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Cedar Hill Female Seminary. [graphic] : N. Dodge. A. M. Principal.
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Contributor
Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Title
Cedar Hill Female Seminary. [graphic] : N. Dodge. A. M. Principal.
Publisher
Philadelphia: T. Sinclair's lith
Date
[ca. 1855]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph mounted on paper; 20 x 29 cm.(8 x 11.25 in.)
Description
View showing the girls boarding school built 1837-1839 in Mount Joy, Pa. administered by Reverend Dodge. School located adjacent to the track between Harrisburg and Philadelphia on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Includes a fenced pasture near a gated path in the foreground and a train traveling in the background. Dodge operated the seminary, originally called Young Ladies Lyceum Institute, until the 1860s when it was closed during the Civil War. The school was reopened by Prof. David Denlinger in 1874, and later closed, and then destroyed by fire.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Mount contains printed border.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 22
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 46 C 326
Subject
Cedar Hill Female Seminary (Mount Joy, Pa.)
Boarding schools -- Pennsylvania -- Mount Joy.
Genre
Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Ba 46 C 326
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