ENCollections tagged Education
May Wright Sewall Papers
The May Wright Sewall Papers are a collection of documents comprised of approximately 500 letters written to May Wright Sewall dated between 1879 and 1919, and three guest books with remarks and signatures from 197 guests of the Sewall house. The correspondents represented in this collection...
Luke Wadding Papers
This project draws from a digital facsimile of UCD-OFM, MSS. D.01 <https://digital.ucd.ie/view/ivrla:18726>. It represents selections from the first five volumes of Luke Waddings Papers. This amounts to 1,080 pages which have been disbound, cleaned and strengthened by professional conservator...
The Papers of John B. Minor, 1845-1893
John B. Minor joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in 1845 at the age of thirty-two. An 1834 graduate of the university, Minor began his teaching career following a decade in private practice. Minor, along with James P. Holcombe, directed the law program at UVA amidst national...
Indianapolis Public Schools
Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) has been an vital public institution throughout the history of Indianapolis and central Indiana. Since its incorporation in 1853, IPS has shaped – and been shaped by – the residents and communities that turned Indianapolis from a small settlement at the mouth of...
Loreto 1916
The Institute of the Blessed Virgin was founded by Mary Ward in 1609. It is a religious institute of pontifical right dedicated to apostolic works’, living according to the Ignatian tradition [IBVM Constitutions 2009, Volume II: Chapter I; 1.1]. Mary Ward’s idea of religious life was based on...
Jane Lathrop Stanford Papers
The papers of Jane L. Stanford pertain largely to the founding and administration of Stanford University, along with her personal and social affairs; included in the papers are correspondence, business records, legal and financial papers, speeches, news clippings, and biographical materials.
Leland Stanford, Jr. Papers
Correspondence, journal, notebooks, drawings, personality studies, and school work of Leland Jr., and condolences to Senator and Mrs. Stanford regarding the death of their son. The correspondence and journal relate primarily to family travels in Europe and activities at home in San Francisco and...
Stanford Student Letters and Memoirs
The first series of this collection contains letters, reminiscences, diaries and account books, autobiographies, and other items from a number of Stanford University students. Most of the letters are written home to family members; typical subjects include academic affairs, social life on campus...
Mary Lesnett Letters
Letters of Mary Lesnett (Carpenter), who attended Stanford from June 1944 to June 1948, when she graduated with an AB in Political Science. The letters include discussion of student campus life, and WWII. Lesnett lived in Roble Hall during her Freshman year. During her remaining three years she...
George R. Fairbanks Collection
George Rainsford Fairbanks (1820-1906) connected the first founding of the University of the South in 1858 with its refounding ten years later. Fairbanks served as a trustee from Florida and built a home on campus called Rebel's Rest. This portion of his collection deals with the fundraising...
Clelia D. Mosher Papers
The collection contains primarily correspondence, writings (published and unpublished), diaries, and biographical and genealogical material spanning the years 1886 to 1938. Correspondents include Ray Lyman Wilbur, William H. Welch (President of Johns Hopkins), David Starr Jordan, and Havelock...
Paul Clifford Domke and John R. Caton Photographs from China, 1936-1939
Two Carleton representatives, Paul Cliff Domke and Jack R. Caton, who participated in Carleton-in-China Program, taught at Ming I Middle School located in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, during the years of 1936 to 1939. Both Carleton alumni retreated with the students and faulty to a few 'safe'...
Presidential and College Administration Correspondence
This collection includes letterpress copybooks that document presidential and college administration correspondence at Kansas State Agricultural College, now Kansas State University, between 1871 and 1901.
Phillips Family Papers
This collection compiles the legal documents, letters, books, and original works of several members of the Phillips family including Samuel Phillips (founder of Phillips Academy Andover) and his uncle John Phillips (founder of Phillips Exeter Academy). Items in the collections date 1647-1876...
Sally Hemings Underground Newsletter
In May 1970, in response to the shooting of four unarmed students at Kent State University by National Guardsmen, about 1,000 UVA students engaged in several days’ worth of rallies and marches on the Lawn and on Grounds. They joined students across the country in protesting expansion of the...
Increase A. Lapham Papers, 1825-1930
This Collection has been fully Transcribed Thank you to everyone who helped make this collection more accessible Papers of Increase Allen Lapham, the most prominent figure in early scientific research in Wisconsin. The papers consist of personal and biographical papers, correspondence, and...
UNC Papers
The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at...
University of Nevada Summer School Diaries 1912-1914
In the summer of 2020, the University of Nevada Reno conducted its first summer session off campus, with remote teaching, due to the coronavirus pandemic. 108 years earlier, in 1912, the university held its very first summer session, on campus, but with abundant extra-curricular excursions to...
University Records
Contains the records of Queen's University at Kingston, including Senate minutes, Board of Trustee minutes, University letters and records of various student associations and clubs.
Kentucky Educator Resources
These works will be used in resources for educators produced by the Kentucky Historical Society. For more information on resources for educators please visit https://history.ky.gov/for-educators/.
In Cap and Gown student journal
Issues of journal started by the Western University Literary Society that eventually becomes student newspaper, the University of Western Ontario Gazette.
Walter Alexander's Herbarium and plant analysis notebook
Assembled in 1897 by African American high school student, Walter Alexander (1880-1910) of Ironton, Ohio. Alexander created the notebook when he was around 17 years old while attending Kingsbury Public High School. It features mounted plant specimens, pen-and-ink sketches of botanical details,...
Teaching Paleography 2022
This is a temporary collection for participants of the Folger Institute's Teaching Paleography course to play around with.
World War II at Punahou
It was at 1:10 a.m. on December 8, 1941 that Punahou's war-time fate was decided. Trucks of the Corps of Engineers rolled up to the main gate and Mr. Berger, guard in the vicinity, was informed that the Engineers were taking over the school equipment. Unlike other schools in Hawai‘i,...
The Edward Mitchell Papers
Edward Mitchell was the first student of African descent to attend Dartmouth College. In 1824, students protested the Board of Trustees' decision not to admit Mitchell because of his race. The students’ activism was supported by the faculty, the Board relented, and Mitchell took his rightful...
O.E. Rølvaag Correspondence
About O.E. Rølvaag Ole Edvart Rølvaag was born in a fishing village on Dønna, Norway, on April 22, 1876. He immigrated to the United States in 1896 and worked as a farmhand in South Dakota from 1896–98. After graduating from Augustana Academy in Canton, South Dakota, in 1901, Rølvaag earned...
Sandy Spring Area Schools Collection
Spanning as far back as 1844, this collection contains hand written and typed letters, essays, notebooks, and advertisements from various schools and students around Sandy Spring.
Works of Alfred T. Mahan
Help the NWC Archives transcribe the works of Alfred T. Mahan, considered to be the theortical founder of the 20th century Navy, held in their collections. Mahan had a significant impact on the U.S. Naval War College and naval strategy globally. His theories on the importance of sea power...
Sanitary medicine, exercise folio
This notebook contains an unidentified student's handwritten notes of Professor Daniel Elmer Salmon's first lectures at the newly established National Veterinary College in Washington, D.C. The notes extend from October 25, 1892 to March 10, 1893 and indicate that he gave one to three lectures...
Tables in Portland Colored Evening School (Louisville, Ky.) register, 1909-1915
Pages 7-30 of the Register of the Portland Colored Evening School (Portland neighborhood, Louisville, Kentucky) for 1909-1915. Records name, age, place of residence, occupation, enrollment and/or transfer dates, and vaccination. Only a representative sample of blank pages were scanned. Henrietta...
David Kimball Diary, 1803-1804
A journal kept by noted Ipswich, Massachusetts minister David T. Kimball during his final year of studies at Harvard University and Harvard Divinity School, and a year of teaching at Phillips Academy. Rev. David Tenney Kimball (1782–1860) was a prominent abolitionist and Pastor of the First...
Student Letters
Letters home by students, 1819-1881 and 1934, as well as a student's journal about his time on campus, 1851-1852.
Colonial North America: Monroe C. Gutman Library
Colonial North America at Harvard Library provides access to remarkable and wide-ranging materials digitized as part of an ongoing, multi-year project. When complete, the project will make available to the world approximately 650,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials...
Colonial North America: Countway Library of Medicine
Colonial North America at Harvard Library provides access to remarkable and wide-ranging materials digitized as part of an ongoing, multi-year project. When complete, the project will make available to the world approximately 650,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials...
Ohio University Board of Trustees Minutes
Meeting minutes document the activities of Ohio University's Board of Trustees, beginning with its 1804 founding. Transcription of these enables full text searching of the volumes for endeavors such as tracing the history of the institution and the region. See the volumes covering 1804-1954...
Indiana State Teachers Association Register
Founded on December 25, 1854, to further the cause of public and free education in Indiana, the Indiana State Teachers Association (ISTA) played an active and critical role in the development of modern public education within the state. Open to educators and the general public alike, the ISTA...
Celestia Rice and June Rose Colby Collection
Two remarkable women serve as the nexus for this digital collection. The first, Celestia Rice Colby, was born to a well-to-do Ohio farming family in 1827. She became one of the first girls to be schooled at the prestigious Grand River Institute and parlayed the knowledge she gained there into a...
Colonial Secretary's Inwards Correspondence (S5253)
This is the main series of letters received by the Colonial Secretary's Office, and was started following separation from New South Wales in December 1859. The Colonial Secretary’s correspondence contains fascinating stories from the people living and working in the new state of Queensland, in...
Illinois State Normal University financial ledger, 1857-1899
This remarkable ledger records the earliest expenditures of the fledgling Illinois State Normal University, including the purchase of desks, chalkboards, and books for the library, as well as such mundanities as the cost of digging a privy for the first building on campus ($18) and the number of...
African American Education
Collection Status: Open for Transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Easy About the Collection This collection contains documents and photographs related to African American education in North Carolina before 1950, drawn from the collections of the Charlotte Hawkins Brown...
Handwritten Text Recognition Sandbox
What is this? This is a “playground” to explore how different handwritten text recognition models work with different types of documents. Using FromThePage’s “AI-Assist” feature you can get an overlay of the machine generated text over each page image, making it easy to see where...
2024 Mary Magruder Transcribe-A-Thon
For this Transcribe-A-Thon, we will be transcribing documents from Sandy Spring resident Mary Magruder. Born in Brookeville in 1865, Mary would spend the entire 80 years of her life as an active member of the Sandy Spring community. First serving as a teacher, she would later become the county’s...
James B. Stockdale papers
ADM James Bond Stockdale had a profound impact on the U.S. Naval War College through his leadership, philosophical contributions, and his influence on the curriculum focusing on ethics and philosophy. Stockdale is best remembered for his exemplary courage and leadership during the Vietnam...