Lessons from the 1800s: Creating the Miss Porter\u27s School Digital Archive

College preparatory (“prep”) schools have their roots in the New England region of the United States; many predate the nation\u27s most illustrious colleges and universities. The archives at these schools contain items of importance to American history in the 1800s. However, few schools have trained archivists managing their physical collections and even fewer have created digital archives to increase access. Founded in 1848, Miss Porter\u27s School in Farmington, Connecticut was one of the first independent schools devoted to the education of young women. This article reviews the creation of the Porter\u27s digital archive in 2018 and examines issues specific to the representation of women in archives at an American independent school