A scrapbook from Zillie Workman Culbertson of 1908 showed the changing role of the students at the Greenville Female College between 1904 until 1908. In her scrapbook, Culbertson collected articles on the commencement ceremonies of each year, photographs of her “places of interest”and newspaper articles. Her collection of photographs of “Places of Interest” were not limited to places on campus,...
The Catalogue of the Greenville Female College of 1883-1884 shows both the exceptional opportunities, as well as the limitations of its students in their education and career. The courses taught at the college ranged from Music, German, to Physics and Mathematics. In that sense, the college provided women with an education that was similar to that of their masculine counterparts. However, the University...
On August 10, 1859, The Charleston Mercury printed a letter from a young man traveling in and around Greenville, South Carolina, who, during his travels, attended the commencement ceremony of the Greenville Baptist Female College. When he arrived, he found a hall overflowing with attendees and was forced to push his way into the room, along the way enduring several “such tight squeezes as no sensible...
Mary Mauldin, a member of the first graduating class of the Greenville Baptist Female College, would have been exposed to variety of subjects throughout her academic training. According to her college’s 1857 catalog, Mary would have taken a course of study much like that of her brothers at nearby Furman during her senior year. She would have taken advanced courses like history, botany, moral and...