & buy treat I think she is perfectly right but I suppose she would have no objection to your having something from home." Ipswich Female Seminary was founded in Massachusetts in 1828 and the school's focus was on preparing girls for careers as teachers and missionaries. It offered a "rigorous curriculum" including study of English arithmetic geography chemistry human physiology history the natural sciences religion vocal music and calisthenics and placed an emphasis on "standards of personal conduct and discipline." As part of their preparation students practiced teaching with guidance from school instructors. Ink is slightly faded. A unique and personal piece of early Female Education history. unknown books
1872Best.-Nr. 170801872. Rickster Elizabeth "Lizzie." Small archive of four autograph letters written between 1872 and 1874 while attending Moravian Seminary in Bethlehem Pennsylvania documenting women's education student social life and intellectual training at one of the earliest female educational institutions in the United States. The correspondence provides firsthand evidence of post-Civil War female academic culture through discussions of language study music instruction photography exchange courtship expectations and anxieties surrounding adulthood and domestic responsibility. Written to friend Dora Campbell of York Pennsylvania the letters reveal how young women at advanced seminaries navigated education alongside expectations of marriage and family life. Particularly notable is Lizzie's reflection on the transition from school into adulthood: "your school days were your best days for when you leave school then trouble commences. and then we get married and have little ones to take care of." The archive offers insight into the emotional and intellectual world of educated middle-class women during Reconstruction-era America and documents the continued prominence of Moravian educational traditions in women's schooling. Four autograph letters signed totaling approximately sixteen pages each measuring roughly 7 ¼ x 4 ¾ inches accompanied by their original mailing envelopes. Letters dated September 30 1872; February 25 1873; February 7 1874; and April 6 1874. The correspondence contains detailed references to coursework German translation exercises singing lessons winter sleigh rides school vacations and social exchange between female students and friends. In the February 25 1873 letter Lizzie writes "Dora your 'Brief' translated from German means letter" while later correspondence challenges Dora to decipher additional German phrases reflecting the seminary's emphasis on language instruction and cultivated accomplishment. Other passages describe music study and anticipation surrounding portrait photography exchanges: "I'm am going to have some pictures taken this term and if you give me some of yours I will give you one of mine." The letters preserve evidence of both structured academic training and the sentimental friendship culture central to nineteenth-century women's education. Variations in handwriting across the letters particularly the looser script of the final 1874 letter suggest increasing familiarity and intimacy between the correspondents. The Moravian Seminary traced its origins to the Bethlehem Female Seminary established in 1742 under Countess Benigna Zinzendorf among the earliest institutions dedicated to female education in North America. By the nineteenth century the institution had developed into a prominent seminary offering advanced education to women including instruction in languages music and literature. These letters document that educational environment during the Reconstruction era when expanding opportunities for women's formal education remained closely tied to prevailing expectations surrounding refinement domesticity and social accomplishment. All letters tender along original mailing folds with minor wear from handling. Very good condition overall. Compact but substantial archive documenting the daily intellectual and social experiences of women enrolled at one of America's foundational female educational institutions. unknown books
1893Best.-Nr. 170891893. 19th c. Women Education Handwritten letter to 2 women teachers from former instructor. December 22 1893. 2 pages with original mailing envelope. 9.5 x 5.75 inches. On Western Theological Seminary letterhead with fine engraving of the school building on both sheets. To "Miss Ellsworth and Miss Gore" from L.M. Jones who appears to be a teacher or Director of the Seminary writing to former pupils who are now teachers themselves at an institution in New Hampshire. In part: "I often hear good reports about both of you by Mrs. Chamberlain. School has come to close once more and we are commencing to disperse some leaving for good others for two weeks. Dear Mrs. Chamberlain will have about ten of the unfortunate ones here for X Mas also Dr. Gold and family which will help to make it merry for her. Mr. Davies wishes to be kindly remembered to both of you. I intend spending my X Mas with him and I am sure that we will have a lovely time as we always do when we get together. We were all vaccinated here last week to protect ourselves from the small pox which is raging in the city at the present time. Miss Jarvis wishes to be kindly remembered to you. I presume that you're aware of her undertaking since you left. She is as you know a very brave young lady to undertake such responsibility as she has and I am a little afraid that her health will brake down under the strain. Hoping to be able to write a longer letter next time." In very good condition. A unique and personal piece of early Female Education history. unknown books
1925Best.-Nr. 171081925. Women's Education Scrapbook from woman studying Teaching at Nebraska Wesleyan University NWU 1925-1931. Filled with 352 pieces of ephemera for school societies dances and socials sporting events Christmas cards stage plays and commencement activities. Dozens of colorful and creative invitations and dance cards. 33 handwritten notes and signatures from friends. 100 pages. Original textured cloth cover. 11 ½ x 14 inches. Large golden color seal in center of front cover "Universitas Wesleyana Nebraskae 1887". Originally belonged to Melba Johnson. 33 handwritten notes and signatures from friends recalling fond memories together at university. "Remember our many good times together. Our trip to Palmyra etc." "Lots of love to a dear Delta Phi sister." "Remember the first time I met you Hope to be your 'sister' someday." Filled with letters party invitations dance cards and other ephemera from a popular college student. Vibrant yellow felt cutout of school mascot Prairie Wolves on first page. Letters noted as "Rush Week Invitations" to Alpha Epsilon honor society for agricultural biological and food engineers Delta Phi Alpha Delta Omega and Sigma Alpha Iota National Music Sorority Kappa Delta and Gamma Mu Upsilon. Other included organizations with ephemera are Beta Kappa Theta Alpha Phi National Theatre Honor Society Kappa Sigma Pi Phi Kappa Tau and Gamma Beta Kappa. Also ephemera for social events from the YWCA Young Women's Christian Association. Also includes ticket stubs to various shows and performances and some ephemera from The University of Nebraska's football program. Clipping from Nebraska v. Pittsburgh game in 1928 and 1929. Program for 1926 "Nebraska Wesleyan Home Coming Day" Football game against Peru State College and clipping from a NWU game against Hastings College. Program for 1927 Commencement and ticket to 1928 Commencement; Invitations to subsequent commencement ceremonies included in scrapbook. Membership card and pin for Nebraska State Teachers' Association which she joined after graduation; Johnson went on to work at Norfolk High School in Norfolk Nebraska after earning her teaching degree. Nebraska Wesleyan University was founded in 1887 and the first graduating class was four women in 1890. The school is located in the former town of University Place Nebraska. Today it is part of Lincoln Nebraska. In the late 1920s when Johnson was attending school Nebraska Wesleyan was a college of liberal arts with schools of art business and education and a music conservatory. In very good condition. unknown books
1916Best.-Nr. 171101916. Women Education Europe Identification Card for Sophia State Girls' High School СофийÑка държавна ДъвиуеÑка Ð³Ð¸Ð¼Ð½Ð°Ð·Ð¸Ñ 1916. Sophia is the largest and Capital city of Bulgaria. 4.5 x 3.25 in. Original blue cloth folder. Identification photo of teenge girl pasted inside dated 19.III.1916. Original silver gelatin print 2.75 x 2 in. This young student wears a dark pinafore uniform and a fashionable hat and looks confidently out at the viewer. This was mere months after Bulgaria declared entered World War I in October 1915. Normal education was disrupted for most Bulgarian students during the Balkan Wars 1912-1913 and WWI 1915-1918 so this girl was likely very grateful for the opportunity to study. Original education department stamps in blue ink. In very good condition. unknown books
1921Best.-Nr. 171091921. Hinshaw Mary Jane scrapbook 1921 to 1943 documents women's education teacher training library studies sorority life and student identity through the life of a Missouri and Kansas student from childhood through college. The album follows Hinshaw from baptism and early school photographs to Stephens College and Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia preserving evidence of how a young woman's education moved from family and local schooling into collegiate social life professional preparation and library-centered coursework during the 1930s and early 1940s. Hinshaw Mary Jane. Scrapbook album. Missouri Kansas and western United States 1921 to 1943. Scrapbook with 78 original silver gelatin photographs and 43 pieces of ephemera. Original cream boards with embossed front cover 39 pages 10.5 x 13.5 inches. Photographs range from 2.5 x 2 inches to 8 x 10 inches and include family images childhood portraits elementary and high school class photographs school groups and western United States travel views with expansive landscapes and rock formations. Ephemera includes baptism and birth announcements Stephens College commencement invitation from 1941 report cards certificates two cloth varsity letters a felt bulldog debate letter Delta Sigma Epsilon membership card party invitations and dance cards from Sigma Tau Gamma Delta Sigma Epsilon and Alpha Delta. Academic records document coursework at Stephens College in English literature French English history psychology sociology music appreciation physical education and educational psychology followed by Kansas State Teachers College coursework in teaching history of education American history library administration cataloguing and classification reference book selection library work with children and literature of high school subjects. A handwritten postcard from a Stephens classmate at the University of Wisconsin states "I am having a glorious time-It certainly isn't like Stephens much much better." The scrapbook's research value lies in its unusually broad view of female education from childhood through professional training including Hinshaw's connection to Marysville High School where her father served on the Board of Education and her later preparation for teaching and library work. Tear with loss above right portrait adhered to first page; one page detached; front hinge loose good to very good. A substantial documentary record of women's higher education teacher preparation sorority culture school achievement and library training in the Midwest from the interwar period into World War II. unknown books
1879Best.-Nr. 170951879. 19th c. Women Education Handwritten letter from the superintendent of the Young Ladies' Athenaeum in Jacksonville IL. June 24 1879. On official letterhead for the school with a large engraving of campus buildings. 2 pages. 10 x 8 inches. Superintendent of the school William Sander writes to recommend a graduate Nellie Stevenson for employment as a music teacher. Stating in part: "She was graduated from the Atheneum in the Class of 1873 with much credit.and since her graduation has taught in Peoria Co. and this County; and I am informed she gives excellent satisfaction to her Pupils and their Parents. All that I have heard of her since her graduation has been most honorable to her both as a lady and a musician." The Young Ladies' Athenaeum was founded in 1864 and was later incorporated into Illinois College in Jacksonville. Light handling wear. "Please return to Nellie Stevenson" written in pencil on verso. A unique and personal piece of early Female Education history. unknown books
1891Best.-Nr. 170881891. 19th c. Women Education Handwritten letter from Principal at Washington Female Seminary in Washington PA. February 15 1891. On personalized stationary for Principal of Washington Female Seminary Miss N. Sherrard. Addressed to "My Dear Sister" and signed "June." With original mailing envelope. 2 pages 9 x 5.5 inches. She writes on personal matters with her sister and gives an update on the school and teachers: "Bessie Ewing is now well.she is the most popular teacher in Seminary. The girls are all quite well at present & I hope they may keep well all spring." The Washington Female Seminary was a Presbyterian seminary for women operating from 1836 to 1948 in Washington Pennsylvania. During the 19th century it was well-regarded as one of the top institutions for women in the area. It was founded abolitionist Francis Julius LeMoyne and Alexander Reed and its formal charter came in 1839. By 1886 there were over 100 students enrolled; and the curriculum included both a preparatory course which generally gained admission to the finest women's colleges and a regular course with studies in music art and elocution. In very good condition. A unique and personal piece of early Female Education history. unknown books
1942Best.-Nr. 171381942. Walker Marjorie O. scrapbook 1939 to 1942 documents women's teacher training coeducational campus life and institutional transition at Oswego State Normal School as it became Oswego State Teachers College. Kept by Marjorie O. Walker of Woodridge New York the scrapbook records the system of teacher preparation through admissions materials course records student regulations directories newspapers and campus communications revealing how Oswego organized academic instruction boarding life extracurricular culture and crisis response during the years immediately before and after its 1942 elevation to a four-year bachelor's degree-granting teachers college. Walker Marjorie O. Scrapbook album. Oswego New York 1939 to 1942. Scrapbook with 142 pieces of ephemera including report cards correspondence newspaper clippings student publications event programs postcards athletic songs sorority material and notices concerning campus operations. Original paper wraps with large color fall foliage image on front cover 76 pages 15 x 11 inches. Contents include a 1940 admission letter noting a waiting list for applicants course schedule report card 1939 student handbook 1940-1941 student directory boarding regulations for landladies and roommates programs for plays and musical performances full issues of The Oswegonian postcards of Oswego and nearby sites Alpha Delta Sorority material and printed fight songs. Academic records document coursework in Child Development History of Civilization Written Composition General Math Essentials of Music Essentials of Art and Recreational Activities. Newspaper material includes coverage of a Korean national student at Syracuse University speaking at Oswego about the Japanese occupation of Korea. The final pages are especially significant for documenting the January 1941 campus fire that caused an estimated $100000 in damage including student newspaper coverage describing students "carrying coupling and manning hoses" alongside firemen and later notices emphasizing "Business As Usual" through revised examination schedules and relocated classes. This crisis documentation combined with admissions housing academic and social material makes the scrapbook a strong record of how a teachers college functioned in practice during wartime-era institutional change. Ephemera and scrapbook pages intact as described with general handling consistent with use very good. A substantial documentary record of women's education teacher preparation student life campus administration and emergency response at Oswego during its transition from normal school to state teachers college. unknown books
1911Best.-Nr. 171211911. Early Co-educational College Photo Album Wisconsin Original owner's name "UW" and "1911" handwritten on inside front cover. 115 photographs of various sizes from 1.5 x 3 in. to 5 x 7 in. Includes many images of outdoor recreation such as hiking and boating perhaps on Lake Mendota campus life and agricultural scenes. Most photos lack captions but some locations are labeled such as outings to the Flambeau River Park Falls WI; Ellsworth WI; and the Boise River. Images of Bascom Hill and North Hall on the historic University of Wisconsin campus. One real photograph postcard shows women students seated outside and is captioned "'The Sun Bath' Co-eds at UW". Some photographs show the inside of male dormitories on campus decorated with pennants for Wisconsin and Rose Polytechnic Institute Terre Haute IN. Includes several photos of manual and agricultural labor such as baling hay. Founded when Wisconsin achieved statehood in 1848 University of Wisconsin-Madison was the first public university established in Wisconsin and remains the oldest and largest public university in the state. At the time this album was compiled research teaching and service at the UW was influenced by a tradition known as "the Wisconsin Idea" which holds that the boundaries of the university should be the boundaries of the state and that the research conducted at UW-Madison should be applied to solve problems and improve health quality of life the environment and agriculture for all citizens of the state. This Progressive-era policy applied the expertise of the state's university to social legislation that benefited all the state's citizens; it led to classic programs such as regulation of utilities workers' compensation tax reform and university extension services; sometimes expressed in the maxim that "the boundaries of the university are the boundaries of the state". Glue reside from some removed photographs. 1 page detached. 5 photos loose. In good to very good condition. unknown books
