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An unidentified Asian boy wearing a hat and collared shirt sits for a portrait.

Lighting fixtures hang from the top of wooden arches which make up the Monticello Female Seminary chapel's ceiling.

Several women pose for a photograph on the entrance stairs to a building while two women sit in a horse-drawn carriage at the bottom.

Monticello Female Seminary principal Harriet Haskell sits in the drivers seat of a carriage while O. W. Maxfield holds onto the horse. Several women sit in the grass near the carriage. Maxfield, a Monticello Female Seminary employee, lived with his…

An unidentified woman poses for a portrait wearing a large necklace with a cross.

An unidentified woman poses for a photograph while holding a book.

A Monticello College student tends to a pair of horses in a field.

William R. Hill and Isaac Wills sits beside each other during a portrait session. Hill, a merchant from Mount Pleasant, Iowa, married Catherine Elizabeth Snedeker Hill, an alumnae of the Monticello Female Seminary, on May 10, 1878.

Construction workers stand on top of the Monticello Female Seminary construction one year after a fire destroyed the school's original buildings on November 4, 1888. While a temporary building was promptly erected to house the students, the new…

Two horse-drawn wagons travel on a tree-lined dirt road.

Several Monticello Female Seminary students and faculty watch as workers lay the cornerstone of Wade Hall in 1944. Wade Hall was built in memory of a former trustee, Edward Pierson Wade.

Vivian Haikens, a faculty member at Monticello College, poses for a portrait.

A woodcut shows a residence hall at the Monticello Female Seminary.

A woodcut shows the one-story preparatory school affiliated with the Monticello Female Seminary.

A woodcut shows the home of Captain Benjamin Godfrey, the founder of Monticello Female Seminary. The house included a second story balcony and two chimneys on the front of the building upon completion in 1833.

A woodcut shows the Godfrey Congregational Church featuring a columned entrance and steeple.

A woodcut shows a fountain on the Monticello Female Seminary grounds.

A woodcut shows the November 4, 1888, fire as it destroys the main Monticello Female Seminary building.

A woodcut shows the Evergreens as it appeared in 1850. First constructed as a private home, Monticello Female Seminary principal Harriet Haskell later purchased the residence for her personal home and donated the building to the school upon her death…

A woodcut shows a tree standing in front of the Entertainment Hall at the Monticello Female Seminary.

A woodcut shows a cabin located on the Monticello College grounds.

A woodcut shows a bell tower at the top of one of the Monticello Female Seminary buildings.

Suzanne Salic, a student at Monticello College, sits at a piano.

Four Monticello College students enjoy lying in the sun. On verso: "Sun deck."

A Monticello College student falls asleep at her desk.