Women's education graphics collection, 1835-1958.

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Women's education graphics collection, 1835-1958.

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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.

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Penn State Harrisburg Library

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Penn State Harrisburg Library

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Willard, Emma, 1787-1870

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American educator; founder of the Emman Willard School for girls. From the description of Letters of Emma Willard [manuscript], 1818-1861. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647996500 Note: The following chronology was prepared by Lucy Townsend and Barbara Wiley for The Papers of Emma Hart Willard, 1787-1870. Guide to the Microfilm Edition . It is based on Emma Willard's memoir addressed to Professor Coggswell (1842), as well as her corr...

Marshall, Alice K.

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Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929

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Georgia Female College (Macon, Ga.)

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American Woman's Educational Association

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Church, Frederick S. (Frederick Stuart), 1842-1924

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Frederick Stuart Church (1842-1924), American artist. During the Civil War, he served with Co. A of Chicago Mercantile Independent Battery of Light Artillery. From the description of Letter from Frederick Stuart Church to Nannie Havens, 1863, June 4, Vicksburg, Miss. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 79370924 Painter. From the description of Frederick Stuart Church letters and sketch, [ca. 1885-1898]. (Unknown). Wo...

Wellesley College

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Wesleyan Female College (Cincinnati, Ohio)

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Bundy, Gilbert, 1911-1955

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Vassar College.

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Beirut Female Seminary

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Dickinson College

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Bryn Mawr college

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Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910

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Winslow Homer was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1836. He was raised in Cambridge, where he developed a love of art and the outdoors. At the age of 19 he began his career as an illustrator, apprenticing at the J.H. Bufford lithographic firm in Boston. He then decided to become a freelance illustrator. In 1859 Homer moved to New York to work for Harper's Weekly, serving as artist-correspondent for the magazine during the Civil War. After taking some art classes at the National Academy of Desig...

St. Margaret's School for Girls

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Free Academy (New York, N.Y.)

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Oakland Female Institute (Norristown, Pa.)

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Morrow, Elizabeth, 1873-1955

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Smith College, Class of 1896. Married Dwight Whitney Morrow, 1903. Smith College Alumnae Association, President, 1917-1920. Smith College Board of Trustees, 1920-1955. Acting President, Smith College, 1939-1940. From the description of Elizabeth Cutter Morrow papers, 1939-1940. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 51183507 From the description of [Stories / Elizabeth Morrow] [1930-1943] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 289542363 Elizabeth Reeve Cutt...

Beaver College

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Fisher, Harrison, 1875-1934

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Morgan, Matthew Somerville, 1839-1890

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Pennsylvania State College

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Hokinson, Helen E. (Helen Elna), 1893-1949

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American cartoonist and author. From the description of Autograph letters signed (73), postal cards (4), greeting cards (7), telegram (1), autograph notes on a play and drawings (11) : Wilton, Connecticut, etc., mostly to Nancy Hamilton, 1946 Sept. 10-1948 Nov. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871029 From the description of Collection of preparatory drafts and notes for Our best girl, ca. 1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270875045 ...

Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935

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Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901

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Artist and book illustrator. From the description of Letters, 1895-1901. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40067220 English illustrator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to an unidentified correspondent, 1885 March 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270501055 Kate Greenaway, English illustrator. From the description of Kate Greenaway manuscript material : 1 item, 1889 (New York Public Library). WorldCa...

Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania

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Ohio Female College x Pictorial works.

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Rutgers Female Institute (New York, N.Y.)

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Vassar, Matthew, 1792-1868

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Vassar, who emigrated to Dutchess County in 1796, was a prominent businessman in Poughkeepsie. He used his fortune from his brewery and other business interests to set up a college for women. He married Catherine Valentine in 1813. From the description of Papers, 1769-1890. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155520292 From the description of Matthew Vassar papers, 1797-1890. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51576922 ...

Lockwood, Belva Ann, 1830-1917

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Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood (October 24, 1830 – May 19, 1917) was an American attorney, politician, educator, and author. She was active in working for women's rights, including women's suffrage. Lockwood overcame many social and personal obstacles related to gender restrictions. After college, she became a teacher and principal, working to equalize pay for women in education. She supported the movement for world peace, and was a proponent of the Temperance movement. Lockwood graduated from la...

Judson College (Marion, Ala.)

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Female Classical Seminary, at Worcester, Mass.

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