BELTRAMI COUNTY: SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS

An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

Government Records

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Creator:Beltrami County (Minn.). Superintendent of Schools.
Title:Records.
Dates:1897-1970.
Language:Materials in English.
Abstract:Records documenting the administration and activities of the superintendent of school's office. Included are correspondence, lists of teachers and students, annual/quarterly reports, school survey committee records, individual school district records and plats, consolidation records and plats, teachers annual reports and examination records, term records, teachers insurance and retirement fund report, school nursing reports, and financial statements. The correspondence includes information on a school on the Red Lake Indian Reservation.
Quantity:18.75 cubic feet (10 boxes, 2 partial boxes, and 2 volumes).
Location: See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Beltrami County (Minn.). Superintendent of Schools. Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

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Provenance:

Provenance: A portion of this collection was originally part of the collections of the North Central Minnesota Historical Center, Bemidji, MN.

Accession Information:

Accession numbers: RAN1402; 986-145; 988-5; 989-25; 989-227; 990-176; 995-29; 2009-52

Processing Information:

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Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Catalog ID number: 001715094


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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

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123.E.2.2FCorrespondence with school district clerks, 1945, 1955-1963.
Mainly form letters between the county superintendent and school district clerks concerning daily operations of the schools, accounting practices, and new legislation. Includes a 1957-1958 issue of the Beltrami County Education Directory: School Board Officers, Superintendents, Principals, and Teachers, issued by county superintendent C. L. Stapleton.
Correspondence regarding Red Lake School, 1921-1934, 1949, and 1952.
Between the county superintendent of schools and other state and local officials relating to the establishment and operation of a school on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. The records include a 1922 census of white and Indian children living on the reservation, correspondence with the Minnesota attorney general relating to Indian school laws, and a copy of a 1925 agreement between the superintendent of the Red Lake Indian Agency and the Beltrami County Board of Education.
Combined tentative report of the Grygla-Gatzke-Skime school districts, 1964.
Compiled by the Beltrami, Marshall, and Roseau County school survey committees, and submitted by the Beltrami County School Survey Committee.
Annual/quarterly reports, 1899-1938. 2 folders.
Correspondence, 1918-1924.
Consists of correspondence with Bemidji's Board of Education; includes financial information.
Lists of teachers, 1914-1939.
Incomplete.
Reports of school nursing, 1920-1921.
School consolidation papers, 1952-1959.
School consolidation plats, 1963-1970. 11 folders.
Arranged by school district number.
Annual financial statements: unorganized territory, 1924-1926.
List of rural school eighth grade graduates, 1936.
Correspondence, 1919-1926. 2 folders.
School district number information, undated.
School Survey Committee records, 1948.
Includes map, tentative report (September), and final report (November).
Teachers Insurance and Retirement Fund Report, 1930.
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102.G.11.1BSchool district files, circa 1898-1970.
District Nos. 1-29.
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102.G.11.2FDistrict Nos. 30-89.
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102.G.11.3BDistrict Nos. 90-132; District No. 119, Unorganized Territory, School Nos. 1-47.
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123.E.2.2FDistrict No. 119, Unorganized Territory, School Nos. 48-133.
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106.F.4.2F-1School district record:
For each district, contains information such as date established, any changes to district boundaries, petitioners' names, legal land description, and plat.
Volume A, circa 1898-1911.
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106.F.4.2F-2Volume B, circa 1900-1920.
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106.H.18.1B-1Student lists, 1921-1922. 1 volume.
Lists students with birth date and age.
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123.E.2.1BTeachers' annual reports:
Independent School District No. 31, Bemidji, 1930-1937. 8 folders.
All districts, 1932.
Districts 61-132, U2-U133, 1945. 2 folders.
Incomplete.
Districts 1-81, 1948.
Incomplete.
Districts 1-99, 1949. 2 folders.
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118.H.14.4F-1Teacher examination records:
A, 1897-1925. 1 volume.
Examination record of candidates for state teachers certificates, 1899--1922, 1902-1926. 2 volumes.
Both volumes labeled No. 2.
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118.H.14.3BC, 1906-1923. 1 volume.
Includes teachers county and state certificates record of normal, college and university diplomas.
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118.H.14.3BTerm record, 1904-1968. 2 volumes and 1 oversized folder.
Information regarding the 1904-1965 school terms; including fall, winter, and spring terms length and beginning and closing dates; school district name and number; teacher's name, salary and type of teaching certificate; number of enrolled pupils; number of superintendent visits to each school; and remarks. Also includes 1963-1968 reports to the Education Department.
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123.E.1.1BCensus, 1920-1969.
Arranged chronologically by year; thereafter by district number.
1920-1932. 18 folders.
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123.E.1.2F 1933-1942. 15 folders.
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123.E.1.3B 1943-1951. 17 folders.
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123.E.1.4F 1952-1969. 21 folders.
School district plats, circa 1938-1969.

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:
Educational law and legislation -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County.
Elementary school graduates -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County -- Registers.
Government aid to education -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County.
Ojibwa Indians -- Minnesota -- Education.
Ojibwa Indians -- Minnesota -- Reservations.
Rural schools -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County.
School attendance -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County -- Statistics.
School districts -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County -- Boundaries.
School lands -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County.
School management and organization -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County.
School nursing -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County.
Schools -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County -- Accounting.
Schools -- Centralization -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County.
Schools -- Centralization -- Minnesota -- Marshall County.
Schools -- Centralization -- Minnesota -- Roseau County.
School year -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County.
Student records -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County.
Teachers -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County -- Registers.
Teachers -- Certification -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County.
Teachers -- Examination -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County.
Teachers -- Retirement -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County.
Teachers -- Salaries -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County.
Organizations:
Beltrami School Survey Committee.
Places:
Red Lake Indian Reservation (Minn.)
Document Types:
Maps -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County.
Censuses -- Minnesota -- Beltrami County.

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