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Aretino PietroABAA

Del Primo -sesto libro de le Lettere di M. Pietro Aretino

Americana New York Long Island Education History FarmingdaleABAA

1913 - 1914 Archive of Manuscript Documents Regarding the Founding of the NY State School of Agriculture on Long Island Farmingdale & the Appointment of Trustee Edward H.L. Smith of Smithtown to the Board

191323286Farmingdale Nassau Co. L.I. N.Y.: Not Published 1913. Archive consists of 8 documents including: Aug. 7 1913 typed letter signed on State of NY Executive Chamber letterhead to Edward H.L. Smith St. James L.I. ".establishment of the New York State School of Agriculture on Long Island is a work of which New York State should be justly proud.it affords me great pleasure to appoint you as a Trustee.Very sincerely your friend signed in pen Wm. Sulzer" William Sulzer 1863 - 1941 Governor of NY at the time first and only NY governor to be impeached - this with the original mailing envelope; August 19 1913 on printed New York State School of Agriculture on Long Island letterhead TL signed by the board member from Brooklyn Franklin H. Hooper inquiring about the appointment of Smith and further explaining that Smith was to take the place of Ezra A. Tuttle of Eastport and asking him of all this directly ".because of the complicated situation which exists at present in Albany." F.H. Hooper 1851 - 1914 considered one of the main proponents of the founding of the school and a prominent Brooklyn NY & national educator; with a copy of the Aug. 23rd 1913 completed and signed Oath of Office of Smith witnessed and notarized; and the Aug. 26 letter regarding the office signed by Mitchell May the Sec. of State of NY; On Aug. 28 Franklin Hooper acknowledges the receipt of the letter of appointment & oath & gives notification of the next Board meeting with mailing envelope; with the October 15th 1913 8-page typed document signed "Estimate of Money Needed for Running Expenses of the New York State School of Agriculture on Long Island from January 1st 1914 to January 1st 1915" prepared by A.A. Johnson and signed by him in ink at the introductory passage and which gives a detailed budget for the school various departments salaries the demonstration farm and more in the original blue paper over-folder; a December 16 1913 typed letter 2 pages signed by Hooper writing to all the Board which declares that ".on Thursday December 11 representatives of the State Comptroller and of the State Attorney General went to Farmingdale and that Messrs. Mott Smith and Ruland were on that day paid by the State Comptroller for their three farms respectively in pursuance of the contract as made by the Board of Trustees of the school and the three vendors.thereby completing the transaction for the purchase of lands for the school. It is now possible for members of the Board of Trustees to enter upon the lands and to prepare to use them for the purposes of the school." and with further information regarding the surveying of the property and a February 5 1914 TLS by Hooper to Smith regarding information to be sent to Lathrop Brown; the letters with old fold lines light wear and in very good condition; envelopes worn stained used; overall in very good condition and an excellent group of letters regarding the historical foundation of the school at Farmingdale the oldest public institution of higher education on Long Island. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books

Certain Books, ABAA · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

Girls' Education Corner JuliaABAA

Beauty and the Beast a play manuscript "acted by some of the girls that go to Miss Lacy's school

18543249N.P 1854. Complete 28 page handwritten manuscript play prompt drawn directly from Julia Corner's 1854 adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. Stitched at spine and holding though some pages are loose or delicate. Occasional staining largely confined to margins or rear blanks. Composed in one woman's hand in ink throughout with what appears to be a much younger girl's annotation in pencil to the final pages. The text throughout corresponds with Corner's book with the exception of stage directions occasionally being abbreviated or simplified. We have been unable to locate the "Miss Lacy's School" mentioned in the younger girl's note. Julia Corner the daughter of a printer became a prolific children's author in her time; and her adaptation of Beauty and the Beast was hailed for "creating quite a sensation among all the middling-size children" according to Eliza Cook's Journal from that year. At a time when there was debate about the morality of performance and theater Corner was noted for "wisely sympathizing with child-natures and she declares her belief in the propriety and profit of theatrical amusement among children"; and Eliza Cook's Journal documents instances of girls in particular gravitating toward the play "settling all the characters for all available friends" and performing at home or school Cook Vol 10. Here we see first-hand evidence of this phenomenon: girls in a ladies' school taking on roles and acting them out for classmates. Further research into the school its location and its class of girls would be enlightening -- uncovering for example if there were multiple prompts for girls who could not access Corner's text whether the manuscripts were done as a handwriting exercise in addition to the performance or whether one individual simply copied this play out as a souvenir of the event. The hand used throughout is elegant and well-trained -- seemingly a grown woman whose spelling corresponds with contemporary American rather than British expectations. The choice of a fairy tale like Beauty and the Beast also deserves study as it promotes particular feminine qualities -- including respect for authority filial affection and self-sacrifice and modesty -- even within the darker setting of fairies sorcery and punishment. A unique opportunity for research in fields including but not limited to the trans-continental transmission of fairy tales girls' education the history of performance didactic literature and performance in schools gender studies and paleography. unknown books

Whitmore Rare Books · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

Pandemic Education Ethel ClarkABAA

Diary documenting her rise to adulthood while surviving a flu pandemic working to complete her education and entering a more modern world as a working woman

19274222Southern U.S. 1927. Small ledger bound in pebbled leather over card measuring 7.5 x 4.5 inches. With events taking place across Tennessee Virginia Washington DC North Carolina and other Southern states this journal is comprised of 118 handwritten pages unfolding across a decade. The ledger was clearly a plaything of Ethel and her siblings in earlier years as they have left childish handwriting and notes dated 1911 to the pastedowns and endpapers. However the main content unfolds from 1916-1927 as Ethel claims the book for her diary and leaves us an account of how a girl moved from her teenage years and into womanhood while the world radically changed around her. Ethel's tone in her opening entry is a reminder that teenage angst and ennui are not new inventions. "April 25 1916. I write this on a Wednesday. Nothing happened. Same old thing school school school." Despite feeling the sameness of her days it doesn't take long for Ethel to open up about the variety of experiences and feelings that really do shape her time. Revivals and Red Cross meetings take up multiple evenings after school; and she loves to read as an escape novels include escapist and sensational romances like George Barr's Nedra 1905 though she describes it as "same old life reading." By 1918 she also starts attending Patriotic Meetings as she reports "Germany's advancing" a concise announcement that is surrounded by news of boys she knows joining their companies and a string of weddings in advance. Global realities hit on the same week she begins school again in September for her observation "first week of school Don't think the lessons will be very hard" is immediately followed by reports of larger hardships a month later: "All the schools are closed on account of the flu. Several people have died with it. Duey Hines was buried yesterday she died in Richmond.in a hospital.Marton Sneed was buried yesterday.he died in Charlotte of Flu." Ultimately the flu grips her in a way the war cannot. "Friday 22 November 1918 Celebrated Armistice.School was opened after five weeks. We went to school for three weeks then it was closed again. December 3 1918. Tuesday all five of us down with the flu." Her December 5 entry is a string of named of friends who died of flu or are badly ailing and she does not write again until the new year. The entries of 1919 reflect a new level of maturity in Ethel's hand and her voice; as a young woman she now has more freedom and more mobility and she seems rejuvenated by drives and visits with friends new dresses and fashions picnics and shows. Several nearby locations have moving picture shows which seem to replace the Revivals in her heart and her schedule. As she and her friends prepare for commencement in June she reports getting class rings and regalia and a spate of friends' weddings. And then. "January 6 1920. School turned out for the flu Tuesday. A good many cases in town. Uncle Tom sick for two weeks. The flu is awfully bad the people are opening an emergency hospital in our Sunday school." Amidst the tragedy and seeking scapegoats the town erupts in racial violence. "March 8 1920. Arnold's store burned down.negro boy killed last night." In the years the follow Ethel reports courtships getting a job and becoming a modern working woman. She reflects very little on how she was able to gain this freedom but clearly enjoys building a life of her own. A research rich diary with opportunities for studying the transmission of the 1918 flu and its various spikes the role of troops moving through communities in spreading disease the historical relationship between pandemic and education the role of suffrage in expanding women's education employment travel opportunities and genealogy. unknown books

Whitmore Rare Books · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

Education of Children Alnwick Victoria Infant SchoolABAA

Resolutions Passed at a Public Meeting of the Inhabitants of Alnwick held the 15th of August 1838

18382596Alnwick: M. Smith 1838. First edition. Fine. 3 page pamphet measuring 152 x 228mm. Trifolded with ownership signature of Wm. Dickson Esq to rear blank. Else an exceptionally clean and seemingly untouched copy of this rare pamphlet advocating for improvements in the early education of children. The only copy known on the market this title does not appear in the modern auction record or at any institutions according to OCLC. A proposal and prospectus for an Infant School to serve the town of Alnwick and improve the overall level of education within the community. The pamphlet clarifies that the Duke of Northumberland is confirmed as the school's patron; and it outlines how donations and subsciptions from the town will add to the school's endowment. But more importantly it focuses on the communal benefits that will come from citizens' support for children's education regardless of their class. Touting the successes of other Infant Schools in England and abroad in providing "well-regulated nurseries for the children of the poorer classes" the committee also explains that " the most approved system of training will develop the physical powers and improve the health of children from two to six years of age -- to cultivate their intellectual faculties and communicate such knowledge as may be adapted to their infant capacities." The committee asserts that when the larger population begins sending children to school those children will be endowed with a desire to learn and "those attending will feel it as a punishment to be kept from the School" because school "is to the children what the actual business of life is to the man. Here the feelings are manifested and the character is developed" so that infants grow to intelligent and responsible members of the populace. Notably the committee also points out the short term benefits of developing an education system. "To the parents themselves many advantages will accrue from these Schools. Not only will their minds be relieved from much anxiety for the safety of their children but the mother free during the day from the necessity of watching over them will have an opportunity now denied to her of contributing by her labour to their support or of devoting more time to the promotion of their comfort at home." This acknowledgment reveals an important shift in thinking about the economic role of mothers and about women's need for time to accomplish their own work. A rare and important example of the spread of early childhood education and the arguments for its expansion. Fine. M. Smith unknown books

Whitmore Rare Books · États-Unis1 550,00 $US≈ 1 311,46 €

Women Education WellesleyABAA

Wellesley Student Photo Album Goes on to Become Teacher 1911-1919

16993Photo Album Women Education Album from student at Wellesley College filled with 143 original silver gelatin print photographs. Chronicles a young woman's educational path from high school through college and onto her later work as a teacher. Dated 1911-1919. Photos of various sizes from 2 x 3" to 4 x 9.5". Original black cloth boards. 9 x 12". 100 pages. Many photographs of Wellesley College its campus and traditions. Photo of Lake Waban and the campus chapel. Image of a house labeled "Wellesley 1911-1912" placed in album next to photo with 3 young women with their arms full of books standing outside the same house labeled "Students". 6 women bundles in hats and coats on a snowy street: "Off for math exam". Others show young women reading books and studying outside eating meals together and enjoying campus life. Includes 5 photos of the "Senior Hoop Rolling" tradition on May Day 1912. Photos of friends lovingly labeled with nicknames such as Chub Selina Honey and Marion. Includes photos from many locations around upstate New York including the Hudson Valley and Finger Lakes regions: Frontenac Point Minnewaska Mohonk and Yankee Lake. Also photos from Digby a small town in Nova Scotia Canada. In addition to the images of Wellesley there are photos of several other academic institutions. Images of academic interiors labeled Drawing Room Mr. Wilson's Room Assembly Room Physics Lab Library and Hall at M.H.S. Group photo of a 16 boys wearing "M" shirts and 3 coaches posing with a trophy and banner reading: "OCIAA Relay Race 1912". Building labeled "Harmony Hall" next to a photo of 14 women with the caption "Inmates of H.H. 1913". 2 large group photos with women in white dresses and a banner "ETA Clionian" one labeled 1914. The ETA Clionian Sorority was active on the SUNY New Paltz campus then a state teachers' college. Later photos appear to be from when the album owner transitioned from being a student to working as a teacher. Young groups of children are photographed together with the handwritten captions "Primary" or "Intermediates". One photo shows a school production with many children on a decorated stage wearing Pilgrim costumes. Building labeled Quassaick Hall. I page detached. Very good condition. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis1 850,00 $US≈ 1 565,29 €

Women's Education Elizabeth YoungABAA

Mathematics notebook of a young 19th century woman during her education

18223447Great Britain 1822. Comprised of 78 manuscript pages of mathematical definitions tables methods and exercises in a single hand with the ownership signature of Elizabeth Young and a running date made intermittently to the footers. Blue paper vernacular binding measuring 8 x 12 inches and stitched at spine; later tape reinforcement. Elizabeth's metric measurements and English currency reveal her to be a student somewhere in the UK. Though the commonness of her name prevents us from locating her specifically in genealogy records the manuscript she left behind reveals much about her. Elizabeth's notebook is composed in a meticulous cursive hand with neat headers each dated and her name to many of the footers. Section each have a definition leading into rules and from there into word problems and calculations. Each new section progresses in complexity requiring Elizabeth to conduct longer calculations and combine a variety of arithmetical methods multiplication division addition subtraction. Some of these are generic questions about distance or weight; but others urge the student to devotion even as she works in a logical field "How many Hours Minutes and Seconds elapsed since the birth of Christ which is 1808 years ago assuming 365 days to a year". Some put Elizabeth in contact with the world of commerce and supply chain "The yearly export of Brandies from France is said to amount to 25000 tons. What is the value of this quantity at 5s6p per Gallon". Still others prepare her for the maintenance and management of a household or a business "If a servant's wages be 12.12 for 52 weeks how much is that a year" or "If 1728 Elegant wine glasses were bought for Â£65.2s how must they be sold per dozen or per glass to gain Ten Guineas by the sale of the whole". A portion of seven pages near the center of the book offers a telling anomaly. While it continues in Elizabeth's neat hand these entries from January-February 1822 list goods purchased by community members from merchants several of whom are women. If these are a part of a school exercise they do not show the marks of it. Rather they appear to be Elizabeth making real-life notations keeping track of accounts for herself or someone else. In this sense the word problems she records and practices are being applied in her own life. An exceptional document Elizabeth's notebook has research possibilities including but not limited to the history of education in the UK and trans-Atlantic comparisons the history of women's education the effects of class on girls' education mathematics approaches to teaching math to girls historical measurements women in business paleography and women's and gender studies. unknown books

Whitmore Rare Books · États-Unis1 850,00 $US≈ 1 565,29 €

Women's Education Caroline D. WatersABAA

Mathematics notebook of a 16 year old girl being educated in the 19th century

18503448Great Britain 1850. Comprised of 88 manuscript pages of mathematical definitions tables methods and exercises in a single hand with the ownership signature of "Caroline Waters Age 16 yrs" to the front endpaper. Marbled paper vernacular binding measuring 8 x 12 inches and stitched at spine. Caroline's metric measurements and English currency reveal her to be a student somewhere in the UK. Though the commonness of her name and the absence of a specific date prevents us from locating her in genealogy records the manuscript she left behind reveals much about how and why girls of her age and class were being taught arithmetic. Caroline's elegant practiced hand suggests that she is a member of the rising middle class and the opening of the book suggests that she is a beginning to intermediate mathematician. At the top of the first page she defines Arithmetic as "the art of computing by numbers" which "has five principal sic rules for this purpose viz. Numeration Subtraction Addition Multiplication and Division." Using this definition she divides her notebook into a section for each providing a definition for that principle plus clear-cut examples of its use in both Simple and Compound formats. Numeration Subtraction and Addition are grouped together at the front; and after these sections conclude Caroline enters in Practical Questions in Compound Addition and Subtraction. These involve word problems involving the exchange of money and the calculation of wet and dry weights cloth measurements and time. She then mirrors this with Multiplication and Division before adding sections on Decimal Fractions more Practical Questions and sections on Federal Money and Simple Interest. The organization of the manuscript suggests that Caroline copied it out for continued reference where sections are easy to locate and problems clearly illustrate each of the principles. And the emphasis in sample problems on currency conversion monetary exchange and banking implies that her family in some way wanted her to be aware of these concepts. An exceptional and rich document Caroline's notebook is a rich resource for study including but not limited to the history of women's education middle class education women's domestic use of mathematics women in business paleography genealogy gender studies. unknown books

Whitmore Rare Books · États-Unis2 000,00 $US≈ 1 692,20 €

Women's Education Mary Barker Pupil Teacher and Allison Jane GillespyABAA

Geography notebooks of two young women pupil-teachers

18703389United Kingdom 1870. Geography notebook of Mary Barker: Quarter black roan over marbled boards measuring 9 x 7 inches. Comprised of a calligraphic title and frontis plus 59 hand drawn-and-colored maps done by a young woman in her first three years of teacher training. Throughout Mary annotates on the margins which year and term she is in and occasionally notes that the map was drawn "From Memory"; and each map has penciled corrections and assessments. with Geography notebook of Allison Jane Gillespy: Quarter cloth over marbled boards. Calligraphic title page and 35 intricately hand drawn maps from the British Empire Europe and the Middle East. A pairing of beautiful and research-worthy notebooks documenting teacher training in the late nineteenth century as well as providing a look into how geographies changed across time and how British educators were being trained to perceive and educate the young about other parts of the world and how they connected to the British empire. With nearly 100 pages combined the notebooks offer scholars important comparative opportunities and means for better understanding the rising number of women educators and authors publishing works that engaged geography and international cultures during the Victorian era. "The Wesleyan Methodists had a school for ministers' daughters at Trinity Hall Southport.which admitted both boarders and day girls.to educate ministers daughters and train teachers" Roach. Pupil teacher programs like the one Mary Barker was enrolled in had become a popular method of producing teachers at a time when the public's access to education expanded and the demand for instructors was at a high. Such programs functioned like an apprentice system taking a senior pupil typically thirteen years old and putting her in a five year assistantship to her own instructor. Pupil teachers typically took on responsibility for teaching lower classes observing their superiors educate the more advanced students and completing their own educations. By the 1870s these programs had become standardized to ensure proper preparation for instructors Robinson. Mary's maps trace this process. As she moved from her first to her third year in this notebook the quality and care she puts into her work improves. Her handwriting and attention to detail matures. And her assessments move from Fair to Good and Very Good. Maps in the notebook include nearby locales such as Ireland Scotland and the British Isles as a whole; European nations including Sweden Norway and Prussia as well as eastern Europe and Russia. Mary also maps out "Arabia" and the "Chinese Empire" as well as "Further India" revealing a wide array of changing borders and shifting cultural attitudes. While Allison does not leave any marker of her class age or school the level of intricacy in her maps suggests she was a senior student or finished instructor. These appear to be fair copies not done from memory but prepared as examples for students or as teaching aids. Together the two provide a comparative opportunity to study the history and politics of mapping nineteenth century girls' education pedagogy and pedagogical training and geography. unknown books

Whitmore Rare Books · États-Unis2 250,00 $US≈ 1 903,73 €

Nursing Education NIGHTINGALE FlorenceABAA

Nightingale and The Earliest Nursing Education Programs: Women's First 50 Years of Medical Education Break it up in smaller lots

15151NIGHTINGALE Florence. Collection of 32 pieces celebrating the first 50 years of nursing education which made nursing into the first respected medical profession for women. This collection includes a First Edition of Nightingale's influential guide Notes on Nursing 1859 and a handwritten Nightingale letter with wonderful content on her training school and hospital followed by many more tactile and visual pieces from the period ranging from approximately 1880-1930 when women entered the first official nursing programs to obtain theoretical education on disease prevention and antisepsis practical training in patient-centered care and certification and accolades for their excellent work. While nursing was initially considered a volunteer service the founding of the Nightingale School of Nursing in 1862 caused rapid changes developing nursing into a true medical profession. Programs opened worldwide basing their training on the "Nightingale Principles" that emphasized patient-centered care through systemic cleanliness and stemming of infection in hospitals. The first time these important ideas were placed in print was in Nightingale's 1859 Notes on NursingÂ¸ a guide to patient care within the hospital and community which has remained relevant to the present day. A First Edition of Nightingale's Notes on Nursing published before even her training hospital was founded is included with this collection. A wonderful early letter on St. Thomas Hospital the site of Nightingale's first training school which she wrote in 1864 shortly after its founding is included here are well. In this letter Nightingale laments that "poor St. Thomas is in such a "fix & has so many bad friends that he ought to keep all his good ones." She is no doubt referring to the back-handed business deal that led to the hospital's moved to an abandoned music hall with sub-par hygiene for nine years starting shortly after her training program had found its home there. She discusses the immediate effects on her own students "I should never have placed my Probationers at St. Thomas but that Mr Whitfield & Mrs Wardroper were there.and when St Thomas' with its ample income has not contributed one farthing to but has profited by the Services of my Training School." Nightingale herself championed the creation of a new building and helped design it for modern standards of safety and hygiene. Among the first programs to model itself after Nightingale's example wertr the Spelman Nursing Program founded in 1886 and the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1889. In order to distinguish nurses' uniforms from those of servants the programs instructed nurses to wear pocketed aprons for carrying tools and the schools provided ruffled caps that were easy for patients to identify in hospital hallways. An early vintage cap from circa 1880 is included in this collection. By the turn of the century nursing education had aligned with university criteria and rigorous training became mandatory. In 1902 the U.S. and New Zealand initiated standard requirements for registered nurses to pass medical examinations; and by 1909 the University of Minnesota was the first to award a bachelor's degree in nursing. In 1919 the U.K. passed the Nursing Act requiring all nurses to join a registry; and in 1923 Yale University School of Nursing became the first autonomous college in the field. Such programs required women to take 2-3 years of medical coursework and pass certification exams. As is evident by this collection's handwritten nursing class notebook these women gained intensive knowledge about anatomy nutrition and disease. The notes in this collection include anatomical drawings as well as detailed information on "the practice of hygiene important in care of patient.how to prevent infection.uses to body of food and amount of food needed by individual patient" based on condition and diagnosis. It comes with a very rare 1911 "The Trained Nurse" booklet which contains educational matter on sexual and dental hygiene for patients to lower the risk of infection as well as information about a nurse's commitment to her training program. OCLC Worldcat lists no other known copies. After completing classes nursing students apprenticed in their program's hospital until graduation. Instructors and administrators continued to value the use of uniforms and they made the clothing more functional for women whose daily tasks ranged from explaining doctors' diagnoses and treatments during consultations to the dressing of wounds. While uniforms evolved to become more streamlined they still bore visual signs of a student's experience and accomplishments. The nursing cap continued to be the most recognizable sign of entrance to the profession and getting her cap was a formal right of passage to a young nurse. Women only obtained the cap during a ceremony in which nurses from the program pinned the caps to the new nurses' heads. As students rose through the ranks and ultimately graduated they would receive a nursing lapel pin showing their entrance into a specialized field. This collection includes each of these important pieces: a white vintage nursing cap and lapel pin. In addition it contains a handwritten journal with beautiful colored handdrawn illustrations poems and diary entries by a nurse during her hospital training. The women who graduated from nursing programs had met the mandatory benchmarks; indeed these women also often exceeded requirements and won honors for their work. Celebrating these landmark accomplishments this collection includes a set of 5 turn of the century graduation invitations an early commencement booklet with individual nursing graduation photos 3 early diplomas for women graduating from nursing programs 8 class photos and 7 individual female graduate portraits. The photos visually document the collective changes that these nurses' uniforms underwent across the decades as well as the women's pride in obtaining their degree. The collection also contains a "Champion of Head Nurses" trophy awarded to a young nurse for her leadership within her new hospital. As this collection shows these women's educations led them to become proud and dedicated professionals excited to apply their knowledge in ways that made a difference. University of Pennsylvania "American Nursing" p. 1-11. "A Nurse's World" p.1. Heineman "Timelines in American Women's History" p. 219. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis2 500,00 $US≈ 2 115,25 €