(CLASS ALBUM) Photographically illustrated album entitled So

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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

(CLASS ALBUM)
Photographically illustrated album entitled "Souvenir of Rutgers Female Institute, Class of 1860, Annie van Glahn." With 17 oval portraits, comprising 16 of female students and one of Prof. H.M. Pierce; many are inscribed/signed on the overlay. Salted paper prints, 4 1/2x3 3/4 inches (11.4x9.5 cm.). Small folio, gilt-pictorial and lettered morocco, rebacked and edgeworn; with later ink notations on front free endpaper; all edges gilt. 1860

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Acquired from Thomas Harris, New York in 2003.
The Rutgers Female Institute, which was the first college for women in New York, was originally located on the lower east side. Although the curriculum had a gender bias focusing on traditional "female" studies--needlework, embroidery, drawing, and painting--students also had an opportunity to pursue a more liberal education, enjoying mathematics, botany and geology, German, Italian, and French as well as penmanship, calisthenics, and "Intellectual Philosophy and Evidences of Christianity."

In 1860, the school moved to Fifth Avenue, opposite the reservoir at 42nd Street (where the New York Public Library now stands). Later on, the institution became affiliated with Rutgers University, in New Jersey.