Contains frontispiece titled "Oakland, Female Institute." of an exterior view of the institute printed by "P.S. Duval Steam Lith. Press" and with the artist's credit line "From nature and on stone by W.E. Hitckcock [i.e. Hitchcock]." Students stroll on the lawn. A passenger train of the Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norrristown (later Philadelphia & Reading) Railroad passes in the foreground and a boat is moored on the river bank. The institute was established in 1845. This view issued shortly before the building underwent major renovation and enlargement 1852-1855. Image with variant imprint used on sheet music cover published by Lee & Walker in 1852. [GC - Education]., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 155.1
Creator
Oakland Female Institute (Norristown, Pa.)
Date
1850
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1850 Nor Oak 74806.O
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]
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
A girl sits holding a book marked "grammar." A picture of a man is tucked inside of the book., Text: Spell Cat, my chubby little imp -- / "M A N, Cat," replied the girl -- / Thus, just as soon as they can limp, / Their thoughts, like flowers, to love impart., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Exterior view of the orphanage (constructed 1861-1863). Founded by Eliza H. Burd as an orphanage for girls under the management of St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church on Tenth Street in Philadelphia. Located near Cobbs Creek in Delaware County on the border of Philadelphia, the property is bounded by Walnut and Market Streets, and Powell and 63rd Streets., Published in George Smith's History of Delaware County (Philadelphia : Printed by Henry B. Ashmead, 1862) opp. 384., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 69
Creator
Tholey, Charles P., d. 1898, artist
Date
1862
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - education - Burd [P.9210.9]
Genre scene showing female students gathered on the main path and grounds at the west end of the main building of the co-educational Quaker boarding school. Girls stroll, converse, read under a tree, and hold hands in a game. Also shows a man with a young boy, and another man carrying two baskets, walking on the grounds landscaped with several trees. 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., Philadelphia on Stone., POSP 222, Westtown School Archives
Creator
Collins, John, 1814-1902, artist
Date
1858
Location
Westtown School Archives WSA Collins color, Westtown School Archives WSA Collins bw
Depicts an attack on a school established by Prudence Crandall in Caterbury, Connecticut that was destroyed by a white mob in September 1834. Image shows a mob of whites raiding, torching, and throwing cobblestones at a building whose sign reads "School for colored girls." At the left, two young girls exit the side door of the school., Illustration in the American Anti-Slavery Almanac, for 1839 (New York: Published for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838), p. 15., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Date
[1838]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1838 Ame Ant 16996.D.3 p 15, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2763
Exterior view of the orphanage and grounds from the Delaware River. Shows boys, girls, and nuns lining up to enter the building. A steamboat, a scull, and a small sailboat appear on the river. Founded by the German Roman Catholic School Society of Philadelphia in 1856 in response to the large influx of German immigrants to the city. Ground for the building was broken the same year., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 237
Creator
Waeschle, John, lithographer
Date
ca. 1877
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Education [7544.F]
Class portrait, including African American students, posed before the school at 17th and Spring Garden streets. The students sit on the front steps of the school and stand along the sides and at the top. Some hold and display personal mementoes. Established in 1848, the high school, located at Spring Garden from 1876 to 1958, was the first municipally funded secondary school for girls in the United States. The school relocated to 1400 West Olney Street in 1958., Right corner missing., Photographer's imprint ink stamped on verso., Title supplied by cataloger., Purchase 1991., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator
Broadbent Company, photographer
Date
[1900]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *group portrait photographs - education [P.9359]
