Charlottesville City Schools collection [manuscript], 1891-1943.

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Charlottesville City Schools collection [manuscript], 1891-1943.

Charlottesville City Schools collection [manuscript], 1891-1943.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647970450

The collection includes school census materials for the following years: 1910, 1915, 1916, 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940. The census materials are separated into "white" and "colored" and may include child's name and birth date; names, addresses and occupations of parents or guardians; child's school attendance status and literacy level (e.g. "unable to read"); child's special needs (e.g. "deaf," "crippled," "mental deficiency"). The collection also includes a list of teachers' certificates, 1914-1943, 1 volume; school board account books, 1891-1901 and 1908-1910; resident and non-resident summer school tuition books, 1907-1940, 7 vols. Lists of teachers, alphabetical with dates of certificates, 1914-1915; by school, classes, etc., 1915-1916 minutes of Charlottesville Education Association, 1906-1910; minutes of Charlottesville Grammar School teachers, 1903-1909; miscellaneous materials on text books and other matters; suggestions by teachers in 1938 on employing the "new curriculum"; and school book lists, 1908-1941.

21 boxes.

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