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| Advertisement | Whitman College (1889) |
| Company/Advertising Agency | Whitman College |
| Publication Source | Oregon and Washington state gazetteer and business directory, p. 933 |
| Publisher | R.L. Polk & Comapny |
| Publisher Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Publication Date | 1889
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| Advertisement Text | Whitman College has four departments: Collegiate - including three course: classical, scientific, and literary. Academic - including three courses: college preparatory, normal and business. Music - Including two courses: voice and piano. Art - including a three years' course in painting and drawing. The institution has eleven professors and instructors, carefully selected, both for Christian character and for ability to do thorough work...In the past seven years, Whitman College has grown to be the leading institution of higher learning and secondary instruction in the Upper Columbia Valley, and in the thoroughness of its work it is not surpassed by any school or college on the North Pacific Coast. |
| Contextual Notes | Whitman College opened in 1882 on the campus of Whitman Seminary in Walla Walla. Under the leadership of presidents Alexander J. Anderson and Stephen Penrose, Whitman became a nationally-recognized liberal arts college.
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| Category | Education and schools |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Universities & colleges--Washington (State)--Walla Walla |
| Geographic Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Walla Walla
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| Digital Collection | Early Advertising |
| Digital ID Number | ADV0435 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Pacific Northwest Collection. F852 O64 1889 |
| Object Type | Advertisement |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original drawing in RGB at 400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, changed to indexed color, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2008. |
