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Nine Monticello College students sit in their pajamas eating ice cream sandwiches.

Several Monticello College students stand next to a piece of machinery aboard a steamboat while one woman presses keys on a keyboard.

A Monticello College instructor teaches a class to six students while using a recorder.

Five Monticello College students sit and enjoy listening to records in their room.Photo caption: "After-hours room party brings soft music and letters from home."

Several Monticello College students create a giant snowball. Some students are identified on the verso, including Mary Ann Merrick, Eunice Larson, Marcia Wood, Marilyn Meek, Caroline Hopping, and "Stubby" Fenten.

A Monticello College student falls asleep at her desk.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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…

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.

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

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