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Title: Clermont Academy
Description: Handbill containing a view of the boy's boarding school built in 1804 for brothers John Thomas and Charles Carre at Heart Lane and Nicetown Lane, between Germantown and Frankford. School property includes landscaped lawns, a barn, and trees. A man approaches the entrance of the school where a woman waits at the door. Pupils are visible in the first floor windows. Also contains several paragraphs signed by administrator Samuel S. Griscom describing the school, including location, "Course of Instruction," "Terms for Tuition," and the school philosophy in addition to names of references. The school was acquired by Griscom in 1828., Variant of engraving "Clermont Seminary, near Philadelphia" from The Casket (April 1830)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 142, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Print Collection - small - Schools & Colleges, Box 48, Folder 4
Date: [ca. 1830]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Print Collection - small - Schools & Colleges, Box 48, Folder 4

Title: South west view of West-Town Boarding School. Chester Co. Penna. Instituted 1794, opened 1799, enlarged 1847
Description: View of the main building and grounds showing female students reading, walking, and lounging on the grounds. Also shows a woman carrying a basket, accompanied by a young boy, strolling down a central path. Westtown was established in 1794 by the Society of Friends as a boarding school for boys and girls., Gift of Ken Leach., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 224, Westtown School Archives holds mutiple copies including variants with the imprint "Drawn on stone by John Collins," tinted and untinted.
Creator: Collins, John, 1814-1902, artist
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Education [P.9428.5]

Title: Friends' boarding school, West-town, PA
Description: Exterior view after an 1840 painting by John Rubens Smith showing the main building and gardens with arbor. A dirt path with rail fence surrounds the property. In the foreground, two men lean on the fence and converse and a women with a basket strolls. In the background, men appoach a horse-drawn wagon partially obscured by a stone outbuilding. Two men work in the garden and a figure is visible in the doorway of the building. Westtown was established in 1794 by the Society of Friends' as a boarding school for girls and boys., Sinclair was located at 79 S. 3rd Street 1840-1850., Reproduction entitled "Westtown School, 1840" published in Watson W. and Sarah B. Dewees' History of Westtown Boarding School, 1799-1899 (Philadelphia: Press of Sherman & Co., 1899) opposite pg. 109., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 86, Westtown School Archives holds multiple copies.
Creator: French, John Taylor, 1822-1852, artist
Date: [ca. 1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Education [7710.F]

Title: Sacred Heart Convent, "Eden Hall." Torresdale, Pa
Description: View of the girls boarding school and convent administered by the Society of Sacred Heart Sisters that was built 1849-1850 after the designs of Frank Wills at 4800 Grant Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia. The stone building contains several wings and a chapel. Crosses adorn the roofs. Girls play on the grounds landscaped with trees. Also shows a woman and child walking up the path to the school entrance and a man with a horse-drawn wagon near the chapel. A border, arched at the top with simple art details, frames the image. The society purchased the Torresdale estate of F. Cowperthwait in 1847 and operated a school on the property until 1969., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 199, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Walker & Co., the Boston lithography firm established in 1879, sought the patronage of Roman Catholic clergy in the early 1880s.
Creator: Geo. H. Walker & Co.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Religion - Sacred Heart Convent [P.9372]

Title: Cedar Hill Female Seminary N. Dodge. A. M. Principal
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., Not in Wainwright., Mount contains printed border., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 22, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 46 C 326
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 46 C 326

Title: View of Sharon Boarding School
Description: View showing the female boarding school, Sharon Female Seminary, established in 1837 by Hicksite Quakers John and Rachel Jackson at their residence in Darby, later Sharon Hill, Pa. A few girls walk on the tree-lined grounds of the school. The institution provided a curriculum that combined teacher training with a liberal arts education of natural philosophy, chemistry, astronomy, and other sciences. The school closed in the early 1850s and the property was purchased by Sister Cornelia Connelly in 1867 for Holy Child Academy., Not in Wainwright., pdcc00016, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 263, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 17:61
Creator: Thomas, E.W, artist
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 17:61

Title: South east view of West-town Boarding School. Chester Co. Penna. Instituted 1794, opened 1799, enlarged 1847
Description: Genre winter scene showing male students frolicking in the snow at the east end of the main building of the co-educational Quaker boarding school. Boys build snowmen, have snow ball fights, and sled on the snow-laden grounds covered with footsteps. Westtown was established in 1794 by the Society of Friends as a boarding school for boys and girls. The campus was separated into the girls' and boys' bounds, i.e., yards for recreation. Sledding, or coasting, was a favorite winter activity., Not in Wainwright., Mount contains printed border., Date inferred from companion prints (colored and uncolored) in the collection of Westtown School Archives, Westtown, Pa., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 221, Westtown School Archives holds multiple copies., Stamped on recto: Harold E. Gillingham Collection.
Creator: Collins, John, 1814-1902, artist
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 46 W 538

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