Author: UNKNOWN MAKER
Title: 1888 Photo Album of Faculty and Graduates of Girls Latin School of Boston
Description: 0. Hardcover. Photographic Image, This is an original album of cabinet cards (28) & cdvs (16) of portraits photographs of faculty and 1888 graduates of 'Girls Latin School' in Boston. In the back are photos identified as family members. Laid in are hand drawn & written Latin School related ephemera. The album was assembled during the10th year anniversary of the Girls Latin School of Boston. The first cabinet card is of Julius Eichberg, composer and head of music for Boston Public schools in the 1880s. There are cabinet cards of identified people that appear to be faculty, and young women identified as 1888 graduates [+ two graduates from 1883]. CDVs appear to be mostly family and include Thomas Florian Currier, a prominent Boston abolitionist. Binding is fair, spine cover is missing. Measures approximately 10.5"×9"×3". Activist mothers in the 1870s were largely responsible for pushing for the establishment of a girl's educational institution that would be equivalent to that of the Boston Latin School. An executive committee of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women first sought unsuccessfully to have girls granted admittance to the male-only Latin School. Then, after an arduous procession of petitions and board referrals, Girls' Latin School was established as the first college preparatory school for women the country, opened on Feb.12, 1878, with 37 pupils split among three classes. Good.

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