Vellum-bound handwritten mathematical notebook dated from 1797 to 1799. Written in a very meticulous hand by G. Firth, a young student who attended Butterwick School in the county of Lincolnshire. The notebook contains about 85 handwritten pages of calculations; the student has carefully divided the text under attractively written titles.....
Vellum-bound handwritten mathematical notebook dated from 1797 to 1799. Written in a very meticulous hand by G. Firth, a young student who attended Butterwick School in the county of Lincolnshire. The notebook contains about 70 handwritten pages of calculations; the student has carefully divided the text under attractively written titles.....
Henry M. Pierce, “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. By Henry M. Pierce, LL.D., President of the College. New York: Agathynian Press. 1868. Inscribed on inside end page “Compliments of.....
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. Original paper wrappers 9 x 6 in. 15 pages gently bound together center left edge. Pages are browned with small chips and creases at.....
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.....
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.....
[Women’s Early Education.] Report of the Commission Charged to examine memoirs relative to the education of women. Third Subject. – Morality. By Mr. Philis – Reporter. 1827. Paper boards. Folio size, 13 in x 8.5 in. 68 pages of handwritten script in black ink. In this manuscript, one of the.....
[Girls' Education] Original, vintage cross-stitch sampler. Limington, Maine. 1834. 11.5" x 15" in. Alphabet cross-stitched in capital and lower case letters, with decorative embroidered border, and information on maker stitched at bottom: "Elizabeth G. Brackett Limington Maine. Aged 10. in 1834". Samplers were valuable parts of girls' education from the.....
EDUCATION PAMPHLETS, 1804-1886. 17 printed records, produced by or relating to early women's higher educational institutions, and a First Edition book. 13 of these are annual catalogs, serving as testimonials, yearbooks, and advertisement for the schools. Also a literary magazine of Mills Seminary, 1874 (later Mills College), printed journal with.....
Women's Education Movement. Pamphlet/ Volume 4 of 17: Bradford Female Academy Catalog, 1844. A very early 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.....
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.....
Catholic Girls' School (Ugbrook, England). Regulations for the Catholic Girls' School, at Ugbrook. Chudleigh: J. E. Searle, 1841. This book contains the regulations approved by the Right Reverend the Vicar Apostolic of the Western District of England for the Catholic Girls School at Ugbrook. Uncommon to find formal women's education.....
[Women’s Education] Chapone, Hester; Gregory, John; Pennington, Sarah. Chapone 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 boards.....
Women's Educational Movement. Chowan Baptist Female Institute Catalog 1877-1878. The Chowan Baptist Female Institute in Murfreesboro, North Carolina, became Chowan College in 1910 when it began awarding baccalaureate degrees. Unique piece of early Female Education history. Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void.....
[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.....
Elizabeth P. Hughes. The Education of Welsh Women. London: W. Speaight & Sons, 1887. 8 pages. Elizabeth Philips Hughes was a pioneering Welsh educator and the first principal of the Cambridge Training College for Women (later renamed to Hughes Hall in her honor). Hughes had a dedicated, lifelong interest in.....
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".....
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.....
[Album] [Women Education] Very large book filled with handwritten memories, 35 photos, 18 large illustrations, and mementos from a girl student in St. Louis, Missouri as she graduates elementary school in 1925, proceeds through high school, and begins studies at the University of Missouri. 77 handwritten inscriptions and autographs from.....
[Women Education] Commencement Memory Book from a female student at Brooklyn Heights Seminary, class of 1907, filled with 17 photos, 15 unique mementos, and hand-written recordings of her commencement experience and school memories. “My Commencement.” New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1904. Entries from 1906-1910. Original blue cloth boards. 8.....
[Early Women Education] ALS, Jn Howard. Preston. Nov. 29, 1823. To his daughter Sarah (“My Dear Child.”) 3 pages Autograph Letter Signed folded from a large sheet, with the 4th page showing the original stampless address panel. Usual holes where original wax seal was torn off. She writes in her.....
[First Women's Education Movement] Old Dominion Institute Catalog, 1860-181. Pamphlet/ Volume 12 of 17:Annual Announcement of the Old Dominion Institute Catalog, For The Year 1860-1861. Richmond, VA. Contemporary Note on the first blank page. The Catalog includes a description of the school, textbooks, mode of instruction, tuition and list of.....
[Women’s Education]. Photo Album: Truro Cornwall Teacher Training College. Truro, Cornwall UK: 1925-1927. Oblong octavo. Bradbound brown boards patterned for leather effect, “Album” stamped in gilt on cover. Modest rubbing to the front hinge, and slight bumping at the corners. 164 glossy-finish snapshot photographs of the female college students and.....
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.....
Women's Education Movement: Wheaton Female Seminary Catalog, 1869. Chronological Catalog "tracing the history of the school from 1834 to the publication date of 1869. Blue wrappers. Founded in 1834, Wheaton is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States. Wheaton's founding was brought about.....