Overview This collection includes elementary school records for John Swift when he attended McAllaster Elementary School in Lawrence, Kansas in the 1950s. There are progress reports or report cards for the years 1952-1953, 1954-1955, and 1955-1956; a spring 1951 letter home from Swift's teacher commenting on his progress over the course of the school year; and class photographs for Mrs. Perry's kindergarten class from 1950-1951 and Mrs. Smith's first grade class from 1951-1952. Both photographs are...

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This collection includes the 1st through 5th grade class photographs of Kay Jay Laessig, who attended McAllaster Grade School at 14th and Rhode Island in Lawrence, Kansas during World War II. The collection also includes a picture of the 1944 McAllaster Orchestra in front of the school building and a candid photo with names listed on the back. Also included are photocopies of Kay Laessig’s 1942 war rations books.

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Maggie Herrington's journal of her experiences during the year 1867 as part of a school assignment and two pieces of correspondence between the Watkins Community Museum of Lawrence, Kansas, and Lida Mattman, Maggie Herrington's granddaughter, dated 1979.

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The Pinckney School scrapbooks are a selection of Parent Teacher Association scrapbooks from the late 1940s to the late 1960s and a series of scrapbooks of Pinckney students mentioned in the local newspaper, The Lawrence Journal-World, from 1990 to 2014, compiled by Janet Reeder, the Pinckney School librarian. Pinckney School has been an elementary school in Lawrence, Kansas since the late 19th century.