Mount Vernon Seminary and College Nebraska Avenue Campus Collection, 1917-1925.

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Mount Vernon Seminary and College Nebraska Avenue Campus Collection, 1917-1925.

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The majority of this collection is unprocessed. One series has been processed and contains glass lantern slides of the Mount Vernon Seminary and College Nebraska Avenue campus, circa 1917-1925. The slides predominately show exteriors and interiors of campus buildings and campus grounds. Please see staff for details about other material in the collection.

1.5 linear feet (5 small glass slide boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7960078

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Somers, Elizabeth

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Cole, Jean Dean.

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Hensley, Adelia Gates.

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Mount Vernon Seminary

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The Mount Vernon Seminary was officially established by Elizabeth Somers in 1875 with classes held at her residence on F Street; she named it after her brother's church in Baltimore, Mount Vernon Place Methodist. The Seminary began as a six year prepatory school, with four years of high school level classes, and two years of post-high school curriculum, calling it a "Family and Day School for Young Ladies." In order to graduate, students had to complete a formal process of "Senior Essays" in whi...

Mount Vernon College,

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The Mount Vernon Seminary began in 1875 as a private high school and junior college for women, founded by Elizabeth J. Somers. The first school of higher education available to women in Washington, D.C., Mount Vernon Seminary and College had five different locations throughout its history. From 1917 to 1942, the school was located on a 15.5-acre campus at Nebraska Avenue, NW. The buildings and layout of the campus were designed by a New York architect, Wesley S. Bessell. and the campus was forma...