The Rowland Hall--St. Mark's School Photograph Collection, 1883-1955

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Summary Description
Repository:Utah State Historical Society
Call number:Mss C 84
Creator: Rowland Hall--St. Mark's School
Title: Rowland Hall--St. Mark's School Photograph Collection, 1883-1955
Quantity:0.5 lin. ft. (1 box)
Abstract:Began in 1880 as Rowland Hall School for Girls. Photographs show the grounds, buildings, chapel, classrooms. Also includes athletic events, class and administration pictures, and graduations.

Topics:
Church schools -- Utah -- Photographs.
Private schools -- Utah -- Photographs.
Schools -- Utah -- Salt Lake City -- Photographs.
Schools -- Utah -- Photographs.

Organizations:
Rowland Hall School for girls -- Photographs.
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Background

Biographical Note

Began in 1880 as Rowland Hall School for Girls.
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Scope and Content

Early photographs (1882-ca 1955) of Rowland Hall-St. Mark's including the interiors and exteriors of campus buildings, class pictures, student activities, athletics, plays and celebrations, bishops and graduations.
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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation:

Rowland Hall--St. Mark's School Photograph Collection, 1883-1955, Utah State Historical Society.

Restrictions on Use

The Rowland Hall--St. Mark's School Photograph Collection is the physical property of the Utah Historical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah. Literary rights, including copyright, may belong to the authors or their heirs and assigns. Please contact the Historical Society for information regarding specific use of this collection.

Processing Information:

Collection processed by Susan Whetstone

Finding aid compiled by Susan Whetstone

Finding aid edited by Linda Thatcher, 2000

Collection cataloged by Richard Saunders, 1989 (RLIN ID: UTSX 89-A1116)

Finding aid encoded for the World Wide Web by Craig Ringgenberg, 2000.

Related collections

The photographs in this collection were separated from Mss B 84.

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Container list

Box

Folder

Contents

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Buildings
1. Panorama shot showing tennis courts and grounds with Capitol in the distance
2. Entrance to the Virginia Kirby Library
3-4. Interior--Library
5. Dining area
6. Kitchen
7. Music Studio
8. Bedroom
9. View of school in winter
10-11. Assembly Hall
12. Music Studio
13. Large bedroom interior with table
14. Grounds [2 copies]
15. Copy of line drawing from a book of school exterior "The New Rowland Hall"

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2

Buildings and Grounds
1. Grounds in winter
2. Grounds in summer/spring
3. Line drawing of the "Proposed School Building" [negative]
4. Room interior with a day bed and study area [negative]
5. Photo of school taken from a book [negative]
6. Room interior with a fireplace and chairs
7. Residence parlor with photos of Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Rowland [2 copies]
8. Shower area
9. Bedroom interior [2 copies]
10. Kindergarten Room
11. Dorm room
12. Classroom
13. Library
14. Exterior view showing grounds with people
15. View of grounds [Savage photograph]
16. Grounds in winter

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3

Buildings and Grounds (cont.)
1. Women in classroom
2. Exterior view of buildings [faded]
3-4. Interior--Parlor
5. Exterior Buildings showing tennis courts
6. Exterior Grounds in spring
7. Court yard interior with women in windows
8. Rear view of buildings before the last addition by Bishop Leonard [faded]

1

5

Buildings and Grounds (cont.)
1. Exterior Buildings showing grounds
2. Music studio
3. Winter view

1

4

Bishops
1. Dinner group
2. Interior--Church during service [2 copies]
3-4. Molton, Arthur W.
5. Clark, Stephen W., Bishop at graduation, 1947
6-7. Molton, Arthur W.

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6

Chapel
1-2. Interior--Chapel
3. Choir
4. Student group in chapel at altar
5-6. Church service
8. Interior--Chapel
9. Choir group (older)
10. Choir
11. Three young girls carrying candles
12. Christmas play in chapel
13. Choir
14. Women at organ
15-16. Student body in church
17. Choir [2 copies]
18. Graduation
19. Pageant
20. Processional

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7

Athletics
1. Basketball
2. Weights
3. Ballet dancing [2 copies]
4. Weights
5. Callisthenics [3 copies]
6. Ballet dancing
7. Swimming

1

8

Athletics (cont.)
1. Croquet [2 copies]
2. Weights/callisthenics
3. Basketball game outdoors
4. Basketball game outdoors [2 copies]

1

9

Students
1. Graduation group
2. Play/dance
3. Group on sleigh (The Homestead)
4. Group (Sun Valley, Idaho)
5. Tennis class
6. Group studying--Assembly Hall
7. Graduation class
8. Nebeker, Helen, Mrs. Elizabeth T. Carr, Mrs. Mary June Bidwell at graduation, 1888
9. Mural painted by student showing Rt. Rev. Daniel Tuttle
10. Shaw, Brent with her paintings of St. Margaret and St. Cecilia
11. Carr, Mrs. Elizabeth T., Claudia Lang, Kay Gorden

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10

Students (cont.)
1. Group photograph in front of school building on porch, 1886 [negative]
2. Student group on steps [negative]
3. Student group
4. School buildings with group on porch [2 copies-- faded]
5. School group on steps [faded]
6. Young children at Rowland Hall with a dog
7. Group--Library
8. Older pupils in front of a building

1

11

Students (cont.)
1. Group on grounds of Rowland Hall, 1882 [negative]
2. Girls on horseback in lake
3. Pageant, "Betsy Ross sewing first American flag?"
4. Three women reading in front of a fireplace
5. Young students on grounds
6. Group in library by fireplace [negative]
7. Sophomore class [negative]
8. Students milling about school interior
9. Group with bishops
10. Lower School, 1948
11. Group--Lower School
12. Swimming pool
13. Younger student classroom

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12

Graduations
1. Dole, Delight--class of 1930
2. Hossman, Geraldine--class of 1930
3. Keyser, Helen--class of 1930
4-6. Unidentified woman--class of 1930
7. Graduation Procession on grounds
8. Graduation Day/May Day, 1914
9. Class of 1940

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13

Plays/Celebrations
1. Dance group
2. Play on grass
3. Stage play
4. May Pole/May Day [2 copies]
5. Outdoor play
6. Christmas play

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14

Administrators/Classrooms
1. Collidge, Georgina Humphreys Huron, Headmistress
2. Kriby, R.N., first chaplain of Rowland Hall?
3. Science lab
4. Art studio
5. Dorm room
6. Grounds showing fountain
7. Cornerstone, Brundt Bequest, 1906