Minetta J. Osgood Whitney notebooks, 1876-1878.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Whitney, Minetta J. Osgood, 1862-1932.

Contributor:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century.

Education.

School notebooks--19th century.

School notebooks.

Massachusetts--Boston.

Genre:

Notebooks.

Notes (documents)

Manuscripts, American.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by R. & A. Petrilla, Booksellers (Roosevelt, New Jersey), 2015.

Physical Description:

3 volumes

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 22 Folder 16

Place of Publication:

1876-1878.

Biography/History:

Minetta J. Osgood, who used the name Minnie, was one of four children born to Freeman D. and Hannah F. Osgood at Boston, Massachusetts. Minnie married Arthur H. Whitney (1859-) in October 1880. The couple resided in Watertown, Massachusetts and had two children, Isabelle and Harold Whitney.

Summary:

Three paper covered, ruled, class notebooks signed by Minnie J. Osgood. The notebooks were written when Osgood was fourteen to sixteen years old and attending Girls' Dudley School in Boston. On the cover of the first notebook is written History signed by Osgood with the date 1876. This notebook contains early American, British, and French history in a chronology spanning from the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. The years are written in a slim column on the left with historical events and persons to the right. At the end of the volume are questions regarding the notes. The second notebook is dated October 1878 and contains notes on anatomy, interspersed with American history, and a section on the theory of musical scales. On the last leaf at the top of the page is written "An examination of grammar," Osgood's name, and Girls' Dudley School. The third notebook is dated 1878 and is an oblong ledger with a practice of accounting.

OCLC:

1354237211