The Western College for Women - Oxford, Ohio
by sctatepdx
About two years ago I bought this album, which had been taken apart, in a low end antique mall. 28 pages and 200 photos for $9.00. The majority of the photos were taken on the grounds of the Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio in 1906-1909. There are also several pages of photos taken at somebody's large home.
Western College was founded in 1853 as Western Female Seminary and had 350 acres. It was a daughter school of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Its first principal Helen Peabody and most of the early faculty had been students and teachers at Mount Holyoke.
The predecessor to Western College originated in 1853, when the Western Female Seminary was established in Oxford, Ohio. It was a women’s college, which sought to provide religious instruction and a college education similar to one offered to men in other institutions. Over the next fifty years, the Western Female Seminary underwent two name changes, becoming The Western: A College and Seminary for Women in 1894 and the Western College for Women in 1904. The institution grew slowly, having only 156 students and sixteen instructors in 1886.
