Guide to the Stanford University, School of Education, Records SC0237

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Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives

Stanford University Libraries.

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Stanford, California, 94305

Repository email: speccollref@stanford.edu

1997

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Title: Stanford University, School of Education, records

Identifier/Call Number: SC0237

Contributing Institution: Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 0.5 Linear feet

Date (inclusive): 1891-1894

creator: Stanford University. School of Education.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

These records from the School of Education at Stanford University consist of kindergarten records including drawings and short stories by the children, 1892-93; class reading under Clara Vostrovsky; stories, correspondence and notes, 1893-1894 ; and a scrapbook of child studies and learning definitions from schools across the United States, 1891. The third volume contains material by Earl Barnes and Mary Sheldon Barnes.

HISTORICAL NOTE

In October 1892 the Dept. of Education at Stanford University established a kindergarten on campus, to serve in part as a laboratory for advanced students of the education department; it was under the direction of Prof. Earl Barnes and instructor Margaret Schallenberger. Many children of the Stanford faculty attended.

Preferred Citation:

Stanford University, School of Education, Records (SC0237). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Provenance:

Transferred from Cubberley Library, School of Education, Stanford University.

Publication Rights:

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.

Access Restrictions:

None.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Barnes, Earl.

Barnes, Earl

Barnes, Mary Sheldon, 1850-1898

Barnes, Mary Sheldon.

Stanford University. School of Education.

Vostrovsky, Clara.

Vostrovsky, Clara

Education, Primary--California--Stanford.

Box 1, Folder 1

Kindergarten records: drawings by the children 1892-1893

Scope and Contents note

Scrapbook of drawings and brief stories; children represented:

Anderson, Robert
Buchanan, Florence
Branner, Elsie
Branner, John
Babcock, Ellen
Elliott, Sam (?)
Hancock, Morris
Jordan, Knight
Jenkins, Alice
Jenkins, Hubert
Miller, Edith
Miller, Harry
Marx, Roland
Paul, Gilman
Pease, Alan
Stillman, Dorothy

Box 1, Folder 2

Class reading under Clara Vostrovsky 1893-1894

Scope and Contents note

Scrapbook includes "Some Experiments in English" by Vostrovsky, children's short stories, miscellaneous notes, articles and correspondence. "Experimental school pupils" represented:

Branner, John
Gilbert, Winifred
Lathrop, Jennie Stanford
Maitland, Helen
Miller, Max
Shaw, Bevier Stuart
Green, Helen
Brun, Jean

Box 1, Folder 3

Child studies 1891

Scope and Contents note

Scrapbook includes samples of child studies throughout the U.S. and definitions of learning. Contributors include:

Barnes, Earl
Barnes, Mary Sheldon
Galbreath, Louis H.
Hall, A. Stanley
Kirkpatrick, E. A.
O'Shea, M. V.
Schallenberger, Margaret
Starbuck, Edwin
Thurber, E. C.

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