Source
I. Business School of the Lette Association (as of 1871–72)
Admission requirements: 1st or 2nd grade of the higher
(secondary) school for girls, at least 15 years of
age;
Duration: 1 year (12 hours a week);
School fees: 50
thalers and 2 thalers fees;
Cost of full board: 17 thalers a
month.
Subjects:
Business correspondence,
business
mathematics,
office work and
correspondence,
accounting,
business and trade
studies,
monetary and exchange system, coins, weights and
measures, etc.,
English and French languages, correspondence
and conversation: 6 hrs. a week,
German: 4 hrs. a week
Management of the school: Professor Clement
II. Vocational School of the Lette Association (as of 1871–72)
Industrial drafting (1 year or ½, 8 hours a week, 4 thalers per
month)
Practical tailoring, clothes-making and ready-made
clothing (2 months, 6-9 hours a week, 5 thalers per
month)
Linen tailoring (3 months, 4 hours a week, 2 thalers
per month)
Sewing instruction for hand-sewing, linen
embroidery, and invisible mending (monthly, 6 hours a week, 1
thaler)
Machine sewing (monthly, 4 hours a week, 4 thalers
per month)
Wreath and bouquet making (3 months, 4 hours a
week, 4 thalers per month)
Cleaning class (3 months, 4 hours
a week, 4 thalers per month)
Management of the school: Karl Weiß
III. State of the Schools in 1879
[School] | Female students |
|---|---|
Business school | 83 |
Drafting school | 55 |
Sculpting course | 8 |
Course for needlework teachers | 43 |
Needlework | 193 |
Craft work school | 36 |
Tailoring class | 354 |
Cleaning class | 134 |
Machine sewing | 133 |
Linen tailoring | 104 |
Wreath and floral design | 9 |
Hairdressing | 22 |
Cooking school | 65 |
Laundry and ironing institute | 140 |
Typesetter school | approx. 30 |
Total | 1,409 female students |
IV. Other Institutions of the Lette Association (as of 1879)
Viktoria Foundation (boarding)
Viktoria
Bazaar
Ladies’ restaurant
Loan society
Sewing
machine fund
Further education school
Assets in 1879 | 6,577.34 marks |
|---|---|
Revenue | 41,406.99 marks |
[Total] | 47,984.33 marks |
Expenditures | 41,824.26 marks |
Balance | 6,160.07 marks |
Source: (I. and II.) Frauen-Anwalt 3, no. 2 (1872–73), pp. 90–91; (III. and IV.) Frauen-Anwalt, no. 4 (1880), pp. 121ff.; reprinted in Margrit Twellmann, Die Deutsche Frauenbewegung im Spiegel repräsentativer Frauenzeitschriften. Ihre Anfänge und erste Entwicklung, 2 vols., vol. 2, Quellen 1843–1889. Meisenheim am Glan: A. Hain, 1972, pp. 453–55.