Schools & Universities
Vassar, Calendar, Social History
1924. An eleven (11) page calendar with an embossed leather cover with leather string tie for Vassar 1924. Images from photographs throughout by M. De M. Brown. The title page is the 1924 Class Tree with a dancer at base. Printed by Charles L. Willard, 150 Nassau St. New York.....
Price: $55.00
schools & universities, travel and tourism, educational,
Winona Lake, IN: Winona Assembly and Summer School Association, 1906. Winona Summer School was a Christian school in Winona Lake, IN, where both school young men and woman could attended summer school for college credit, but also enjoy the outdoors. Winona Summer Schools thought that "environment has everything to do.....
Price: $125.00
schools & universities, newspapers, student newspapers,
Shelburne Falls, MA: Shelburne Falls Messenger, 1908. 16pp. white paper wrapper, front and back cover printed in red ink. Small illustration of the school on the front cover, also printed in red. School newspaper for the winter term in 1908. Included possible course outlines, the scores from recent sporting events.....
Price: $56.00
Ornithology, Grade School
Redwood Falls, Minnesota: Redwood County Public Schools, 1938. A charming award book privately printed for Redwood County Public Schools, titled "Birds of Minnesota". Each leaf has on its recto an illustration of a native bird, along with a printed form certifying that the student has attended school for twenty days.....
Price: $150.00
Kindergarten, Froebel
Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Co., 1906. Illustrated catalogue for Milton Bradley's range of Kindergarten materials, showing the popularity and profitability of Froebel in early education circa 1906. The items on offer include a diverse range of objects, including: books; parquetry papers and blocks (for learning shapes and colors); paste, paper.....
Price: $250.00
Latin, college catalogue, Amherst College, schools & universities, foreign language, religion
Amherst, MA: Amherst College, 1845. A catalogue for Amherst College, in Latin. The title roughly translates to: "Catalog of Academic Faculty and Students who are Graduates of Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts." The catalogue begins with a list of its faculty members, the subject and time spent teaching at the college.....
Price: $120.00
boarding schools, recreation & camps, travel, advertising, Lona Hazzard School, Houdd Gibson School
Castle Rock Springs, CA: Children's Summer Resort, 1927. Self proclaimed as the "Switzerland of American" the Children's Summer Resort was located in small lakeside town in Castle Hot Springs, CA. The children's resort was run by two boarding schools, Lona Hazzard School in Alameda, CA and Houdd Gibson School in.....
Price: $100.00
invite, transportation, steamer, Eastman College, Eastman National Business College, Hudson River
Poughkeepsie, NY: Eastman College, May 18, 1878. An invite for the Eastman College's First Grand Excursion, otherwise known as "Poughkeepsie to the Ocean" (via news articles at the time). The students were to travel on Saturday, May 18, 1878, on the steamer Mary Powell, all the way to New York.....
Price: $90.00
Women's history, Education,Commencement
Columbus, Ohio: June 12,1857. Esther Institute was the Columbus, Ohio's first girls' boarding school. It was founder by Lewis Hely in September 1853. The faculty at the school included Agnes Beecher Allen (1831-1919), niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. The item is a program for the June 1857 Commencement Exercises. It.....
Price: $95.00
yearbook, high school, tennis, dance, dance card
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1925. The scrap book album belongs to Dorothy Bradford who attended North Central High School, in Spokane, WA. A portion of the album also covers her time at Havermale Junior High School. The first third of the album is full of newspaper clippings dealing with either.....
Price: $400.00
college, washington dc, students, academics
Washington DC: WM. H. Moore, 1868. 32pp.Yellow wrap.This book provides an overview of the school, staff, and students going in to the 1867-1868 academic year. The course of studies is substantially the form of theaching "Ratio studiorum, followed for more than three hundred years in the Jesuit Colleges in Europe.....
Price: $95.00
Normal School, Education, North Dakota
Valley City, ND: 1912. A 9" x 5 5/8" letter sheet with an illustration of the exterior of the college at top. Sheet dated 1866. Content includes random thoughts of writer, presumably used as a practice sheet. Along with the course descriptions are twelve black and white images from photographs.....
Price: $65.00
School Newspaper, Andover Massachusetts, Private School
Andover, Mass: Edward H. Williams, III, 8-Jun-04. The small newspaper is published one a week during the school year and includes short, often local news. The two-sided printed newspaper is roughly divide into three sections, general news, sports news, and advertising. The news includes mostly area information, this issue includes.....
Price: $55.00
Vaudeville, Parties, Colleges and Universities, Ivy League
New Haven, Connecticut: The Whaples-Bullis Co., 1916. Printed poster (14" by 11", verso blank) promoting the Yale Class of 1916 Senior Smoker, a raucous party held at Byers Hall, then part of the Sheffield Scientific School and now incorporated into Silliman College. According to the message at the foot of.....
Price: $150.00
Yale, Colleges and Universities, Class Reunions and Dinners
[West Haven, Connecticut]: Yale Class of 1877, 1875. Original printed program and bill of fare for the Yale Class of 1877 Supper held in 1875 at the Sea View House in West Haven, Connecticut. Includes the evening's Bill of Fare as well as a program with a list of toasts.....
Price: $125.00
Ladoga Female Seminary, education, program, women's history, schools & universities
Ladoga, IN: Ladoga Female Seminary, October 29, 1860. A program for a recital to celebrated the second anniversary of the Bureau Society at the Ladoga Female Seminary. The program lists the essays given by the members, some of which were entitled "Wonders of the Deep", "Night in Eden" and "Let.....
Price: $75.00
Ladoga Female Seminary, education, program, women's history, schools & universities, graduation
Ladoga, IN: Ladoga Female Seminary, June 27, 1861. A program for the celebration of the sixth anniversary of the Ladoga Female Seminary as well as its graduation ceremony. The program lists what appear to be recitations of poems or essays by the students, interspersed with music between them. Some of.....
Price: $75.00
program, school & universities, Appleton academy
New Ipswich, NH: Appleton Academy, November 24th & 25th, 1862. A program for the Appleton Academy in New Ipswich, NH that ironically served both as list of the students' scheduled times for those final exams and their graduation program. The cover of the program features a black and white engraving.....
Price: $85.00
Red Wing Institute , schools & universities, circular, education, advertising
Red Wing, MN: Red Wing Institute, 1876-1877. A single-fold circular for the Red Wind Institute a private school in Red Wing, MN, in the 19th century which "prepares pupils for college, teaching or business. Instruction thorough. Discipline strict but mild. Both sexes received." The school year was 36 weeks, broken.....
Price: $110.00
Education, Women's History, Social History
New London, CT: New London Literature and Science Institution, 1854-1878. A printed 8" x 5 1/4" form completed by M. J. Emerson for Ellen E. Fisher. The narrative discusses scholarship, attendance and cooperation with teachers. The student's information is recorded on Absences from Chapel exercises, Meeting on the Sabbath and.....
Price: $90.00
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI: Rhode Island School of Design, [1910]. A single fold informational brochure for the Rhode Island School of Design's Saturday Morning Classes which were for students of all ages. This brochure focuses on the drawing courses offered by them: freehand drawing, design, and mechanical drawing. As the focus of.....
Price: $55.00
Hampton University, Samuel Chapman Armstrong, black university, native americans, Indians,
Hampton, VA: The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Dec-10. Some of the articles within this volume are "African Agriculture by Monroe N. Work, The Indian of To-day by Henry Roe Cloud, and The American Rural School by William A. Aery. Additionally there are ten images from photographs found within the.....
Price: $125.00
Kindergarten, Preschool, Early Education, Woven Hearts, Paper, Patent Medicine Advertising, Arts and Crafts, Froebel
United States and Germany: c.1920. Three (3) items related to the Kindergarten method, including a photo, a coloring book, and a booklet offering tips for mothers on how to incorporate the Kindergarten method into family life at home. The items include: Original c.1900 photograph of a young girl playing with.....
Price: $250.00
tennis, Harvard, Dartmouth, sports, advertisement
Hanover, NH or Cambridge, MA. 6-May-16. A small ticket for the sale of tickets to the May 1916 Tennis tournament between the men's tennis team of Harvard and Dartmouth. It is unknown if these matches took place at Dartmouth in Hanover, NH, or at Harvard in Cambridge, MA, however Harvard.....
Price: $75.00