Practical Courses Offered by the Vocational Schools of the Lette Association (1871-1872; 1879)

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III. State of the schools in 1879

Business school	83	female students
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 bouquet making	9
Hairdressing	22
Cooking school	65
Laundry and ironing institute	140
Typesetter school	c. 30
	1,409	female students

IV. Additional facilities 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
		47,984.33 marks
	Expenditures	41,824.26 marks
	Balance	6,160.07 marks

Source: (for I and II) Frauen-Anwalt [Women's Advocate] 3, no. 2 (1872-1873): pp. 90-91; Frauen-Anwalt [Women's Advocate] no. 4 (1880): pp. 121ff.

Original German texts reprinted in Margrit Twellmann, Die Deutsche Frauenbewegung im Spiegel repräsentativer Frauenzeitschriften. Ihre Anfänge und erste Entwicklung [The German Women’s Movement as Reflected in Representative Women's Journals: Its Beginnings and Initial Development], 2 vols., vol. 2, Quellen 1843-1889 [Sources 1843-1889]. Meisenheim am Glan: A. Hain, 1972, pp. 453-55.

Translation: Erwin Fink