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1679045188Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano 1679. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary calf heavily worn at the corners recently neatly respined. Browning to page edges otherwise clean internally. A nice Greek/Latin edition of this Sixth century Byzantine history. viii 384pp. Lacking front and rear blanks. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045188. <br/><br/> E Theatro Sheldoniano hardcover books
194045580New York 1940. Paperback. Good. 11p. Softcover pamphlet. 23cm. Browned. Vertical crease. Last numbered page 11 inside back cover. <br/><br/> paperback books
193532469Beijing: Zhonghua ping min jiao yu cu jin hui 1935. Later printing. Paper wrappers. 62; 60; 60 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. Sm. 8vo. Drawings on most rectos. Zhonghua ping min jiao yu cu jin hui unknown books
199031994NY: Norton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0393028860 . First printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Norton hardcover books
20042089166Chaucer Press 2004. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 2004 Large Hardcover. 192 pp. The Nile stretching for a distance of 4163 miles is the longest river in the world. The ancient Greeks were obsessed by the provenance of so much water feeding a river that flowed out of the desert. Aeschylus in 500 BC talked of Egypt being nurtured by the snows. For centuries the only sporadic reports from the heart of equatorial Africa came from Arab seafarers land travellers and slavers. In the mid-1850s in Britain the great thirst for adventure and discovery combined with the challenge posed by the ancient riddle of the secret sources of the Nile and acted like a magnet on men such as Sir Richard Burton Captain Hanning Speke Samuel Baker Dr David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley. This gripping account illustrated with many prize-winning photographs traces the tribulations and achievements of the men who walked in the footsteps of Herodotus and carried away the prize: the discovery of the sources of the Nile. Chaucer Press hardcover books
19221996New York: Workers Education Bureau of America 1922. 196p. wraps slightly chipped along the edges. Workers Education Bureau series. Workers Education Bureau of America unknown books
1923001659New York: Workers Education Bureau of America 1923. Fine. 16 page stapled in pictorial wrappers. Articles by A.J. Muste George S. Lackland Hilda Smith and Algernon Lee. Scarce. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine in Wraps as Issued/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Workers Education Bureau of America Paperback books
192343604New York: C. R. Gibson & Company 1923. Green leather with gilt stamped lettering and decoration to front board a.e.g. Binding professionally and unobtrusively repaired with slight glue residue to front hinge. Light sunning and wear to binding; pages somewhat rippled from accomodating the extra material; occasional light soil and offsetting. VG. 60 ll printed. Assorted material affixed to leaves throughout; handful of laid-in material primarily letters. Few blank or partially filled pages; most pages filled with writing and/or pasted-in material. Printed green line drawings illustrations and ornaments by Leta Hazzard Schell throughout. 9-1/4" x 6". Inserted material varies in size. <br/><br/>The graduation album of Voris Awilda Matheny documenting her senior year at West Durham High School in Durham North Carolina. Named the "Poetess" in the hand-written list of class officers Voris seems to have been well-liked and active in school life as well as the "star pupil" of at least one teacher who writes admiringly in the Faculty notes that Voris "had the perseverance genius and gift of poetry to write 'Lohengrin' in rhyme." She was also passionately involved in the debate team providing accounts of several debates the associate editor of the student newspaper the Clarion and the Chaplain of the Adelphian Literary Society. Voris later attended Duke University. The album includes printed sections for messages from faculty and classmates the class "yell" and motto photographs invitations programs sporting events "Spreads and Entertainments" "Music and Dramatics" "Fun and Frolics" including a program for the 1923 "West Durham School Minstrel" which featured "Coontown Thirteen Club Song Hits" ethnic dances such as the "Gypsy Tambourine Drill" and "Cotton Picking Dance" and concluded with a finale of "Old Zip Coon" social events etc. The "Class History" "Class Prophecy" and "Class Poem" were written by the students and provide insight into the composition of the class and via the "Class Prophecy" -- written by "Piggie" White in the form of a fictional 1935 newspaper about the students -- the student's notions about the lives ahead of them. Of particular note is a section of the Prophecy entitled "Women Invade Politics" in which Miss Minnie Holt is a lawyer who has never lost a case; Miss Rhoda Kelley is "the first woman president of the U.S." and who "never feels tremors on addressing Congress for she once debated at Chapel Hill"; and Miss Virgie Reese is a famed public speaker who stumped for Miss Kelley and is "rumored.to shortly use these unusual powers of speech to get herself at the head of the Klux-Klan." Pasted-in material includes printed programs student calling cards a leaf of the Clarion envelopes with manuscript letters and invitations folded inside assorted other notes and cards 4 small photographs of individual students botanical material napkins etc. Laid in are a wedding invitation a card containing manuscript debate notes and two letters sent to one Harry G. Rosenbluh from Julius Nelson regarding a "typewriting art" contest and including two sheets of sample designs; it is unclear what relation Mr. Rosenbluh or Mr. Nelson may have to Ms. Matheny if any. An unusually well-rounded graduation book providing insight into the life and plans of students particularly female students in the South during the interwar period. C. R. Gibson & Company hardcover books
16390An early turn of the century Wellesley College student"s hand decorated fan with over 150 photographic or printed image pasted on including her Ivy league friends and many other university logos. One side of fan has 66 small black and white cutout photographs that show her college friends and other images during her Wellesley years. The reverse of the fan has another 84 small color print and gild paper logos and badges these 84 small ephemera are mostly from colleges and social clubs in New England and the US Northeast but includes some from across America. Among many others it includes logos from Wellesley College Worcester Polytechnic Institute Stanford University and Cark University. The fan when open measures about 10.5 in x 19 in. Fan is in very good condition with fabric lightly soiled at edges. Scarce item since woman college education was just taking off at the turn of the century. Minor wear on wooden handle and fan. Very unique and enchanting Wellesley memorabilia Good.<br/> . unknown books
191415965Cortland NY 1914. Very good. Oblong 32mo. album. Green pebbled cloth covered boards. Metal post binding. Marbled interior pastedowns. <br />57 paper leaves with signatures and 52 small black and white portait photographs measuring approximately <br />1.5" x 1.25" each recto mounted. Contents well preserved very good-plus overall. <br/><br/>A small photograph album of classmate portraits from the 14th and 15th annual sessions of the Cortland Summer School a specialized two-month term of the Cortland Normal School intended to aid student's in securing New York state teacher's certificates. 3 images capture male administators and teachers. The remaining 49 are artful diminutive portraits of young women quintessential of the American style of the period in the years just prior to WWI. <br /> <br />A lovely photographic record of early 20th Century women's education. hardcover books
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. <br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>"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. <br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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
17943526London: Printed for J. Hamilton 1794. First edition. Finely bound in half morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt. All edges brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Lower front corner skinned. Light offsetting to endpapers. Faint gift inscription to outer margin of title. Header of titlepage shaved close without any loss to text with textblock wide margined and clean. Pages measure approximately 190 x 150mm. Collating 2 vi 440: bound without half title else complete including engraved title and eight plates designed by Angelica Kauffman a founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts. A surprisingly unfoxed and wider-margined copy than is typically found of this compilation of early educational works designed to help usher girls into adulthood.<br/><br/>"These sheets were penned by some of the most amiable and well informed subjects of these realms and intended as affectionate legacies of those noble and worthy persons to their amiable offspring for whom they had such tender regard.to point out whatever was desirable and just in forming and perfecting the virtues of the female character."  Thus John Hamilton brings together a series of 16 pieces on women's education and etiquette by authors including Dr. Gregory Lady Pennington the Marchioness of Lambert John Dryden and Lady Ann Bothwell. Using illustrations by a well-known female artist who was cutting edge in her own time as a founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts the Ladies Library was purposely suited and adapted for the use of the Female Sex" and for their parents who might want to guide girls into responsible and intelligent womanhood.<br/><br/>ESTC T88185. Printed for J. Hamilton unknown books
18882180Bloomsburg PA 1888. Very Good . Manuscript notebook composed by Ida Sylva Wagner a young woman training to become a teacher at the Bloomsburg State Normal School now Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania between 1888-1889. Comprised of 88 pages in ink and pencil blending lecture and reading notes with what appear to be Ida's own drafts of analytic essays practice lesson plans and examination questions. Quarter cloth over marbled boards measuring 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Shelf-wear to extremities and hinges tender but holding. Text block overall tight with mild toning not affecting text. Wagner's ownership signature and school information on front paste-down; second ownership signature along with Wagner's later teaching location on rear paste-down. In Very Good condition overall considering its daily class use and apparent usage as a reference guide during Ida's later teaching career.<br/><br/>Established in 1869 the Bloomsburg State Normal School aimed to provide rigorous teacher training to ensure that regional educators could "teach the youth elements of classical education" Bloomsburg University. State census records show that she would have been 22 at the time of this class and that she later moved to Luzerne County to work as a teacher after graduation. This notebook rigorously documents her work in an advanced Practical Teaching course which provided pedagogical methodology as well as requiring students to put methods into practice by designing usable teaching materials. Ida's notebook is roughly divided into sections with blanks separating each; and they include practical notes including Introductory Consideration Foundations and Principles Length of Recitation Object Lessons and Plan of Lessons as well as sample content for lessons such as Primary Reading Primary Numbers and Rules of Grammar. In her hand Ida reflects on the importance of theory and practice noting "The powers of the child which demand the teacher's attention are the physical the intellectual the moral and the spiritual.before knowing can take place there must be something to know and the thing to be known must affect its appropriate sense." This guiding principle clearly shapes the class and Ida's notes show that she is being trained in the "something to know" for example the 15 pages of vocabulary pronunciations and definitions as well as the "affecting its appropriate sense" for example the 46 initial pages on methods for shaping appropriate lessons. <br/><br/>A dense resource with research possibilities including but not limited to the fields of history of pedagogy history of American higher education women's education and employment and gender studies. Very Good . unknown books
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.<br/><br/>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 £65.2s how must they be sold per dozen or per glass to gain Ten Guineas by the sale of the whole".<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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
18792316Connecticut 1879. Near Fine. Archive of 13 handwritten manuscript essays composed by a Connecticut schoolgirl. Comprised of approximately 40 pages of autograph material written in ink by the same neat hand and signed "Carrie Breed." In addition to titles the majority of essays are dated and include Breed's school name and location. An exciting and interesting look into the work of a diligent young woman excited in particular about the female authors of her own time.<br/><br/>Founded in 1851 Parker Academy was a boarding school that boasted "a healthy location a tidy village an orderly community and a most beautiful valley with pleasant surroundings -- a good place for an institution of education" Historic Buildings of Connecticut. While little else is known about the school the manuscript assignments of Carrie Breed reveal a curriculum that emphasized traditional feminine skills such as polite conversation and elegant handwriting as well as more rigorous subjects including literature composition and botany. The earliest works contained in this archive are three copy exercises assigned to Carrie to practice forming her handwriting; and they speak to her own burgeoning literary interests. The first "Scenes of Childhood" is an assignment drawn from Charles Northend's The American Speaker Being a Collection of Pieces in Prose Poetry or Dialogue Designed for Exercises in School 1856. Yet the two that follow later in the academic year of 1875-76 appear to be selections chosen by Carrie herself as an instructor has added pencil notations "taken from Miss Alcott in Little Women." Published not even a decade before Alcott's novel about sisterhood and women's lives made an impact on girls across America; and here with more assertive mature penmanship Carrie copies out the long passages of "My Beth" and "In the Garrett" written by Alcott's character the aspiring author Jo. <br/><br/>The remaining essays in the archive contain Carrie's own reflections and writing as she matures as a student and thinker. Content is largely focused on moral concepts such as Influence Benevolence and Hospitality although two essays also consider the domestic work of cultivating house plants and performing house cleaning. In two essays Carrie reflects on her relationship to the seasons and to the experience of walking in the woods. The final essay as she nears the end of her time in school and likely reflects on her future as a wife and mother she writes on Filial Trust. As the months and academic years pass it is possible to see her penmanship and her thinking begin to change from those of a girl into those of a young woman with her own mind.<br/><br/>With rich research possibilities in fields including but not limited to the history of women's education paleography contemporary receptions to women's literature the history of American education and gender studies. Near Fine. unknown books
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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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
17015Women's Education Handwritten daily diary of a young female student in North Carolina 1867. Small pocket diary embossed gold on cover 1867 with daily entry spaces. 4 x 2.5 in. 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 at risk of disappearing from the historical record. Original cover. "Diary 1867" gilt on front flap. Consistent daily entries beginning in the 2nd week of January. Possible ownership signature of Sally Van Eaton Jonesville N.C. though this may be a friend as the diary also mentions a "Miss Sally". 352 of the 365 dates are filled usually to the last line. She attends school likely a two-room schoolhouse mentions one female and one male teacher. She must sew and knit to prepare for the new term as well as for her father and children of relatives. As a result her eyes are often too strained to study. Constant rain and muddy roads make the trek to school difficult. <br/><br/>Some selections from the 352 Handwritten entries include:<br/><br/>Sun Jan 13 "French Algebre Philosophy Arithmetic Grammar and Dictionary. January 1867. Spring Session.<br/>Fri Jan 18 "I have been helping Cousin Ann and Cous Mary fix the children's cloth. They are so busy fixing to go to school I am afraid they will not get riding to start Monday."<br/>Wed Jan 23 "I have made a pair of draws to-day. School will commence Monday the 28th 1867. Miss Mag Tucker and Mr. C. Hacket are the teachers.<br/>Mon Jan 28 "School commenced today. We had only five scholars "a bad beginning makes a good ending." I did not say but one lesson my eyes were so sore. Recited in Dictionary."<br/>Tue Jan 29 "My eyes are better today. Missed but one word in D. today no more scholars yet the weather is so bad Miss Mag and I went up to Mr. Claywell's this evening after school.<br/>"Wed Jan 30 "One more scholar today. Sister and Miss Mag have gone to talk the male has come but no letters."<br/>Fri Feb 1 "School is out and Miss Mag and Brid have gone over the river this evening rode horseback."<br/>Mon Feb 4 "It has been raining all day and I never saw Jonesville so muddy in my life.I have been studying tonight but don't know my lessons."<br/>Mon Feb 11 "Monday night and I have studied until I am sleepy. Annie is asleep and Carrie is reading and nobody to talk to.<br/>Tues Feb 12 "I think I know all of my lessons tonight and I have set down to write to cousin Mollie."<br/>Thur Feb 21 "Cousin Millie Guyse is here tonight came late this evening. I have been studying very hard tonight and I think know my geography for tomorrow evening."<br/>Mon Feb 25 "Monday morning and we have got two new scholars."<br/>Fri May 17 "I must write some on my composition tonight for the end of the school it will soon be out."<br/>Tues May 28 "It has been raining very hard this evening. The thunder scared us all very badly in the school room. Mrs. Jordan is here. I have been very busy writing tonight"<br/>Thurs Aug 8 "Mrs. Harris called a few minutes to see us. She use to go to school here."<br/>Mon Aug 12 "Miss Sallie D. commenced school. Had five scholars."<br/>Wed Aug 14 "It rained this evening awhile. I have to go down to the chapel and recite my Algebra by myself to cousin Charlie."<br/>Mon Aug 26 "Eliza Hampton came to school today. Miss Sallie hasn't got but 10 ten scholars."<br/>Mon Oct 28 "It has been raining all day. Miss Sallie didn't have school. I finished my purple calico."<br/><br/>There is a lot more since these are just a few of the 352 Handwritten entries. Small small hole in bottom left corner of front cover and first few pages. Still in very good condition. unknown books
1868List1022Oberlin 1868. Albumen photographs 2 ½ x 3 ½ inches on larger mounts. Some fading to one of the photographs other image with excellent contrast near fine condition overall. Near Fine. An uncommon early pair of views of the Second Ladies' Boarding House at Oberlin College in the 1860s taken at a time when Oberlin was one of few coeducational colleges having first admitted women in 1837. Oberlin's Second Ladies Hall was built in 1861-1863 and featured Itlianate architecture and a rooftop balcony. The building was opened for student accommodations in 1865. The first floor held an assembly room a reading room a dining room parlors and stewards' quarters. The second and third floors housed 100 women. The building was destroyed by a fire in 1889. unknown books
175013363London: printed for C. Hitch in Paternoster-Row and R. Akenhead jun. at the Globe opposite the Bridge-End Coffee-House Newcastle 1750. Fifth edition. 6 149 1 ad pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf. neatly rebacked flyleaves removed some light browning or spotting mostly marginal ink date 1759 at foot of title page a few pen or pencil marks on title and in margins. Fifth edition. 6 149 1 ad pp. 1 vols. 12mo. First published in two editions in 1696 and reprinted in 1697 1721 and the present edition ca. 1750 with changing subtitles. Variously attributed to Mary Astell Judith Drake and H. Wyatt.<br/>The present edition includes an ad for The Universal Library kept by Newcastle bookseller R. Akenhead jun. The date is conjectured from the R. Akenhead junior imprint which surfaces briefly in two other works dated 1750.<br/>A curious note on the verso of the dedication explains the lack of a subscriber's list. Apparently most of the "generous Encouragers" did not want to have their names included so "no List is printed lest Offence might be given."<br/><br/>The author observes: "we are taught only our Mother-Tongue or perhaps French which is now very fashionable and almost as familiar amongst Women of Quality as Men; whereas the other Sex by means of a more extensive Education to the Knowledge of the Roman and Greek Languages have a vaster Field for their Imaginations to rove in and their Capacities thereby enlarged."<br/><br/>RARE. ESTC T123106 BL NLS Smith College; Wing A 4058 printed for C. Hitch in Paternoster-Row, and R. Akenhead, jun. at the Globe, opposite the Bridge-End Coffee-House, Newcastle unknown books
17138Women Education Scrapbook from woman student at co-educational Oswego State Teachers College filled with 142 pieces of ephemera including report cards correspondence newspaper clippings and event programs. 1939-1942. Includes documents from both Oswego State Normal School and later material from Oswego State Teachers College which the school was renamed in 1942 when it began to grant 4-year bachelor's degrees. 15 x 11 inches. Original paper wraps. 76 pages. Large color image of fall foliage on front cover. Originally belonged to Marjorie O. Walker of Woodridge NY. Many official documents from the school including the 1940 admission letter to the school which also mentions the demand for this type of education: "Since we have a waiting list of applicants for admission we must have the enclosed blank properly filled out within ten days." Course schedule with Art 101 Mat 104 English 101 Music and Education classes. Followed by a report card for coursework in Child Development History of Civilization Written Composition General Math Essentials of Music Essentials of Art and Recreational Activities. Documents outline regulations for boarding with Landladies and roommates. 1939 Student Handbook and 1940-1941 Student Directory. <br/><br/>Numerous items also hint to social life and excursions off campus. Color postcards of the campus and surrounding tourist attractions including the New York State Naval Militia Grounds Old Fort Ontario The Pontiac Hotel East River Drive and Oswego River. Full issues of The Oswegonian the school newspaper; interesting newspaper clipping about a Korean national student at Syracuse University who spoke at Oswego about the Japanese occupation of Korea. Programs for stage plays and musical performances. Sheets of printed fight songs for football games and other athletic events. Pin handbill and patriotic napkin from Alpha Delta Sorority. The final pages of the album are filled with clippings and notices regarding a catastrophic fire which caused an estimated $100000 in damages in January 1941. From a special issue of the school paper: "Carrying coupling and manning hoses students of the Oswego Normal school worked shoulder to shoulder with firemen to supply t he lifeline of water which finally checked the rapidly spreading flames that at firs appeared beyond control." Despite the destroyed portion of campus there are numerous documents regarding "Business As Usual" around campus and an updated exam schedule to accommodate classes which met in the destroyed building. The State University of New York at Oswego was founded in 1861 as the Oswego Primary Teachers' Training School; this institution embraced and popularized some of the most innovative teaching methods of the day. The school led the Oswego Movement of educational reform in the United States which sought to emphasize that every aspect of the child's life contributed to the formation of their personality character and capacity to reason. These educational methods were child-centered and based on individual differences sense perception and the student's self-activity. In 1942 the New York state legislation elevated Oswego from a Normal School to the 4-year bachelor's degree-granting Oswego State Teachers College. In 1948 Oswego became one of the State University of New York's charter members. To meet the expanded need for specialized instruction the institution broadened its academic perspective to become a full-fledged arts and sciences institution in the SUNY system and featuring a range of liberal and professional studies by 1962. In very good condition. unknown books
16662Women Sports Education Women's Athletic Council secretary's handwritten minutes written in many hands concerning school teams and fundraisers for basketball soccer volleyball and other sports from academic years 1938-1947. Original boards. 8.5 x 6.5 in. Title on front cover" Composition Book Property of Women's Athletic Council Secretary's Book" . 90 pages. Includes additional loose papers related to the council. "Each W.A.C. girl who fulfills her obligations in officiating and playing during the year 2 semesters in which she plays in two sports and coaches one or vice versa is given an additional star for her council work. If she does not fulfill this she is dropped from the council."<br/><br/>Handwritten entries spanning almost a decade of council business relating to managing and promoting Sports for Women. "The first meeting of the Women's Athletic council was called to order by Miss Helen Wily on September 27. Nominations were opened for new president. Eva Murdock was formally elected to the office. The question of . a coach for freshman hockey was introduced and Wasdine Freedline was appointed to this position. The president made a request of new business and in response to the request freshmen practice days were set for Tuesdays and Thursdays. Sophomore practice days were set for Wednesdays and Fridays. A motion was properly moved and seconded that the meeting be adjourned. Respectfully submitted Anita Brown Sec."<br/><br/>In addition to coaches and rosters for Varsity Freshman and Sophomore teams in basketball volleyball softball and soccer; the council organized various social functions. "New business. There was a discussion of the possibility of a social function before the term ends but nothing definite was decided." "After debating over several different types of social function It was decided that we have a Weiner Roast down by the river Friday Sept. 20. Ruth Barr and Marylou Gourley were appointed by the president to buy the food." They also oversaw tournaments and games for students. "Plans were discussed for the Speedball Tournament." "An intramural tournament including ping-pong shuffleboard badminton to be healed between the five sororities and a team of non-sorority girls." Some wear and loss to lower portion of spine. In very good condition. unknown books
16190Women's Education. Photograph: High School Girls Conducting Electricity Experiments 1905. Large sepia press photo. 8.5" x 7". Handwritten note on verso states the photograph is for an article on public schools. Creasing on upper right and left hand corners tiny tears and nicks along the top and bottom of the image. Very good condition overall. Approximately eighteen girls conducting experiments on electricity using conducting boxes at an unspecified public high school in New York. They sit on tall stools around long tables wearing expressions that vary from concentration to vexation. High school gave girls the opportunity to advance beyond a rudimentary education and become versed in subjects such as history their rights as citizens and advanced science. The US was the first nation to provide the general public with secondary education and in 1900 there were 6000 public schools. Only a fraction of those however were open to women. These girls were part of the first generation taught science a right denied to their mothers and grandmothers. unknown books
18512970Philadelphia: G.S. Harris 1851. First edition. Very Good . Original blue printed paper wraps printed to front. Some chipping and creasing to edges but overall intact and undamaged despite being quite delicate. Light scattered foxing throughout. Ownership signature of the college's original dean N.R. Mosely struck out at the top of the Faculty list on page 4; pencil ticks next to the names of several students listed in the catalogue on page 6. Exceptionally rare OCLC lists copies of this Announcement at only 2 institutions.<br/><br/>Only one year after Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell graduated valedictorian and became the first female M.D. in the U.S. the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania opened its doors. Located in Philadelphia it was the only the second school to open with the mission of training women in medicine -- having been preceded by the New England Female Medical College two years earlier in 1848. Founded by Quaker abolitionist and Underground Railroad activists who believed that women could make exceptional doctors "the college provided rare opportunities for women to teach perform research manage a medical school and with the eventual establishment of the Woman's Hospital in 1861 learn and practice in a hospital setting. It was the longest-lasting all-women medical school in the nation until it became coeducational in 1970" Mandell. The present Announcement predates these growths however showing the roots from which they emerged. One year running and the faculty remain largely male because there has yet to be an inaugural graduating class this would come in 1852; but already a female student Hannah E. Longshore is listed as a Demonstrator in Anatomy. Indeed Longshore and her sister Anna would both be part of the inaugural class of the college with the latter going on the author Discourses to Women in Medical Subjects 1897. Indeed the majority of women listed in this catalogue went on to become doctors even when it took time -- as it did for Hannah W. Ellis and Susanna H. Ellis both listed among the graduates of the 1865 class. 12 pages in all this scarce pamphlet contains Officers Corporators Faculty and Students of the school; an Announcement on the school's missions and accomplishments; information on Specialties available; Terms of enrollment; and a list of required Textbooks. It also conveys the excitement optimism and pride of those involved. "The Faculty of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania are inspired by very different feelings from those that attended their efforts one year ago. Then they were about to enter into an untried path to engage in a great experiment.But that which was an experiment is an experiment no longer.give a woman knowledge commensurate with her natural qualifications enable her to go forth healing the sick and comforting the afflicted and she will bless the world." A rare survivor documenting that pivotal moment when women had been given the chance to prove their intellect rose to the challenge and made the future of the next female students more secure. Very Good . G.S. Harris unknown books
16878Women Education Handwritten memory and scrapbook form a Texas high school girl 1923-1925. Filled with over 25 handwritten inscriptions from friends and teachers as well an original handwritten story about the graduating class 85 silver gelatin print photographs and 85 pieces of ephemera including ribbons party invitations and press clippings. Original cloth boards. 10.25 x 7 in. "The Girl Graduates Record Book." Designed by Victor de Kubinyi. New York: Barse & Hopkins copyright 1920. Embossed detail flower motif on front cover. 190 pages. Photo dimensions 4.5 x 2.75 in. Album belonged to Ola Chamberlain of Goree TX. Table of Contents lists pages in which handwritten memories can be recorded on: Class Yell Motto Class Officers Autographs Teachers Class Prophecy Invitations Social Events Vacations Athletics Presents Jokes & Frolics and the Baccalaureate Sermon. Second page includes photograph of school building labelled by album owner: "Goree High School The Prison". Photographs of friends with colorful nicknames such as Lilliums Hankie and Shot Gun and a few lines about their character. "Pie Face. He still says he is a member of the class. He is the star of the basketball team of nearly all counties." "Preacher. Life's a jest and all things show it / I though so and now I know it." "Shot Gun. He makes it to school about once a week." In one photo she's drawn a text bubble coming from the mouth of a lone figure reminiscing on the day that image was taken: "We did get to go somewhere that day after all didn't we hon Busy that was some grand picnic eh old dear And just think of the many adventures that my old straw derby hat in photo has accompanied us on!"<br/><br/>22 handwritten inscriptions from friends and classmates; some write short poems while other recall their shared memories and some give compliments on the owner's academic accomplishments. "Remember me early; Remember me late; Remember the day you went to the lake." "Dearest Ola Our memories from Child-hood days have gone on through High School days. Now as we must say good bye to those old days the memories we shall never forget. In our arithmetic class you were always at your best. Nowa s you are going from school life into life's school may you find all your problems as easy as they were. " "To know you was to love you. Well I know you and the result was inevitable. The only regret I have is I have known you only two years of high school work.In the classroom especially math you are a wizard-ess." "I'll never forget the first time I met you. We were in the seventh grade and you come to visit our school. You thought we were very mean didn't you I liked you then but I didn't think of you becoming my best pal nor did I dream of the many good times we were to have together.you have proved to be a true pal and a real sport; and I'll always love you." 4 inscriptions from teachers which touch upon future wishes for students. "Life's School is open to you. I your teacher am sure of one thing-that you will learn life's lesson s well even as you have learned them in olde Goree HS.; and will be successful in all your undertakings." <br/><br/>Original handwritten story in the Class Prophecy section titled "And How It All Came Out" that explains the life paths for all fo the students in the graduating class. The story is presented as a supernatural vision that the Texas high school student experienced. "My mind wandered back to old Goree High School and the buoyant hearts it held in 1924-'25. Suddenly I caught sight of a flower. 'Why there's our class flower' I almost shouted. Eagerly I plucked it and tested its fragrance. The odor seemed to give me a magic power. I examined one petal closely and a strange vision stole over me. When I regained my senses I was in a crowded New York Department Store.'Oh I'm head of the ladies glove department in this joint' yawned Gladys after our greetings.Next I found myself in a little West Texas town standing in front of a small and dingy office which bore the label of "Sheriff".the Sheriff was a young women of twenty who greeted me.and she told me that Franklin White was Mayor of the town while Norine was his private secretary.As I sat talking with my two friends their faces seemed suddenly to grow dim and to fade from my sight. A moment later I found myself back int eh little retreat with only the naked stalk of our class flower remaining."<br/><br/>Recordings of the Class Motto "Out of school life into life's school." Photos of class officers President Poet and Reporter and different groups such as The Spanish Class the Pep Club and the "Senior Girls." 8 photos of the class dressed in colonial era costumes for a performance or event titled The Virginia Reel. Includes Commencement invitation and programs. 7 certificates for perfect attendance and 1 Texas Public School Report Card with grades in Geometry English Physics Civics Economics and Arithmetic. She also received marks in "Home Report" from her parents in subjects of Cooking Care of Stock General Farm Work Providing Fuel Washing Dishes and Obedience. Newspaper clippings about the boys baketball team and the games in Knox Country against Rochester and Stamford. "Goree Basketeers Win County Title". Photographs of the team members in uniform. Many handwritten memories of parties and fun events recorded by album owner: "On Wednesday nite.the Senior girls motored out to Gladys' to spend the nite." Pressed sweet pea flower dated May 15 1925. First two pages detached. Front hinge detached. Toning to edges of pages. Some pages quite brittle pages with small chips at edges. Good condition. unknown books
189863866Raleigh NC 1898. Large format photograph 7 x 9 1/4 inches mounted on larger card stock 11 x 14 inches picturing 10 older women faculty and staff members one older man and 44 female students all posed in four rows in front of a campus building set among tall trees; verso with manuscript names for those pictured almost all with home towns. Founded in 1842 as a school for young ladies with the support of the Episcopal Church St. Mary's has operated continuously since presently as college preparatory school it included two years of college through 1998. Mount rubbed eroded in spots upper right corner broken off affecting three names on verso. 10340. <br/><br/> unknown books
