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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
Best.-Nr. 17142Girls' Education Science Laboratory with 6 figures around a table filled with special equipment. c. 1920s. Real photo postcard. 3.5 x 5.5 in. From unknown European country. 4 girls in matching uniforms stand around a table engage in experiments and write observations in their notebooks. 1 uniformed young man stands nearby while an older student or teacher supervises. This dates from the 1920s after WWI had ended but a period in which militarization in Europe was considered of upmost national importance. The early 20th century was also a period of great development for women's education as more schools and programs opened to girls. Real photo postcard was never mailed and has no message written on verso. Creases in lower and upper right corners. In good condition. unknown books
1922Best.-Nr. 171511922. Women's Education Album from Woman studying Teaching at Central State Teachers College in Edmond Oklahoma. 1922-1923. Filled with 48 original silver gelatin print photographs 52 pieces of ephemera and 36 handwritten notes from various classmates. Ephemera includes newspaper clippings handwritten notes programs poems and notes from friends. Photographs of various sizes 2.5 x 4" to 4 x 6". Images of student and their friends around campus at social outings and visiting family. Original brown decorated boards. 10 x 14 inches. Album begins with note on beginning new the teacher's training program: "Starting for College Tues. Sept. 5 1922 with high ambitions for becoming a more efficient teacher." Final photographs in the album are 3 class portraits of primary school students and their teacher. 36 notes and autographs from classmates and friends with inside jokes nicknames for each other and warm memories: "The hours I spend with thee dear heart are as a string of Pearls to me." Another friend added a handwritten letter pasted in: "Shall we ever forget the good times and the bad times we had together at Central during eleven long months I know I never shall if I live to be one hundred." Comes with two programs for 1923 Commencement exercises at Central State Teachers College. The Central State Teachers College is one of the earliest colleges in Oklahoma founded in 1890 as the Territorial Normal School. In 1904 the school became Central State Normal School and in 1919 just 3 years before our student arrived on campus the State Board of Education passed a resolution making Central a four-year teachers' college conferring bachelor's degrees. It was renamed the Central State Teachers College. Today the institution is University of Central Oklahoma. In very good condition. unknown books
1941Best.-Nr. 171641941. Walker Marjorie O. scrapbook 1941 to 1942 documents women's teacher training coeducational student life campus music culture and wartime institutional change 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 teacher-training system through report cards student directories handbooks campus newspapers correspondence and event programs revealing how Oswego organized student life while responding to wartime mobilization selective service air-raid fears and the 1942 shift to four-year degree-granting status. Walker Marjorie O. Scrapbook album. Oswego New York 1941 to 1942. Scrapbook with 155 pieces of ephemera including newspaper clippings full issues of the campus paper ticket stubs programs invitations typed notices correspondence and student publications. Original paper wraps with large color fall foliage image on front cover 80 pages 15 x 11 inches. Contents include material from both Oswego State Normal School and Oswego State Teachers College a 1939-1940 report card listing Child Development History of Civilization Composition and Speech Intro to Science Art 102 Essentials of Music and Recreational Activities; a 1941 Summer Session pamphlet; Student Handbook; Personnel Directory; Student Directory for 1941-1942; Halloween Party invitation; and newspaper coverage of Epsilon Pi Tau Sigma Pi Rho campus music groups and the Bel Canto singing group in which Walker participated. Walker annotates several clippings with notes identifying classmates and friends including "this is one of my classmates" and "they're all swell singers." The strongest historical material concerns Oswego's wartime campus life before and after American entry into World War II including February 1941 clippings urging cooperation against Nazi victory and calling male students to register for selective service later reports anticipating air raids and city bombings an Armistice Day program presented with the American Legion and U.S. Coast Artillery and coverage of wartime delays to rebuilding after the January 1941 campus fire. Newspaper headlines also record the institutional milestone "Oswego Normal becomes State Teachers College" marking the school's elevation in 1942 to a four-year degree-granting teachers college. Pages thin with a few very small closed edge tears very good. A substantial documentary record of women's education teacher preparation student music culture home-front anxiety and institutional adaptation at Oswego during the first year of American involvement in World War II. unknown books
1916Best.-Nr. 171571916. Unidentified compiler photograph album 1916 to 1917 documenting women's education and teacher training at Kent State Normal College during a period of expanding access to professional instruction for women in the United States. The album provides primary visual and material evidence of student life within a Normal School environment including pedagogical training peer networks and extracurricular culture. It supports research into the feminization of the teaching profession collegiate social structures and the institutional development of teacher education in the early twentieth century particularly as the United States entered World War I. Photograph album containing 44 original silver gelatin prints and approximately 48 pieces of mounted ephemera with extensive handwritten captions identifying fellow students instructors such as "Miss Corbett" and "Miss Dunbar" and campus locations including Merrill Hall the Library Loury Hall and Moulton Hall. Images show groups of women students posed on campus grounds within academic buildings and in outdoor recreational settings alongside classroom scenes of elementary school instruction reflecting teacher training practices. Social activities are documented through photographs of outings to Brady Lake and a labeled Independence Day picnic in 1917. The ephemera includes ribbons commencement programs school-related printed materials theater tickets postcards sheet music and an astrological horoscope as well as items connected to organizations such as the YWCA and Portage County's War Fund indicating student participation in civic and wartime support activities. 44 photographs mounted across 50 pages accompanied by approximately 48 pieces of ephemera; images range from approximately 2 x 3 inches to 3 x 5 inches; album measuring 12 x 9.5 inches; original boards. Kent State Normal School established in 1910 and renamed Kent State Normal College in 1915 following the introduction of four-year degree programs formed part of a broader national system designed to professionalize teaching and expand women's access to higher education. By the early twentieth century women constituted a substantial majority of the American teaching workforce a demographic reality reflected in the album's predominance of female students and instructors. The inclusion of wartime-related materials situates the album within the transitional moment of U.S. mobilization in 1917 linking campus life to national developments. Minor handling wear to boards contents well-preserved with secure mounts and legible captions; overall very good condition. A cohesive and richly annotated record of women's collegiate and professional training culture in the early twentieth century. unknown books
1916Best.-Nr. 166221916. Carpenter Rachel A. M. Photograph album of St. Mary's School Wantage 1916 to 1918 documents the daily life of girls at an English school during the final years of the First World War. Twenty-three photographs record organized sports theatrical performance swimming leisure school uniforms faculty friends and the grounds of St. Mary's with handwritten captions and dates identifying every image. The album preserves a student's record of girls' education beyond the classroom including field hockey cricket tennis swimming and dramatic performance activities that formed an increasingly visible part of female secondary education in early twentieth-century Britain. Twenty-three gelatin silver photographs dated 1916 to 1918 mounted on 14 card-stock pages in original green cloth boards titled "Photo Sketches." Album measures 6.25 × 7.5 inches; photographs range from 2 × 2.75 inches to 3.5 × 5.5 inches. Carpenter identifies friends by full names initials and nicknames including "Tufty." Several views show students in uniform at leisure while others depict the field hockey cricket and tennis teams swimming in "the Baths" faculty members and campus grounds. Three photographs record the cast of a school production of Blue Beard performed during the summer term of 1918; the album retains a program for the production. Founded in 1873 as a girls' school St. Mary's belonged to the expansion of formal secondary education for girls in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England. Carpenter's photographs show how that education included organized athletics theatrical performance recreation and student social life during the wartime years of 1916 to 1918. The named and captioned photographs provide unusually specific evidence of individual pupils school activities and the rhythms of campus life. Condition not stated in the supplied description. unknown books
1936Best.-Nr. 155971936. Shaw Helen Louise. The First 100 Years of St. Mary's Hall on the Delaware 1936 documents the development of St. Mary's Hall in Burlington New Jersey from its 1837 establishment by Episcopal Bishop George Washington Doane through nearly a century of education for girls and young women. Doane acquired an existing girls' school and established St. Mary's Hall under Episcopal direction; the institution became closely associated with the expansion of advanced female education in nineteenth-century New Jersey. Shaw traces the school's founding principles administrative leadership students curriculum religious instruction and physical growth along the Delaware River recording how an Episcopal institution organized academic and religious education for women across successive generations. The history consequently preserves evidence of the administration and educational practices of a long-lived denominational girls' school during a period in which opportunities for women's advanced education expanded substantially in the United States. Shaw Helen Louise. The First 100 Years of St. Mary's Hall on the Delaware. 1936. Written in connection with the school's centennial period the volume follows St. Mary's Hall from its founding in 1837 and describes the institutional mechanisms through which its educational program developed: governance curriculum faculty and administrative leadership student life religious instruction and campus expansion. Shaw's account records the Episcopal conception of female education as both intellectual and religious training and supplies an institutional history against which changes in American girls' schooling during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries can be examined. As a retrospective history produced nearly a century after the school's founding it is particularly relevant as documentation of how St. Mary's Hall understood and recorded its own educational history by the 1930s. St. Mary's Hall belongs to the nineteenth-century expansion of organized secondary and advanced schooling for American women and its establishment under Bishop Doane in 1837 places its history within both women's education and the Episcopal Church's educational activity in the United States. Shaw's century-long chronology preserves names administrative developments curricular practices and changes to the Burlington campus that permit the institution's development to be followed beyond its founding claims. Light toning to endpapers and faint wear to extremities; otherwise clean and sound. Overall very good. A substantial institutional history documenting nearly a century of Episcopal education for girls and young women in Burlington New Jersey. unknown books
1935Best.-Nr. 153921935. Integrated class photograph 1935 identifies African American student James Thompson among a predominantly white group of classmates nearly two decades before Brown v. Board of Education. Thompson stands among the students with his arm around a classmate while a contemporary notation on the verso identifies him by name and adds a personal assessment: "See big black guy James Thompson. A great guy." The combination of Thompson's identification and his placement within the class provides specific evidence for the history of African American education and interracial schooling before the Supreme Court's 1954 decision against state-mandated segregation in public schools. The school and location are not identified in the supplied information and the photograph by itself does not establish the institution's racial policies or the circumstances under which Thompson attended the school. Original sepia-toned gelatin silver class photograph 1935 approximately 3 x 5 inches. The class consists predominantly of white students with Thompson standing among them; his arm rests around another student. The children are formally dressed for the group portrait and numerous students smile toward the camera. Verso inscribed: "See big black guy James Thompson. A great guy." The inscription is particularly useful in preserving Thompson's name which would otherwise be absent from the visual record. The photograph dates nineteen years before the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Because racial segregation in education differed substantially according to state and local law the image should not be treated as evidence of a broader institutional integration policy without identification of the school and its location. It does however document Thompson's presence within this predominantly white class in 1935 and preserves a named African American student within a specific pre-Brown educational setting. Very good condition. unknown books
1831Best.-Nr. 167191831. Patterson Elizabeth N. Friendship album begun 1831 documenting early nineteenth century American album culture among young women educated in New England academies with emphasis on sentimental expression moral instruction and the maintenance of social bonds through handwritten verse and prose. Entries written across several decades and locations including Medford Windham Dunstable Derry and Nashua record friendship networks shaped by piety domestic responsibility emotional refinement and shared educational experience. Poems letters and reflective prose addressed to Patterson preserve the literary practices through which women articulated expectations of conduct friendship religion and domestic life in the antebellum Northeast. Patterson Elizabeth N. Friendship album. Circa 1831-1899. 76 pages containing 36 handwritten entries contributed by multiple individuals across New England. 8.5 x 5.25 inches. The contents include handwritten poems letters and reflective prose addressed to Elizabeth Patterson frequently commemorating shared school experiences and articulating ideals of womanhood and moral conduct. A letter titled "To a School Mate" recalls "four years.at the school where we were taught from our childhood up" and expands into prescriptive reflections on female responsibility asserting "Of every domestic circle woman is the centre.home is the empire of woman" and linking domestic governance to "the comfort of communities and the welfare of states." Additional entries emphasize friendship and spiritual aspiration including verses such as "May all your years be spent in bliss.Then die and be a Saviour's guest." The album opens with an elaborate poetic introduction invoking natural imagery and allegorical figures positioning the book itself as a symbolic vessel of affection and memory. Later contributors engage directly with prior entries noting the presence of "wit eloquence learning and poetry" indicating an awareness of the album as a curated literary space. The album belongs to a period in which sentimental culture and female academies fostered structured forms of emotional expression and moral discourse among young women. Friendship albums served as personal keepsakes and instruments of social continuity particularly as students dispersed geographically following their education. The recurring emphasis on domestic virtue religious faith and intellectual cultivation corresponds with broader antebellum ideals of womanhood while the geographic spread of contributors reflects expanding regional mobility and communication networks in the Northeast. Gilt quarter morocco binding with marbled boards and green marbled endpapers. Light wear consistent with handling; overall very good condition. A multidecade manuscript record of women's education sentimental expression domestic ideology religious aspiration and the preservation of friendship networks across nineteenth century New England. unknown books
1915Best.-Nr. 166841915. Bernice Veazey Brown born July 23 1823 d. 1983 in Calais Maine grew up in Providence Rhode Island. She entered Radcliffe in 1922 receiving her B.A. in 1916 her M.A. in 1918 and her P.h. D in 1920 specializing in government and international law. In 1915 and 1916 she won the Baldwin prize for essays pertaining to municipal government. From 1918 to 1920 she held a Carnegie Endowment International Law Fellowship. In 1920-1921 she was awarded a fellowship by the Commission for Relief in Belgium for advanced study in Brussels. Upon her return to the U.S. she was active in the School of Citizenship and Politics at Radcliffe. Brown was appointed Dean of Radcliffe College in 1923 when Ada Comstock became President. In 1934 she became Dean of the Radcliffe Graduate School a post she held until 1959. She married Leonard Wolsey Cronkhite on July 21 1933. She worked hard to promote the status of women graduate students at Radcliffe. One page 8"x 5 1/2" typed letter signed Bernice V. Brown Dean Radcliffe College Cambridge Massachusetts dated March 11 1925 to Mrs. Fred A. Wilson of Nahant Massachusetts. "My dear Mrs. Wilson: I shall be very glad to serve as patroness of the Author Reading under the auspices of the Boston Branch on Wednesday evening March the eighteenth. The author's reading was for the Association of American University Women a national organization that promotes equity for all women and girls lifelong education and positive social change. The AAUW offers scholarship action for gender equity and support for personal and professional growth community leadership and friendship. unknown books
1877Best.-Nr. 163421877. Carpenter Mary autograph letter signed dated January 10 1877 documents Carpenter's support for women's participation in school governance during the final months of her life providing direct evidence of her work across women's education juvenile reform prison reform and public advocacy. Carpenter founded ragged schools and reformatories for poor children and young offenders in Bristol advocated for women's education engaged anti-slavery work and traveled to India where she examined schools prisons and female education. Carpenter Mary. Autograph Letter Signed to Alderman Mansfield. Bristol: Mary Carpenter 1877. January 10 1877. 1 page. Original mailing envelope and two obituaries of Carpenter are pasted into the volume. The letter congratulates Mansfield on the election of his wife to the School Board stating "Thanks for sending us the paper containing the very gratifying announcement of the election of Mrs. Mansfield.It is a grand triumph!" A note at the bottom signed M. P. Mansfield explains "This letter was written on the receipt of a paper containing the account of the election of my wife to the School Board." Written months before Carpenter's death in June 1877 the letter links her educational reform career to the expanding civic role of women in nineteenth-century Britain. A biography materially strengthened by Carpenter's own signed letter joining printed memorialization with direct manuscript presence from a major woman reformer. Condition not stated in the supplied description. Strong association copy documenting Carpenter's support for women's public educational authority. unknown books
1887Best.-Nr. 164551887. Hughes Elizabeth Phillips. The Education of Welsh Women 1887 an early statement advocating improved educational opportunities for Welsh girls and women delivered at Cardiff in January 1887 during the first public meeting of the Association for Promoting the Education of Girls in Wales. Hughes then principal of the Cambridge Training College for Women was a leading advocate for women's secondary and higher education in Britain. Her address belongs to the organized campaign to improve girls' schooling in Wales during the years preceding the Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889 which established a framework for publicly supported secondary education. The pamphlet records Hughes's participation in a movement seeking greater educational provision for Welsh women and their inclusion in the country's developing educational institutions. Hughes Elizabeth P. The Education of Welsh Women. London: W. Speaight & Sons 1887. 8 pages. Original printed wrappers. The pamphlet contains the substance of Hughes's address at the Association's inaugural public meeting in Cardiff presenting the case for improved education for Welsh girls and women. Accompanied by a separate document titled The Education of Girls in Wales listing six pamphlets published by the Association for Promoting the Education of Girls in Wales. This accompanying publication identifies further printed material issued in support of the Association's educational campaign documenting its efforts to disseminate arguments for reform. Born in Carmarthen Hughes became the first principal of the Cambridge Training College for Women in 1884 an institution established to prepare women graduates for teaching careers and subsequently renamed Hughes Hall in her honor. She maintained a lifelong commitment to Welsh education later serving as secretary of the Association for Promoting the Education of Girls in Wales and helping establish a teachers' training college in Barry in 1914. She was also the only woman appointed to the committee responsible for drafting the original charter of the University of Wales. This 1887 address documents her early involvement in organized educational reform in Wales accompanied by a contemporary listing of the Association's other publications. Minor chipping to wrapper edges; otherwise in very good condition. unknown books
1841Best.-Nr. 167561841. Women's Educational Movement. Rural Repository News Journal 1841 Poughkeepsie Female Academy Founding Story and Engraving. Large Item. Poughkeepsie Female Academy- Hudson NY. This news journal the "Rural Repository" leads with a full page story on the opening of the Poughkeepsie Female Academy and engravings. More than 30 years later Vassar College would open near the same site. 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." This document predates Seneca Falls by 7 years. unknown books
1891Best.-Nr. 160751891. Wordsworth Elizabeth. William Wordsworth 1891 is an inscribed presentation copy from the educationalist who served as the first Principal of Lady Margaret Hall and founded St Hugh's Hall two institutions central to the establishment of women's higher education at Oxford. Great-niece of William Wordsworth she combined her literary work with direct responsibility for expanding women's access to Oxford study. She was selected as Lady Margaret Hall's first Principal in 1878; its first nine students arrived in 1879 when University lectures and examinations were still largely closed to women. In 1886 she founded St Hugh's Hall specifically for women unable to afford the fees charged by the existing women's halls initially accommodating four students in a house on Norham Road. Wordsworth Elizabeth. William Wordsworth. London: Percival 1891. Inscribed presentation copy "from the author." First edition. Wordsworth's study concerns her great-uncle the poet William Wordsworth and joins her work as a biographer and author to her place within the Wordsworth family. The presentation inscription gives this copy a direct association with its author. Its publication also coincided with a formative period in her educational career: by 1891 she was overseeing Lady Margaret Hall while St Hugh's founded five years earlier as her private educational venture was developing as a lower-cost route to Oxford study for women. When this volume appeared Oxford women could pursue increasingly advanced courses and examinations but could not become full members of the University or receive Oxford degrees; women gained those rights only in 1920. Wordsworth's educational work addressed both access and cost: Lady Margaret Hall was the first higher educational institution for women at Oxford while St Hugh's charged lower fees for students for whom the existing halls were financially inaccessible. Original dark blue cloth with gilt lettering slightly faded light soiling and small tears to spine panel. Overall very good. An author-inscribed first edition connecting Wordsworth's literary authorship and family history with her contemporary work establishing opportunities for women to study at Oxford. unknown books
1877Best.-Nr. 167481877. Women's Education Movement. Goddard Seminary Catalog 1877. Pamphlet Catalog for the 1877 class of Goddard Seminary a coeducational school in Barre VT. Including the names of students. Goddard College began in 1863 in Barre Vermont as the Green Mountain Central Institute and in 1870 was renamed Goddard Seminary. Founded by Universalists Goddard Seminary was a four-year preparatory high school primarily for Tufts College. For many years the Seminary prospered. But the opening of many good public high schools made many of the New England academics obsolete. The trustees added a Junior College to the Seminary in 1935 and in 1938 Goddard College was chartered. It remains progressive Universalist institution. 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
1876Best.-Nr. 167211876. Wakelee Cora B. Diary 1876 records a young Connecticut student's firsthand account of the Centennial Exposition alongside later entries documenting her high school achievements and social writing practices. The manuscript provides primary evidence of how a young woman experienced and interpreted the first official World's Fair held in the United States while also preserving the social and literary conventions of adolescent friendship in the late nineteenth century. The diary supports research into youth education gendered experience at national exhibitions and the integration of public spectacle into personal narrative. Wakelee Cora B. Diary. 1876-1881. Manuscript volume containing 48 handwritten pages including early entries partially overwritten with inscription "Cora B. Wakelee Huntington Conn. May 22 1876" on the front endpaper. The opening section details Wakelee's visit to the Philadelphia exposition describing exhibits with specificity: a large-scale model of Niagara Falls "160 ft long and 80 ft high" state buildings including a New England log house furnished with objects "100 years old or over" and displays of industrial production such as carpet weaving and tinware manufacturing. She records encounters with global and historical curiosities including "Egyptian mummies" horticultural specimens such as fig orange lemon and pineapple trees and commemorative objects tied to George Washington including his carriage and textile portraits. Later entries document her academic life including transcribed newspaper recognition of her spelling achievement and scholarship prizes. Pages 14 through 48 contain a substantial collection of short poems and inscriptions intended for autograph albums combining sentimental and humorous tones such as "Though short our acquaintance has been.Permit me to call you my friend" alongside moral reflections and religious wishes. The volume also includes original mourning verse for a deceased acquaintance "Mattie Otis passed away.She has gone yes gone forever" situating personal loss within poetic expression. The diary emerges from a period in which international expositions functioned as sites of national identity formation and technological display while expanding educational opportunities exposed young women to broader cultural experiences. Wakelee's account demonstrates how large-scale public events were absorbed into individual memory and recorded alongside everyday academic and social life. The inclusion of autograph album verses reflects widespread practices among students where poetry circulated as a medium of friendship and remembrance. Original leather boards; approximately 48 pages of manuscript content; measures 8 x 5 inches. Losses to spine and loose hinges; some toning throughout; good condition. A combined record of the 1876 exposition as experienced by a young attendee and of late nineteenth-century female student literary culture. unknown books
1862Best.-Nr. 166581862. Women Education 19th Century Handwritten composition notebook of a young woman filled with poems and verses in many hands dating from 1862-1863. Includes poetry about studying for school examinations and writing compositions. 7 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. Original green boards. 78 pages full of handwritten poems and verses. Handwritten on front end page: "Katie E. Kimmens. Providence 11th Mo. 1862." "A week before Examination" "One has a headache one a cold One has her neck in flannel rolled; Ask the complaint and you are told 'Next week's examination'.One bangs the books then grasps them tight And studies morning noon and night As though she took some strange delight In these examinations/ The books are marred defaced and thumbed The brains with midnight tasks benumed Still all in that account is summed Next week's examinations" "Compositions" "Some have a lesson hard to get And have not even seen it yet Ask when what tis that makes them fret "Oh dear tis Composition Day"!/ One's last and cannot find her pen Another has no paper then The cause of this but ask of them And each in sighing tones will say "Oh dear tis Composition Day"!/ One rises with the morning light Takes up her pen begins to write; And seems to take some strange delight When e'er she hears a scholar say "Oh dear tis Composition Day"! Includes poems by well-known writers such as Lord Tennyson "St. Agnes Eve" and "Come Not When I Am Dead" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Village Blacksmith" and Thomas Hood "The Bridge of Sighs". Also includes poems about the perils of war "The Soldier's Dream of Home" and the difficulty of losing a parent: "I cannot call her Mother" "The marriage rites are over And though I turned aside To keep the guests from seeing The tears I could not hide I . my face in smiling And led my little brother To greet my father's chosen But I could not call her Mother." Light toning to first page and occasional light stains throughout. Very good condition. unknown books
1881Best.-Nr. 167551881. Women's Education Movement. New Hampshire Conference Seminary and Female College Catalog 1881. Tilton NH. The catalog has 36 pages of courses personnel and other information including tuition and fees. The most expensive were Piano and Voice Culture which were each $12 per semester. The seminary exists today at Tilton School. 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
1940Best.-Nr. 160881940. Edith Reverend Mother. Autograph letter signed to William Nourse December 22 1940 records wartime conditions at Ascot Priory while its Anglican religious community operated St. Augustine's School for girls during the Blitz. Written three months into the German bombing campaign the letter describes bombs falling near the Priory quieter nights as Christmas approached and the financial strain affecting the institution's supporters. Ascot Priory was the mother house of the Society of the Most Holy Trinity an Anglican women's religious community whose work included nursing care of orphans and education; St. Augustine's School was among the schools operated by the sisters. Edith Reverend Mother. December 22 1940. Autograph letter signed to William Nourse on Ascot Priory letterhead Ascot Berkshire England. Writing three days before Christmas Edith acknowledges the continuing support of friends despite wartime hardship: "I appreciate the kindness of our friends more than ever this year for I know how much financially hit everyone is." Her Christmas wishes immediately turn to the war: "I do hope you will have as happy a Christmas is possible Xmas 1941 bring us peace!" She then gives a direct account of the danger experienced at Ascot: "We have had some bombs unpleasantly near but lately I am glad to say the nights have been much quieter." The letter was written during the Blitz when German aerial attacks on Britain had begun in September 1940 and would continue into May 1941. Ascot Priory had housed the Society of the Most Holy Trinity since the nineteenth century; its sisters maintained religious medical charitable and educational work including the care of girls at St. Christopher's Orphanage and instruction at St. Augustine's School. Edith's December 1940 letter records how that women-led institution continued during wartime through a concise firsthand account of nearby bombing strained finances and hopes for peace. Her remarks are especially immediate because they were written during the first winter of the Blitz rather than retrospectively after the war. No condition defects are specified in the supplied description. A contemporary account of the British home front from the woman responsible for an Anglican community and girls' school during the aerial campaign of 1940. unknown books
1890Best.-Nr. 153931890. Rural school class photograph circa 1890 records a female teacher with approximately twenty students of varying ages outside their schoolhouse. The broad age range of the children and rural setting provide direct visual evidence of late nineteenth-century American schooling when rural teachers commonly instructed children of several ages within a single school. The school's name and location are unidentified preventing more specific claims about its district curriculum or organization. Albumen photograph on heavy backing circa 1890. Approximately twenty students pose outdoors with a young female teacher dressed in late nineteenth-century clothing. An American flag hangs prominently on the exterior wall of the schoolhouse. Behind the building is a substantial stack or load of firewood while trees surround the clearing and the distant wooded area appears hazy. The combination of schoolhouse pupils teacher flag and firewood records both the class and elements of the physical environment in which the school operated. The image preserves a rural educational setting before the widespread consolidation of small country schools into larger graded institutions during the twentieth century. Its mixed-age student body isolated wooded surroundings and visible supply of firewood provide concrete details of schooling and the maintenance of a rural school building in the late nineteenth century. Some age staining to the mount; photograph itself in very good condition. unknown books
1912Best.-Nr. 153961912. Zwingle School classroom photograph 1912 documents teacher Guy Brouillard with approximately forty first- through eighth-grade students in the small agricultural community of Zwingle Iowa. The students are seated together in a single classroom recording the multigrade instruction characteristic of many rural American schools in the early twentieth century where one teacher could be responsible for children across several grade levels. The identified teacher school and grade range give the photograph unusually specific evidence of rural Iowa education during the Progressive Era. Original albumen photograph mounted on heavy card 1912. Image approximately 7 x 5 inches on original 10 x 8 inch mount. Approximately forty students occupy rows of cast-iron desks while Brouillard stands at the rear of the classroom. Visible furnishings and instructional materials include the students' desks and a large reference volume or teacher's manual resting on a dedicated bench at the front of the room. Clothing seating arrangements classroom fixtures and the placement of instructional materials preserve details of the physical environment in which children from first through eighth grade were taught. Captioned: "Guy Brouillard. Zwingle School. First to 8th Grade." The photograph records Zwingle School before twentieth-century school consolidation and expanded transportation contributed to the decline of small rural multigrade schools. Rather than illustrating rural education generically the contemporary caption connects the classroom to a named teacher a specific Iowa community and the full first-through-eighth-grade span taught there in 1912. These details permit the photograph to be used as evidence for the study of rural Iowa schooling childhood classroom organization and changes in public education during the early twentieth century. Some age toning and wear to mount; photograph remains in very good condition. unknown books
1868Best.-Nr. 167531868. Women's Education Movement. Western Female Seminary Catalog 1868-1869. Oxford OH. Western Female Seminary was founded in 1853 as a daughter school of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley Massachusetts. Its first principal Helen Peabody and most of the early faculty had been students and teachers at Mount Holyoke. Mary Lyon Residence Hall on the Western campus is named for Mount Holyok's founder Mary Lyon. It later received a charter and became Western College an all-female institution. 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. 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
1839Best.-Nr. 167601839. Early American Women's Education Movement. Catalog of the Officers and Members of The Seminary For Female Teachers. Salem Massachusetts. Printed at the Register Press. April 1839. 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-This is an important point but seems awkwardly placed. Maybe either use the phrase "into secular higher education" in first sentence or in next sentence say "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. This document dates 10 years before Seneca Falls. unknown books
1886Best.-Nr. 167511886. Women's Educational Movement. Bradford Female Academy Catalog 1886. A catalog from one of the most important historical female academics. Contains names of current students and an outline of the curriculum. Bradford opened as the first coeducational institution in Massachusetts but due to overwhelming interest from parents of girls with no other options for education Bradford soon transitioned to become the first all-female academy in Massachusetts and among the first in the United States in 1836. 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 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
1905Best.-Nr. 167101905. Handwritten project book from primary school student. Story of the Pilgrims. 1905. Child's notebooks with original yellow card-stock boards bound in green cloth. 7 in x 6 in. 17 handwritten pages. Gilt title on front cover and spine. Includes drawings and pasted images of Plymouth Rock Native Americans ships and others. Charming handwritten project book from a child at the turn of the century. Handwritten report on "The Story of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving". "There was a King that sent all the people of England to go to the Church of England but there were some people that did not like that at all and sometime they had a little meeting in their cellar so that they went tot Holland and all the Holland people welcomed the Pilgrims and the Pilgrims stayed in Holland for two years. Then the Pilgrims went over to America in the boat called the Mayflower and the Speedwell but the Speedwell broke down so that all the Pilgrims and the people in Holland were so sorry to have them leave.they had a very hard time crossing the ocean. They landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620 4 days before Christmas. They saw a few Indians they said they had better always keep their guns with them. " The last page lists things to be thankful for: "We should be thankful for our homes and kind parents and our food for our nice things to with for clothes for flowers and for being well." Also includes report on Holland and a story about a girl named Gretchen. unknown books
