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The Academies and Seminaries Collection includes correspondence, reports, catalogues, circulars, brochures, articles, historical sketches, notes, and biographical information dating from1810 to the present concerning a number of private schools (chiefly for girls or women) in the United States (and one in Canada) which were established in the nineteenth century, many of them modeled after Mount Holyoke Female Seminary or otherwise following the recommendations of its founder, Mary Lyon. Schools represented by materials in the collection are: Abbot Academy (Andover, MA); Allentown (PA) Academy and Seminary; Amherst (MA) Female Seminary; Bradford (MA) Academy; Brooklyn Heights (NY) Seminary; C...