Description

Description: This wonderful collection of  manuscript and printed material all pertains to Fairfield, New York and it’s Fairfield Academy and Seminary and, later, Military Academy.

The Academy was started in 1803 as a medical college. In 1813, a theological seminary incorporating liberal arts was established, and Fairfield Academy and Seminary became co-educational in 1839. In 1891, it became a Military Academy. Unable to compete with the growing number of schools, it had to close in 1903.

Included:

– Illustrated Fairfield Military Academy, 1892. Souvenir (illustrated with halftones from photographs by Fred G. Ten Eyck), 13 pages, 7” x 10 ½”, wraps.

– 1869 manuscript letter from Robert Zoller, Fairfield Seminary, to Cousin Caaeley Smith

– Facts About a Good Military School (6” x 3 ½” booklet)

– 1873 invitation to benefit for Fairfield reverend

– 1873 Fairfield Seminary promotional card

– Fairfield Seminary Programs (Seventy-fourth Anniversary Exhibition, 1877;    Literary Entertainment,1878, 2 copies; Dept of music, 1890; Commencement Exercise, 1899; Class Day Exercise 1877)

– Calliopean Society, Fairfield Seminary and Military Academy Certificate  awarded to A. V. Putnam, June 23,1892.

– Fairfield Seminary and Military Academy, Eleventh Annual Banquet, Menu card, 1914.

– Photograph, 2½” x  9¾”, “Fairfield Seminary. Taken about 1869”

– Two 1870’s stereoviews, “Laboratory Building” and the “South Building” of the Fairfield Seminary.  Photographed and Published by W. M. Tucker, Little Falls,

–Broadside songsheet, c. 1908, “Old Fairfield”, 12” x 4 ½”.

–Five progress reports, Fairfield Seminary (1859 William H. Klock; 1862 & 1863 J. Alexander; 187? Amanda Bellingre, has comments and an addressed envelope; includes a blank report)

– Plus several later newspaper clippings and postcards.

Item #AM00336

Condition: Light scattered soil, fold lines, generally very good condition. Housed in plastic sleeves in an older three-ring binder.