Women -- Education

This collection contains The Baltimore Female College's register of attendance and recitations, 1860.

This collection contains a school register for recording attendance, recitations, and deportment in classes, published in 1859. The first seventeen pages have been covered with newsclippings. The remaining pages retain readable lists of pupils from 1863-1865.

This collection contains ephemera and photographs related to the Bard-Avon School from 1939-1964.

This collection primarily contains letters written to Cora Cessna Schumacher, a graduate of Western Female High School and later a teacher and missionary. Spanning 1891-1923, the collection also contains ephemera from Western Female High School, including a 1900 commencement program and a book of Schumacher's grades, among other materials.

Commonplace book, 1844-1849, of Eliza Dall Thomas, kept while a student at the Patapsco Female Institute. Consists of compositions and poetry, some of which are originals by Eliza Dall Thomas, and quotes from literature. Subjects include friendship, womanhood, courtship, and marriage.

This collection contains the Western Female High School Class of 1917 yearbook, belonging to Lydia E. Waldschmidt (1900-1986). Waldschmidt pasted in photographs of her friends and classmates, as well as various ephemera from school events and correspondence after graduation. She also recorded her thoughts on her time at school, including her favorites subjects, school songs and mottoes, and more. The yearbook also contains the autographs of other members of her classmates.

This collection contains the records of the trustees of the Paptapsco Female Institute, a nineteenth century girls boarding school established in Ellicott's Mills (now Ellicott City), Maryland. The records include correspondence, minutes, and legal papers.

This collection contains an autograph album belonging to Rebecca Dorsey Davis, 1857-1861, entitled "Album of Beauty." The book contains verses and the signatures of Davis' friends and classmates while studying at the Patapsco Female Institute and Ingleside Seminary, circa 1857-1861.

This collection contains letters to Robert Goodloe Harper (1765-1825) from various correspondents, 1801-1821. Also included are letters addressed to John Pendleton Kennedy, Severn Teackle Wallis, and two letters from Harper Carroll to a Mr. Pennington.