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1880Best.-Nr. 196981880. Fraister Belle. Iowa Schoolgirl Handwritten Notebook Archive documents the classroom work of a late nineteenth-century Iowa girl preserving evidence of women's education through manuscript exercises in history English penmanship grammar and arithmetic. The notebooks show how a schoolgirl practiced factual recall moral phrasing written style and practical calculation during a period when secondary education for girls increasingly prepared students for teaching clerical work and public intellectual participation as well as domestic life. The material provides direct evidence of everyday pedagogy handwriting discipline and curriculum formation in Iowa between 1880 and 1890. Iowa 1880-1890. Archive of 3 handwritten school notebooks belonging to Belle Fraister totaling 146 pages many blank in decorated pictorial wrappers; notebooks measure approximately 8" x 7" and 8" x 7½". The notebooks contain written work in history English penmanship and arithmetic with one history section summarizing states through structured categories such as time cause place and people. For Georgia Fraister writes "Time - 1733" "Cause - Refuge for the poor and persecuted" "Place - Savannah" "People - English" and notes "1752 - Geogia became the first Royal Province." Other pages show repeated penmanship practice including the phrases "Promise little but do much" and "Union is strength" calligraphic stroke exercises and grammar notes on pronunciation inflection pitch synonyms and related language study. One notebook includes a small newspaper clipping on the death of John G. Saxe with a brief handwritten biographical note beneath it. All notebooks bear stamps from the original stationery store. 1 Fraister Belle. History Notebook. Iowa 1880-1890. Contains structured state-history summaries including entries for Georgia organized by date motive for settlement location and people showing classroom methods for memorizing colonial and state history. 2 Fraister Belle. Penmanship Notebook. Iowa 1880-1890. Includes repeated letters words phrases and calligraphic strokes documenting handwriting instruction as both practical skill and moral exercise through maxims such as "Promise little but do much" and "Union is strength." 3 Fraister Belle. English and Arithmetic Notebook. Iowa 1880-1890. Contains notes on grammar pronunciation inflection pitch synonyms arithmetic and a clipped notice with a manuscript biography of John G. Saxe showing the combination of language study numeracy and literary awareness in Fraister's schoolwork. Decorated wrappers with light handling wear; interior pages generally legible; many pages blank as noted. Overall very good. A compact manuscript archive documenting the subjects methods and written discipline of girls' education in late nineteenth-century Iowa. 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
1928Best.-Nr. 189221928. Women's Education Diploma for female student at the Crouse-Irving Hospital School of Nursing. Syracuse NY. 18 October 1928. Kept in black cloth folder with gilt lettering that measures 6.5" x 4." Diploma certificate is awarded to "Louise Lowe McKeehan" and bears gold seal and school insignia. There are signatures from the President Board of Trustees the Superintendent of Hospital the Principal School of Nursing and the President of Staff which validate this document. Founded in 1887 by a group of women the Syracuse Training School for Nurses was the first hospital in the area that would admit women and children. This diploma is evidence of the school's long history of furthering women's education. Very good condition. 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
1926Best.-Nr. 189771926. Women's Education Elliott Vida Coe. The Social Role and Function Family as Analyzed in the Teachings of Confucius and Confucianism. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota 1926. 97 pages of typed text. Wrapped in solid black cloth hardcovers. The title page notes that this is "A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Minnesota by Vida Coe Elliott In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts". Penciled ownership inscription by "Vida Elliott" on the front end paper. In her thesis Elliott analyzes the function of family in relation to the teachings of Confucius. She postulates that "One function of the family is the perpetuation of the race but if the race is carried on in an unwholesome way it will not be long before that race will cease to exist and another race will take its place". As a result she asserts that "The Chinese people foresaw this problem even before the time of Confucius they enacted eugenic laws in order that their race might prosper". To support her hypothesis she interweaves examples of Confucian teachings in comparison to family structures in America. Fading and chipping to the front and back cover and wear to the spine. Signs of wear to the manuscript's edges not affecting text. A compelling thesis intersecting Confucianism and eugenics overall in 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
1906Best.-Nr. 188971906. Women's Education Red Cross Training School for Nurses Diploma of Graduation. 1 December 1906 Minnesota. 14" x 17." Thick cardboard diploma bearing gilt seal and Red Cross "Semper Fidelis" logo. Reads "This is to certify that Maria Louisa Hamann having completed the regular course of instruction and practice required by this school and passes creditably the examination is fully qualified as a trained nurse and is awarded this diploma of graduation." Also included are six autograph signatures of various faculty validating the document. Some chipping at sides not affecting text. Otherwise in very good condition. unknown books
1942Best.-Nr. 190201942. Women's Education Young Boston woman's personal unbound scrapbook archive with information about her Brown University scholarship. 10 oversize pages unbound each 16" x 12" pages decorated with 27 pieces of ephemera and 5 silver gelatin photographs. No covers Circa 1940s. These pieces belong to one Lois Paradise a high school senior in 1946 who attended Boston's Girls Latin School during a turbulent period in American history. She collected mementos from various points during her final year documenting everything from her Red Cross Home Nursing certification cards to opera handbills. She pasted in a column by Ernie Pyle about World War II as well as various class songs and poems. Lois received a prestigious full tuition scholarship to Brown University's Pembroke College; the notification letters are pasted beside an announcement in her local paper. Also included are newspaper clippings acknowledging her friends' acceptances to Boston University and Radcliffe. The photographs paint a vibrant picture of Lois' social life. Her friends dress up cradling baby dolls and stuffed animals; they stand shoulder to shoulder and grin at the camera. An inscription reads: "Baby day." Quite a few entries are accompanied with such captions usually providing brief identifications of place date and event. Very interesting archive of a young girl making her way in World War II -era America. Unbound edges are uneven. Missing some pieces of ephemeraand a few loose. Overall fair to good condition. unknown books
1810Best.-Nr. 186861810. Wilson James. Arithmetic manuscript notebook 1810 documenting mathematical instruction and student practice in post-Revolutionary New England with direct relevance to the study of early American education numeracy and manuscript culture. The volume opens with a formal definition "Arithmetic is the art of computing by numbers." followed by systematic lessons covering numeration addition subtraction multiplication and division and extending into applied topics such as "Division of vulgar fractions" "The Rule of Three" and "Reduction of decimals." These subjects reflect the practical mathematical training expected of students in the early Republic where arithmetic supported commerce land measurement and everyday economic activity. The notebook also includes dated personal notation-"Bowdain February the 13th 1810. Tuesday morning the sky being clear."-anchoring the work within a specific time and place and illustrating how formal instruction intersected with lived experience in a rural educational setting. Wilson James. Arithmetic. Bowdoin Maine February 1810. Manuscript notebook comprising 56 handwritten pages measuring approximately 12 x 7.5 inches written entirely in ink with carefully structured headings such as "Reduction" and "Reduction continued" followed by worked examples and ruled numerical columns. The volume demonstrates a methodical approach to instruction through repetition and extended problem sets reflecting pedagogical practices prior to the widespread use of standardized textbooks. The consistent penmanship and organization indicate sustained use as a working instructional text rather than a presentation copy. Manuscript of 56 pages with dampstaining and foxing to the front cover and first leaves with occasional marginal staining; all text remains legible and the structure intact; overall good to very good condition. A student-produced primary source documenting arithmetic education and daily life in early nineteenth-century New England. unknown books
1920Best.-Nr. 192341920. Original Vintage Photograph from June 1920 of a group of young scientists including a young woman doing a dissection of a human skeletal cadaver. Black and white silver gelatin photograph. 7" x 5" photograph on 8" x 10" board. Captioned "June 1920" on verso. It is likely that this coeducational group are medical students with one older man in glasses seeming to be their instructor. In the background we can see a variety of anatomical drawings as well as bones preserved in liquid in a glass case. The students wear white lab coats except for the female student who is wearing a white gown. While women had entered the nursing profession in large numbers during the 19th century there were still very few female doctors in 1920 making this photo a depiction of a rather uncommon scene. There is a horizontal crack along the upper part of the board which is holding but delicate. The photo itself has a very small closed tear and a small blue smudge in the bottom left corner but is in very good condition overall. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 1887819th Century Archive of 23 School Merit Awards. These illustrated cards were each given to students as tokens of congratulations and scholastic achievement or good behavior. Sizes range from 3.5" x 2.5" to larger at 9" x 6.5." These small tokens of congratulation given to students for good behavior and scholastic accomplishments have been utilized by teachers for generations in America. The practice was most popular during the nineteenth century when printing techniques evolved to make this form of reward easily available. Rewards of merit in addition to being examples of a nineteenth century classroom tool reveal the progress of printing in America as well as the priorities of educators of the time. Illustrations include snowy scenes nature landscapes children churches flowers and birds. Many of them are signed with the student' names. Beautiful archive in very good condition. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 18870Large archive of 61 School Merit Awards and other late 19th Century cards. Each card sizes range from 2.5" x 1.5" to 5" x 2.5." These small illustrated cards were given to students as tokens of congratulations and scholastic achievement. Illustrations include snowy scenes nature landscapes children dogs flowers and birds. Rewards of merit in addition to being examples of a nineteenth century classroom tool reveal the progress of printing in America as well as the priorities of educators of the time. Illustrations include snowy scenes nature landscapes children churches flowers and birds. Many of them are signed with the student' names. Beautiful archive in very good condition. A few of these cards were given in condolence to grieving relatives of a deceased loved one but the vast majority were for School Merit Awards. Beautiful and in very good condition. unknown books
1830Best.-Nr. 182301830. Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education presented to the Trustees of the Hartford Female seminary and published at their Request." Catharine E. Beecher. Packard and Butler: Hartford 1830. Measures 8.5 x 6 inches. 84 pages. An educational activisit Beecher established the Hartford Female Seminary in in 1823 where she taught until 1832. Her life's work was based in the belief that gender equality is contingent on the quality of female education. "Much of the existing evil in the world may be removed or lessened by human agency" she writes in this editorial. "What now is and always has been regarded as the most powerful means for improving the condition of our race is education." Article has been removed from the original publication with binding intact. Last page torn along margin does not affect text. Small tears along spine where piece was removed from whole. Light foxing to pages. Overall in good condition. unknown books
1849Best.-Nr. 182281849. Catalogue of the Officers and Pupils of the Troy Female Seminary 1849 records the faculty students graduates curriculum-related costs and student writing of the school founded by Emma Willard in Troy New York in 1821. Willard established the seminary to give young women access to advanced study in subjects then commonly reserved for men following her 1819 Plan for Improving Female Education which argued that women should receive instruction beyond the limited curriculum generally available to them. The catalogue documents the institution nearly three decades after its founding through the names of the women studying and teaching there its graduates its fees and examples of work produced by its pupils. Catalogue of the Officers and Pupils of the Troy Female Seminary. New York: Kneeland and Co's Steam Press 1849. 32 pages. Original soft wrappers. 5.5 x 9 inches. The catalogue includes lists of faculty current pupils graduates and fees together with several pieces of student writing. These records identify individual participants in the seminary and provide contemporary evidence of enrollment administration educational costs and student work at a school whose curriculum became influential in the development of women's education in the United States. Willard's pupils subsequently carried her educational methods into schools elsewhere in the country extending the influence of the Troy model beyond the institution itself. The catalogue appeared during Willard's lifetime and preserves the ordinary institutional record of a school created in response to the restricted educational opportunities available to American women in the early nineteenth century. Troy Female Seminary was later renamed the Emma Willard School but the 1849 catalogue records the institution under its original name and through the people actually enrolled employed and graduated there. Foxing to front and back wrappers; front wrapper torn approximately 3 inches along spine with front corner torn. Overall good condition. unknown books
1876Best.-Nr. 182311876. Archive of 2 Hartford Female Seminary Catalogue and Circulars. 1876 and 1877. Measure 7 x 4.5 inches. 12 pages. Original soft wrappers brown and green respectively. Catalogues include list of trustees faculty calendar fees and students. The Hartford Female Seminary was established in 1823 by Catharine E. Beecher and based in the belief that the possibility of true gender equality was contingent on the quality of female education. Light shelfwear to both. Cover text worn on 1877 catalogue with light stain to front wrapper does not affect text. Overall good condition. unknown books
1827Best.-Nr. 182321827. Gallaudet Thomas Hopkins. An Address on Female Education at the Opening of the Edifice Erected for the Accommodation of the Hartford Female Seminary 1827 presents an early nineteenth-century argument for expanding women's education delivered in connection with the institution founded by educator Catharine E. Beecher in 1823. Gallaudet best known as a founder and principal of the American Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb in Hartford addressed women's intellectual development while acknowledging the political and professional restrictions imposed upon them. He writes: "Woman cannot plead at the bar or preach in the pulpit or thunder in the senate house. yet hers is no trifling eloquence. Its power though unostentatious in display is mighty in result." Gallaudet Thomas Hopkins. An Address on Female Education at the Opening of the Edifice Erected for the Accommodation of the Hartford Female Seminary. Hartford: H. and F. J. Huntington 1827. 34 pages. 5 x 8.25 inches. The address was prepared for the opening of a new building for the Hartford Female Seminary connecting Gallaudet's discussion of women's education to a specific institutional expansion. Beecher had founded the seminary four years earlier to provide young women with advanced educational opportunities at a time when access to comparable schooling remained sharply restricted by sex. The address belongs to the antebellum expansion of female seminaries and academies that enlarged women's access to formal education before women were broadly admitted to American colleges and universities. Its language also records the limitations within which advocates framed female education: Gallaudet argues for women's intellectual and rhetorical influence while explicitly identifying the law ministry and legislature as male domains. Foxing throughout; wrappers missing; text block clean and intact. Overall good condition. The address documents both the expansion of educational opportunities for American women and the gendered boundaries that continued to define arguments for female education in the 1820s. unknown books
1894Best.-Nr. 182811894. Imperial size albumen photo of students and faculty at the Albany Business College. 1894. This very large photograph measures 24 x 20 inches. The image consist of 4 smaller group photos showing 35 subjects total including 5 female Graduates. Names of all the subjects listed at the bottom. The albumen is mounted to photographer's board. Although women did own and operate businesses during the 19th century many of them were apprenticed or self-taught as educational opportunities were limited. For a graduating class to include women at all much less 5 makes this group exceptionally scarce. Financial independence through business acumen provides a level of freedom women were not often allowed within a patriarchal society as rigid as 19th century America. Dampstains to side of photographer mat board does not affect photographic image. Toning and foxing to mat. One corner clipped. Light sunning. Features are crisp and details clear. Overall very good condition. unknown books
1871Best.-Nr. 182271871. Catalogue for the Troy Female Seminary. WM H Young and Blake: New York 1871. Original wrappers. Catalogue contains Mrs. Emma Willard's Plan of Female Education originally published in 1818. Measures 5.75 x 9 inches. 49 pages. Catalogue includes lists of faculty students and graduates from the year as well as committee reports and the second edition of an editorial written by Emma Willard on the future of female education. Troy Female Seminary later renamed The Emma Willard School and often called simply "Emma" was founded by Willard in 1821 in order to provide an opportunity for women to receive the same quality of higher education as their male peers. Emma Willard's lifetime of educational activism was built on the belief that gender equality cannot exist without high quality female education. Back wrapper torn along bottom. Front wrapper torn along spine exposing binding. Front wrapper corner torn with smaller tears along the bottom. Dampstain on margin does not affect text. Overall good condition. unknown books
1880Best.-Nr. 182821880. Elite Studio large albumen photograph of college graduates circa 1880s documents higher education gendered academic ceremony and the visible presence of a disabled graduate in late nineteenth-century San Francisco. The image is especially significant for disability history because it records a named student identified on the verso as "Parkhurst" participating in formal academic commemoration during a period when disabled Americans were often marginalized through institutionalization public exhibition or exclusion from ordinary civic and professional life. The photograph supports research into disability education gender class presentation and West Coast studio portraiture in the decades before World War I veterans' rehabilitation helped expand public expectations of governmental responsibility toward disabled citizens. Albumen photograph circa 1880s mounted to photographer's board from Elite Studio San Francisco California measuring 17.5 x 22 inches. The image shows eight graduates men and women posed together with rolled diplomas clasped in their hands. The men wear formal dark suits two with large mustaches fashionable in the period; the women wear white formal dresses with puffed sleeves and bustled skirts. Parkhurst stands among the male graduates with a large mustache noticeably hunched shoulder raised toward his jawline and a smaller frame than the other men. The verso bears red ink inscriptions with several student names including Parkhurst and "Class of ____." The photograph gains interpretive force from its formal setting: Parkhurst is not pictured as a medical subject charity recipient or spectacle but as a graduate within a mixed-gender academic cohort. Later disability history including World War I rehabilitation policy and Franklin D. Roosevelt's public management of disability after polio underscores how unusual and valuable nineteenth-century visual records of disabled people in ordinary civic achievement can be. Toning around edges of board not affecting image; two-inch red line at top of image points toward one subject's head; red ink inscriptions on verso; overall very good. A substantial San Francisco educational portrait with direct research value for disability history and the visual culture of nineteenth-century academic inclusion. unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 182781932. Silver gelatin portraits of faculty and graduating class from the University of Manitoba Medical School. Canada 1932. Measures 16 x 12.5 inches. 42 student subjects including a single female student. 2 faculty members with illustration of school building between them. Mounted to photographer's board. Photographer's info in bottom corner "Campbell." After fierce educational activism throughout the 19th century led to the admission of women into medical schools at the turn of the century the twentieth century saw a decline of women in the profession. By 1949 only 5.5% of students entering medical schools were women. Students are shown in graduation gowns with sashes across their chests. student's name are listed including Female medical student as "V. McDorman." In very good condition. unknown books
1918Best.-Nr. 182991918. Fairmont High School Diploma for female student. 1918. Measures 14 x 20 inches. Certificate reads in part "This diploma certifies that Edna Lillian Squires has completed the course of study prescribed by the Board of Education of this District for the High School and is entitled to all the honors and privileges of a Graduate of this Institution." Beneath the decorative text displaying the school's name across top is an illustration of the state seal of West Virginia at the time. The early 20th century saw new educational opportunities for American women who upon graduating from high school could attend integrated colleges. Educational activists like Catharine E Beecher advocated fiercely against for women's right to enter any college based on the belief that gender equality was contingent on the quality of female education and institutional opportunities to support it. Light foxing does not affect text or image. Includes state seal and original stamp from school board with ribbon still attached. Overall good condition. unknown books
1914Best.-Nr. 183001914. Miss Gill's School for Girls Diploma. 1914. Measures 16 x 21.5 inches. Awarded to Constance Madeleine McFadden for satisfactory completion of the subjects of Arithmetic History of Art French Physiology English Psychology and English History. Miss Gill's School in Philadelphia was founded by Miss Elizabeth Gill an educational activist who championed small class sizes and close student-teacher collaboration a nonhierarchical classroom model rare for its time. Unlike women's "finishing schools" Miss Gill's emphasized a rigorous curriculum individualized to students' needs. Creased where folded. Light toning to edges does not affect text. Overall very good condition. unknown books
