HENNEPIN COUNTY: MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: BOARD OF EDUCATION:

An Inventory of Its Subject Files at the Minnesota Historical Society

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Creator: Minneapolis Public Schools. Board of Education.
Title:Subject Files.
Dates:1874-1964.
Language:Materials in English.
Abstract:Correspondence, memoranda, reports, meeting minutes of various committees, extracts from the "School Bulletin" and board minutes, published and near-print materials, circulars, and cross reference sheets relating to all aspects of the administration, programs, and finances of the Minneapolis public schools. Files are particularly numerous for athletics, awards (scholarships), budgets, building program, curriculum matters, adult and vocational education and counseling, school system organizational matters, teachers and teachers' organizations, tests, and textbooks.
Quantity:14.5 cubic feet (14 boxes and 2 partial boxes).
Location: See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

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Alphabetical by topic and sub-topic.


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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

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[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minneapolis Public Schools. Board of Education. Subject Files. Minnesota Historical Society.

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Accession Information:

Accession numbers: 986-8; 990-59

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 990017102200104294


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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

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117.E.12.7B1Adult Education: Minneapolis Vocational High School and Technical Institute Evening School, 1955-1959.
Adult Education: Miscellaneous, 1946-1955.
Agriculture: Food Production Training, 1944-1964.
Art: Miscellaneous, 1946-1960.
Athletics:
Athletic Council, 1947-1958.
Includes minutes.
Boxing, 1941-1951.
Coaches and Officials, 1927-1964. 2 folders.
Contests Outside Minneapolis, 1924-1958.
Radio and Television Broadcasts of Athletic Events, 1941-1962.
Faculty Managers Meeting Minutes, 1929-1959.
Financial Rports, 1956-1959.
Football, 1948-1957.
Swimming, 1930-1958.
Miscellaneous, 1951-1957.
Atomic Energy, 1946-1960.
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117.E.12.8F2Aviation: Miscellaneous, 1950-1957.
Awards:
Scholarships: Board of Education, Scholarship and Student Aid Fund Committee, 1924-1959.
Scholarships: Sears, Roebuck and Company, 1940-1949.
Scholarships, Miscellaneous, 1956-1960.
Contests, Miscellaneous, 1934-1962.
Scholarships: Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild, Miscellaneous, 1933-1962.
Scholarships: Minnesota Alumni and Merriam, 1942-1957.
Scholarships: Scholarship and College Information Guide, 1958.
Veterans of Foreign Wars, 1942-1958.
Budget Documents, 1946-1960. 13 folders:
Preliminary and final budgets, annual financial reports, preliminary budget worksheets, summaries, salary schedules, and related papers. 1954 missing.
1946-1948.
1949.
1950.
1951.
1952-1953.
1955.
1956.
Folder 1.
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117.E.12.9B3 1956.
Folder 2.
1957. 2 folders.
1958.
1959.
1960.
Budget:
Bond Programs, 1956-1960. 3 folders.
Intra-School Finances, 1929-1956.
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117.E.12.10F4Building Program Unexpended Balance, 1925-1965.
Miscellaneous, approximately 1920-1952. 2 folders.
Includes Student Aid Committee minutes, 1934-1952.
Building Program:
Elementary Schools:
Armitage, 1949-1964. 2 folders.
Dowling, 1955-1962.
Kenny, 1951-1954.
Lind and Northrop, 1935-1948.
Morris Park, 1927-1954. 2 folders.
Page, 1956-1959.
Shingle Creek, 1953-1958. 2 folders.
Waite Park, 1944-1955. 3 folders.
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117.E.13.1B5Wenonah, 1949-1960. 2 folders.
Miscellaneous, 1920-1964. 2 folders.
Junior High Schools:
Anthony, 1957-1958. 2 folders.
Northeast, 1955-1960. 5 folders.
Olson, 1957-1960.
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117.E.13.2F6Long Range Building Construction Needs, approximately 1945-1963.
Includes report by the board to the Long Range Capital Improvement Program Committee, 1954.
Washburn High School, 1931-1964.
Minneapolis Vocational High School and Technical Institute, 1955-1956.
Miscellaneous, 1956-1959. 2 folders.
Business and Industrial Concerns Committee, 1947-1962.
Business Training: Miscellaneous, 1936-1958.
Christmas: Miscellaneous, 1951-1957.
Circular Letters:
To Principals re Agents, 1949-1960.
Superintendent of Schools, 1958-1960. 2 folders.
Curriculum Development, Consultants in, 1960-1962. 2 folders.
Elementary Education, 1960-1963.
Secondary Education, 1960-1961.
Industrial Education Department, 1956-1958.
School Publications Department, 1944-1963.
Miscellaneous, 1958-1960.
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117.E.13.3B7Citizens’ Committee on Public Education, Minneapolis, 1950-1960. 4 folders.
Citizenship: Miscellaneous, 1917-1961.
Communism, 1932-1962.
Community Use of Schools: Community Centers Annual Reports, 1956-1962.
Cooperation, 1937-1951.
Costs: Miscellaneous, 1931-1960.
Counselors’ Handbooks, 1954, 1955, 1957. 3 volumes in folder.
Curriculum:
Bulletin No. 163, Division of City by Districts for School Purposes, 1960.
Bulletins, Elementary Education, 1954-1965.
Language Arts, 1945-1956.
Secondary Education, 1943-1950.
Miscellaneous, 1941-1957.
Committee to Study Effectiveness of Educational Program for Students Who do not Plan to Enter College or University, 1956-1959.
Bulletins: Evaluate Your Elementary Schools (EYES) Committee, 1961-1962.
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117.E.13.4F8Construction, Miscellaneous, 1936-1948.
Lay Advisory Committee, 1951-1953.
Defense: Training for National Defense, 1943-1945.
Includes War Production Training Program annual reports.
Epidemics:
Polio, 1958-1964.
Miscellaneous, 1959-1962.
Failures: Senior High Schools [Students], 1959-1962.
Failures: Miscellaneous, 1950-1960.
Federation of Teachers:
Women’s Federation, Local No. 59, 1942-1959. 2 folders.
Men’s Federation, Local No. 238, 1944-1958. 3 folders.
Field Trips: Bulletins, Miscellaneous, 1950-1952.
Guidance, Vocational:
Vocational Guidance Bulletins, 1926-1934.
Vocational Publications.
"Community and Guidance News," 1923, 1924; and "Guidance News Bulletins," 1941-1943.
Miscellaneous, 1950-1957.
Guidance, Miscellaneous, 1935-1960.
Health Education: Mental Health, Mental Health Project, 1947-1955.
Health Education: School Health Project, Miscellaneous (Franklin Junior and Whittier School), 1947-1954.
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117.E.13.5B9Home Economics: Miscellaneous, 1926-1958.
In-service Training Program: Final Reports, 1957-1959.
Intercultural Relations: Peace, Commission on International Understanding and World Peace, 1952-1962.
Janitors: Lists of all Janitorial Employees, 1947, 1955, 1963.
Lists: Valedictorians and Salutatorians, 1933-1959.
Maps Committee, 1935-1963.
Mathematics Committee, 1954-1961.
Meetings: Faculty Meetings by Radio, 1942-1960.
Memorial Funds: Louis G. Cook Memorial Fund, Inc., 1944-1946.
Music: Regional Music Competition Festival, 1938-1958.
Names for Schools:
Minneapolis Vocational High School and Technical Institute, 1930-1952.
Northeast Junior High School, 1954-1956.
Southwest High School, 1939.
Waite Park School, 1948-1950.
North Commons Incident, 1944-1945.
Organization of School System:
Demonstration Schools: Tuttle. 2 folders:
Annual Reports, 1934-1936.
Tests, 1929.
Districts, Division of Schools into, 1929-1962.
Includes map, 1962.
Elementary Schools, Seven Year Schools, 1936-1958.
Interim Committee, 1941-1945.
Junior High Schools: Curriculum, Personal Activities, Creative Arts, 1937-1952.
Senior High Schools: Program of Studies, 1959-1963.
Special Services, 1958-1964.
"The Development of a New Junior High School Course of Study for Minneapolis," by H. H. Maass (thesis), 1937.
Principals:
District Groups, Miscellaneous, 1930-1960.
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117.E.13.6F10Handbook of Administrative Policy for Elementary School Principals, 1951-1958.
Meetings: Elementary School-Grammar Grades, 1936-1958.
Selection of, Secondary: Miscellaneous, 1927-1961.
Principals’ Forum:
Business Committee Recommendations, 1929-1949.
“Forum Reporter” (newsletter), January 1945.
1 copy only.
Radio Committee, 1940-1960.
Includes minutes.
Reading Survey of Fourth Grade Pupils, 1953.
Recommendations and Reports to the Board by the Superintendent, 1942-1943.
Refugees, European Children, 1940-1957.
Reports, Annual: Office Correspondence, 1923-1960.
Reports: Superintendent’s Reports, Miscellaneous, 1922-1960.
Reports, Annual: Superintendent’s Reports, Miscellaneous, 1922-1937.
Reports, Superintendent, 1931-1944. 7 volumes:
Reports submitted to the Board of Education.
“The Product of the Minneapolis Public Schools,” 1931.
No. 1 of a series.
“The Enrichment of Adult Life in Minneapolis,” 1931.
No. 2 of a series.
“Teaching the Fundamentals in Minneapolis,” 1931.
No. 3 of a series.
“Financing the Schools in Minneapolis,” 1932.
No. 4 of a series.
“The Years of Depression, 1930-1935,” 1935.
“Progress in Education,” 1939.
No. 10 of a series.
“Your Schools: Today and Tomorrow,” 1944.
Science: Bulletins, 1935-1946.
Social Studies: Bulletin for Teachers of the Social Studies, 1956-1958.
Social Studies: Textbook on the History of Minnesota, 1956-1963.
Special Education: Slow Learning Pupils B Curriculum, 1945-1949.
Spelling: Course of Study Survey, 1935.
Summer Activities: Permanent History File:
1956-1959. 4 folders.
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117.E.13.7B11 1960. 1 folder.
Teachers:
New: Handbooks, Miscellaneous, 1950-1957.
Recruitment, 1954-1959.
Substitutes for Teachers Serving on Committees, 1955-1959. 2 folders.
Tutors, 1932-1960.
Teachers League: Principals and Central Office Section, 1927-1957.
Teachers Retirement Fund Association:
Eligibility for Membership, 1911-1946.
Miscellaneous, 1954-1959.
Teaching, Practice: University of Minnesota, 1947-1957.
Teaching, Practice: Miscellaneous, 1951-1958.
Teaching Load: Class Size, Junior High School, 1944-1957.
Teaching Load: Teacher Allotment, 1956-1959.
Temperance: Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1930-1960.
Tests:
Manual of Materials for Testing Program in Elementary-Grammar Grades, 1950.
Results, Elementary Education, 1955-1959.
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117.E.13.8F12Results, Secondary Education, 1955-1962.
Miscellaneous, Elementary Education, 1941-1957.
Miscellaneous, Secondary Education, 1944-1961. 2 folders.
Miscellaneous, General, 1921-1962. 2 folders.
Textbooks, Adoptions:
Textbooks Recommended for Adoption, 1956-1960. 3 folders.
Miscellaneous, 1945-1960.
Procedures and Regulations, 1944-1957.
Rentals: Committee Minutes, 1938-1939.
Committees, 1942-1959. 2 folders.
Transportation: Bus Transportation, 1955-1959.
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117.E.13.9B13Transportation, Miscellaneous, 1956-1960.
Unions:
Board of Education Office Employees Association, 1933-1944.
Miscellaneous, 1959-1962.
Minneapolis Labor Review Clippings, 1956-1957.
University of Minnesota: Research Projects, 1930-1960.
Veterans: Education of Returning Veterans, Publications, 1946-1950. 2 folders.
Visual Education: Minutes of Audio-Visual Education Committee, 1935-1952.
Vocational Education: Area Vocational-Technical School, 1944-1959.
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108.C.16.7Americanization Campaign (Evening School) Poster, 1915. 1 oversize item, encapsulated and rolled.
Color poster with message (in seven languages) imploring immigrants to attend evening school so they might become better American citizens.
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116.K.18.5B14Miscellaneous Subject Files, 1874-1947. 1 box and 1 partial box:
Americanization Campaign: Evening School, 1916-1917.
Building Inspection Reports, 1908.
Community Life Problems: Course of Study (W. H. Shepard), 1927-1929.
Community Life Problems: Excursion Bulletins, 1929-1935. 2 folders.
Community Life Problems: Summary of Activities, 1929-1934.
Enrollment Statistical Reports, 1876-1887.
Scattered.
Evening Schools, 1907-1923. 4 folders.
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116.K.18.6F15Fraternity Problem, 1925-1926.
Hennepin County Home School for Girls Reports, 1919.
Legislation: Campaign to Increase Revenue – High School Newspapers, 1947.
McElroy v Board of Education, 1917-1925. 4 folders.
Civil case between architect Clifford McElroy and the board concerning plans for a “unit” type building and the construction of the buildings in the school district. The records include copies of legal documents, correspondence, reports, clippings, and other papers concerning unit type buildings.
Military Training, 1918-1922.
Normal Training Department, 1922-1926.
Organizational Charts, 1919.
Petition of Teachers Protesting Resignation of Professor O. V. Tousley, undated.
School Meeting Notices, 1874-1880.
Special Education: Study of Industries for Boys and Girls, undated.
Staff Meeting Minutes: School Social Workers, 1931-1934. 3 folders.
Ribbon copies.
Summer School, 1904-1925. 5 folders.

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Minneapolis Public Schools. Board of Education. Office archives [subject files], 1914-1977 (cataloged separately) appear closely related to, and may once have been part of, this series.

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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:
Athletics -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
Education -- Societies, etc.
Education -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
Education -- Curricula -- Minnesota.
Educational tests and measurements -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
Scholarships -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
School management and organization -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
Teachers -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
Textbooks -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
Vocational education -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
Organizations:
Minneapolis Public Schools. School bulletin.

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