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15401Early Integrated Class Vintage Silver Gelatin photograph Approx. 3" x 5". Moorhead School. A class of approximately 30 high school age students stand on the steps of an urban brick schoolhouse under the door frame which is carved to read "Moorhead School." The class is very diversewith several African American students several apparently Italian students and others of various descents and complexions decades before Brown v Board of Education. The students outfits seem to be turn of century 1895-1905. Image in very good condition. unknown books
16089FORSTER William E. 1818-1886 Liberal Statesman Carried the Elementary Education Act ALS Oct. 22 1877<br/><br/>Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Vernon thanking her for her note "Any printed documents you may have bearing on the Examination would be really useful to me . I am delighted to find I shall give a prize to my friend Mr Smith's daughter. I suppose all classes will be represented at the competition. Are there any daughters of working men" 2 sides 8vo. Wharfeside Burley-in-Wharfedale Leeds 22nd October 1877 <br/><br/>Son-in-law of Arnold of Rugby and nephew of Elizabeth Fry Forster carried the Endowed Schools Bill and the Elementary Schools Bill of 1870 which for the first time provided universal primary education the foundation of state schooling as we know it. unknown books
1923045105Paris: Pijollet 1923. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Quarter leather over marbled boards - an attractive binding. Scattered mostly minor foxing internally. Illustrated with phorogravures. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; History. Inventory No: 045105. <br/><br/> Pijollet hardcover books
1893042302New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1893. Revised Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Near Fine Condition. 2 volumes in cloth decorated to look like vellum with gilt green and rose decorations to boards. A lovely edition. Size: Octavo 8vo. 2-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 042302. <br/><br/> G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1486046319Strassburg: Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedingburg Georg Husner 1486. Disbound. Very Good Condition. Single leaf from the 1486 edition of the Golden Legend light stains some rubrication tear to one corner small wormtrail touching some letters. Printed in two columns in gothic type. ISTC ij00117000 Goff J117 Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Incunabula. Inventory No: 046319. Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedingburg (Georg Husner) unknown books
2509New York: National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association. Staplebound. White wraps. Very good. 16 pages. 17.5 x 11 cm. Stamped on cover: UNITED WAR WORKERS CAMPAIGN Nov. 11-19. During W.W.I the YWCA was on the seven non-governmental organizations that participated in the United War Workers Campaign and the only one fully dedicated to serving women. Focusing on female workers in the war industries the association also operated Hostess Houses in military training camps - a "home away from home" for wives and mothers visiting active soldiers. This Report discusses the Junior War Work Council Industrial War Work; equal pay for equal work War Work among Colored Girls and Women Social Morality and training at Bryn Mawr College for industrial Supervisors and Managers. Front cover lightly foxed at edge interior clean and crisp. <br /><br /> National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association paperback books
1665045405Utrecht: Gisberti Zylii 1665. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary overlapping vellum front inner hinger cracked and text block coming loose. Light foxing old ownership marks to endpaper but generally very clean internally. Attractive engraved title. Unpaginated. A nice pocket edition of Nepos's major work. Size: duodecimo 12mo. Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045405. <br/><br/> Gisberti Zylii hardcover books
1493044991Venice: Johannes Tacuinus de Tridino 1493. Very Good Condition. Single leaf 11 1/2" x 8 1/4" rubricated with the text surrounded by commentary. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Incunabula. Inventory No: 044991. Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino unknown books
1903046394Leigzig: Hinrich 1903. Hardcover Half Cloth. Good Condition ex-library. Volumes 1-16 bound in 4 volumes - usual library marks lightly used. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 046394. Hinrich hardcover books
16725Denmark Academy Catalog 1876-1877. Denmark Iowa. Pamphlet /Volume 8 of 17: Founded in 1843. Denmark Academy was coeducational from its inception. At first a small local school it reopened in in 1852 with a new building and began to attract students from further reaches. The first graduating class consisted of only 2 students both female. One was Emma Cooper who went on to serve as "Lady Principal." Very rare with no copies of this program in any institution or library as per OCLC Worldcat.<br/><br/>Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. This document dates from 5 years before Seneca Falls. unknown books
1707419th c. Women's Education Autograph Letter Signed by student at Young Ladies' Institute in Granville Ohio. 3 pages on folded sheet. 7 x 4.5 in. Dated "Tuesday 4th 1873." With Original mailing envelope with return address of the Institute printed and original postal stamp on envelope "Mar 3". A young female student "Allie" writes to her mother in Columbus Ohio. Handwritten in purple ink. Allie writes to her mother about her medical history amid an outbreak of Measles and Mumps at school. She writes in part: "I thought I would write and ask you if I have ever had the Measles as we have them in school now. If I have not I don't want to have them here. One of the girls is going home Saturday. She is exposed and has never had them & she is going home to have them. This is a mighty poor place to get sick. I never thought the Measles ended in such serious things as they do sometimes that is if you get cold. The girls were talking about the different way in which they effect persons. The mumps are raging too." She also writes on dormitory life and missing her family. "I am very homesick & got the blues but then that is nothing new as I have them all the time & I can't get rid of them mo matter what I do. My box is all gone but a little piece of bitters but we are not in a hurry to get rid of that for we will not get any more so good for a while. Those Quinces were splendid that I made much better than I expected they would be. When I wrote to England I sent them my picture which I had taken in this fall" The Young Ladies' Institute was chartered in 1858 and later developed into The Shepardson College for Women; in 1900 Shepardson was incorporated into Denison University. Original fold lines. In very good condition. This early letter is a unique and personal piece of early Female Education history. unknown books
1707719th c. Women Education Autograph Letter Signed from Student at Augusta Female Seminary in Staunton VA 1853. Letter from a female student to her father. 2 pages 8 x 6.5 in. Dated "Mar 2nd 1852". Comes with original mailing envelope. Envelope has blue seal from "Augusta Female Seminary" on rear flap. She writes on health updates and asks for her Mother to sew her some items. "Dr. Laud came up to see me yesterday and examined my foot. He said he would send me some bismuth and he wanted me to have my foot rubbed every night." The Augusta Female Seminary was founded in 1842; in 1923 it became Mary Baldwin College. The school maintained its original mission to serve women and in 2017 the institution welcomed its first residential men to campus joining day students and graduate students which had been co-educational since the mid-1970s. Today Mary Baldwin University is the oldest institution of higher education for women in the nation affiliated with the Presbyterian Church and it is home to the only all-female corps of cadets in the world. Writing on envelope and page 2 is very faded. In good condition. A unique and personal piece of early Female Education history. unknown books
1707619th c. Women's Education Autograph Letter Signed by a mother to a her daughter at Ipswich Female Seminary MA.1866: 4 pages folded from a single sheet. 8 x 5 in. Original mailing envelope with stamp and address. She writes on the girl's academic studies as well as the regulations with living in student life. ": "I am glad to hear from you so often & that you are getting along so well.I am satisfied that you try to have good lessons.I think it would be a good plan for you to go with a Latin class - if you will not have to work too hard." She also writes: "I do not expect you can always be perfect. I know that you will not break any of the rules of the school knowingly.I don't know as I understand what you wrote about Mrs Coats not allowing you to buy things to eat if it was that you should not go to the stores & buy treat I think she is perfectly right but I suppose she would have no objection to your having something from home." Ipswich Female Seminary was founded in Massachusetts in 1828 and the school's focus was on preparing girls for careers as teachers and missionaries. It offered a "rigorous curriculum" including study of English arithmetic geography chemistry human physiology history the natural sciences religion vocal music and calisthenics and placed an emphasis on "standards of personal conduct and discipline." As part of their preparation students practiced teaching with guidance from school instructors. Ink is slightly faded. A unique and personal piece of early Female Education history. unknown books
18701336087Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1870. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 549 55 pp. Hardcover in half morocco over marbled boards. Front hinge starting; boards rubbed at extremities; spine ends frayed; one front endpaper neatly excised; previous owners' pencil notes on second front endpaper as well as rear endpaper; interior slightly age-toned but clean. Good solid copy. Scarce. Shelved in case 8 1/2. 1336087. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. [Government Printing Office] hardcover books
1707219th c. Women Education Autograph letter signed by student Sarah Hooker at Wheaton Female Seminary in Norton MA. Dated Dec. 24 1844. Four pages folded from a single extra large sheet with original wax seal still attached. Letter addressed to her mother in Falmouth MA. Place identified as "Norton Seminary Boarding House" a boarding house for students at Wheaton Female Seminary now known as Wheaton College founded in Norton MA in 1834. The letter specifically mentions founder and President Mr. Wheaton: Cousin M's sickness is really quite an event. She does not seem to gain strength at all. Mr. Wheaton who loves her as if she were his own daughter is almost discouraged." She writes on her academic studies: "I have everything convenient for studying but good pens." <br/><br/>She also shares her concerns about the quality of her schoolwork and writing as well as social aspects of school life such as making friends and getting along with her roommate. "I dread my compositions here more than anything. Some of the young ladies write so beautifully. I am very glad you have decided to let me take lessons. I wanted to move on account of improving in my singing. I practice the scales. I am going to try to improve all my advantages to the utmost. When I first came here the girls the wild ones thought as I was "green" I would be a good tool for their jokes. So every moment there was a good opportunity one of them in particular would say or do something to make me appear confused. It would come frequently at table and I invariably made her appear exceedingly mean. Not intentional but in clearing myself I made her of course look blank.There does not seem to be one of the girls who dislike me. There are many first rate ones." "My room-mate I like a little better.She is a very pleasant girl. She loves to have fun and frolic as well as ever. Poor girl she has had to go through the fire like the rest of us." Not uncommon for this time portions of the document have crossed text in order to maximize writing space and indicating that the student wrote a longer letter than the page could hold. Original fold lines and light toning. In very good condition. A unique and personal piece of early Female Education history. unknown books
16753Women'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 Residence Hall on the Western campus is named for Mount Holyok's founder Mary Lyon. It later received a charter and became Western College an all-female institution. Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. No copy could be found among Institutional or library Collections according to OCLC Worldcat. <br/><br/>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" and did not have the religious connotation of today. In the 1800's the Female Academy and Seminary Movement transformed American educational norms allowing women the opportunity to receive secular non-religious college-level education. Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. Not in OCLC Worldcat. unknown books
17182Kelly Miller. Educator-Author-Scholar-Orator. "Kelly Miller spent fifty-four years of his life at Howard University which was the center and love of his devotion. Without question he became generally accepted as the foremost advocate of Higher Education for Negroes." 1 sheet. 4 x 9.5 in. Photo-illustrate portrait of Miller. Dean of Howard University's College of Arts & Science. Miller earned A.B. and M.A. degrees at Howard University before becoming the first African-American person to attend Johns Hopkins University where he studied Mathematics Physics and Astronomy. Miller was a prolific writer of articles and essays and he assisted W. E. B. Du Bois in editing the official NAACP journal The Crisis. This was printed to commemorate 10 years since his passing on December 29 1939. Includes a ruler along one edge of paper calendar for first three months of 1950 and advertisements for Meadow Gold Ice Cream. In very good condition. Only 1 copy in an institutional or university collection according to OCLC Worldcat. unknown books
17129Education Boston Public Schools desegregate by busing students. Original silver gelatin print Press photograph. Two police motorcycles lead a school bus down a residential street in South Boston. Sept. 13 1977. size: 8 x 11 in. Original press caption printed next to image: "Police Escort School Buses - Motorcycle police escort school bus carrying black students to South Boston High Friday on second day of court-ordered busing. No crowds were permitted to assemble near schools." Original press filing stamps on verso Sept. 13 1974. While crowds were not allowed to assemble near schools there are groups of onlookers gathered along the street and sidewalks. Busing was the official desegregation policy for Boston Public Schools beginning in 1974; it was a hotly contested policy in some communities especially in the first years when anti-busing groups would sometimes regularly protest sometimes violently school integration. 1 x .5" surface damage and partial repair to lower right edge affecting image. Surface scratches in bottom right corner and diagonal scratches in bottom left corner on motorcycle. Original press stamps stickers and handwritten annotations on verso. In very good to good condition. unknown books
185038804New York: n.p. 1850. First edition. Self wrappers. Very good copies light soiling. 4 pp.; 4 pp. 8vo. Two editions of the Resolve the first for the Board Edward B. Fellows Clerk dated May 15th and the second headed 'No.3' for "each of the Commissioners Inspectors and Trustees of the Several Ward and Public Schools to be distributed among the Teachers" Albert Gilbert Clerk with an additional date of Oct.16th 1850. The Committee followed the recommendations included in the report and "Resolved That the Board of Education earnestly recommend the Inspectors and Trustees of the several Ward and Public Schools to exert their united influence to abolish corporal punishment in every department of the Schools under their control." it was signed by Dr. William A. Walters Samuel A. Crapo John McLean and Wm. S. Duke. Though the various boards had encourage less severity beginning in 1823 it was not until twenty years after this resolve in 1870 that the practice was banned and which remained in effect despite attempts to reverse it over the years. Currently 19 states allow corporal punishment in schools. Rare. OCLC locates no copies of the first document and only one of the second: Trinity College. n.p. unknown books
1781025172London: Lockyer Davis 1781. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Rebound in modern paper covered boards with title on spine in black type. Interior is in excellent condition with no foxing or other age related problems. Very wide margins. An important author who worked with Diderot on his earlier work and contributed much philosophically to his time Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare; Inventory No: 025172. <br/><br/> Lockyer Davis hardcover books
1940136687Morgantown WV: West Virginia University 1940. Paperback. iv 134 xiip plus appendices wraps 8.5x11 inches mimeographed on one sided only paper slightly browned minor staining on the fore edges charts map Appendix C tipped in rear now detached due to aging glue but present. Arthurdale West Virginia was the first New Deal planned resettlement community. Eleanor Roosevelt took a leading role in the establishment of Arthurdale and it was one of her major priorities. The New Deal administration built houses schools and public buildings in the community and helped organize educational actives for the resettled coal miners in this back-to-the-land and self-sufficiency effort. The federal government liquidated its holdings in Arthurdale in 1947 and private ownership replaced it. It now exists as a historic site. West Virginia University paperback books
1539919 century Integrated Class Albumen photograph c. 1890. Image is approx. 8" x 3.5" a rural schoolhouse with approximately 30 students of all agesthe class includes one young African American boy in far left second row decades before Brown v Board of Education. The students seem to be from 3 years old through high school. Which implies a small school in a very small community. Some older student are very close to the age of the teacher The photo was taken outside a clapboard school building. The photo is on the original tan backing that was cut down to size of the photo with rounded corners. Very good condition. unknown books
1711719th c. Women Physical Education C.L. McCluer Stevens. "A Unique School" for girls that focuses on physical education described in an original 1897 article from The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly Volume 6 1897. Unbound. p. 589-594. 9 x 6.5 inches. Article about a school for girls that focuses on physical education Bergman Österberg Physical Training College in Dartford UK. Martina Bergman-Österberg pioneered teaching physical education as a full subject within the English school curriculum with Swedish-style gymnastics at its core. Bergman-Österberg was an advocate of women's emancipation directly encouraging women to be active in both sport and education. Dartford was one of the first physical education instructor's college in England Osterberg had founded one earlier. "Madam Osterberg's is intended to be a training-school for the body . Its raison d'etre to produce as nearly as may be women who shall be physically perfect." She only admitted students with above-average intelligence and education an aptitude for natural science a sound constitution and character a pleasing appearance and considerable zeal and devotion. After completing the course graduates of the college were virtually guaranteed employment in girls schools throughout the country. <br/><br/>Six photo-illustrated images of the school grounds and gymnasium the headmistress girls cycling and playing basketball. Basketball was invented in America in 1891 and in 1893 Bergman-Österberg returned from a visit to the United States and informally introduced one version of basketball to her students. In the article the sport is described in a rather novel way: "a new and exceedingly fascinating sport called 'basket-ball.' This really splendid game about which a good deal will probably be heard in England in the near future is an importation from America." Light brown stains along inside edge of pages. In very good condition. An article about a unique girls' academy. unknown books
16201The 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 edges scattered foxing and small liquid stains that do not affect the text. 2 other copies on OCLC.<br/><br/>The pamphlet includes the Constitution and Mission of the Constitution of the Charitable Society of Connecticut: "to furnish pecuniary assistance to.young men of piety and promising talents" who intend to pursue religious studies at Yale College. It also includes treasury reports from the group and similar documents from The Female Education Society which also sought to provide monetary assistance for young men pursing religious studies. An interesting booklet documenting community support for young men's education in the years following the War of 1812. unknown books
16755Women'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. No copy could be found among Institutional or library Collections according to OCLC Worldcat. <br/><br/>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" and did not have the religious connotation of today. In the 1800's the Female Academy and Seminary Movement transformed American educational norms allowing women the opportunity to receive secular non-religious college-level education. Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. unknown books
