MORRISON COUNTY: INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 482, LITTLE FALLS:

An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

Government Records

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	Creator:	Minnesota. Independent School District No. 482 (Little Falls).
	Title:	Records.
	Dates:	1893-1980.
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	Records documenting the administration and activities of this Morrison County school district.
	Quantity:	5.25 cubic feet (4 boxes, 1 partial box, and 2 items in Reserve).
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

HISTORICAL NOTE

Established June 2, 1856 as Morrison County Consolidated School District No. 3; became Independent School District No. 482 in 1957.

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Included are school board minutes, superintendent's annual reports, audit reports, a teacher's register, school census, minutes and miscellaneous papers of the school PTA, custodial employee agreements, newsletters, receipts and disbursement registers, and miscellaneous records.

The miscellaneous records include teachers rules and regulations, data on graduates who received normal school degrees, 1979/1980 budget, photographs of the 1940s Community Canning Center sponsored by the school, and two letters from alumnus Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota. Independent School District No. 482 (Little Falls). Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession numbers: 978-72; 996-74; 2012-50

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 001707365

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION


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105.I.18.1B		Census, 1940-1968. 28 folders.


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105.I.18.2F		Audit reports, 1937-1951, 1953, 1955, 1957-1960, 1962. 29 volumes.


		Teachers rules and regulations, circa 1930. 1 volume.


		Data on graduates who received normal school degrees, circa 1908-1923.


		PTA minutes, 1921-1928.


		PTA papers, 1921, 1937-1944.
			Includes some minutes.


		Community Canning Center, circa 1940s.
			Photographs of facility sponsored by the school.


		Annual budget, 1979/1980.


		Little Falls Community Schools brochure, 1976.


		Master agreement: custodial employees, 1978-1980.


		Newsletters, 1976, 1978. 2 folders.
			Incomplete sets of the superintendent’s Flyer-Gram, 1978, and staff’s Propwash, 1976, 1978.


		PER report (planning, evaluation, and reporting), August 1, 1979.


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Reserve 147	Lindbergh letters, September 5, 1919, April 26, 1928. 2 items in 1 folder.
		Two letters from Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., to the high school superintendent; the 1919 letter lists his high school credits, the 1928 letter expresses regrets he will not be able to visit Little Falls in July 1928.


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108.G.17.6F-2		School board’s published minutes, 1928-1934.


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105.I.18.2F	School board minutes, 1959-1964.
		Kept by the superintendent.
		1959-1962. 3 volumes.
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105.I.18.3B		1962-1964. 2 volumes.


		Annual reports, 1897-1901; register of teachers employed, 1896-1925. 1 volume.
			The annual reports are filled in forms with statistical date on programs and enrollment; the annual register of teachers employed lists name, age, residence, where and when graduated, number of years taught, grade of certificate held, number of institutes attended, kind of school last taught, highest school attended, position in city schools, monthly salary, and occasional remarks.


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108.G.17.6F-2	Receipts and disbursements registers:
		Orders issued, 1893-1896. 1 volume.
		Treasurer’s record of paid warrants, 1906-1911. 1 volume.
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126.I.1.1		[Clerk’s] record of receipts and disbursements A, 1911-November 1915. 1 volume.
			Each disbursement entry lists date, order number, payee, amount, and amount repeated under or divided among various accounting categories.
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108.G.17.6F-1		Clerk’s financial record No. 1, July 1915-April 1919. 1 volume.
			The 1915 entries are duplicated in the previous volume.
		Clerk’s record, April 1919-May 1922. 1 volume.
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126.I.1.1		[Treasurer’s record book], 1921-1927. 1 volume.
			The first segment of the volume is a voucher register of paid warrants; it is followed by several sections in which the majority of the payments are further classified within various accounting categories.
		[Treasurer’s record book], 1927-1930. 1 volume.
			Similar content to the previous volume.
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108.G.17.6F-2		Activities funds receipts and disbursements, 1926-1929. 1 volume.
			Income and expenditures for student athletic and academic activities.

CATALOG HEADINGS

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:: Education -- Minnesota -- Morrison County -- Finance.; Parents' and teachers' associations -- Minnesota -- Morrison County.; School boards -- Minnesota -- Morrison County.; School custodians.; School facilities -- Extended use -- Minnesota.; School management and organization -- Minnesota -- Morrison County.; Schools -- Minnesota -- Morrison County -- Photographs.; Student activities -- Minnesota -- Morrison County -- Accounting.; World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Minnesota -- Schools.

Persons:: Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974.

Organizations:: Community Canning Center (Little Falls, Minn.).; Morrison County (Minn.). Consolidated School District No. 3 (Little Falls).

Places:: Little Falls (Minn.)

Document Types:: Audits.; Photographs -- Minnesota -- Morrison County.; School census -- Minnesota -- Morrison County.

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MORRISON COUNTY: INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 482, LITTLE FALLS:

OVERVIEW

HISTORICAL NOTE

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

CATALOG HEADINGS