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Richardson, Helen H. Commonplace book of Helen H. Richardson, 1808-1859.

Title: Commonplace book of Helen H. Richardson, 1808-1859.

This commonplace book contains engravings, poems, and stories clipped from newspapers and magazines. Also includes two bank notes from 1808, one for three dollars drawn on the Vermont State Bank, Woodstock, the other for five dollars drawn on the Farmers Exchange Bank, Gloucester, Rhode Island. Poems include The Raven by E.A. Poe; Jack in the Pulpit, and The Seer by J.G. Whittier; The Prairies, and The Battle Field by William Cullen Bryant; and Invocation to the New Year by Alfred Tennyson. One of the engravings is of Georgia Female College (ca. 1839-1844).

ArchivalResource: 1 volume : quarter leather, marbled boards ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32075520 View

Graham, William P., d. ca. 1844. William P. Graham papers, 1812-1857 [manuscript].

Title: William P. Graham papers, 1812-1857 [manuscript].

Papers of Graham, physician and planter of Clarke and Newton counties, Ga. The collection consists mainly of orders and accounts with wholesale druggists, cotton buyers, and general merchants; business correspondence with creditors and debtors; accounts with patients; and miscellaneous financial and legal documents. Also included are family letters from Cahaba, Ala., and St. Mary Parish, La.; correspondence about medical questions; correspondence about selecting a school for Graham's daughter Margaret; letters written by Margaret Graham at Georgia Female College at Macon, Ga., 1842-1843; and a ledger of a physician, druggist, and blacksmith, 1827-1841.

ArchivalResource: 439 items (1.0 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23712302 View

Marshall, Alice Kahler,. Women's education graphics collection, 1835-1958.

Title: Women's education graphics collection, 1835-1958.

This portion of the collection contains articles about women educators, early women's education (colleges, dancing and music lessons, cooking, night, and boarding schools, and housewifery lessons), and women students, satiric articles and drawings about governesses, and engravings of women's colleges and seminaries in magazines and newspapers (Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, Harper's weekly, and New Yorker). Educators include Belva Ann Lockwood, Elizabeth C. Morrow (photograph of and letter from), Martha Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr College, Matthew Vassar, and Emma Willard. Illustrations of schools include the seven sisters (Barnard, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley, Western), Ohio Female College near Cincinnati, Free Academy (New York, N.Y.), Beirut Female Seminary, Rutgers' Female Institute (New York, N.Y.), Georgia Female College (Macon, Ga.), St. Margaret's School for Girls, Wesleyan Female College (Cincinnati, Ohio), Female Classical Seminary at Worcester, Mass., American Woman's Educational Association, and Judson College (Marion, Ala.) Pennsylvania schools include Bryn Mawr College, Oakland Female Institute (Norristown), Beaver College, Metzger College for Young Ladies (Carlisle), Pennsylvania State College, Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Dickinson College, Pittsburgh Female College, Girls' Normal School (Philadelphia), Opheleton Female Seminary (Easton), and Young Ladies' Seminary (Hollidaysburg). Artists' work represented includes that by Gilbert Bundy, Frederick S. Church, Harrison Fisher, Kate Greenaway, John Held, Helen E. Hokinson, Winslow Homer, Alexander Laby, John Leech, Matthew Somerville Morgan, Robert Patterson, and Charles Jay Taylor.

ArchivalResource: 156 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39121758 View

Brewer, Catherine E. Photograph of diploma, 1840.

Title: Photograph of diploma, 1840.

Photograph.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 pieces)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50672351 View

Casey, Henry Rozier, 1815-1883. Henry Rozier Casey scrapbook, 1860-1883.

Title: Henry Rozier Casey scrapbook, 1860-1883.

This collection consists of a scrapbook compiled by Henry Rozier Casey from circa 1860 through 1883. It contains clippings of historical and political interest, many relating to the Civil War, obituaries, anecdotes, and poetry. Most items are undated. Also included are engravings of prominent persons, scenes, and fashion prints. One engraving is of the Georgia Female College from Graham's Magazine, 1844. Many of the articles in the scrapbook were written by Casey, including a series of articles on the Augusta and Hartwell Railroad and the Augusta and Rabun Gap Railroad. A prospective crop report for 1872 is written on the back of one of the prints.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (.10 cubic feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477507 View