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Packard's Business College or Packard Business College was a post-secondary business college in New York City which provided a concentrated one-year education in practical business subjects, such as arithmetic, bookkeeping, penmanship, and business correspondence. The school was well respected for the quality of its graduates. [1]

The school was founded 1858, under the name of Bryant, Stratton & Packard's Mercantile College, by Mr. S. S. Packard and was the New York branch of a chain known as the Bryant & Stratton chain of business colleges. In 1867 Mr. Packard purchased the Bryant & Stratton interest in the New York College, and changed its name to Packard's Business College. [2]

The teachers employed in the college were chosen for their practical and theoretical knowledge of business affairs. [2] A Packard Business College, situated at 22nd and Broadway, New York, was featured in the 1947 film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim , whose initial graduates are described as "the first group of typewriters to graduate from any business college anywhere in the world".

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References

  1. Packard's Business College.; Its Thirty-Third Anniversary and Graduating Exercises. New York Times, May 22, 1891.
  2. 1 2 Business Colleges. Packard's Business College Scientific American Vol. XLIII. No. 25, pub. by Munn & Co. December 18, 1880.