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Rogers, Henry Munroe, 1839-1937,. Rogers Memorial Collection: Clara Kathleen Rogers papers, 1860-1934.

Title: Rogers Memorial Collection: Clara Kathleen Rogers papers, 1860-1934.

This collection is organized into four subseries. A includes two scrapbooks of letters, printed holiday cards, portrait photographs, postcards, and poems addressed to Clara Rogers from various correspondents. B includes correspondence, mostly mounted on loose scrapbook pages. Correspondents who appear frequently in A and/or B include the Boston (Mass.) School Committee; Annie Payson Call; Margaret Wade Campbell Deland; Arthur Foote; R. E. (Robert Edward) Francillon; Rosamund Liszt Marie Francillon; William James; George Kennan; Henry Edward Krehbiel; Charles Martin Loeffler; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Amy Lowell; Edward MacDowell; Louise Chandler Moulton; Celia Thaxter; and George P. (George Putnam) Upton. Also included are letters from Childe Hassam and Julia Ward Howe. C includes drafts and reviews of articles, books, and speeches by Rogers, most notably the original manuscript of Journal-Letters from the Orient, and the original typescript of The Story of Two Lives. It also includes a small number of fictional works, and more than fifty of her musical scores, both songs and instrumental pieces, including one transcribed by Sir Arthur Sullivan. D includes a commonplace book, clippings, and other papers. It features an autograph book begun by Rogers at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1860, including inscriptions and fragmentary scores by numerous composers such as Sir Arthur Sullivan.

ArchivalResource: 12 boxes, 1 portfolio box, 1 framed item, and 1 folder (6.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612835383 View

Boston (Mass.). School Committee. Report of the committee on the introduction of vocal music into primary schools : manuscript, 1831.

Title: Report of the committee on the introduction of vocal music into primary schools : manuscript, 1831.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (9 leaves) ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612872565 View

Lee, Joseph, 1902-1992. Papers, 1934-1989.

Title: Papers, 1934-1989.

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, scrapbooks, annual reports, manuscripts, photographs, journal articles, notebooks, address books and postcards assembled and generated, 1922-1989, during Joseph Lee's political career and participation in civic activism. Materials pertain to Lee's participation in the fight to save Boston's West End from demolition in the 1950s and 1960s (includes photographs ca. 1957 of West End prior to destruction) and his investigation of Boston's Cocoanut Grove Fire in 1942. His participation on the Boston School Committee during the 1930s to 1970s provides materials reflecting the challenges of the Committee during the 1960s with issues such as busing, integration and the creation of Metco. Materials also pertain to Lee's unsuccessful runs for mayor (1941 and 1945), Governor's Council (1940), Senate campaigns (1942, 1944) and the U.S. House of Representatives from the 11th District (1946). Lee's interest in recreation is strongly present in materials of the Boston Board of Recreation (which developed and supplied school playgrounds) and the Massachusetts Committee to Further Outdoor Recreation which he founded and chaired. Materials related to the Community Boating program, established by Lee in 1937, are also present in the collection. Also included are materials pertaining to Lee's manuscripts, "How to Sail a Boat," "American Manifesto," and "Smoulder a Patch."

ArchivalResource: 26 boxes ; 42 x 32 x 27 or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41434515 View

Barron, Jennie L. (Jennie Loitman), 1891-1969. Papers, 1911-1969 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1911-1969 (inclusive).

This collection contains correspondence, clippings, articles, notes, speeches, diaries, photographs, audiotapes, biographical material, and numerous notebooks Barron kept while hearing cases as a judge. Most of the correspondence relates to her public speaking engagements and her charitable and civic activities.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006693 View

Secondary Technical Education Project records

Title: Secondary Technical Education Project records

The collection documents the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's involvement in curriculum planning, staff development, the acquisition of specialized equipment, and the renovation of facilities at the Mario Umana Harbor School in Boston. Included are meeting minutes of the Steering Committee, Advisory Board correspondence and memoranda, project proposals, evaluation reports, personnel files of consultants and tutors in the project, information about the Massachusetts Pre-Engineering Program for Minority Students, and correspondence between Stanley Russell and the Boston School Committee.

ArchivalResource: 26.3 cubic feet; (26 record cartons, 1 manuscript box)

https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/93 View

Boston Public Schools. Boston Public Schools desegregation-era records collection, 1952-1996 (bulk 1976-1985).

Title: Boston Public Schools desegregation-era records collection, 1952-1996 (bulk 1976-1985).

The collection documents efforts by the school department to comply with these court orders and is comprised of three record groups containing administrative, programmatic, and legal papers of Boston Public Schools. The Citywide Parents Council records (40 cubic ft., 1975-1993) relates to attempts to foster parental involvement in the Boston Public School system, monitor desegregation, and ensure accountability of each school within the system. The Office of General Counsel (currently known as Office of Legal Advisors) records (43 cubic ft., 1975-1998), reflect the mission of this office to provide quality legal services to the superintendent of schools and the Boston School Committee, including records of two cases: the Morgan desegregation case and the special education case of Allen vs. McDonough. Other persons and organizations represented include Edward McCormack, Jacob J. Spiegel, Francis Keppel, Charles Willie, Marvin Scott, Robert Dentler, Jerome Winegar, John O'Bryant, Robert Wood, Lavel S. Wilson, Michael C. McLaughlin, Louise Day Hicks, Joseph Tauro, Michael Betcher, Marien E. Evans; and Massachusetts State Board of Education, Boston Police Union, South Boston High School, and Boston Latin School.

ArchivalResource: 202 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70976839 View

Papers of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, ca. 1877-1943 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, ca. 1877-1943 (inclusive).

Contains personal and professional correspondence and miscellaneous subject files reflecting A.L. Lowell's involvement in a range of activities and concerns beyond his duties as president of Harvard. Included are materials relating to both local and national organizations, such as the Boston School Committee, Boston Municipal Research Bureau, League to Enforce Peace, and the World Peace Foundation; with other institutions, such as Lowell Institute and M.I.T. concerning the proposed alliance with Harvard; and Harvard events, including his inauguration as president and the Tercentenary celebration in 1936. Also materials concerning the Sacco and Vanzetti case, 1927-1939; the Lowell-Henry Cabot Lodge debate, 1919; unemployment compensation; and the Child Labor Amendment. Biographical material includes: papers on Lowell's education at Harvard and thesis, 1877; his European travels, and diplomas and certificates. Also manuscripts of lectures for govenment courses taught by Lowell, Faculty of Arts and Sciences minutes, addresses given at Harvard and elsewhere, and articles. Lowell served as President of Harvard University from 1909 to 1933.

ArchivalResource: Approx. 153 containers.

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:hua26013 View

Philbrick, John D. (John Dudley), 1818-1886. Correspondence, 1830-1903; bulk: 1853-1867

Title: Correspondence, 1830-1903; bulk: 1853-1867.

Letters to John Dudley Philbrick, superintendent of Boston public schools, 1856-78, about educational matters and textbooks, together with letters collected for their autographs. Correspondents include: John Quincy Adams, Mellen Chamberlain, Caroline H. Dall, Horace Mann, Lydia H. Sigourney, George Sumner, R.C. Waterston, and Emma Willard. Letters also refer to astronomy, the Civil War, Sir John Herschel, Henry Barnard, Nassau Senior, and the Royal Education Commission (London, England).

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38514964 View

Boston (Mass.). School Committee. Secretary. School Committee Secretary's desegregation files--Boston Public Schools, 1963-1984, (bulk 1974-1976).

Title: School Committee Secretary's desegregation files--Boston Public Schools, 1963-1984, (bulk 1974-1976).

Correspondence, minutes, transcripts, student assignment plans, court orders, and news clippings, collected by Winter, secretary of the SC. Letters from both Robert J. DiGrazia, the Boston Police Commissioner and John W. Sears, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Metropolitan District Commission (both 1975) state that the officers will remain posted in the Boston Public Schools until the climate has settled and students are safe. Letters to and from Ruth Batson of the NAACP document the initial dialogue between the NAACP and the School Committee, as the group attenpted to resolve the issue of racial imbalance in the schools. Also of interest is a special report (1975 July) by the Boston Municipal Research Bureau on the costs of desegregation in the Boston Public Schools. Subjects include bilingual education, busing, desegregation, education, integration, racial imbalance, race relations, segregation, special education, Title VI, 1964 Civil Rights Act, and Massachusetts General Laws, chapters 636 and 766.

ArchivalResource: 6 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154690009 View

Page family papers, 1838-1929

Title: Page family papers, 1838-1929

Primarily papers of Boston artist Walter Gilman Page, including letters to his family written while studying art in Paris at the Academie Julian and other locations, 1885-89. These letters describe life and studies in Paris and exhibitions of his work, including at the Salon. Papers of 1892-1929 relate to Page’s involvement in numerous organizations and committees, among them the Sons of the Revolution, the Public School Art League of America (regarding school room decoration), the Boston Art Club, and New York University’s Hall of Fame. He was also a member of several Boston and Mass. committees, including the Boston School Committee, the Mass. Art Commission, and the Boston Commission on Marking Historical Sites.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes and 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21069048 View

Curtis family. Papers, 1797-1991 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1797-1991 (inclusive).

Collection consists of correspondence of Curtis family and friends. There is information about the courtship of the parents, family life, travel in U.S. and abroad, golf and other sports, and the lives and careers of the sons and daughters. Upper-class Boston social life is well documented in the correspondence of the five daughters. Letters and clippings provide information about the civic activism of Frances Greely Curtis, and Harriot and Isabella's support for Afro-American education. Margaret's career as a social worker in the American Red Cross and other organizations is documented in her correspondence and professional papers.

ArchivalResource: 12.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122471414 View

William Ernest Hocking papers

Title: William Ernest Hocking papers

Correspondence of Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking, his wife, Agnes Hocking, the Hocking family, and others.

ArchivalResource: 144 linear feet (110 boxes)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01777 View

Papers, 1911-1969

Title: Papers, 1911-1969

Correspondence, clippings, photographs, etc., of Jennie Loitman Barron, lawyer and Municipal Court judge.

ArchivalResource: 11 file boxes, 2 folio folders, 1 folio+ folder, 3 oversize folders, 6 audiotapes, 2 reels of microfilm (M-134)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00176/catalog View

Lowell, A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence), 1856-1943. Papers of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1889-1958 (inclusive), 1889-1943 (bulk).

Title: Papers of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1889-1958 (inclusive), 1889-1943 (bulk).

Contains correspondence files reflecting Lowell's involvement in both local and national organizations, such as the Boston School Committee, League to Enforce Peace and the World Peace Foundation; with other institutions, such as Lowell Institute and M.I.T. concerning the proposed alliance; and Harvard events, including his inauguration as president and the Tercentenary celebration in 1936. Also materials concerning the Sacco and Vanzetti case, 1927-1939 and the Lowell-Henry Cabot Lodge debate, 1919; and recording of radio address, Feb. 17, 1932, about Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Biographical material on Lowell's education at Harvard, his European travels, and diplomas and certificates. Also manuscripts of lectures for government courses taught by Lowell, Faculty of Arts and Sciences minutes, addresses given at Harvard and elsewhere, and articles. Related publications and reference material also available in repository.

ArchivalResource: ca. 166 containers of mss.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76972564 View

Guscott, Kenneth I. Desegregation and busing in Boston public schools handouts, 1963-1965.

Title: Desegregation and busing in Boston public schools handouts, 1963-1965.

Collection consists of four handouts advocating for the desegregation of the Boston public schools. Two of the handouts were issued from the Boston Branch of the NAACP. The first, dated Aug. 16, 1963 and signed by Kenneth I. Guscott, president of the NAACP Boston Branch, outlines the organization's objectives to end segregation. The second, annotated on the verso in ms. with the date Aug. 21, 1963, explains "de facto segregation." A third handout, entitled: The 14 points submitted to the Boston School Committee, is unsigned, but annotated on the verso in ms. with the date July 29, 1963. The final handout, annotated with the date of 1965, bears the title: Bussing [sic] is not the issue! A public teach-in and debate on the Kiernan report and racial imbalance in the Massachusetts schools ... sponsored by Catholic Interracial Council, Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity, Presbyterian Interracial Council.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/769228132 View

North Bennet Street Industrial School (Boston, Mass.). Records, 1880-1973 (inclusive).

Title: Records, 1880-1973 (inclusive).

Collection contains administrative and financial records, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Managers, annual reports, and ledgers; correspondence of the Directors with Board members, social and government agencies, donors, businesses, students, and teachers; internal memoranda; catalogs; 8000 vocational placement index cards; news releases; bulletins; scrapbooks; 300 photos; clippings; and other material. The bulk of the collection, Office files, divided into two subseries: Administration and Program, contains records pertaining to the Board of Directors, staff/personnel, physical plant, financial matters, insurance, other social agencies, government agencies, history, publicity, industrial classes, vocational guidance and placement, industries, settlement services, and camps. Most of the records before about 1910 were destroyed in two fires.

ArchivalResource: 81 linear ft. and 2 motion picture films.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006788 View

Boston (Mass.). School Committee. Reports, 1831.

Title: Reports, 1831.

Ms. D.S. (draft) by Ralph Waldo Emerson--report on the Mayhew School, 1831 Nov. 8; Ms. L.S. to the School Committee giving full support to the Mayhew School and its instructors, signed by parents, 1831 Nov. 10; one printed form (3 p.)

ArchivalResource: 3 items (11 p. in folder) ; 26 x 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37939108 View

Walker, Moses Webster, 1810-1838. Papers. 1828-1836.

Title: Papers. 1828-1836.

Student essays written at Dartmouth College, 1828-1831; letters of recommendation; teaching appointment to Mayhew School, Boston, 1838; 3 letters from Frank Forbes, a teacher in Marblehead and Lowell, Mass.

ArchivalResource: 28 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237793778 View

Rogers Memorial Collection: Clara Kathleen Rogers papers, 1860-1934.

Title: Rogers Memorial Collection: Clara Kathleen Rogers papers, 1860-1934.

Papers of opera singer, composer, and author Clara Kathleen (Barnett) Rogers, of England and Boston, including correspondence and compositions.

ArchivalResource: 12 boxes, 1 portfolio box, 1 framed item, and 1 folder (6.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01509/catalog View

Lowell, A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence), 1856-1943. Papers of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1889-1958 (inclusive), 1889-1943 (bulk).

Title: Papers of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1889-1958 (inclusive), 1889-1943 (bulk).

Contains correspondence files reflecting Lowell's involvement in both local and national organizations, such as the Boston School Committee, League to Enforce Peace and the World Peace Foundation; with other institutions, such as Lowell Institute and M.I.T. concerning the proposed alliance; and Harvard events, including his inauguration as president and the Tercentenary celebration in 1936. Also materials concerning the Sacco and Vanzetti case, 1927-1939 and the Lowell-Henry Cabot Lodge debate, 1919; and recording of radio address, Feb. 17, 1932, about Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Biographical material on Lowell's education at Harvard, his European travels, and diplomas and certificates. Also manuscripts of lectures for government courses taught by Lowell, Faculty of Arts and Sciences minutes, addresses given at Harvard and elsewhere, and articles. Related publications and reference material also available in repository.

ArchivalResource: ca. 166 containers of mss.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76972565 View

Jennie Loitman Barron Papers

Title: Jennie Loitman Barron Papers

Jennie Loitman Barron was a judge and suffragist. She earned her law degree and master of law at Boston University. As the first president of the Boston University Equal Suffrage League, JLB advocated for equal rights for women. In 1934 she was appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts as a special Justice of the Western Norfolk District. JLB was the first mother on the Boston School Committee, and the first female United States delegate to the United Nations Congress on Crime and Juvenile Delinquency. In 1957, JLB became the first woman who was an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. This collection contains notes for her judicial cases, “Guest of Honor” award and photograph of the event, campaign flyer supporting JLB as the first mother of the Boston School Committee, and award letter for Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Andelman.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear feet (1 manuscript box)

https://jewishheritagecenter.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/200 View

Boston (Mass.). School Committee. City medal for females, instituted by the school committee.

Title: City medal for females, instituted by the school committee. 1824.

ArchivalResource: 1 medal ; 3 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69372992 View

Citywide Educational Coalition (Boston, Mass.). Citywide Educational Coalition records, 1972-2001.

Title: Citywide Educational Coalition records, 1972-2001.

This collection documents the Citywide Educational Coalition, a grassroots educational reform organization, located in Boston, Massachusetts. The records illuminate its formation by Mary Ellen Smith, Hubert Jones, Francis Parkman, and Clyde Miller to choose a superintendent of the Boston Public Schools; its role in the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools; and its efforts to disseminate the policies and practices of the Boston School Committee and the Boston Public Schools in language that parents could understand. Also documented is the response of the anti-busing organization, Restore Our Alienated Rights (ROAR), to Judge W. Arthur Garrity's orders and the Coalition's collaboration with three court appointed councils. Meetings of the Boston School Committee and its standing committees, as well as programs offered in the Boston Public Schools and interviews conducted by the Coalition with parents, teachers, principals, and headmasters are documented. School reform; parent participation in education; school assignment and student choice; vocational, special, and early childhood education; community and parent organizing; and parent training projects are also documented. Records include meeting minutes and summaries, correspondence, questionnaires and surveys, statistics, newsletters, fact sheets, reports, proposals, grants and contracts, VHS and audio cassettes, and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 26 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/141201189 View

Boston Public Schools. Boston Public Schools desegregation-era records collection, 1952-1996 (bulk 1976-1985).

Title: Boston Public Schools desegregation-era records collection, 1952-1996 (bulk 1976-1985).

The collection documents efforts by the school department to comply with these court orders and is comprised of three record groups containing administrative, programmatic, and legal papers of Boston Public Schools. The Citywide Parents Council records (40 cubic ft., 1975-1993) relates to attempts to foster parental involvement in the Boston Public School system, monitor desegregation, and ensure accountability of each school within the system. The Office of General Counsel (currently known as Office of Legal Advisors) records (43 cubic ft., 1975-1998), reflect the mission of this office to provide quality legal services to the superintendent of schools and the Boston School Committee, including records of two cases: the Morgan desegregation case and the special education case of Allen vs. McDonough. Other persons and organizations represented include Edward McCormack, Jacob J. Spiegel, Francis Keppel, Charles Willie, Marvin Scott, Robert Dentler, Jerome Winegar, John O'Bryant, Robert Wood, Lavel S. Wilson, Michael C. McLaughlin, Louise Day Hicks, Joseph Tauro, Michael Betcher, Marien E. Evans; and Massachusetts State Board of Education, Boston Police Union, South Boston High School, and Boston Latin School.

ArchivalResource: 202 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79371902 View

Bisbee, Dorothy Winsor, 1896-. Papers, 1957-1976 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1957-1976 (inclusive).

Correspondence, speeches, articles, and clippings chronicle Bisbee's efforts to improve Boston public schools and her unsuccessful campaign for election to the Boston School Committee in 1959.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006847 View

Philbrick, John D. (John Dudley), 1818-1886. Papers, 1824-1886.

Title: Papers, 1824-1886.

Correspondence, appointments, commissions, clippings, principally related to his career as an educator and to his participation in 3 international expositions as an advisor or judge in the field of education. Also includes letters to Larkin Dunton concerning Boston School committee and Dunton's candidacy for Superintendent of Education. One letter to Asa Dodge Smith. Booklet of ms. notes on Day's Algebra. Also includes one letter from Francis Asbury Waterhouse to Dunton with reference to John Bradley Peaslee.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237360287 View

Washington Intermediate School (Boston, Mass.). [Two certificates of Rebecca Silverstein] : diploma, certificate, 1926.

Title: [Two certificates of Rebecca Silverstein] : diploma, certificate, 1926.

Washington Intermediate School diploma -- City of Boston School Committee certificate of proficiency in Rapid modern hand writing in an intermediate school.

ArchivalResource: 2 items ; 28 x 38; 53 x 41.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/760091700 View