San Jose State Normal School teaching tools collection, 1896-1927.

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San Jose State Normal School teaching tools collection, 1896-1927.

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The San Jose State Normal School teaching tools collection consists of various teaching materials used to educate young children at the Normal Training School. The collection includes Friedrich Froebel's Kindergarten Gifts and Occupations as well as sewing and reading cards and other manipulative objects manufactured by the Milton Bradley Company. The collection is arranged into a single series: Series I. Educational teaching tools, 1896-1927.

18.54 linear feet (17 boxes).

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In 1857 the San Francisco Board of Education established Minns' Evening Normal School for current and prospective teachers in the city. Named after its principal, George W. Minns, the institution was formally established as the first California State Normal School by the State Legislature in 1862. A decade later, the Legislature voted to move the Normal School to San Jose, and the school relocated to its new home on Washington Square prior to the fall term of 1872. After a fire dest...