Book of the Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen Class of Ogontz School

Ogontz, Pennsylvania: Ogontz School, 1916.

Price: $850.00

Hardcover. First edition. Tall octavo. 177, [3]pp. Illustrated with tipped-in gelatin silver photographs. Embossed white calf. Silk-lined endpapers. A couple of small scrapes on the boards, modest dampstain in margins of the first several leaves, the white boards predictably a bit soiled, a very good copy of an elaborately prepared woman's school yearbook, with a separate portrait of each student tipped-in with their signatures in facsimile, as well as other images of faculty, the campus, group shots, and activities. Otherwise blank pages in the rear are provided for engagements, marriages, births, and deaths[!]. The Ogontz School was an exclusive girl's college which used the estate of Jay Cooke as its campus. In the following year, 1917, the formidable headmistress Abby A. Sutherland (pictured in the book), purchased another track of land and moved the school (that year was also notable as Amelia Earhart joined the Senior Class, although she did not graduate). As deluxe a yearbook for a woman's college as we've seen.

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Item #401866 Book of the Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen Class of Ogontz School. Abby A. SUTHERLAND.
Book of the Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen Class of Ogontz School
Book of the Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen Class of Ogontz School
Book of the Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen Class of Ogontz School
Book of the Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen Class of Ogontz School
Book of the Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen Class of Ogontz School
Book of the Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen Class of Ogontz School
Book of the Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen Class of Ogontz School
Book of the Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen Class of Ogontz School
Book of the Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen Class of Ogontz School
Book of the Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen Class of Ogontz School
Book of the Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen Class of Ogontz School
Book of the Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen Class of Ogontz School