Early records, 1740-1959, 1846-1959 (bulk)

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Early records, 1740-1959, 1846-1959 (bulk)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155540766

Records pertain to the early years of Manhattanville College and to its predecessor, the Female Academy of the Sacred Heart in New York City, and include copy books, autograph albums, programs, mementos, and letters of academy students Mathilde de Obarrio Mallet, Nettie Wallis, Fannie Wallis, Barbara Clearman, and others, 1854-1894; student registers and enrollment records, 1883-1943; ledgers and journals, 1873-1948; reports, minutes, and curriculum materials, and catalogs, 1896-1925; academy rule book, 1854; correspondence pertaining to the closing of the academy, 1926; materials pertaining to World War II activities of the School of Nursing, 1941-1945; clippings, chronologies, and histories of the academy and the college, 1846-ca. 1960; and legal and financial papers consisting of maps and land records for college property in New York City, 1750-1909, briefs, bills, and court petitions concerning land matters, 1866-1910, correspondence of the legal firm Deering and Deering concerning matters they handled for the college, 1892-1915, and miscellaneous tax records, insurance papers, and correspondence, 1847-1923.

26.5 cubic ft., 28 v.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Manhattanville College. School of Nursing.

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Clearman, Barbara.

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Wallis, Nettie.

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Mallet, Mathilde de Obarrio, Lady, 1872-1964.

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Lady Mallet, wife of Sir Claude Coventry Mallet, British envoy to Panama and Costa Rica, attended Manhattanville College. She founded the Panama Red Cross in 1917. From the description of Papers, 1893-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155541903 ...

Deering and Deering (Firm)

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Wallis, Fannie.

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Manhattanville College

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The predecessor of Manhattanville College was the Female Academy of the Sacred Heart established in New York City in 1841. It became a four-year undergraduate school in 1917; moved to its present site on the former Whitelaw Reid estate in Purchase, N.Y. in 1952; and in 1971 the college became co-educational and independent of the Society of the Sacred Heart. From the description of Academic history and policy records, 1919-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155540722 From ...