Class Photographs of Classes in the San Francisco Girls' High School, 1877

Summary

Creators:

The A. & A. Lightning Photographic Company

Extent:

1 album (19 photographic prints) ; 31 x 17 cm. 19 digital objects

Language:

English

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of an album of 19 photographic prints of classes in the San Francisco Girls' High School in 1877. The subjects of the photographs are classes of students with their teachers and one photograph of all the teachers of the school. There are two stamps in the album, one in front and one in back, which indicate that the photographer is The A. & A. Lightning Photographic Company of San Francisco. Captions are handwritten above the photographs and reprinted in the container listing. Some captions are supplied for the container listing.

Acquisition information:

The San Francisco Girls' High School photographs were transferred from the John Swett Papers (BANC MSS C-B 352)

Related resources

Other descriptive data:

The Girls' High School of San Francisco was an accredited high school whose graduates were admitted without examination to any course of study at the University of California and Stanford University. The school building was equipped with laboratories, an Assembly Hall, and an Art Department. The school offered three courses of study to its students: the Scientific Course, Latin Scientific Course, and Classical Course. The Scientific Course included science, mathematics, English, history, French or German, drawing, and elocution. The Latin Scientific Course was the same as above except for the omission of one science class and the substitution of Latin for French or German. The Classical Course included Latin, Greek, history, English, mathematics, drawing, and elocution. Graduates of all of these three courses could go on to universities or the Normal Course, which was a part of the high school that prepared its students to be teachers and offered Teachers' Certificates.

(Source: San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Education. Catalogue of the Girls' High School of San Francisco, Cal., May, 1893. [San Francisco : the Board of Education], 1893.)

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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