Beautiful and Rare cameo business card with an image of a large structure known as The Lancaster County Normal Institute in Millersville, Pa. Included in the vignette is a stagecoach as it approaches the school. This cameo card is very lightly embossed on coated stock. It is unsigned but can be attributed to Henry Percival of Philadelphia, a die-sinker engraver who included flying birds in many of his designs. The card is small and measures approx. just under 3.25 by just under 2 inches. It is in very fine condition.

The Normal Institute was the first teachers training school in the County, founded in 1854. Stoddard was the Principal in the years 1855 and 1856. The Institute grew into what became Millersville University today. See this link in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millersville_University_of_Pennsylvania. This cameo card dates from 1855 - 1856 and no later as Stoddard was replaced as Principal by James Wickersham in late 1856 and he served in that position until 1866.