[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.
[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".
The school closed by 1954 and the building was purchased by Stern College for Women.
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