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Country School Legacy Project : Kansas

Creator: Country School Legacy (Project)

Date: [ca. 1885]-1981

Level of Description: Coll./Record Group

Material Type: Manuscripts

Call Number: Manuscripts Collection 152

Unit ID: 40152

Abstract: The collection consists of published & ms. materials, photographs, oral histories, and maps documenting rural schools, teachers, and students throughout Kansas. Also included are newspaper clippings, histories, reminiscences, examples of textbooks & other teaching aids, essays by project staff, historic site forms, correspondence, and notes & copies with information on country school related topics.

Summary:

Inventories (Box 1)


Ser. 1. RECORDS OF PAUL HAACK, HUMANIST (southeast Kansas, music statewide), 1912-1981. 0.4 ft. (1 box) (Box 2)


  • North Pomona School. School souvenir. -- [s.l., s.n.] 1920

  • Shawnee County Schools. Directory, 1951-1952. -- Topeka, Kan. : Shawnee County [1951]

  • [Hawkins, Nancy, ed.] Lebo enterprise -- 93, no. 22; 21 May 1980 [With: notes on the issue]

  • Emporia Kansas State College. Alumni Association. Memories of the one - room rural schools of America. -- [Emporia, Kan.] : Alumni Association of Emporia Kansas State College, spring 1976

  • Daniels, Goldie Piper. Rural schools and schoolhouses of Douglas County

  • Unified School District 443 (Dodge City, Kan.) Chalkboard, May 1981.

  • One room schools revisited, Devil's Lake [N.D.] Daily journal, [ca. December 1980]

  • Collins, Jeff. Teacher files memories after 32 years in Vinland, Lawrence journal - world, 8 May 1981

  • Beach, Frank A., B.I. Music appreciation for beginners -- no. 1. Emporia, Kan. : [s.n.] August 1912

  • [Sheet music], 1929-1961

  • Haack, Paul A. Country School Legacy : music on the frontier

  • 2 oral interviews


Ser. 2. RECORDS OF DONNA JONES, RESEARCHER (western Kansas). 4 ft. (9 boxes) (Boxes 3-11)

  • Government (Kansas) (Box 3)

  • Publicity (Box 3)

  • Resource materials (Box 3)

  • Schools : sites (Box 3)

  • [Notebooks] (Box 3)

  • Stone schoolhouse project (Box 4)

  • Ft. Hays State University (FHSU) (Hays, Kan.) (Box 4)

  • Plymouth School (Box 4)

  • Student papers (FHSU) (Box 4)

  • Schools : sites (Box 5)

  • Historic site forms (with photographs): Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Gove, Grant, Greeley, Haskell, Lane, Logan, Mitchell, Ness, Osborne, Reno, Russell, Scott, Seward, Sheridan, Smith, Stafford, Wallace and Wichita Counties (Box 5)

  • Correspondence (Box 5)
    • General

    • Barton - Comanche Counties

  • Cultural Heritage Center (Dodge City, Kan.) [copies from holdings] (Box 5)

  • Kansas State Historical Society (Topeka) [copies from holdings] (Box 5)

  • County files : Decatur - Ellis (Box 6)

  • Country schools (Box 7)

  • County files

    • Finney and Logan (Box 7). Includes correspondence with the Oakley Public Library

    • Ford - Morton (Box 8). Includes copies of records of Solomon Valley District #43, Graham County; information on Morton County schools collected by Helen Thompson; and notes on Morton County schools including playground equipment, a guest book, State aid, teachers, sod schools, salaries 1940s-1960s, school board minutes on file in the courthouse, list & map of school districts, historic site forms, maps, clippings, teachers, notes on each district, and 4 oral interviews

    • Ness - Pratt (Box 9)

    • Rooks - Wichita (Box 10)

  • Application booklets (Box 10)

  • Certificates and pictures (Box 10)

  • Libraries : letters of commitment (Box 10)

  • [Interviews and indexes] (Box 11). 32 oral interviews, photos of interviewees (incomplete), and indexes to interviews


Ser. 3. RECORDS OF SARA JUDGE, RESEARCHER (eastern Kansas). 2 ft. (4 boxes) (Boxes 12-15)

  • Country schools and the Americanization of ethnic groups (Box 12)

  • Readin', 'ritin', 'rithmetic, and recitation. Notes and copies (Box 12)

  • Teachers, their rules : rules and restrictions. Notes and copies (Box 12)

  • Country schools as community centers. Notes and copies (Box 12)

  • Schools as historic sites. Notes and copies (Box 12)

  • [Correspondence with project office.] Concerning exhibits & oral interviews, list of local sponsoring libraries, and circular letters (Box 12)

  • Historic site forms. With photographs and notes. Atchison, Dickinson, Geary Harper, Kingman, Marshall, Morris, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Rice, Riley, Shawnee, Wabaunsee, and other (Chautauqua, Elk, and Mitchell) Counties (Box 13)

  • Interviews. With indexes and biographical information sheets (Box 14)

  • Non-reimbursable expenses (Box 15)

  • Host libraries (Box 15)

  • Correspondence (Box 15)

Space Required/Quantity: 7.25 cubic feet

Title (Main title): Country School Legacy Project : Kansas

Titles (Other):

  • Kansas

Scope and Content

Contents: Inventories (box 1) -- ser 1. Records of Paul Haack, humanist (southeast Kansas, music statewide), 1912-1981 (box 2) -- ser. 2. Records of Donna Jones, researcher (western Kansas) (boxes 3-11) -- ser. 3. Records of Sara Judge, researcher (eastern Kansas) (boxes 12-15) -- accretions (box 16).

Portions of Collection Separately Described:


Locators:

Locator Contents
005-11-02-02 to 005-11-03-07  Manuscripts Collection 152 
015-01-01-07  Accretion 

Related Records or Collections

Other Finding Aid/Index: Preliminary inventory available from the Kansas Historical Society (Topeka). Box list available on the Kansas Historical Society's website, http://www.kshs.org/research/collections/documents/businessrecords/business_records_findingaids/country_school_legacy_project.pdf.

Related materials: Kansas State Historical Society. Manuscript Dept. Preliminary guide to the unpublished records and papers in the Kansas State Historical Society that relate to country schools. — [Topeka, Kan. : The Society] 1981 (Kansas Historical Society library call number: SP 906 K13ma Pam.v.1 no.4; also in box 1 of the ms. collection).

Index Terms

Subjects

    Maps
    Oral histories
    Photographs
    Kansas -- History
    Kansas -- History -- Maps
    West (U.S.) -- History
    Education -- Kansas -- History
    Education, Rural -- Kansas -- History
    Education, Rural -- West (U.S.) -- History
    Rural children -- Kansas -- History
    Rural schools -- Kansas -- History
    Teachers -- Kansas -- History

Creators and Contributors

    Country School Legacy (Project)
    Morris, Donna Jones
    Keckeisen, Sara J. (Sara Ellen Judge)
    Haack, Paul, 1935-

Additional Information for Researchers

Use and reproduction: Information on copyright available from the Kansas Historical Society (Topeka).

Ownership/Custodial Hist.: Some items in the collection were donated to the Country School Legacy Project by individuals.

Cite as: Country School Legacy Project: Kansas, [ca. 1885]-1981, Ms. Collection No. 152, State Archives Division, Kansas Historical Society.

Notes

With: With this is filed: Inventories of country school related holdings in the 8 Project states (box 1).