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Includes 2 books:

• Public Reception Tendered Hon. H.G. Eastman, President of Eastman College and Mayor of Poughkeepsie, on the Occasion of his Return from Europe... 35, [1] pp. Wrappers. Eagle Printing House, 1877.
• Merchant's Guide for the Practical Departments of Eastman's National Business College. 24 pp. Published by the College, 1875. ​

​Plus, workbooks and ephemera:

• $10 scholarship receipt for Mr. A.M. Blood for tuition fee. 1878.
• 2 warranty deeds to land in Pokeepsie[sic], to A.M. Blood in 1878.
• 2 Eastman Business College Insurance Company policy forms to A.M. Blood, 1878.
• 37 wrapper-bound exercise workbooks. Each workbook with hand-written exercises for a variety of banking and business subjects like jobbing invoice, dealer's ledger, sales book, etc. Each with the name A.M. Blood on front cover.
• Wrapper bound Eastman's System of Practical Penmanship workbook, all pages filled with penmanship exercises.
• Notebook with some hand-written leaves of poetry, then hand-written business school questions and answer exercises. A nice archive.

The Eastman Business College was founded in 1859 in Poughkeepsie, NY by Harvey G. Eastman. It was a revolutionary new model for education in which the students gained practical experience by actually performing the tasks involved in business. The school closed in 1931. This small archive, from a student named A.M. Blood, contains several workbooks from various subject matters, most of which are used and are an interesting record of the types of tasks required of the business students.