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Grave of Mary Lyon, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. – Vintage Wall Art

Grave of Mary Lyon, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., c1908. — historic photograph
Grave of Mary Lyon, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., c1908.. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Grave of Mary Lyon, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Grave of Mary Lyon, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.

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This view centers on the grave of Mary Lyon, whose monument on the South Hadley campus bears an inscription naming her as founder of Mount Holyoke Seminary. Lyon opened the school in 1837 as one of the earliest institutions in the United States to offer women a rigorous, long-term course of study, and she led it until her death in 1849. The Detroit Publishing Company made this glass-plate negative around 1908, when the college was drawing attention as a pioneer of women's education. The iron fence around the grave, one of the features noted in the record, shows how the site was set apart within the campus.

Created / publishedc1908.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesMonument inscription: Mary Lyon, the Founder of Mount Holyoke Seminary ... 4028" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070341. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsLyon, Mary,--1797-1849. Mount Holyoke College. Tombs & sepulchral monuments. Universities & colleges. Fences.United States--Massachusetts--South Hadley.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71929

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