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Box 1

FINDING AIDS (8 folders)

Colorado Archives, Pueblo, CO

Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, KS

Kearney State Archives, Kearney, NE

Nevada Historical Society, Reno, NV

Oral History Tapes form Wyoming, Montana, and Utah

University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah

Wyoming State Archives, Cheyenne, WY

 

 

HISTORIC SITE FORMS (55 folders)

Aurora County, SD

Bon Homme County, SD

Brown County, SD

Brule County, SD

Buffalo County, SD

Butte County, SD

Carter County, MT

Charles Mix County, SD

Clark County, SD

Codington County, SD

Corson County, SD

Custer County, SD

Davison County, SD

Deuel County, SD

Dewey County, SD

Douglas County, SD

Fall River County, SD

Faulk County, SD

Grant County, SD

Gregory County, SD

Haakon County, SD

Hamlin County, SD

Hand County, SD

Hanson County, SD

Harding County, SD

Hughes County, SD

Hutchison County, SD

Hyde County, SD

Jackson County, SD

Jerauld County, SD

Jones County, SD

Kingsburg County, SD

Lake County, SD

Lawrence County, SD

Lincoln County, SD

Lyman County, SD

Marshall County, SD

McCook County, SD

Meade County, SD

Miner County, SD

Minnehaha County, SD

Box 1, cont.

HISTORIC SITE FORMS, cont.

Moody County, SD

Pennington County, SD

Perkins County, SD

Potter County, SD

Sandborn County, SD

Stanley County, SD

Sully County, SD

Todd County, SD

Tripp County, SD

Turner County, SD

Union County, SD

Yankton County, SD

Miscellaneous Forms

 

MAPS (7 folders)

Beadle County, SD

Bennett County, SD

Brookings County, SD

Brown County, SD

Butte County, SD

Campbell County, SD

Clark County, SD

Codington County, SD

Corson County, SD

Custer County, SD

Day County, SD

Deuel County, SD

Edmunds County, SD

Fall River County, SD

Faulk County, SD

Grant County, SD

Haakon County, SD

Hamlin County, SD

Hand County, SD

Harding County, SD

Hughes County, SD

Hyde County, SD

Jackson County, SD

Jones County, SD

Kingsbury County, SD

Lawrence County, SD

McPherson County, SD

Marshall County, SD

Meade County, SD

Mellette County, SD

Pennington County, SD

Perkins County, SD

Potter County, SD

Roberts County, SD

Shannon County, SD

Spink County, SD

Stanley County, SD

Box 1, cont.

MAPS, cont.

Sully County, SD

Todd County, SD

Walworth County, SD

Ziebach County, SD

Rural Schools in South Dakota

 

PRINTED MATERIALS

Booklets (1 folder)

Country Schools

Educational Directory 1979-1980

Elementary Service Bulletin

Humanities on the Frontier (2 copies)

Prairie Schools, 1896-1910

The Rural School House, 1974

Newspaper Clippings (1 folder)

Textbooks (2 folders)

Cursive Writing the Easy Way by Marian H. Browson

Fitzgibbon Art Text Book Fine

Geography of South Dakota by N.E. Steele

Golden Nails and other Address to Children by George Milligan

The Palmer Method of Business Writing by A.M Palmer

 

RESEARCHERS

Blakely, Herb (7 folders)

Interview Notes

Reports

Country Schools & the Americanization of Ethnic Groups

Country Schools as Community Centers in South Dakota

Country Schools as Historic Sites in Southeastern South Dakota

Country Schools Today in South Dakota

Reading, Writing, ‘Rithmetic and Recitation in South Dakota

Teachers: Their Roles, Rules and Restrictions in South Dakota

 

Box 2

RESEARCHERS, cont.

Brown, Philip

Correspondence

Contacts, 1980-1981

Project Correspondence, 1980-1981

Brown, Clark, Spink Counties, SD

Codington County, SD

Deuel County, SD

Faulk, Beadle, Brookings, Hamlin, Marshall Counties, SD

Grant County, SD

Hand County, SD

Hyde, Hughes, Sully, Potter, Walworth, Campbell, McPherson, Edmunds Counties, SD

Kingsbury County, SD

 

 

 

Box 2

RESEARCHERS, cont.

Brown, Philip, cont.

Forms

In-Kind Local Support Contributions Records

Press Releases and Form Letters

Photographs

Northeast South Dakota Contact Prints

Northeast South Dakota Photograph Log

Research Notes

School Histories

Reports

The Country School as a Community Center in South Dakota

Country School Buildings in Northeastern South Dakota

Country School Teachers in South Dakota to 1950

The One-Room School as an Agent of Assimilation of Immigrant Ethnic Groups in South Dakota

Reading, Writing, ‘Rithmetic, and Rural: What and How Country School Pupils in South Dakota Learned, 1861 – 1950

The Young Citizens League: Its Origins and Development in South Dakota to 1930

 

Hatton, Caroline

Correspondence

1980-1981

Reports

Country Schools and the Americanization of the Ethnic Groups

Country Schools as Community Centers

Country Schools as Historic Sites

Country Schools Today

Reading, Writing, ‘Rithmetic and Recitation

Teachers: Their Roles, Rules and Restrictions

Research Notes

Country Schools and the Americanization of the Ethnic Groups

Country Schools as Community Centers

Country Schools as Historic Sites

Country Schools Today

History of Rural Schools in Madison Township

Miscellaneous

Razed School Houses

Reading, Writing, ‘Rithmetic and Recitation

Teachers: Their Roles, Rules and Restrictions

 

TYPESCRIPTS (9 folders)

Forbes, Oscar

The Sod House Bane of the Prairie

Morgan, Ruth

Before the Desk, 1984, Jan. 26

Behind the Desk, 1985, Jan.

Salmen, Mrs. Russell (Elsie)

One Room School Experience was great

Box 2, cont.

TYPESCRIPTS, cont.

Williamson, William

The Homestead Era, 1955, Dec. 11

Country School Legacy Seminar Sites, 1981, June-1982, July

Country School Legacy Technical Manual

County Histories of South Dakota

Harding School Storybook, 1931-1953

Kate Sabin Nachtingal

The Latham Lagoon

Peter Norbeck: Statesman-Driller 1870-1936

 

EPHEMERA

Final Eight Grade Examinations

School Census Name Sheets

Teacher Contracts

Teacher Reports

Textbook Inventory

 

ORAL HISTORIES

Biographical Information

Biographical Information, No Tape

 

Box 3

ORAL HISTORIES, cont.

Cassettes

Babb, Elizabeth

Banning, Gertrude

Bell, Elmer

Bellack, Grace Cooper

Bergh, Hellen J.

Blakely, Doris and Lott, Wayne

Bottum, Clark

Broe, Bernice Mary Smith

Bruns, Katherine Ryan

Clark, Edith B.

Corlett, Martha

Crook, Lavonne Brown

Crouch, George

Falconer, Stanley

Fey, Carrie F.

Fuller, Eleanor

Goeman, Alice Caroline and Jibben, Doris

Goertz, Reuben

Goodman, Alvina Heck

Graber, Edwin P.

Gramstad, Ruth S. Johnson

Greenfield, Heneritta and Smit, Mildred Cramer

Hamill, Leona Margarette Freres

Hoftiezer, Albert

Hogan, Edith R. Interviewed with Ruth Solon

Hunt, Kathryn Weidmeier

Jibben, Doris

Jongeling, Ted and Oltmans, Iva

Box 3, cont.

ORAL HISTORIES, cont.

Cassettes, cont.

Kane, Mary Lavina

Kettering, Dorothy Christiansen

Lott, Wayne

Libby, Grace

Lorentson, Dale

Lovell, Dale

Luckhurst, Ailene Garey

Magee, Helen

Maier, Lois

Nerreter, Evelyn McGillvrey

O’Connor, Catherine Murphy

O’Dea, Veronica Mulloy

Olson, Gertrude Goettling

Oltmanns, Iva

Osterberg, Dagmar Klingberg

Peterson, Patricia Ann Carr Greenwalt

Poppen, Henry

Putnam, Minnie M.

Quick, Mary

Randall, Bertha

Ries, Nick

Roehr, Esther and Sigaty, Charlotte Lass

Rose, Jane

Seppala, Thomas L.

Shoemaker, Eva

Shunk, Harold W.

Sigaty, Charlotte Lass

Smit, Mildred Cramer

Solon, Ruth

Speck, Charles Schrag

Staben, Shirley G.

Staudy, Jeanette

Strandell, Alfred

 

Box 4 OVERSIZE

ORAL HISTORIES, cont.

Cassettes, cont.

Taylor, Katherine Sprague

Tronson, Constance Trondson

Vaught, Bessie

Walker, Helen

Ward, Adelaide

Weidenbach, Esther Jensen

Williams, Mary Stroppel

Willis, Janette Freiss

Zeona, Community

Phil Brown – Rural School Bus

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