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Wilmington Business School, 1901-1907

Pictures and Memorabilia

History, 1901-1907

 A Thumbnail Story

Chapter I.

The first home of the Wilmington Business School, Three East Ninth Street, August, 1900.  Tow room--seven students.  One of the rooms had been divided to make an office.

Chapter II.

The old home of the School, One East Eighth Street, March Twenty-fifth, Nineteen Hundred Seven [1907]. Nine room and from three hundred to five hundred students a year in the day and evening classes.

Chapter III.

TO BE WRITTEN

Start with March Twenty-fifth, Nineteen Hundred Seven, a long-term lease in the DuPont Building, Market and Tenth Streets, plenty of room to grow, and--say fifteen rooms on the second floor.

Loose items, 1901-1907

Black and white photographs including sports teams (baseball, basketball); class pictures of Goldey College [1902] (black & white silver gelatin photographs); photograph of the Wilmington Business School building (1901-1907); "The Saddler-Rowe . . .International . . . Business Practice" by H. M. Rowe, Ph.D. 1895 with hand written marginalia; a History of Goldey College pamphlet;  postcards of Wilmington Business School, 1902.

Wilmington Business School, 8th & Market Streets--2nd location, 1901-1907

Wilmington Business School, 1901-1907

Wilmington Business School, 1901-1907