Photographs, [ca.1860-1980]

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Photographs, [ca.1860-1980]

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Photographs organized by such subjects as athletics, Brooklyn Female Academy, buildings, Christmas Pageant, Class Day, Commencement, clubs and organizations, dramatics, May Day, reunions, people, and other school-related events and scenes. Class albums contain cabinet card and carte de visite portraits of graduates, classes ca.1860-1894. Some miscellaneous photos and negatives include classroom views, portraits, and Mrs. Packer in her home, 1891-1892.

16 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6873016

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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Packer Collegiate Institute.

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Brooklyn Female Academy

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The Packer Collegiate Institute was incorporated in 1845 as the Brooklyn Female Academy, an institution devoted solely to female education. The Academy opened in 1846 in a building on Joralemon Street between Court and Clinton Streets in the present-day neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights. While it enjoyed consistently increasing enrollment over the years, the Academy was destroyed by fire on January 1, 1853. Shortly after the Academy's destruction, Harriet Putnam Packer, w...

Packer, Harriet L.

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