Manhattan Trade School for Girls

The Manhattan Trade School for Girls was a New York City public high school founded in 1902 by Mary Schenck Woolman,^[1] and was the first vocational school for female students established in the United States.^[2] It was established by philanthropic reformers to provide training for young women to work in trades such as garment factory work. It was originally located on West 14th Street, but was moved to East 23rd Street in 1906–1907. To accommodate growing enrollment, a new building was constructed and designed by C. B. J. Snyder in 1915 at 127 East 22nd Street.^[3] The building now houses The School of the Future, a New York City public middle school and high school.

Gallery

The following photographs of activities at the Manhattan Trade School for Girls date to 1916:

Academic class
Operating department
Straw sewing
Art room

Documentary

A documentary film was made about the school in 1911.^[4] The film is available on DVD from Image Entertainment as part of the box set Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film, 1900–1934 with a ragtime style musical score by Elena Ruehr composed specifically for the film.

References

^ Hutson, Cecil Kirk (1999). "Woolman, Mary Raphael Schenck (1860–1940), educator and author". In Garraty, John A; Carnes, Mark C. (eds.). American National Biography. Vol. 23. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 855–857. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0900962. ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7. OCLC 39182280. Retrieved August 22, 2020 – via American National Biography online.
^ Burdick, Ana Lalor (October 1919). "The Manhattan Trade School for Girls". The Vocational Summary. Vol. 2, no. 6. Federal Board for Vocational Education. pp. 110–111 – via Google Books.
^ "Proposed Historic District Extension study". Gramercy Neighborhood Associates, Inc. August 31, 1998. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
^ Manhattan Trade School for Girls at IMDb

Sources

Reitano, Joanne (1984). "Working Girls Unite". American Quarterly. 36 (1): 112–134. doi:10.2307/2712841. JSTOR 2712841.

Brown, Margaret (October 1927). "An experiment in vocational training carried on in cardiac classes of the Manhattan Trade School for Girls". American Heart Journal. 3 (1): 91–104. doi:10.1016/s0002-8703(27)90176-8.
Dominus, Susan (14 September 2010). "From School Files of an Earlier Era, Faces Looking to the Future". New York Times.
Leake, Albert H. (1918). The Vocational Education of Girls and Women. Macmillan.
Woolman, Mary Schenck (1910). The Making of a Trade School. Boston, Whitcomb & Barrows.
Woolman, Mary Schenck (1909). "The Relative Value and Cost of Various Trades in a Girls' School". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 33 (1): 127–140. doi:10.1177/000271620903300116. S2CID 154103189.
Lukas, Paul. "Permanent Record: A trove of 1920s report cards and the stories they tell". Slate.com. Retrieved September 21, 2011.
"Manhattan Trade-School for Girls" . The New Student's Reference Work . 1914.

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