Dormitory room, Normal Hall

Title:: Dormitory room, Normal Hall
Description:: Interior view of a typical dormitory room in Normal Hall, State Normal School at Bridgewater.
Name on Item:: [photographed by] T. Lewis
Date:: [ca. 1876]
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Stereographs
Location:: Bridgewater State University, Maxwell Library
Archives & Special Collections
Collection (local):: Stereoscopic Scenery Cards
Subjects:: Teachers colleges
Educational facilities
Dormitories
State Normal School (Bridgewater, Mass.)
Places:: Massachusetts > Plymouth (county) > Bridgewater
Extent:: 1 stereograph (photographic print) : b&w ; mount 9 x 18 cm.
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Notes:: Normal Hall could accommodate 148 students. The cost for boarding in the late 1870s was $4.00 a week for gentlemen, and $3.75 a week for ladies. According to an 1879 course catalog, "Each boarder is required to bring bedding, towels, napkins and napkin-ring, and clothes bags. Each occupant will want, ordinarily, four pillow-cases, three sheets, two blankets or their equivalent, and one coverlet for a double bed. It is required that every article which goes to the laundry be distinctly and indelibly marked with the owner's name."
Identifier:: VMC013-022