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Ogontz School [graphic].
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Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer.
Title
Ogontz School [graphic].
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1917
Date
ca. 1917
Physical Description
1 negative : glass ; 10.5 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.)
Description
Aerial view of the Ogontz School located in Rydal, Abington Township. Depicts a three-story L-shaped building surrounded by trees and open fields. Originally founded in 1850 as the Chestnut Street Female Seminary (in Philadelphia), the school moved to Elkins Park in 1883 and changed its name to the Ogontz School for Young Ladies. In 1917 it relocated to Rydal and became known as the Ogontz School until it closed in 1950 and gave the property to Pennsylvania State College.
Notes
Negative number: 1351.
Subject
Ogontz School -- Buildings.
Boarding schools -- Pennsylvania -- Abington.
Young women -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Abington.
Geographic subject
Abington (Montgomery County, Pa. : Township)
Genre
Glass negatives -- 1910-1920.
Aerial photographs -- 1910-1920.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Aero Service [P.8990.1351]
Accession number
P.8990.1351
In Collections
Aero Service Corporation Photographic Negative Collection
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