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1827Best.-Nr. 167051827. Manuscript friendship album compiled for a young woman identified as Eliza containing poetry essays and inscriptions dated principally 1827 in New York documenting the literary culture and social practices associated with women's education in the Early Republic period. The album provides evidence of the handwritten exchange culture that flourished among young women attending academies and seminaries during the early nineteenth century when manuscript albums functioned as both literary exercises and social keepsakes marking transitions from formal schooling into adulthood. The contents emphasize moral instruction refinement religion sentiment and intellectual self-cultivation through contributions focused on friendship nature happiness morality and the perceived civilizing influence of women. Particularly notable is the opening manuscript essay "On Woman" which argues for women's moral authority within society: "By her genial influence the heart of man naturally prone to yield to the dictates of error is almost imperceptibly led into the paths of refinement." The manuscript offers primary-source evidence for the study of female education sentimental authorship and gender ideology in antebellum America. Album containing approximately 90 handwritten pages with twelve poems essays and inscriptions contributed by multiple hands several specifically dated New York 1827. Entries include "On Happiness and Contentment" "On the Beauties of Nature" "On the Mind" and "On Man" alongside verses celebrating friendship and social intimacy among young women. One humorous contribution addressed directly to Eliza reads in part: "Eliza thou hast vex'd me quite; for oh! that pen and ink! How couldst thou ask me for to write" before concluding "For one sweet Kiss I'll write without one blot." The combination of moral essays sentimental poetry playful verse and reflective compositions illustrates the literary training encouraged within female academies where copying composition and exchange albums formed part of broader educational and social practices. The manuscript preserves numerous distinct hands and compositional styles underscoring its collaborative nature as a communal record of friendship and intellectual accomplishment. 90 pages. Original boards. Measures 8 x 5 inches. Light toning and foxing throughout. Front hinge loose but holding. Very good condition overall. Substantial surviving example of early nineteenth-century American women's manuscript culture preserving firsthand evidence of literary education gendered social exchange and friendship networks among young women in 1820s New York. unknown books
1818Best.-Nr. 162011818. Education Society of Connecticut and Female Education Society of New Haven. The Second Annual Report of the Education Society of Connecticut; and of the Female Education Society of New-Haven 1818 documents women's organized participation in financing and supplying the education of young men preparing for the Protestant ministry in early nineteenth-century Connecticut. Despite its name the Female Education Society did not exist to educate women: women founded the New Haven organization in 1815 to support indigent male students pursuing ministerial education complementing the financial assistance supplied by the Education Society of Connecticut. Historical accounts record that the women's society provided clothing for students receiving educational aid and drew support from female auxiliary organizations elsewhere in Connecticut. Its annual report therefore records an early organized avenue through which women raised money administered charitable resources and participated in the institutional support of higher and theological education. Education Society of Connecticut and Female Education Society of New Haven. The Second Annual Report of the Education Society of Connecticut; and of the Female Education Society of New-Haven. New Haven: Printed by Nathan Whiting 1818. 15 pages 9 x 6 inches in original paper wrappers gently bound at the center left edge. The contents include the "Constitution of the Charitable Society of Connecticut for the Education of Indigent Pious Men for the Ministry of the Gospel" treasury and committee reports the constitution and report of the Female Education Society its treasurer's report and an appeal "To the friends of the cause which the education societies are aiming to promote." The stated purpose was to furnish financial assistance to "young men of piety and promising talents" preparing for religious study at Yale College. The Female Education Society supplied a parallel structure through which women contributed material and financial support; by September 1816 it reportedly counted 182 women as members and had received both money and clothing for assisted students. The report dates from a period when voluntary religious associations were expanding the means by which students without sufficient personal resources could prepare for the ministry. The Female Education Society is particularly notable for the organizational role assumed by women: although the educational beneficiaries were men women collected funds and clothing and established auxiliary networks in support of their schooling. The report is recorded as Shaw & Shoemaker 43583 and survives in the Early American Imprints series; current bibliographic records confirm institutional copies but the supplied claim of only two American institutional holdings could not be independently verified and is therefore omitted. Pages browned with small edge chips and creases scattered foxing and minor liquid staining not affecting the text; good condition. An early printed record of women's voluntary association work directed toward educational and religious philanthropy in Connecticut. unknown books
1925Best.-Nr. 162981925. Truro Cornwall Teacher Training College Photo Album 1925-1927 records the daily lives and friendships of women training for professional teaching careers at Truro Diocesan Training College in Cornwall. Founded in the nineteenth century specifically to train women teachers the college remained in operation until 1938. Across 164 snapshots students appear on outings and picnics pose individually and in groups and visit sites around Cornwall with handwritten captions identifying people activities and private jokes. "Help yourself to the cream" accompanies one excursion while "the long and short of it" captions a portrait of a tall young woman. Created during a period when women teachers received lower salaries than men and some local education authorities required women to resign upon marriage the album records the social world of young women preparing to enter a profession in which employment offered economic independence but remained subject to explicitly gendered restrictions. Truro Cornwall UK 1925-1927. 164 glossy-finish snapshot photographs both black-and-white and sepia in several formats including 3½ x 5½ 2½ x 4½ and 3½ x 2½ inches. Most photographs are captioned in white ink. The images concentrate on the women themselves rather than formal classroom instruction: students pose together take excursions and picnics and appear individually in informal portraits interspersed with views of Cornwall and its architecture. These captions preserve the students' own language for their experiences and companions giving the album a personal record distinct from official college registers or administrative documentation. Oblong octavo album in bradbound brown boards patterned to resemble leather with "Album" stamped in gilt on front board. The album dates from a consequential period in the professional organization of British women teachers. The National Union of Women Teachers campaigned against women's lower salaries and the marriage bars maintained by numerous local education authorities; women's salaries under the Burnham scale were set below those of men while marriage could require a teacher to leave her post. The marriage bar was not universal in application-contemporary records document differences among local authorities-and it was abolished nationally by the Education Act of 1944. Against that background these informal photographs preserve the period immediately preceding professional life: women living and training with other prospective teachers traveling through Cornwall and recording one another outside the institutional documentation that ordinarily survives from teacher-training colleges. Modest rubbing at front hinge and slight bumping to corners; some photographs slightly warped from mounting with occasional fingerprint residue. Overall very good condition. A substantial visual record of women's teacher training and student life in interwar Cornwall preserving 164 privately captioned images from a college established specifically for the training of women teachers. unknown books
1868Best.-Nr. 160851868. Newton H. Autograph letter signed on a handbill for the Lant Street Ragged Schools for Boys and Girls April 13 1868 documents free education for poor children and adults in Southwark and records substantially higher attendance among girls than boys. Newton identified as Vicar of St. Michael's Mission Schools Lant Street writes to a donor concerning the schools' work while the printed handbill describes an institution located "in the midst of the poorest population in Southwark" and reports approximately 850 attendances daily. The surviving enrollment figures give particular evidence for girls' participation: 243 girls attended the upper school room compared with 167 boys in the lower school room while afternoon attendance numbered 233 girls and 162 boys. Newton H. April 13 1868. Autograph letter signed on verso of a printed handbill for The Lant Street Ragged Schools for Boys and Girls Borough Southwark. The handbill describes the schools as "the largest with about 850 attendances daily and the most important in South London" and supplies separate attendance figures for boys and girls. It also records an evening school of approximately 65 "grown persons of both sexes" who were taught to read and write showing that the institution combined children's schooling with adult literacy instruction. Newton annotated the printed portion in his own hand including the notation "Ragged Schools male & female." His manuscript communication to a donor links the printed statistics and public appeal directly to the school's fundraising activity and administration. Ragged schools developed in nineteenth-century Britain to provide free instruction to children excluded by poverty from other forms of schooling commonly combining elementary education with religious and charitable work. The Lant Street handbill records that work before the Elementary Education Act of 1870 established a national framework for elected school boards in England and Wales. Its sex-specific figures are especially informative for the history of women's education: girls exceeded boys in both reported daytime sessions while the evening school extended literacy instruction to adult women as well as men. The handbill and Newton's signed letter preserve two aspects of the institution on the same sheet-the statistics used to describe its educational work and a clergyman's direct appeal to a supporter. No condition defects are specified in the supplied description. A contemporary record of schooling adult literacy charitable fundraising and female attendance among the poor of Victorian Southwark. unknown books
1825Best.-Nr. 167311825. Newton Mary. Friendship album begun 1825 documents early nineteenth-century manuscript album culture among young women in New England emphasizing sentimental expression moral reflection and the preservation of social relationships through handwritten verse. The volume supports research into female education friendship networks and the literary practices that shaped interpersonal identity in the antebellum Northeast. Entries contributed over several decades and across locations including Boston Amherst and Burlington demonstrate how such albums functioned as enduring records of mobility and connection maintaining ties as correspondents dispersed into different social and occupational roles. Newton Mary. Friendship album. 1825-1894. Manuscript volume containing 92 pages of handwritten inscriptions by numerous contributors frequently titled "To a Friend" or "To Miss Newton." The entries consist largely of copied or adapted poetic verse centered on memory affection and moral sentiment including lines such as "Joy cannot claim a purer bliss.Than female friendship's parting tear" and lyrical compositions like "It is not for your eagle eye.That Mary I love thee." Several contributions reflect the inevitability of separation as friends pursue "several employments" while others articulate prescriptive views on marriage and domestic life asserting reciprocal emotional obligations between husbands and wives and emphasizing women's central role in maintaining "the keys of affection." The album also includes humorous and coded entries such as a poem concluding with the note "Bees are Husbands worms are Beaus" indicating the presence of playful intimate communication within trusted social circles. Recurring themes of loss endurance and emotional constancy are reinforced through imagery of nature and transformation with verses describing clouds giving way to light as metaphors for overcoming sorrow. This album emerges from a period in which sentimental literature and manuscript exchange were integral to female education and socialization particularly within academies and informal networks of young women. Friendship albums served as both literary exercises and social documents reinforcing shared values while preserving evidence of personal relationships across time and distance. The geographic range of contributors reflects increasing regional mobility in the early republic while the sustained use of the album into the late nineteenth century demonstrates its long-term role as a repository of memory. Original paper boards; approximately 92 pages; measures 7.5 x 6 inches. Light even toning with heavier toning to initial leaves; some entries faded but legible; boards worn and separated from text block; good condition. A substantial example of early American female manuscript culture documenting sentiment mobility and evolving social identity. unknown books
1868Best.-Nr. 162021868. Pierce Henry M. Address to the Second Graduating Class of the Rutgers Female College 1868 was delivered to the second graduating class after the institution received a new charter authorizing it to confer collegiate degrees upon women. Founded in 1839 as Rutgers Female Institute the New York school became Rutgers Female College under an April 11 1867 charter granting it the rights and powers of a college or university except the authority to grant professional degrees. Pierce had used his address to the first graduating class in 1867 to discuss women's intellectual equality and the education appropriate to a college for women declaring that the institution's transition from Institute to College marked the change that had occurred in women's education during the preceding quarter century. This second address delivered the following year belongs to the college's earliest period of degree-granting instruction and is inscribed by its president. Pierce Henry M. Address to the Second Graduating Class of the Rutgers Female College; Delivered in the West Presbyterian Church Rev. Dr. Hastings' on Sabbath Evening May 31st 1868. New York: Agathynian Press 1868. Inscribed on the inside end page "Compliments of H. M. Pierce President." 16 pages. Original blue wrappers 9¼ x 6 inches. Rutgers Female College occupied 487-491 Fifth Avenue by this period and its 1867-1868 catalogue records a collegiate curriculum that included algebra geometry chemistry botany natural philosophy languages and other academic subjects. The presentation inscription directly associates this copy with Pierce during his presidency and the college's second graduating year. Rutgers Female College's 1867 charter placed the institution among the nineteenth-century schools attempting to provide women with collegiate rather than solely seminary instruction; contemporary and later records identify it as the first institution in New York City where women could earn the Bachelor of Arts degree. Pierce's 1868 address therefore dates to the immediate implementation of the college charter rather than a later commemoration of that transition. No condition defects are specified in the supplied description. President Pierce's presentation copy preserves an address delivered directly to the second class of women graduating under Rutgers Female College's newly established collegiate status. unknown books
1761Best.-Nr. 161641761. Ascham Roger The English Works of Roger Ascham Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth 1761 preserves the writings of the Tudor humanist whose instruction of Princess Elizabeth in Greek and Latin became part of the history of women's education learned monarchy and Renaissance pedagogy. Ascham served as Elizabeth's tutor from 1548 to 1550 later continued as Latin secretary under Mary I and Elizabeth I and became known for educational writing that valued disciplined classical learning lucid English prose and humane methods of instruction. His association with Elizabeth gives this collected edition particular significance for research into elite female education humanist curricula Tudor intellectual culture and eighteenth-century efforts to recover earlier models of learning for modern readers. Ascham Roger. The English Works of Roger Ascham Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth. London: Printed for T. Davies in Russell-Street Covent-Garden and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall 1761. Edited with notes observations and the author's life by James Bennet master of the boarding-school of Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire. One volume. Pagination not supplied. No illustrations noted. Half morocco with gilt detail on covers and gilt lettering on spine. Size not supplied. Contents include "A Report of the Affairs of Germany and the Emperor Charles's Court" Toxophilus or the School of Shooting The Schoolmaster or Perfect Way of Bringing Up Youth illustrated by the late learned Mr. Upton and letters to Queen Elizabeth and others first published from manuscripts. HathiTrust records a closely related later issue of The English Works of Roger Ascham with notes observations and the author's life by James Bennet and gives the physical extent of that issue as xvi 395 pages confirming the collected structure of the work while not replacing the supplied 1761 copy details. Bennet's dedication frames Ascham's historical value through his relation to female sovereignty stating that "Ascham was not only the chief ornament of a celebrated college but visited foreign countries frequented courts and lived in familiarity with statesmen and princes; not only instructed scholars in literature but formed Elizabeth to empire." That sentence makes the volume more than a collected literary edition: it presents Elizabeth's education as a political achievement and connects women's learning to governance court culture and national memory. Some wear to ends of spine with bright interiors otherwise; overall good. A handsome eighteenth-century collected edition linking Tudor humanist education to the intellectual formation of Elizabeth I and the longer history of arguments for learned women. unknown books
1827Best.-Nr. 165591827. Chapone Hester; Gregory John; Pennington Sarah. Chapone Letters on the Improvement of the Mind; Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his Daughters; Lady Pennington's Advice to her Absent Daughters; with an additional Letter on the Management and Education of Infant Children circa 1827 brings together major eighteenth-century texts on women's education moral formation reading domestic responsibility and female conscience. The volume belongs to the conduct-book tradition but is especially significant for pairing prescriptive instruction with arguments for women's rational cultivation including Chapone's emphasis on history literature and disciplined judgment and Pennington's insistence on moral conscience in the face of marriage family separation and social expectation. Chapone Hester; Gregory John; Pennington Sarah. Chapone Letters on the Improvement of the Mind; Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his Daughters; Lady Pennington's Advice to her Absent Daughters; with an additional Letter on the Management and Education of Infant Children. London: Scott Webster & Geary c. 1827. Early edition. 262 pages. Illustrated with two engravings including a frontispiece with tissue guard and an illustrated title page. Bound in marbled leather boards 32mo approximately 3.25 x 5.5 inches. The texts address religion economy government politeness the heart and affections reading habits maternal duty and the education of children with Chapone's letters originally written for her fifteen-year-old niece and warning against sentimental novels while encouraging serious intellectual formation. Issued in a compact illustrated format this omnibus shows the continued nineteenth-century circulation of women's educational writing that had already passed through numerous editions in Britain and America. Light wear to boards and extremities contents clean with illustrations present very good. A useful collecting item for the study of women's education conduct literature female authorship and the contested boundaries between obedience intellectual independence and moral agency in early nineteenth-century Britain. unknown books
1874Best.-Nr. 160221874. Buss Frances Mary autograph letter signed to Elizabeth Rundle Charles records a personal exchange between a leading campaigner for British girls' secondary education and the author of The Chronicles of the Schönberg Cotta Family. Founder of the North London Collegiate School in 1850 Buss developed an academically demanding curriculum and supported external examinations that could demonstrate girls' capacity for advanced study; North London Collegiate pupils later prepared for University of London and Cambridge examinations. Her letter to Charles provides a more personal record of that educational work through Buss's pupils whom she describes as eager to meet an author whose writing they knew. Buss Frances Mary. October 19 no year. Autograph letter signed to Elizabeth Rundle Charles. Two sides 8vo. Myre Lodge 89 King Henry's Road Regent's Park. Buss hopes to be "at Combe Edge soon after five o'clock" and tells Charles "My young people think it a great pleasure to have an opportunity of meeting the authoress of the Schonberg Cotta family." She also writes that she is deeply touched "to hear your kind expressions about the two persons dearest in life to me!" The recipient Elizabeth Rundle Charles was the author of The Chronicles of the Schönberg Cotta Family a historical novel centered on Martin Luther and the Reformation. Buss's reference to "my young people" connects the correspondence directly with her work as a headmistress and records her pupils' engagement with a contemporary woman writer. Buss's educational career belonged to the nineteenth-century campaign to establish academically rigorous secondary schooling for girls and to secure their access to the examinations and higher education increasingly available to men. The University of London admitted women to degrees on equal terms with men in 1878 while North London Collegiate students were among the girls prepared for university examinations during Buss's headship. The letter documents the literary culture surrounding Buss's pupils through their anticipated meeting with Charles rather than addressing educational reform directly. Small tear repaired; otherwise condition not further specified. A personal letter linking Frances Mary Buss's school circle with a prominent nineteenth-century woman author and the reading interests of her pupils. unknown books
1860Best.-Nr. 165381860. Hanson Mary A. friendship album 1860 documents mid-nineteenth-century girls' education in western Pennsylvania through a school reward presented for academic achievement in spelling. Given to Hanson at Laurel Hill Schoolhouse in McDonald Pennsylvania the album records how teachers used gift books moral instruction and sentimental inscription to encourage literacy discipline friendship and feminine virtue within the antebellum classroom. Hanson Mary A. Friendship Album. McDonald Pennsylvania: Laurel Hill Schoolhouse 1860. Manuscript presentation album with original black leather boards embossed front and back covers gilt-edged pages gilt spine decoration and gilt and red printed title page. The volume contains 64 pages six full-page engravings showing subjects including a woman writer figures reading in a garden a lady falconer and children playing and a hand-colored "Reward of Merit" card presented to Mary A. Hanson by a friend. The first page bears a lengthy teacher's dedication instructing Mary to use the album as "the repository of friendly names and of the purest thoughts and feelings" with "Sincerity purity and truth" guiding its entries; the teacher closes with a verse wishing that "love and friendship here unite" as the school year ends. The remaining pages are blank leaving the album as both a completed school presentation and an unused vessel for adolescent memory-making. Presented on March 31 1860 for "outstanding spelling work" during the preceding school year the album offers evidence of reward culture gendered moral pedagogy and literary sentiment in a rural Pennsylvania school setting before the Civil War. Very light foxing to engraving pages and wear to lower front hinge; original boards remain intact with gilt edges and decorative details present very good. A strong documentary artifact of girls' education classroom reward practices and the emotional language of friendship and moral formation in antebellum Pennsylvania. unknown books
1889Best.-Nr. 167661889. Lea Jean Sprunger. Manuscript art history lecture notebook 1889 records the curriculum taught by a woman lecturer at Cincinnati's Mount Auburn Young Ladies' Institute through an extended essay "Art North of the Alps" and biographical entries on fifty European artists. Lea identifies herself on the front cover as "Jean Sprunger Lea. Art Lecturer. Mt. Auburn Institute '89. Cin Ohio" while the first page records her appointment as "Senior Art Lecturer from January to June '89. Cincinnati Ohio." Founded in 1856 the Mount Auburn Young Ladies' Institute educated girls from age ten and offered advanced study in art music literature and languages; contemporary accounts also record its library reading room scientific apparatus and examinations. Lea's notebook documents art history instruction within this program through the working notes of the lecturer herself including pencil additions and corrections that preserve evidence of preparation and revision. Lea Jean Sprunger. Art North of the Alps and Artist Biographies. Cincinnati Ohio 1889. Original handwritten notebook 66 pages of which the final 20 are blank; 8 x 6½ inches in original paper boards. Accompanied by two later typed mimeographed copies of "Art North of the Alps." Lea organizes the opening essay geographically around "Teutonic German Dutch Flemish Spanish French and English art" discussing Gothic architecture and such examples as the cathedrals of Freiburg Strasbourg and Chartres before turning to individual artists. Fifty biographical entries include Jan van Eyck Albrecht Dürer Hans Holbein Peter Paul Rubens Anthony van Dyck and Diego Velázquez among others. Her entry on Dürer describes his Nuremberg upbringing as the son of a goldsmith his travels to Venice and his writings on geometry and astronomy concluding that offers from Venice and Antwerp could not induce him to leave his "beloved Nuremburg." Pencil additions and corrections appear in the manuscript providing evidence of Lea's continued work with the lecture material. Mount Auburn Young Ladies' Institute belonged to Cincinnati's nineteenth-century network of private schools providing advanced education to women. Historical accounts confirm that the school opened in 1856 and after reopening in 1878 continued to offer post-secondary instruction to graduates seeking further study in art music literature and languages. Lea's 1889 manuscript identifies the artists monuments chronology and biographical information presented to senior female students and preserves a named woman educator's preparation for six months of art instruction. A later owner's inscription appears on the first page. Rust staining from a paperclip affects the inside front cover and first page; otherwise very good condition. The manuscript provides direct evidence of art-historical pedagogy for women in late nineteenth-century Cincinnati through a surviving lecturer's working notebook rather than a published school curriculum. unknown books
1912Best.-Nr. 167751912. Unidentified compiler. Photograph album of women's education and collegiate life 1912-1920 documents student experience leisure activities and social networks across Maine including institutions such as Colby College and the University of Maine. The album captures young women's participation in academic environments alongside outdoor recreation travel and community life situating female education within broader patterns of early twentieth-century mobility and social interaction. The material provides visual evidence of women's presence in expanding educational institutions and their integration into both structured and informal aspects of student life. Photograph album. Maine and various U.S. locations 1912-1920. Quarto format album with 187 silver gelatin photographs mounted across 42 pages with image sizes ranging from approximately 1.5 x 3.5 inches to 3.5 x 5.5 inches. The photographs depict locations throughout southern Maine including Portland Waterville Lamoine Boothbay North Pond and Ogunquit along with additional images from Texas Florida and New Hampshire. Academic settings are represented through images identified as Colby College including a figure labeled "Prof. Johnson Colby '18" and references to the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity "Hurrah for A.T.O.". Additional institutional references include "Nasson Institute 1912" a women's school in Springvale and the Phi Eta Kappa fraternity house at the University of Maine. Human subjects include students and faculty such as "Dean Hunt" as well as classmates in graduation attire. Recreational and social scenes include young women snowshoeing playing tennis and participating in outings labeled "Picnic to the quarry" "Clam Bake" and "Hot Dog Roast." Automotive travel appears in images of early motorcars while other photographs depict children in Sunday school groups bicycle riding and staged performances of "Pied Piper" and "Red Riding Hood." Additional images include a man in World War I-era military uniform "Adrian Old Top" and an individual identified as "Texas Bill" posing with a biplane. Informal scenes include three girls reading on a rooftop space labeled "The Sun Porch" with a related image documenting their ascent assisted by a male companion. The album spans a period of expanding access to higher education for women in the United States particularly in regional institutions across New England. The inclusion of both coeducational and women-focused institutions reflects the varied educational pathways available during this period. Recreational imagery including athletics and social outings demonstrates the integration of leisure into student identity while references to World War I-era figures situate the album within a broader national context. Original cloth boards with minor wear and three small holes to lower right quadrant of front cover; photographs well-preserved with strong clarity; overall very good condition. A substantial visual record of women's collegiate and social life in early twentieth-century Maine. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 50433Philadelphia: Penn Monthly 1878. Offprint. First separate edition. Octavo. Sewn pamphlet; printed blue paper wrappers; 12pp; errata slip bound in after final leaf of text. Rear wrapper neatly detached; old tide-line to upper margin of front wrapper; text tight and unmarked - a Good complete and sound copy. Signed in type and end of text by Charles F. Dunbar. Article reprinted from the April 1878 issue of Otis Kendall's Penn Monthly in which Stillé's original article had appeared two months earlier. Dunbar an eminent Harvard economist answers the criticisms of Stillé then provost of the University of Pennsylvania who had taken issue with the profferment of the Harvard Preliminary Examination for Women in the city of Philadelphia. Stillé's argument appears to have been based as much on parochialism as criticism of the exam's content; he was at this time working to raise the profile of Penn among elite American universities and resented the incursion of Harvard onto Penn's home turf. But Stillé evinces more than a little snobbery to say nothing of chauvinism in his assertion that ".no hot-house treatment which forces a precocious and unnatural development can ever produce that fruit which is the support and comfort of human life" - an assertion which Dr. Dunbar answers somewhat caustically: "These truths are well-worn and not denied but if they serve in connection any other purpose than that of a modest rhetorical embellishment it is because the relate to some fancied system quite different from that under discussion." Despite widespread criticisms similar to the ones ably answered by Dunbar in the present essay The Harvard Examinations for Women - quite stringent covering a wide range of subjects and requiring their subjects to answer in at least two languages other than English - eventually became a national standard for the accreditation of young women who were unable whether for reasons of gender or circumstance to attend four-year universities. Stillé meanwhile became one of the University of Pennsylvania's historical icons; ".the extraordinary progress begun in his administration initiated the great expansion that was to continue under his immediate successors." DAB. The pamphlet appears uncommon - though widely catalogued in WorldCat nearly all holdings examined appear to be digital copies of the original held at Harvard's Schlesinger Library. unknown books
1924Best.-Nr. 31532Washington D.C.: S.i. 1924. First Edition. Slim octavo 23cm; beige printed wrappers stapled; 12pp. Pamphlet is vertically folded at center wrappers dusty edgeworn and nearly detached along spine fold; 7 brief passages marked in pencil; Good complete copy. Summary of details regarding the salary scale for the academic faculty of Howard University presented to their Board of Trustees. Includes extracts and correspondence from faculty to members of the board including the full text of Dean Kelly Miller's letter to Dr. Michael O. Dumas and hard data as to proposed pay increases for the various positions. OCLC finds a single copy Emory University. S.i. unknown books
1919Best.-Nr. 28312London: George Allen & Unwin 1919. First Edition. Octavo. Olive drab boards lettered in black on spine and front cover; xvi 336pp. Inserted advertising leaf tipped in before first page of Preface. Tight straight and unmarked copy Near Fine. Social survey of British labourers mainly in the city of Sheffield undertaken immediately following the Great War. The Society was under the directorship though not credited herein of the prominent Fabian Socialist anthroposophist and educator Arthur James Freeman 1886-1972 who also founded the Sheffield Educational Settlement 1918. Among contemporary testimonials included on the inserted advertising leaf is the following from the Daily Mail: ".One of the most interesting social studies that have been made since Charles Booth's Life and Labour in London.Anyone who agrees that 'the proper study of mankind is man' could not fail to find this fascinating." See Helen Smith "Love Sex Work and Friendship: Northern Working-Class Men and Sexuality in the First Half of the Twentieth Century" in Alana Harris & Timothy Jones eds Love and Romance in Britain 1918-1970 Lon: 2015. George Allen & Unwin unknown books
1820Best.-Nr. 12201Essen Duisburg: G.D. Baedeker 1820. Quarto. Contemporary marbled boards with portion of original printed wrappers laid down red paper label to spine with titling in ink. x 160 pp. Binding worn. Some foxing mostly marginal throughout; creasing to outer upper corners; occasional staining not affecting text. With contemporary ownership notations to front free endpaper dated 1820; ex-libris handstamps and some ink markings to title leaf. First Edition of the second part of this early influential work on instruction of singing for children. Scarce. The first part was published in 1813. Eitner v. 8 pp. 149-150. Fétis v. 6 pp. 283-284. Of interest to the evolution of music education in America further developed by 19th century theorists Lowell Mason and his contemporaries. G.D. Baedeker unknown books
Best.-Nr. 1095Steinbeck John. New York University Division of General Education. BOOK ADVERTISING. Materials handbook for the Seminar on Book Advertising Spring Semester 1947. Tabloid size newsprint pages stapled including advertising rates for various American newspapers and examples of book advertisements. Nice full page ad for CANNERY ROW. Fine condition. unknown books
1960Best.-Nr. 230811960. Ecology U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare Public Health Service's Advanced Waste Treatment Research series issued 1960-1964 which document the federal government's first sustained research program addressing the inadequacy of conventional sewage treatment in an industrial and chemically complex society. Issued following the 1961 amendments to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act which expanded federal jurisdiction and authorized intensified research into water pollution these reports establish the technical basis for the transition from sanitation-based infrastructure to chemically and technologically advanced water purification. They address a defined policy failure: primary and secondary treatment systems removed solids and reduced biological oxygen demand but left dissolved contaminants including phosphates nitrates synthetic detergents and industrial chemicals in drinking water supplies. Produced as American waterways including the Potomac River Lake Erie and the Cuyahoga River exhibited visible ecological degradation these publications place federal scientific research within the early formation of national environmental policy and the shift toward water reuse chemical treatment and pollution control as federal responsibilities. Archive of twelve issues all issued by U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare. Public Health Service. Environmental Health Series Water Supply and Pollution Control. Advanced Waste Treatment Research reports. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1960-1964. all publications issued in original printed wrappers Environmental Health Series reports with blue-covered summary volumes; all copies bearing a consistent manuscript ownership signature possibly reading "C. Flouhill" to upper covers. This research program preceded the institutional consolidation of federal environmental authority in the mid-1960s and the legislative framework later formalized in the Clean Water Act of 1972 making these reports direct technical antecedents to the statutory standards that followed. The inclusion of reverse osmosis ion exchange and adsorption demonstrates early federal investigation into processes that became standard components of municipal and industrial water treatment. Light edge wear minor toning and handling marks consistent with use; overall very good condition. A cohesive federal research archive documenting the point at which water pollution control shifted from a localized sanitation issue to a national technological and regulatory problem. unknown books
1943Best.-Nr. 200331943. African American Education Alexander Fred M. Education for the Needs of the Negro in Virginia. Washington DC: The Southern Education Foundation. First Edition Hardcover No Dust Jacket 1943. 297 pages. Measures 6.25" x 9.25". The book proposes that the rapid acceleration of social chance in Virginia has required the education system to make changes to accommodate the black scholars. The stated reasons for the study by the author include: "There is general concern among all classes of people for improving the social and economic conditions of all underprivileged people" "Education opportunities and facilities for Negroes in Virginia are below a reasonable standard for social effectiveness" and "Negroes are becoming increasingly conscious of their educational needs and are organizing to urge more adequate facilities." The book is broken up into different educational sections and also includes several graphs charts and other index sections. Gold gilt lettering with Title & portrait of John P. Slater in seal on boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Cloth is dark green. Binding tight and pages are clean. In very good condition. unknown books
1832Best.-Nr. 200121832. American Education Society. Sixteenth Annual Report of the Directors of the American Education Society 1832 records the finances administration and ministerial training work of an organization founded to assist "indigent but pious" young men preparing for the Protestant ministry. Issued during the expansion of evangelical benevolent societies in the antebellum United States the report documents the close relationship among theological education charitable subscription and Protestant reform. Its accounting of institutional activity and financial support provides contemporary evidence of how voluntary religious organizations recruited donors and financed clerical education during the revival culture of the early nineteenth century. American Education Society. Sixteenth Annual Report of the Directors of the American Education Society Presented at the Annual Meeting. Boston: Printed for the Society by Perkins & Marvin 1832. Octavo. The report records the Society's annual activities finances governance and support for ministerial education presenting administrative information to subscribers while also arguing for continued financial and moral support. Such reports served both as institutional records and as fundraising instruments allowing the Society to account for its expenditures identify the scope of its educational work and maintain connections among officers contributors theological students and supporting congregations. Founded in 1815 the American Education Society belonged to the network of Protestant benevolent organizations that expanded alongside the Second Great Awakening and sought to increase the number of formally educated ministers available to growing communities in the United States. The 1832 report preserves the Society's own account of that work at a time when theological schools missionary organizations and voluntary associations were becoming increasingly important to Protestant institutional life. Disbound and lacking the original wrappers with moderate edge wear; text complete and legible. Good condition. An early annual record of the financial and administrative mechanisms used to support Protestant ministerial education in antebellum America. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 18976Tuskegee University felt pennant likely late twentieth century documents HBCU pride African American educational identity and Black Power visual culture through a collegiate souvenir tied to one of the most historically important Black institutions in the United States. Tuskegee was founded in 1881 as the Tuskegee Normal School for the training of Black teachers with Booker T. Washington as its first teacher and founding principal and later became closely associated with figures including George Washington Carver. Yellow felt pennant measuring 28 inches in length. The pennant displays bold red "Tuskegee" lettering and a red "Property of Black America" seal incorporating a raised Black Power fist at the center. The design combines traditional collegiate pennant format with explicit Black nationalist visual language linking campus affiliation to broader African American pride and collective ownership. The pennant is significant as a material expression of Black educational heritage rather than a standard school souvenir. Its raised-fist emblem places Tuskegee identity within the visual vocabulary of Black Power and post-civil-rights cultural assertion while its connection to an HBCU founded during Reconstruction-era struggles over Black education gives the object deeper historical resonance. Light handling wear; overall good to very good. A visually direct HBCU artifact connecting Tuskegee pride Black institutional history and African American political iconography. unknown books
1919Best.-Nr. 189661919. The Marylander" 1919 yearbook from the Maryland College for Women. Contains 123 pages 11" x 8." Maryland 1919. In this profusely illustrated yearbook women students excel in their studies while pursuing active social lives. They engage in sports theatre productions and sororities. There are many full-page photographs of various campus organizations such as the Choral Club Basketball Team Baseball Team Spanish Club and a drama group called Thalia Club. Each senior-class student has her own page which includes a photo portrait nicknames hometowns club associations and cheeky descriptions: "Trissy is indeed a winsome maid. She is not as quiet as she seems or as bashful as she looks." Short stories poems and articles about school events are peppered throughout as are superlatives and advertisements for local businesses. Bound in black covers with gilt lettering. Very good condition. unknown books
1916Best.-Nr. 189641916. Women's Education Yearbook from an all-female college in 1916. Contains 181 pages 9.5" x 7.5." Pennsylvania. Founded by Presbyterian pastors in 1869 Wilson Female College was one of the first United States colleges to accept women. Its mission statement was rather progressive for its time declaring itself as an institution for women "to be leaders not followers in society." In this pristine profusely illustrated yearbook women excel in their studies while pursuing active social lives. They engage in sports theatre productions and sororities. There are many full-page photographs of various campus organizations such as The Physical Science Club Student Government basketball teams and hockey teams. Each senior-class student has her own page which includes a photo portrait a list of their club associations and a brief description: "If we were all men we would send Helen chocolate peppermints too." Short stories and poems are peppered throughout as are caricature illustrations and advertisements for local businesses. Bound in black boards with gilt lettering; a female student's name is inscribed on the front pastedown endpaper. A personal look into the history of women's education in America. Very good condition. unknown books
1903Best.-Nr. 189671903. The Llamarada" 1903 yearbook from the Mount Holyoke College. Contains 221 pages 7" x 9.5." Massachusetts 1903. The oldest of the historic Seven Sisters colleges Mount Holyoke was founded by women's education advocate Mary Lyon. In this illustrated yearbook women students excel in their studies while pursuing active social lives. They engage in sports music clubs and sororities. There are many photographs of various campus organizations such as the Banjo Club the basketball teams and drama clubs. At the time Mount Holyoke had a strong literary presence as is reflected in these pages. There are many short stories articles and poems strewn throughout. Also included are 25 pages of advertisements from local businesses. Bound in brown boards with gilt lettering. Very good condition. unknown books
1914Best.-Nr. 184521914. Yearbook for Elizabeth College a women's higher educational institution. 1914. The Elizabethan. Black leather soft covers measuring 8.5 x 11 inches. 135 pages with additional advertisements at back. Elizabeth College opened in 1897 in Charlotte North Carolina as a four-year school for women sponsored by the Evangelical Lutheran Church. It's vision was "to afford a broad and liberal culture for women; to furnish to young women an education in the classics mathematics and sciences." Before the educational reforms of the progressive era schools adopted "differentiated curriculum" along gender lines with professional training for men and domestication for women. Yearbook includes school songs and student poems written as tributes to classmates and faculty rosters with photos for clubs and sports teams class photos and school calendars. Elizabeth College eventually moved to Virginia where a fire in 1921 destroyed most of its records. This yearbook captures the importance of the institution and those like it for the women it prepared for a new century. Front cover with small chips and tears to edges. Hinge cracked and textblock partially detached. Some shedding. Overall good condition. unknown books
