A copy photograph of an 1890’s gymnastics class of young female students at Ward’s Seminary for Young Ladies in Nashville, Tennessee. The photograph shows Mary Louise and Sadie Warner (later Mrs. William Mallison and Mrs. George Frazier) on the gym bars at the top. The girl in white standing at lower left is Nell Fall (Mrs. Avery Handly). Ward’s Seminary for Young Ladies, was a prestigious school for girls founded in 1865 by Dr. William E. Ward, a Presbyterian Minister and his wife, Eliza Hudson Ward. The school was located at 15 South Spruce Street (Eighth Avenue) in Nashville, Tennessee, next to the Savage House, a townhouse in downtown Nashville. The school was regarded as one of the leading schools for young women in the South.
