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Title: First Annual Catalogue of the Girls' Industrial School of Alabama, A Polytechnic Institute
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Alabama Girls' Industrial School
Subjects: Alabama Girls Industrial School-Catalogs Alabama Girls Technical Institute-Catalogs Alabama College-Catalogs University of Montevallo-Catalogs Women's History University History
Publisher: Dispact Stationery Co., Bgham, Ala.
Contributing Library: University of Montevallo, Oliver Cromwell Carmichael Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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ect. We have four accomplished Music teachers, Misses Addie Lee, EdnaBush, Laura Dale and Sallie Crumpton. The last named lady teaches bothVocal and Instrumental Music. Each teacher has about thirty pupils, andthey a^-e doing a most excellent work, giving perfect satisfaction. Then we have the department of Dressmaking, presided over by Mrs. C.Nelson. She has 125 pupils, divided into two classes, the plain sewing classand the advanced sewing class. They were engaged during the first termlargely in making uniforms for the entire school. Since that time they havebeen doing work sent them from home, and some work for the public, forwhich they receive pay. It has been necessary to provide an assistant in thisdepartment, which is filled by one of the pupils, who has shown such adecided talent in this line as to entitle her to that position, and at the close ofthe session she is engaged to take charge of an establishment. Mrs. Nelsoncannot be surpassed in her line of work. a 3 c n 3*OO CO o
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GLRLS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL OF ALABAMA. 41 In Typewriting and Stenography we have Miss Susie Fox as teacher.She has a total of 74 pupils, 36 in Stenography and 38 in Typewriting. Thework she has done so well is proving in the admirable and rapid manner inwhich her pupils are mastering the profession, whose details she is so compe-tent to impart. In the department of Telegraphy we will have Mrs. Florence Hudson,who is a first-class operator, having done considerable work for the WesternUnion Company, and whose experience as a teacher of English as well asTelegraphy renders her well fitted for the position. Our school of Telegraphy will, when completed, be established at a verysmall outlay on our part, owing to the great interest taken in it by Mr. E. L.Adams, of Gadsden, who, hearing of our intention to establish this branch,claimed the privilege of making the school a present of the entire plant, wefurnishing only the poles and digging the holes to put them in. He willplace six instrument

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