1889 DREW FEMALE COLLEGE "MISTRESS OF ART" DIPLOMA [Signed]

Carmel, New York, 1889. Vellum diploma from Drew Female College awarding the "Mistress of Art" degree to J. Alice Griswold after completing the "Scientific Course of Studies" prescribed by the institution. Ribbon runs the entire page vertically and is fully intact. In Fair condition. Vellum shows moderate creasing and foxing throughout. Shelved at Rockville Room J (MW Shelf). Drew Female Seminary (often informally called "Drew Female College") was a 19th-century Methodist-affiliated girls' school located in Carmel, New York, established in the 1840s to provide advanced education for young women at a time when female academies were expanding across the Northeast. Named for benefactor Daniel Drew, the seminary offered instruction beyond basic schooling, including literature, languages, music, moral philosophy, and other subjects designed to prepare women for teaching, refinement, and intellectual development within the era's social expectations. Like many female seminaries of the period, it combined religious instruction with academic coursework and operated during a time when women's higher education was gradually gaining acceptance prior to the rise of coeducational colleges and women's universities later in the century. 1409581. Special Collections - Upstairs.