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1900s BARNARD COLLEGE PHOTOGRAPHFREE SHIPPING with delivery confirmation on all domestic purchases!Rare early 1900s photograph of Barnard College. Approx 2" x 3"At reverse is written in pencil, "Taken from Room 239, Barnard"Corner folds.Appears to be a cyanotype print on albumen paper (?).Originates from the personal belongings of 1912 Barnard alumna Rosalind Case of Peconic, Long Island.We ship worldwide! Please see all pictures and visit our eBay store and other eBay auctions!Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college in the United States and one of the Seven Sisters . Founded in 1889, it has been affiliated with Columbia University since 1900. Barnard's 4-acre (1.6 ha) campus stretches along Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan , in New York City . It is directly across Broadway from Columbia's campus and near several other academic institutions and has been used by Barnard since 1898.History [ edit ] The entrance to Barnard HallColumbia College, Columbia University admitted only men for undergraduate study for 229 years. [ 3 ] Barnard College was founded to provide an undergraduate education for women comparable to that of Columbia and other Ivy League schools. The college was named after Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard , an American educator and mathematician, who served as the tenth president of Columbia from 1864 to 1889. He advocated equal educational privileges for men and women, preferably in a coeducational setting, and began proposing in 1879 that Columbia admit women. [ 4 ]The board of trustees repeatedly rejected Barnard's suggestion, [ 4 ] but in 1883 agreed to create a detailed syllabus of study for women. While they could not attend Columbia classes, those who passed examinations based on the syllabus would receive a degree. The first such woman graduate received her bachelor's degree in 1887. A former student of the program, Annie Nathan Meyer , [ 5 ] and other prominent New York women persuaded the board in 1889 to create a women's college connected to Columbia. [ 4 ]Barnard College's original 1889 home was a rented brownstone at 343 Madison Avenue, where a faculty of six offered instruction to 14 students in the School of Arts, as well as to 22 "specials", who lacked the entrance requirements in Greek and so enrolled in science. When Columbia University announced in 1892 its impending move to Morningside Heights, Barnard built a new campus on 119th-120th Streets with gifts from Mary E. Brinckerhoff, Elizabeth Milbank Anderson and Martha T. Fiske. Milbank, Brinckerhoff, and Fiske Halls , built in 1897--1898, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. [ 6 ]Ella Weed supervised the college in its first four years; Emily James Smith succeeded her as Barnard's first dean. [ 4 ] As the college grew it needed additional space, and in 1903 it received the three blocks south of 119th Street from Anderson who had purchased a former portion of the Bloomingdale Asylum site from the New York Hospital. [ 7 ] By the mid-20th century Barnard had succeeded in its original goal of providing an elite education to women. Between 1920 and 1974, only the much larger Hunter College and University of California, Berkeley produced more women graduates who later received doctorate degrees. [ 8 ]Students' Hall , now known as Barnard Hall, was built in 1916. Brooks and Hewitt Halls were built in 1906--1907 and 1926--1927, respectively. [ 9 ] They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. [ 6 ]Jessica Garretson Finch is credited with coining the phrase, "current events," while teaching at Barnard College in the 1890s. [ 10 ]Relationship with Columbia University [ edit ] Hewitt Hall, a dormitoryThe Barnard Bulletin in 1976 described the relationship between the college and Columbia University as "intricate and ambiguous". [ 11 ] Barnard president Debora Spar said in 2012 that "the relationship is admittedly a complicated one, a uni... read more

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