Escape the Archives!
Solve the clues to get the lock codes and escape the Archives. Don't get locked in the vault. Try one of the bonus challenges for more fun and share your pictures with on the Shared GoogleDoc.
Instructions: The archives vault is now closed and all arch1ves materials are locked in with you (newsp8pers, photographs, and yearbooks are your only h6pe to escape). Use these items to solve the puzzles b5low.
If you read this carefully you should already have the year Ward Seminary was established and the answer to one of the locks.
If you read this carefully you should already have the year Ward Seminary was established and the answer to one of the locks.
Hint: Remember what you unlock.
Keep scrolling to Escape from the Archives!
Clue #2 : Figure out when the first "Bear" in our school history appeared. The key to this lock is the word for everyone's favorite type of bear.
(Hint: Click the link to learn more about our Bear history!)
(Hint: Click the link to learn more about our Bear history!)
1982 Honeybear
From the 1982
Milestones Yearbook
Ward Belmont Stuffed Animal (we're not sure what it is!)
From the Harpeth Hall
School Archives
Clue #3: Our numbers are hard to beat when you look at sports through the years. Do some counting to figure out this lock. ( Hint: You need to find 3 separate numbers and then add them together. Enter 1 number in the answer.)
1966
Fun Fact: Ward-Belmont (established from Ward Seminary and Belmont College in 1913) had a swimming pool on campus!
1919
Fun Fact: "Ward Seminary encouraged and promoted its young ladies in the performing arts" [1865]
Quote from Harpeth Hall Archivist, Dr. Mary Ellen Pethel in her book, All-Girls Education from Ward Seminary to Harpeth Hall: 1865–2015
1898
Fun Fact: Ward Seminary had the first women’s basketball team in Nashville in 1895.
Clue #4: It might surprise you to find this person with the 1986 Math faculty when we’re used to seeing her at the top of the hill in Souby Hall. What is the person's last name? (Hint: It is one word and the first letter is capitalized)
From the 1986 Milestones Yearbook
Clue #5: These students have school spirit. Can you unscramble the words to figure out the clues? What is the answer? (Hint: You will type in four words without commas in the same order as the pictures and the first letter of each word is capitalized)
(Find out more about these images in the book, Celebrating Milestones: the Life and Legacy of the Harpeth Hall School.
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Tdari
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Clue #6: What do all of these images have in common? Hint: Longfellow might like this clue.
From the 1985 Milestones Yearbook
Saddle-Oxfords
From the Harpeth Hall Archives
From the 1982 Milestones Yearbook
From the 1974 Milestones Yearbook
Clue #7: An archive has lots of artifacts including old technologies. Take a look at these pictures, what technology are you NOT allowed to use while at school in 2020?
(What's that word? Artifacts: an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
1984
1968
1965
1920
Clue #8: Can you decipher the code? What letters are missing in the newspaper article? Figure out the letters (8 of them) and then what word do they spell? Hint: It is one word (not capitalized) and it is in bloom this time of year.
What's happening in these pictures?
ANSWER the question to UNLOCK THE VAULT AND ESCAPE THE ARCHIVES!
Photographs : Class of 1932 and 2019.
"Harpeth Hall is not just a few buildings on a hill
- it is what each girl decides it is in her own mind."
1975 Milestones
- it is what each girl decides it is in her own mind."
1975 Milestones