Item #16622 Photo album from all girls’ Boarding School, 1916-1918. 19 cent Women Education, UK.
Photo album from all girls’ Boarding School, 1916-1918
Photo album from all girls’ Boarding School, 1916-1918
Photo album from all girls’ Boarding School, 1916-1918
Photo album from all girls’ Boarding School, 1916-1918
Photo album from all girls’ Boarding School, 1916-1918
Photo album from all girls’ Boarding School, 1916-1918
Photo album from all girls’ Boarding School, 1916-1918

Photo album from all girls’ Boarding School, 1916-1918

19 cent Women Education, [UK]

Photo Album

[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 2 x 2.75 in. to 3.5 x 5.5 in. Handwritten captions and dates with every photograph. Includes one program for a school stage production of “Blue Beard”. Various photos from the St. Mary’s School campus, including many images of students pursuing extracurriculars such as sports and leisure, in addition to photos of the grounds and some faculty.

Photo album of Ms. Rachel A.M Carpenter of Saint Mary’s School in Wantage, located in Southern England. Photos include images of the field hockey, cricket, and tennis teams; friends in school uniforms at leisure; and swimming in “the Baths”. Friends are noted with their full names, initials, or nicknames such as “Tufty”. Includes three cast photos from a school production of “Blue Beard” which was performed during summer term 1918.St. Mary’s School was founded in 1873 as a girls’ school, and was at the forefront of the women’s education movement in Britain. Just nine years earlier, there were only 12 public secondary schools for girls in England and Wales, and it wasn’t until 1918 that compulsory schooling was required for children up to 14 years of age for both boys and girls.

Item #16622

Price: $385.00