[Early Women Education] ALS : Autograph Letter Signed by John Howard. Preston. To his daughter Sarah (“My Dear Child.”)Nov. 29, 1823. Autograph Letter Signed 3 pages, folded from a large sheet, with the 4th page showing the original stampless address panel. Usual holes where original wax seal was torn off.....
[19th c. Women Education] Handwritten letter to 2 women teachers from former instructor. December 22, 1893. 2 pages with original mailing envelope. 9.5 x 5.75 inches. On Western Theological Seminary letterhead, with fine engraving of the school building on both sheets. To “Miss Ellsworth and Miss Gore” from L.M......
[19th c. Women Education] Handwritten letter from the superintendent of the Young Ladies’ Athenaeum in Jacksonville, IL. June 24, 1879. On official letterhead for the school with a large engraving of campus buildings. 2 pages. 10 x 8 inches. Superintendent of the school William Sander, writes to recommend a graduate.....
[Women Education] [Handwritten] Composition book of young lady filled with handwritten poems, essays, and stories. 111 handwritten pages. Signed "Miss L. Sargeson" and dated “9-6-75” on first page. Entries date to 1875. Original boards. 9 x 7.5 in. Decorative green and purple flower design on covers, page edges gilt. Includes.....
Philis, Mr. Report of the Commission Charged to Examine Memoirs Relative to the Education of Women. Third Subject: Morality. 1827. This 1827 manuscript records one of the earliest sustained formal debates advocating systematic education for women across social classes. Structured as a commission evaluation of submitted memoirs, the text advances.....
Vintage Silver gelatin photo. Approx. 4" x 6" . C. 1920s. Portrait of an African American female graduate in her cap and gown .Inscribed in ink "to my cousin from Herlin". Very god condition.
[Women Education] Photo album from all girls’ school with 23 images of sports, leisure, and extracurricular activities. Gelatin silver print Photos dated 1916-1918. Original green cloth boards with “Photo Sketches” on the front cover. 14 card-stock pages. 6.25 x 7.5 in. Original black and white photos in various sizes, from.....
[Feminism and Women's Rights]Early [Women's Education] Three House Commons bills on women's education, 1875-1911. London: House of Commons Printing Office, 1875, 1910, 1911. First printings. This archive charts incremental but foundational legal reforms to ensure British women’s access to university education, teaching professions, and public educational funding across the late.....
This January 1804 session laws volume preserves the enacted statutes of the Massachusetts General Court, including the original incorporation of Bradford Academy, an institution that became one of the earliest centers of advanced education in the Commonwealth and a foundational site in the history of women’s education in New England.....
[Women History] [Women's Education] Caroline Dall. The College, the Market, and the Court; or Woman's Relation to Education, Labor, and the Law. Printed in Boston: Lee and Shepard (1867). Early ownership signature of James Gould dated 1867 to ffep. The College, the Market, and the Court; or Woman's Relation to.....
A Page from The Victorian era Graphic newspaper. December 1887. 12 x 16 inches. shows engraving of a group of Indian women posing with two white men, text beneath the image reading “Lady Dufferin's Fund, For supplying female medical aid to the women of India-some of the women doctors and.....
[Early Women Education]. Autograph Letter Signed on verso of a Handbill regarding Ragged Schools, April 13, 1868. Rev. H. Newton—Vicar of St. michael’s Mission Schools, Lant Street writes to a donor about the work of the Ragged schools. Verso is a broadside for “The Lant Street Ragged Schools for Boys.....
Lot of 3 items related to women in college. 1861-1919. Includes page from Ladies Home Journal and Harper's Weekly. Items measure aprox 11 x 16 inches. Essay from the Ladies Home Journal December 1919 titled “Without Benefit of College” by Esther Everett Lape reads in part, “Have you ever read.....
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.....
Women’s education materials, 1813–1926, document the lived experience of female schooling across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including seminary training, scientific study, and political awareness prior to national suffrage. The grouping places early republic religious education alongside mid-nineteenth-century academic instruction and late nineteenth-century political consciousness, concluding with a twentieth-century.....
Wordsworth, Dame Elizabeth (1840-1932). “William Wordsworth” First Edition, Inscribed Presentation copy “from the author.” Percival, London, 1891. Prolific Author and Great-niece of the poet William Wordsworth. Founder in 1878 of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford as a college for female undergraduates. In 1886 she also founded St. Hugh's College as a......
[Feminism and Women's Rights] [Women's Education] "Women Neglected in Education: Causes and Effects" by H.K. Vineyard. First Edition (1886). Knoxville: Ogden Bros. & Co., Stationers. Slim 8vo. lack and white frontispiece; dark brown pebbled cloth; decoratively stamped in black and gilt; extremities rubbed; panels lightly worn. First edition of this.....
[Girls' Education] Handwritten original essays on literary figures, from a female high school student. 25 illustrations of literary, historical figures, and their homes, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Charles Dickens, Paul Revere, Sir Walter Scott, and James Russell Lowell. c. 1912. Original black boards and red cloth spine.....
[Women’s Education] 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. Marbled leather.....
[Girls Education] Memory Album with 24 handwritten entries from friends and classmates of a Young Woman named Hettie in Hillsboro, IL from 1853-1862. A memorabilia, recording many aspects of the first major movement of women's education in the United States brings depth to a movement that was groundbreaking in its.....
[Women's Education] Three handwritten notebooks belonging to Belle Fraister of Iowa. Iowa Schoolgirl Handwritten Notebook Archive of 3 Notebooks. Iowa, 1880-1890. Notebooks range from 8" x 7" and 8" x 7.5". 146 pages total, many blank. Decorated pictorial wrappers. Within these notebooks, she writes detailed notes for subjects including history.....
Archive of 2 pamphlets related to Mary Carpenter's work building reform schools in 19th century England. Mary Carpenter was one of the foremost public speakers of her time and is best remembered for the significant contribution she made to educational and penal reform. She opened the first "ragged school" in.....
[Women Education] Memory album of signatures and sentiments from friends and classmates of young woman in Massachusetts, 1835-1896. A memorabilia, recording many aspects of the first major movement of women's education in the United States brings depth to a movement that was groundbreaking in its time, but today is largely.....
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.....
[Women Education] [Handwritten] Memory Album from female student with 36 handwritten entries from friends and admirers at school in New York and Massachusetts, 1876-1882. A memorabilia, recording many aspects of the first major movement of women's education in the United States brings depth to a movement that was groundbreaking in.....
