Description: Check out my other items!Be sure to add me to your favorites list!So you don't miss out on our Great Sales!( we will be posting many rare collectible books over the next several weeks , so please keep comingback and checking out our other items ) The YearbookAIS Agnes Irwin SchoolWynnewood Pennsylvania PAAll Girls College Preparatory School Class of 1956 Illustrated Pictures and Photographs Year Books are a great source of reference for Genealogy / Ancestry / Family History research Condition: This is a school yearbook so please expect to see writing in it. This yearbook has wear including rubbing, scuffing ,age toning, slight musty smell, front free end page has holes/tears -(see pic 2), stains/dirtiness, binding is loose but intact. We try to take many pictures so please look at all the pictures as it is possible we sometimes may miss something. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A little info from Wikipedia The Agnes Irwin School is an all-girls, non-sectarian college preparatory day school for students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12. The School has been a leader in girls' education since 1869, when it was founded by Agnes Irwin in Philadelphia. Irwin, a great-great-granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin, later became the first dean of Radcliffe College. In 1933, the campus moved to Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, and then to its present location in Rosemont in 1961. Agnes Irwin (December 30, 1841 – December 5, 1914) was an American educator, best known as the first dean of Radcliffe College from 1894 to 1909 and as the principal from 1869 to 1894 of the West Penn Square Seminary for Young Ladies in Philadelphia, later renamed, in her honor, the Agnes Irwin School. Today, The Agnes Irwin School continues to be a leader in girls' education with 700 girls enrolled in pre-kindergarten to 12th grades. The school is currently located in suburban Rosemont, Pennsylvania, 10 miles west of Philadelphia.Irwin was born in Washington, DC, the daughter of Congressman William Wallace Irwin. Her mother, Sophia Arabella Bache, was born November 14, 1815 aPhiladelphia, and died there on March 24, 1904; she was the daughter of Richard Bache, Jr., who served in the Republic of Texas Navy and was elected as a Representative to the Second Texas Legislature in 1847 and Sophia Burrell Dallas, the daughter of Arabella Maria Smith and Alexander J. Dallas, an American statesman who served as the U.S. Treasury Secretary under President James Madison. She was also great-granddaughter of Sarah Franklin Bache andRichard Bache, and the great-great-granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin, as well as a grandniece of George Mifflin Dallas, the 11th Vice President of the United States, serving under James K. Polk. With Sarah Butler (Mrs. Owen J.) Wister, she was the editor of Worthy Women of Our First Century (1877). Irwin died of pneumonia in Philadelphia in 1914. She was the subject of a 1934 biography by Agnes Repplier. FREE SHIPPING to the USA ! International Shipping will be via USPS International 1st Class Package or Priority Mail . USA shipping isUSPS Media Mail , and will be properly professionally packed & boxed. New Jersey residents must pay NJ sales tax, Have Fun Bidding , We have GREAT FEEDBACK so you can trust us . HEY, THANKS FOR LOOKING ! :)
Price: 59.9 USD
Location: Riverdale, New Jersey
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Format: Hardcover
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Subject: Reference
Topic: School Yearbooks
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Language: English
Publication Year: 19560000
Book Title: AIS Prep
Author: Agnes Irwin School
