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
History of Georgia,Education,Berry College
Rome, Georgia: 1925-1938. A small archive of manuscript and printed materials relating to Berry College in Rome, Georgia. Ranging in date from 1925 to 1938, the materials were collected by the school's then-president and chart his professional and personal activities during this time. There is correspondence and poetry; most is.....
Price: $450.00
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
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Careers in STEM,The American Workforce
New York, New York: General Electric, 1956-1968. A grouping of five (5) publications by General Electric, courting young talent and encouraging teens and young adults to pursue higher education in preparation for fulfilling careers in science and technology. Note that each of the publications encourages critical thinking, and focuses not.....
Price: $450.00
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
ABAA-RBMS-2023, WWII,Humor, Original Art
[Champaign, Illinois]: 1944. Seven mock-up leaves in pencil and ink manuscript for an unpublished, unrecorded WWII-era satirical serial that appears to have been created by and for a group of college-aged students at the University of Illinois, rife with inside jokes and tongue-in-cheek humor. Includes humorous faux headlines such as.....
Price: $650.00
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
Social Justice, Activism, Theater, College Organizations, New Haven May Day 1970, Black Panthers
New Haven, Connecticut: 1971-1975. A fine collection of ninety-three (93) posters, many related to social justice initiatives spearheaded by students at Yale, spanning the years 1971 and 1975. There are seven (7) categories of posters in this collection including: concerts; film screenings; lectures; meetings; plays and performances; protests; and religious.....
Price: $5,500.00
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
Standardized Testing, Teaching, Pedagogy, Teaching Qualifications
Washington, Lamoille, and Orange Counties, Vermont: 1873-1877. A collection of eight (8) printed written examinations given to new teachers in Vermont between 1873 and 1877, testing their knowledge in core subjects such as arithmetic, geography, grammar, and American history. Interesting from a modern point of view, to see what has.....
Price: $200.00
Hospitals,History of Mental Health,Social Welfare
Boston, Massachusetts: Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers, 1844. Eleventh annual report of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, with valuable information about patient demographics. Admissions, discharges, deaths, and average number of patients is reported, as well as provisions and expenses. However, the most valuable section of this report is the.....
Price: $150.00
Engraved Ticket,Typography,New York University
New York, New York: University of the City of New York, 1859. Engraved ticket for entry into the 1859 Junior Exhibition of the University of the City of New York (later renamed New York University). The school was founded in 1831, and had already opened its first graduate school, the.....
Price: $65.00
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
Marine Biology,Laboratories and Institutes,Aquariums
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania, c.1890. A prospectus promoting a new laboratory of marine biology to be affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, located at Sea Isle City, New Jersey. The aims of the new laboratory were to furnish free facilities to marine biologists, as well as to furnish an.....
Price: $225.00
Public Health,Family Health,American Citizenship
New York, New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, c.1930. A scarce folding advertising poster promoting many of the public health booklets published by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in the 1930s, offering advice on subjects ranging from healthy eating to the importance of vaccinating children against common diseases and first.....
Price: $250.00
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
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Serials,Education,The Victorian Classroom,Lesson Planning
Chicago, Illinois: Sewell & Miller, 1871. No. 5 of an "Original Magazine Devoted to School Festivals, Entertainments, Dialogues, Recitations, Readings, Tableaux, Charades, &c. &c." (upper wrapper), issued quarterly for educators. The present issue includes verse, recitations, and lesson plan ideas and readings, all promoting good moral fiber, some with a......
Price: $115.00
Schools for Girls,Private Schools,Upper-class Education
New York City: Miss Bangs and Miss Whiton's School for Girls, 1916. An extensive and finely produced catalogue promoting Miss Bangs and Miss Whiton's School for Girls, a private school for the daughters of New York's well-to-do. Located in Riverdale-on-Hudson, the School boasted references including The Hon. and Mrs. Theodore.....
Price: $225.00
Teachers and Educators,Pennsylvania Dutch,Women in Teaching
Lancaster, Pennsylvania: 1877. An 1877 provisional certificate inscribed in ink for Annie Hissler of Lancaster Pennsylvania, signed by the Superintendent of the district's schools, B.F. Shaub. It certifies that the newly qualified teacher "is a person of good moral character, and has passed an examination" in the subjects of orthography.....
Price: $175.00