gr00019.xml Ramsey County: St. Paul: School Records: Independent School District No. 625: An Inventory of Its Miscellaneous Records at the Minnesota Historical Society Minnesota Historical Society

St. Paul, MN.

Government Records

Finding aid encoded by Cheri Thies, October 2009. Finding aid written in English. OVERVIEW Minnesota Historical Society Saint Paul Public Schools. Miscellaneous Records. 1867-1982. Materials in English. Assorted records documenting the districts' administration. 4.55 cubic feet (5 boxes; 3 partial boxes). See Detailed Description for shelf locations. SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Plats and purchase data for school buildings/grounds acquisitions (ca.1870-1955), all school census (1867, 1870), teacher examination questions (1889-1895, 1905-1911) and teacher training school records (1910, 1917, 1955), enrollment statistics (1914-1954), Teacher Advisory Board minutes (1915-1922, 1931-1948) and records (1937-1944), athletic director's yearly reports (1936-1940), photoready cards depicting various school activities, publicity shots, and story headlines (ca.1950s) and press clippings (1967-1973), Association of Childhood Education scrapbook (1953-1975), and Board of Education records (circa 1900-1979). The latter include historical data, photographs, clippings, and school code.

Also sixth, seventh, and eighth grade examinations (1893-1896); information on the 1945 teachers' strike, 1956 centennial celebration, and 1960 independent school district status campaign; photographs of teacher/principal Delvina Marsh (1969) and American Education Week (1985); city conference basketball and hockey statistical reports (1975-1976); slides of computer usage (1970s), kindergarten registration (1980), and technology (1980s); labor agreements (1972-1981); Association of Central Administrative Personnel materials (1971-1982); records of student Katie Bergner (1871-1877); and maps of new construction (May 1952) and attendance boundaries (April 1967).

CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics: American Education Week -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Photographs. Basketball -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Statistics. Collective labor agreements -- School administrators -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul. Hockey -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Statistics. Kindergarten -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul. Media programs (Education) -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul. School districts -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Boundaries. School enrollment -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Statistics. School lands -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Valuation. School management and organization -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul. School publicity -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul. School sports -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Statistics. Strikes and lockouts -- Teachers -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul. Student activities -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Photographs. Teachers -- Examination -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul. Teachers -- Training of -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul. Persons: Bergner, Katie. Organizations: Association of Central Administrative Personnel. Association of Childhood Education (U.S.). Minnesota Branch. Baldwin School (Saint Paul, Minn.). Madison School (Saint Paul, Minn.). Minnesota. Independent School District No. 625 (Saint Paul). Saint Paul Public Schools -- Centennial celebrations, etc. Saint Paul Public Schools -- History. Saint Paul Public Schools. Saint Paul Public Schools. Board of Education. Document Types: Scrapbooks. Photographs. School census -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul. Maps -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Saint Paul Public Schools. Miscellaneous Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

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Accession Information:

Accession number(s): 994-46; 998-40; 998-60; 997-65; 2007-60; 2007-66; 2011-12; 2013-57

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 001734744

DETAILED DESCRIPTION 114.C.14.2F-2 Land acquisitions, circa 1870-1955. 4 folders.

Plats (blueprint) and purchase data for the various parcels of land acquired for school buildings and grounds.

Adams - Garfield. Gordon - Longfellow. McClellan - St. Anthony. Scheffer - Wilson. Enrollment statistics, 1914-1954. 1 tied bundle.

Semi-annual statistics on total enrollment in each school in the St. Paul school system.

114.C.14.3B-1 Association of Childhood Education scrapbook, 1953-1975. 3 folders. Press Highlights, 1967-1968. 3 folders.

Compilations of photocopied newspaper clippings.

102.F.20.7B Press Highlights, October 1971-May 1972; January-February, June 1973. 5 folders.

Compilations of photocopied newspaper clippings.

Board of Education: Historical data, 1914-1960.

A list of board members and their terms, 1856-1914; history of St. Paul’s school boards; and collected data regarding the board’s activities in the 1950s.

Photographs, undated.

Includes photographs of various board meetings.

Newspaper clippings, 1951-1965. Discipline policy, 1960. School code, 1954, 1961, and 1966. 2 folders and 1 volume. Saint Paul Board of Education informational pamphlet, 1979. Census, All Schools, 1867, 1970. 2 volumes. Teacher examination questions, 1889-1895, 1905-1911. 2 volumes. Teacher Training School records, 1917.

Include student records and evaluations.

Teacher Training School commencement program, 1910. Teacher Training Department yearbook: Normal Life, Third Edition, Volume 3, No. 1, July 1955.

Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the St. Paul School District Teacher Training Department; includes biographical information about the eleven graduates of the Class of 1930 and their instructor, plus black and white photographs of the teachers, their families and homes.

Teacher Advisory Board minutes, 1915-1922, 1931-1948. 3 volumes and 2 folders. 1951-1922. 1 volume. Miscellany, 1916-1922. 1919-1922. 102.F.20.8F 1931-1948. 2 volumes.

Labeled Invoice Register.

Teacher Advisory Board records, 1937-1944. 3 folders.

Include committee reports.

St. Paul Teachers' Strike Report, 1945. Athletic Director, St. Paul High Schools Yearly Athletic Reports, 1936-1940. 11 folders. St. Paul City Conference Statistical Reports,. 1975-1976.

Basketball and hockey.

American Education Week photographs, November 1985. Centennial Celebration planning committee papers, 1956. Photographs, Delvina Marsh, principal and teacher for 49 years, circa 1969. 2 photographs in folder. 114.C.2.6F Computers in the Schools, circa 1970s. 17 slides. Kindergarten Registration public service announcement, 1980. 24 slides. Technology as a Learning Tool presentation materials, circa 1980s. 6 slides. Photo ready cards, circa 1950s. 1 tied bundle.

Index size cards containing photographs of various school activities, publicity shots, and story headlines.

114.C.14.3B-2 Examinations for sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, 1893-1896. 1 volume. Publicity material: Vote Yes Committee, 1960. 1 folder. Saint Paul Public Schools New Construction map, May 1952. 1 item in 1 partial folder. Public School Attendance Boundaries map, April 1967. 1 item in 1 partial folder. 115.E.4.7B Labor agreements, 1972-1981. 5 folders.

Includes a Congress Agreement, 1972-1973; agreements between the Saint Paul Board of Education and the Saint Paul Federation of Teachers, 1972-1974, 1977-1979, the Congress of Saint Paul School Administrators, July 1973-June 1976, and the Saint Paul Principals Association, 1976-1981; and with the Association of Central Administrative Personnel, 1976-1983.

Association of Central Administrative Personnel [ACAP] files, 1969-1982. 17 folders.

Maintained by Louis Haak, Board President.

Minutes and agenda packets, 1973, 1977-1982. 8 folders.

Arranged chronologically; include correspondence, arbitration, school bulletins, constitution and by-laws, newsletters, and union contracts.

Subject files, 1969-1981. 9 folders.

Arranged alphabetically by topic.

ACAP, 1971-1977. ACAP affiliations, 1976-1977. Attorney, 1976-1979. General memos, 1969-1976. Membership, 1977-1979. Mediation, 1976-1978. Newsletters, 1978. Placement, 1976, 1978. Teachers salary schedules, January 1929-1981, compiled 1981. 102.I.3.2F Drug Abuse Task Force minutes, 1970. 102.I.3.2F Bergner (Katie) files, 1871-1877. 6 folders.

Bergner attended elementary school in St. Paul, including the Baldwin School (1871-1873) and the Madison School (1873-1877). Later in life she moved to Seattle, Washington where she worked as a seamstress. The records were retained to illustrate the school work of a St. Paul public school student in the 1870s.

Photograph of Bergner, undated. American Red Cross salvage receipt, undated. Poetry transcribed by Bergner, undated, 1872.1 volume. Madison School records, undated, 1873-1877.

Includes monthly reports with grades, attendance and signatures of parents, reward of merit certificates, and examinations, in subjects of grammar, language, spelling, geography, arithmetic, and general.

Baldwin School monthly reports, 1871-1873.

Information includes class rank, attendance and signatures of parents, and reward of merit certificates.

Sketches, calligraphy, and penmanship, undated, 1884.

Includes drawings of wildlife and maps, plus calligraphy and penmanship samples by Bergner.