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Annual Catalogue of Pupils
In 1852, 250 girls attended Science Hill Female Academy. Students were primarily from Kentucky as well as Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Iowa, Texas, and California.
Tevis advocated for equal education in science for women. Despite advice to "let Chemistry alone" as a subject better suited for men, Tevis built a chemistry lab a Science Hill in the early 1850s.
"Chemistry is especially requisite for the successful progress of our inquiries and researches into the nature of those things whence we derive the means of our comfort, our happiness, our luxuries, our health, and even our existence...In an an experimental science, where truth lies within our reach, we should make use of our sense and judge for ourselves."
-Julia Ann Hieronymus Tevis -
Bill for Alice Shrewsbury
Tevis managed a hectic schedule. Not only was she a wife and a mother to seven children, but she also taught classes and oversaw a school that grew every year. As this list shows, 65 young women boarded at the school in 1838. The Tevises used their "time off" during the summers between 10-month terms to build onto the campus to accommodate an expanding student body.
Tevis developed a rigorous curriculum that included philosophy, theology, algebra, geology, botany, and astronomy. Later the curriculum included trigonometry, chemistry, physiology, geology, and psychology. Tevis also looked after and tracked the students' everyday needs. -
Louisville Free Kindergarten Association Annual Report and Catalogue
The LFKA was founded by a group of women in 1887 who wanted to convince our good citizens that the kindergarten is an economic plan for the prevention of crime and a powerful agency in moral reform. In addition to opening a training school for kindergarteners (kindergarten teachers), the LFKA provided scholarships to promising young women, lobbied local and state governments to incorporate kindergartens into the public school system, and operated their own kindergartens. In 1887, the LFKA had two kindergartens and 100 students; by 1889 they had 7 schools and 350 children; and by 1905, they had served over 10,000 students. In 1911, the LFKA disbanded when training kindergarteners became a department of the Louisville Normal School and kindergartens were incorporated into the public school system. -
Song Stories for the Kindergarten
Though best known for writing "Happy Birthday to You" sisters Mildred and Patty Smith collaborated on hundreds of children's songs. With songs such as "Washing and Ironing," "The Waking Flowers," "Each Mother Loves Best," and "The Blacksmith's Song," the Hills explored important concepts such as emotions, the natural world, and occupations in relatable and memorable ways. In this songbook's introduction, Anna Bryan (1858-1901) writes, "In consecutive work with children, songs selected with reference to a leading thought and to its gradually developed details, are more educative than it is possible for them to be when made an end in themselves." The book is dedicated to the Louisville Free Kindergarten Association -
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Five faces of Hobart Russell
Five undated images of Hobart Russell with various props and poses. -
Exhibitor Pass
1883 Exhibitor's Pass to the Southern Exposition for Augustus Weber.