Oakland Female Seminary

Oakland Female Seminary (also Oakland Seminary for Young Ladies) was a private girls' school located in the U.S. state of California. Situated at 528 Eleventh Street in Oakland, it contained 57 rooms.[1] Founded on November 8, 1858,[2] by Millicent Kittredge Blake,[3] it was the first girls' school established west of the Mississippi River.[4] Carrie Stevens Walter was the valedictorian of the first graduating class.[5]

Oakland Female Seminary

Reception room

Art room

Croquet field

References

1. Calderwood & Loofbourow 1896, p. 120.
2. University of the Pacific 1976, p. 163.
3. Tribune Publishing Company 1898, p. 178.
4. Anderson 2015, p. 40.
5. Willard 1893, p. 743-44.

Attribution

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Tribune Publishing Company's Alameda County: The Eden of the Pacific : the Flower Garden of California : a History of Alameda County from Its Formation to the Present : Its Resources and Many Thriving Industries : Souvenir Showing Its Superior Advantages as a Residence Section and a Manufacturing Center : Citizens who Have Aided the March of Progress (1898)

Bibliography

• Anderson, Gene (7 December 2015). Legendary Locals of Oakland. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4396-5405-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Calderwood, G. W.; Loofbourow, G. T. (1896). Oakland: "Athens of the Pacific" : Also Facts and Figures of Alameda County (Public domain ed.). G.T. Loofbourow.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Tribune Publishing Company (1898). Alameda County: The Eden of the Pacific : the Flower Garden of California : a History of Alameda County from Its Formation to the Present : Its Resources and Many Thriving Industries : Souvenir Showing Its Superior Advantages as a Residence Section and a Manufacturing Center : Citizens who Have Aided the March of Progress (Public domain ed.). Tribune Publishing Company.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• University of the Pacific (1976). The Pacific Historian. University of the Pacific.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Willard, Frances Elizabeth (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

• Media related to Oakland Female Seminary at Wikimedia Commons