All scrapbooks include PTA mailings and newspaper clippings to do with the organization or Pinckney School. Some include class pictures and PTA year books.

The 1965-66 scrapbook is in its original form, but the others have been rehoused and pages often laminated, presumably by Janet Reeder, the school librarian that donated the collection to the Kenneth Spencer Research Library. Those with oversize pages that were taller than their volumes have been disassembled and removed to folders in box 2, while the others remain in 14x13" volumes.

The original apple-shaped red and green wooden cover has been attached to the covers of a black plastic scrapbook. The original apple-shaped pages of the PTA scrapbook, including class photos , lists of participants and PTA mailings is preceded by emailed remembrances, photocopied report cards, vaccination cards, photographs and concert programs compiled by Janet Reeder. The photo of Miss Norwood’s 3rd grade class is missing.

A sticky note removed from the cover was erroneously marked 1940.

Includes PTA letters, newspaper clippings (one on the first polio vaccine shots for 1st and 2nd graders), PTA annual books for the years 1958-61 and 1964-65, certificates of merit from the Kansas Congress of Parents and Teachers, Inc. (KCPT) along with the 1960 convention packet from KCPT, a notice for a 1960 Dad’s Night featuring a colonel “speaking on Communism’s threat today,” a 1961 program honoring Opal Jayne Kennedy for 50 years of teaching, various correspondence, a program from a 1964 dinner in honor of school staff, and the 1964 PTA bylaws.

Includes full color staff and class pictures for kindergarten through 6th grade, PTA meeting notices, and a Pinckney School handbook. This embellished scrapbook was created by Vivian King and Charlene Statler.

Includes the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) plans for the 50th anniversary of Pinckney School in 1983, candid photographs of the celebration, and a 1992 article celebrating the school’s 60th year.

All of the scrapbooks in this series are 12x18 inch laminated pages containing newspaper clipings on which the names of past and present Pinckney students are highlighted. Some include various school newsletters, photographs of the graduating class, and Pinckney School directories. Spencer staff disassembled all the original scrapbooks and placed pages in folders, keeping the original order.

Includes pieces of the curtains from the gym stage that were removed that year, articles on the addition to the Pinckney school, and pictures of the graduating class.

There are two 2006-2007 scrapbooks. The second one, in folder 3, includes the “Pinckney School History” by Mei Mei Montgomery and Janet Reeder written for the 75th Anniversary, celebrated on Saturday May 5, 2007. The history covers the original building built in 1872, the new building built in 1931, and various renovations over the years.

The history recounts a student-planned Langston Hughes Day on February 1, 1991. The students named the school library the Langston Hughes Library for Children in honor of the poet and author, who attended the 2nd grade at Pinckney when it was still segregated, in 1909. The dedication was accompanied by community events marking the two homes where Hughes lived with his grandparents, Charles and Mary Langston, at 732 Alabama and 731 New York, as well as placing headstones on their unmarked graves in the Oak Hill Cemetary.

The history also mentions that Janet Reeder, the school librarian, refurbished the older Pinckney scrapbooks in this collection in 2006, adding information donated by former students. She also had the art in the building appraised and restored at that time.