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Stone School - Dist. #36, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Stone School, 2 miles east and 1 mile south of Kearney in Buffalo County, Nebraska. Includes photos of both the old and the new school buildings.

Redbird - Dist. #3, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Redbird School, located 6 miles south of Lynch in Holt County, Nebraska. Note that there are two site forms.

Ua96/3 Southern Normal School - Class Lists, Southern Normal School

WKU Archives Records

Class lists for Southern Normal School and early Bowling Green Business University 1876-1910. These lists are incomplete and are part of UA96 Southern Normal School Records. Check KenCat for extant corresponding class portraits.

Center School - Dist. #28, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Center, District 28, located about 5 miles east and 2 miles north of Kearney in Buffalo County, Nebraska.

Branch School - Dist. #14, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Branch School, west of Hartington in Cedar County, Nebraska. While the form calls it the Branch School, other documents call it the Branch Oak School.

Brief mention of the Blizzard of 1888 in the Narrative Information section.

Carter School - Dist. #35, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on what was originally the Carter School. At the time of the historic site survey, it was named (or part of?) the John Fletcher Christian College and Academy. The school was originally located near Oxford but had been moved south of Highway 6, between Axtell and Funk, in Harlan County, Nebraska. Includes a number of news articles on the Carter School, including a booklet on the Carter Centennial.

Camp Creek - Dist. #54, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Camp Creek School, located in Otoe County, Nebraska. Includes several letters to Ernest Grundy regarding the school as well as a news clipping titled "Schoolhouse Keeps Flavor of Pioneers".

Hawk School - Dist. #4, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Hawk School, 3 1/2 miles south of Loup City, in Sherman County, Nebraska.

Glenwood - Dist. #14, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Glenwood School, 4 miles north of Kearney on Highway 10 in Buffalo County, Nebraska. Includes images of both old and new (~1980) building.

Pleasant Hill - Dist. #16, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Pleasant Hill School, located 7 miles north of Kearney, in Buffalo County, Nebraska. Image is of the modern school and probably not the building described in the site form.

Includes a copy of a 1958 Kearney Hub article titled "Schoolboy on Horse Fast Fading Scene", additional information from after the school was moved to the Stuhr Museum, including an inventory of the school, and a note titled "Current Use of the Gibbon Rural School in the Museum's Cultural Heritage Program". The latter two documents refer to the school as being part of District #25.

Buffalo Creek - Dist. #34, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Buffalo Creek School, located 7 miles south and 1 1/2 miles east of Tilden in Madison County, Nebraska. Includes a history of the district, written by Sharyl Linda Roewert as an 8th grade assignment in 1967.

Gleason School - Dist. # 43, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on the Gleason School, District #43. It is located near Oakland in Burt County, Nebraska. At the time the form was filled out in ~1980, the school was still in use.

St. Deroin School - Dist. #56, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on St. Deroin School, located 14 miles southeast of Brownville in Nemaha County, Nebraska. Note that there are two site forms for this location, both including the brochure from Nebraska Game and Parks.

Additional correspondence between Ernest Grundy and Homestead National Monument is included.

Freeman - Dist. #21, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Freeman School, located 3-4 miles northwest of Beatrice in Gage County, Nebraska. It is part of the Beatrice Homestead National Monument.

Eich - Dist. #57, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Eich School, also called White Temple School. The school was located about 1 1/2 mi. northwest of Strang in Fillmore County, NE. Includes a quote from The Fillmore County Story and a letter from Mrs. William Eich, the owner of the school.

Linden School - Dist. #21, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Linden School, located 2 miles north and 4 miles west of Auburn, Nebraska. Includes a letter from Ernest Grundy to Ms. Maxine Chatelain, asking for her help gathering information on the school.

Dist. #3, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on District #3 in Madison County, Nebraska. Includes several histories of the district, written by current students attending the school.

Cottier - Dist. #21, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on the Cottier School, located 15 miles northeast of Falls City in Richardson County, Nebraska.

Testimony Of Colonel J. M. Chivington April 26, 1865, United States Government

John Evans Study: Supporting Materials

Testimony of Colonel J. M. Chivington April 26, 1865

Congressional Testimony Of Mr. John S. Smith Washington, March 14, 1865, United States Government

John Evans Study: Supporting Materials

Congressional Testimony of Mr. John S. Smith Washington, March 14, 1865

Letter From L. S. Joynes To W. H. S. Taylor, 1864 December 15, L. S. (Levin Smith) Joynes

Sanger Historical Files (1859-1865), Excerpts

Copy of a letter from L.S. Joynes to W.H.S. Taylor, 2nd Auditor of the Confederate States Treasury, concerning the effects of deceased soldiers .

John Evans To General Connor, October 24, 1864, John Evans

John Evans Study: Supporting Materials

Letter from John Evans to General Connor, 10/24/1864

Hickory Grove - Dist. #27, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Hickory Grove School, located 4 miles west and 2 miles south of Auburn in Nemaha County, Nebraska. The school began as district #3.

Note that there are two site forms for Hickory Grove School. Both include a History of School District 27.

Contract, Cedar Creek Subscription School

Arkansas schools

This is a contract for Green Woods, a teacher, to run a subscription school out of the Cedar Creek School House in Lawrence County and includes a list of the subscribers.

An Address Delivered Before The Penobscot Association Of Teachers And Friends Of Popular Education, At Bangor, Dec. 26, 1838, Joseph Cammet Lovejoy

Maine Bicentennial

A pamphlet providing a view on public education in post-Colonial America as: "the science of rearing men, fitted to be useful members of society on earth, and for everlasting felicity in heaven."

Abstract Of Laws And Regulations At Harvard University For Parents Or Guardians Of Nathan Hale, Jr., A Member Of The Freshman Class. Signed By Josiah Quincy, Cambridge, July 17, 1834., Josiah Quincy

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

This form states Nathan Hale, Jr. is admitted a member of the Freshman class on probation. The document presents an abstract of laws and regulations once accepted and disccuses the terms of admission and matriculation, dress code, and billing information. Signed by Josiah Quincy, the president of Harvard University, and dated July 17, 1834.

Female Education, A Discourse, Delivered At The Dedication Of The Seminary Hall In Saugus, Jan. 15, 1822, To Which Is Added The Little Reckoner, Consisting Principally Of Arithmatical Questions For Infant Minds, Joseph Emerson

Maine Bicentennial

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace. --Psalm 144:12 (King James Version)

The literal import of this prayer, is, that our daughters may be qualified to till with dignity, propriety and usefulness, the important stations, which they may be called to occupy. But prayer, without corresponding exertion, is presumption. We are not to expect miracles. Something must be done, in order that females may attain that dignified and elevated rank in society, for which the God of nature, as well …

The Child's Instructer And Moral Primer, By The Young Child's Friend

Rare Books

Besides the Stops and principal Characters used in Punctuation, the Figures and Abbreviations, Early Lessons in Prose; among which are some very pleasing and valuable pieces of Sacred History, and the Ten Commandments; likewise a brief selection from Baldwin's Fables -- History of the Elephant, Whale, Ant and Silk Worm, &c. &c.

Ornamented with Cuts. All which, Afford a pleasing variety for the child, are calculated to improve his morals, to give him that instruction which is suitable to his age, and to advance him in the valuable and delightsome acquirement of good reading.

A Statistical View Of The District Of Maine, Moses Greenleaf

Osher Map Library Rare Books

Full title: A Statistical View of the District of Maine; more especially with reference to the Value and Importance of its Interior

Early survey of the District of Maine 1816 by Moses Greenleaf.

1 book: 154 pages

Using Federal Documents To Dispel A Myth About Ellis Island, Rosemary L. Meszaros, Katherine Pennavaria

DLPS Faculty Publications

Government workers at New York’s Ellis Island have been accused of murdering ancestral names to serve their own purposes and prejudices. Despite zero evidence to support this accusation, the myth stubbornly persists. They did not change names. They worked from manifests, which were governed by law.