Government Records
The historical data (1876-1977) includes school histories (1925, ca.1931, 1970, 1976, 1977), a history committee record book (1907-1925), and information on the classes of 1877 and 1878; while the programs, invitations, and handbooks (1875-1971) document orchestra and choral concerts, commencements, debates, dances, and drama productions. They also include students handbooks, (1937-1938, 1949-1950). The pupil lists (1870-1970) cover senior classes, graduates, class presidents, athletic teams, and attendance. Both the programs, invitations, and handbooks and the pupil lists are very incomplete sets.
The subject files (1890-1967) and scrapbooks (1878-1955) mainly document student activities, particularly boys and girls varsity and intramural athletics, including GAA; concerts; social events; French Club; and reunions. They also cover teachers and alumni and farewell and retirement receptions. They include programs, clippings, correspondence, schedules, photographs, and senior class publications (1890, 1893).
The photographs (ca.1870 - ca.1980s) mainly cover classroom activities, scenes from Glee Club operettas, National Honor Society, student council, Girl Reserves, language club/newspaper staff, demolition and construction in the 1970s, athletic teams, summer school, class portraits, and twins in the student body (1950-1951).
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota
Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics should
Accession numbers: 994-183 986-147 994-46 998-40 998-60 999-85 2010-53
Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and
Records Commission
Catalog ID number: 001734734
Record book kept by class secretary Orlando Jared Reynolds. Includes list of class officers, members of the class, dates of certain social functions, graduation information, words to the class song, list of prizes awarded, and a copy of the printed graduation program. Pages removed from a volume.
Constitution, minutes, reports, etc.
Includes histories written between 1925 and 1970 and the 1945 anniversary edition of Central High Times.
Published by Scattered Seeds, Inc.
Second Edition. Published by Scattered Seeds, Inc.
1875-1876, 1878, 1886, 1888, 1890 invitation, 1893, 1897, 1900. 1902, 1905-1909, 1911, 1914, 1917-1920. 1921-1929, 1931, 1933. 1940, 1946, 1952-1954, 1958, 1967, 1970-1971, 1975.
Includes 1885-1886 ballot; constitutions of Entertainment and Debating Society, 1905, 1907; and various programs and tickets, 1915-1922.
Hosted by Parents-Teachers Association.
1927-1929 paid membership list, 1947 program, 1949 program, and 1951 banquet program.
Includes clippings, correspondence, photographs, 1946-1967.
School within the School for motivated, responsible student.
Correspondence and newspaper clippings concerning a proposal to build a new swimming pool at Central High School.
Response to concerns about Central High 1968, various newsletters, and several copies of Central High Times 1974-1979.
Includes girls "C" Club programs, concert programs, French Club items.
Includes football, basketball, baseball, track, hockey, tennis, girls basketball (1915). Dates labeled in ink on clippings. Pages are loose, binding is in poor condition.
Football, hockey, basketball, baseball, track, golf, tennis, swimming. Some loose items.
Includes girls track and basketball. Cockled due to glue dots.
Includes football, hockey, basketball, track, and swimming. Many fold outs and fold downs.
Swimming, volleyball, basketball, hiking, and other events of the Girls Athletic Association [GAA]. Possibly clipped from school newspaper. Items are pasted on top of one another.
Centers on lives of alumni. From the society pages of local newspapers (primarily the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch). Marriages and professional achievements are highlighted. Some information on teachers and social events at school (drama programs, dances, etc.)
Some buckling and loose items.
Black and white on cardboard backing.
Two photographs, one from back of room toward stage, the other from stage looking out at audience.
No names.
With names.
Note: Two bicycles are pictured.
Includes photographs of library, labs, hallways.
A few have names provided on back.
Math, science, language, social studies, sewing, business, and home economics.
Appears to be various school clubs and faculty including finance, math, sciences, history, and business.
Glee Club, National Honor Society, etc.
Including newspaper portraits: Times, Scribblers, World staff.
Includes photographs of Miss Meili, a yearbook tribute to Miss Meili (circa 1926), student group photographs (circa 1920, circa 1940), and student portraits including Howard L. Cless and Alberta Hutchin (circa 1920).
Includes boys' and girls' sports (basketball, swimming), coaches, and portraits.
Identified students include Charles Brown (in WWI uniform); Bernard Bardwell, circa 1911; John Bentley Gallagher, 1911; Robert Fullerton Grant, in WWII uniform accompanied by letter from the U.S. Navy awarding him the Navy Air Medal, 1945; Scott M. Johnston, in WWI uniform with details on his death on reverse of photograph folder; and Carl J. Youngbert, in WWI uniform.
Correspondence and memoranda about Amelia Earhart regarding a book the author, Jack Pitman, was writing about Amelia Earhart. Amelia Earhart attended Central High School during the period 1913-1914, and was in the junior class.
Typed copy.
Handwritten copy.