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Fourteen Monticello Female Seminary students pose for a group photo with school principal Harriet Haskell (seated, far left).

Monticello Female Seminary faculty and students pose outside the school's chapel for the laying of the capstone during reconstruction. A fire destroyed the school's original buildings on November 4, 1888. While a temporary building was promptly…

Monticello Female Seminary students and faculty pose outside the East Chapel Gable on the day of the laying of the capstone during new construction on the Monticello Female Seminary chapel. A fire destroyed the school's original buildings on November…

A groundskeeper trims a small tree on the Monticello College campus.

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

Several bookcases line the walls around a table and chairs in the Monticello Female Seminary library's north end. On verso: "My father placed a plaque in our memory. Mary and Sarah [Andrew]."

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

The Monticello Female Seminary dining area is set up for a meal service.

The Monticello Female Seminary chapel contains a pipe organ, chandeliers, and stained glass windows.

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…

New construction takes place on the front entrance of the Monticello Seminary 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…

A drawing shows several walkways on the Monticello Ladies Seminary campus leading to the main building.

Students of Monticello College prepare to board the S.S. Admiral. The S.S. Admiral was a large steamboat that offered passenger excursions from the Port of St. Louis on the Mississippi River beginning in 1940.

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

Students use looms to weave cloth inside the Monticello College workshop.

Monticello College art students paint a variety of models in an art studio at the school.

Madeleine Dinges, a Monticello College art student and a finalist in the National Collegiate Sculpture Awards Program, works to chisel a large bust sculpture of United States Senator and Senate Minority Leader, Everett M. Dirksen. Dinges presented…

Two uniformed men stand on either side of a display case guarding an art exhibit that includes a portrait of Abraham Lincoln and a landscape painting.

A Monticello College student paints images on wooden objects.

An unidentified man stands during a portrait session wearing a suit and top hat.

Lizzie Stillwell poses for a portrait in profile while wearing a hat covered with a flower and a bow.

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.

Saul J. Snedeker, of Jerseyville, a relative of Monticello Female Seminary alumnae Catherine Elizabeth Snedeker Hill, sits for a portrait wearing a suit and top hat.

Mary Gilman, a member of the Class of 1904 from Monticello Female Seminary, sits in a chair for a portrait.

Several Monticello Female Seminary students pose for a group photo with school principal, Harriet Haskell. All alumnae are identified on verso, and include: Crete Orcutt (top left); May Burnett (top middle); Clara Martin, Valedictory (top right);…