Photo Album of Faculty and 1888 Graduates of Girls Latin School of Boston

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TORIGINAL, PHOTO-ALBUM of 1888 Class of 'Girls Latin School' -- with (28) Cabinet-Cards & (16) Carte d-Visite photos of faculty and graduates' of 1888 class of 'Girls Latin School' in Boston. Boards behind the cdvs & cabinet-cards show handwritten identifying names of teachers and students in those photographs. Ephemera for Girls Latin, both sketched and handwritten, are laid into the album. 1888 Girls Latin Photo-Album was comprised when Girls Latin School of Boston celebrated its 10th anniversary. The initial cabinet-card is of Julius Eichberg, a composer and head of music for Boston public schools in the 1880s. Cabinet cards of identified people appear to be Latin Girls faculty and young women identified as 1888 graduates [+two grads from 1883]. CDVs likely were family; one is of Thomas Florian Currier, a prominent Boston abolitionist. Girls? Latin School in Boston opened on Feb. 12, 1878 as America's first college preparatory school for women-- its first year had 3 classes and 37 pupils. After an executive committee of Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women were unsuccessful in getting girls admitted to the male-only Boston Latin School, activist mothers in the early 1870s pushed for a girl?s educational institution that would be equivalent to Boys Latin School. Binding is fair, spine cover is missing. Album approx. 10.5"×9"×3". N° de réf. du vendeur jx83

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Titre : Photo Album of Faculty and 1888 Graduates of...
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Good