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A woodcut shows a woman walking in front of the Monticello Female Seminary as it appeared when the school opened in 1838.

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

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

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

Spencer T. Olin, executive of the Olin Corporation, a manufacturing firm and chairman of the board of trustees at Monticello College, poses for a portrait weearing a dark suit.

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

A woman stands on the grounds of the Monticello Ladies Academy in front of the school's main building.Photo caption: "Burned in 1888."

Several large trees stand in front of the Evergreens, the Monticello Female Seminary president Harriet Haskell's mansion private residence. The building was donated to the school upon her death and served as a faculty residence until 1935 and as the…

Several women relax along the tree-lined main walkway on the Monticello Seminary campus in 1888.On verso: "Taken from steeple in [ ] church."

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…

Members of the Monticello Female Seminary Class of 1888, pose for a photograph on the stairs of a building. Principal Harriet Haskell is seated on the top row on the left.

A fence and several trees surround the main building of the Monticello Female Seminary.

A woodcut shows two women walking away from the entrance to Fobes Hall on the Monticello Female Seminary campus.

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

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

Henry L. Sunderland, a cousin of Monticello Female Seminary alumnae, Catherine Elizabeth Snedeker Hill, sits for a portrait in front of a large tasseled curtain.

Several Monticello Female Seminary students work in the school lab.

A woodcut shows the senior stairway and conservatory complete with its glass roof.

A woodcut shows an arch over the Haskell Memorial Entrance at Monticello Female Seminary. The entrance is in memory of longtime school principal Harriet Haskell.

Annie Delano, an alumnae of Monticello Female Seminary from Bunker Hill, Illinois, poses for a portrait in profile.

A woodcut shows Reid Chapel, built in honor of William H. Reid's wife, Eleanor Irwin Reid. The Reid's donated large sums of money requested by principal Harriet Haskell to help rebuild the Monticello Female Seminary after the November 4, 1888 fire.…

Samuel Snedeker, a farmer from Jerseyville, sits for a portrait. Snedeker was the father of Catherine Elizabeth Snedeker Hill, an alumnae of the Monticello Female Seminary.

Harriet M. Sunderland Snedeker, of Jerseyville, sits for a portrait wearing a dark dress and glasses. She was the mother of Catherine Elizabeth Snedeker Hill, an alumnae of the Monticello Female Seminary.

A tower on one of the Monticello College buildings is visible through the glass ceiling of a student and faculty recreation area that doubles as a greenhouse.

Mrs. Oral K. Wing, a member of the board of trustees at Monticello College, sits in a winged chair for a portrait.