Details
Title

Boulder Valley School District collection.

Date

1875-[2000]

Call Number

410

Contents

57 boxes.

Description

Documents related to schools in the Boulder area, including school censuses, staff directories and other miscellaneous documents, scrapbooks and a small number of photographs. Collection is not yet fully organized.

Summary

MATERIALS INCLUDE:
Boulder County school census by district and year, 1875-1964. See separate record 410-(1-51) with complete log of census records by year and district.
School district staff directories 1960-2010, 1922-1923 and 1948-1949.
Documents and scrapbooks related to Washington School P.T.A.
Record book of teacher certificates issued in Boulder County from 8 December 1967 to 18 September 1974.
Three scrapbooks of documents and newspaper clippings related to schools including enrollment information, teacher compensation, and school board minutes.
32 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings related to Boulder schools spanning the years 1931-1984.
Additional miscellaneous materials including: record books, school attendance records, manuals and policy documents, writings and letters involving Superintendent William V. Casey, "The Saga of Minnie and Jake on Boulder High School," binder of documents related to the District 3 retirement plan (1935-1962), and "Some Glimpses into Follow Through," a 1968-1969 binder with photos about the Follow-Through program.

Terms of Use

RIGHTS: Materials in this collection may be used freely for any purpose, with attribution to the Carnegie Library for Local History, Boulder. No duplicated materials may be deposited or placed on file in any other archive, museum, library or similar repository. Questions of copyright are the responsibility of the user.

Format

Documents.

Donor

Shafer, Laura

Collection

Boulder Valley School District collection

Acquisition Note

Materials were donated by Laura Shafer from the Boulder Valley School District in 2019.

Local Note

Many of these records are available on 34 rolls of microfilm at the Colorado State Archives in Denver.

Pages

Boulder County school census.
Boulder County school census.
Call Number 410-(1-51)
Date 1875-1964
Contents 51 boxes.
Description School census records for the Boulder County area, 1875-1964. Census records are organized by year and district number and include children's names, ages and residence information and in some years also child's birth date, birth place and parents' nationality and literacy level. Some censuses also include information about children with disabilities. Please see attached pdf document for a complete list of census records included in our collection and a map and key for the districts from the book "Back to the Basics: The Frontier Schools of Boulder County" by Anne Dyni.

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Boulder public schools staff directories.
Boulder public schools staff directories.
Call Number 410-(52-53)
Date 1922-2010
Contents 54 directories.
Description Staff directories for the Boulder public schools. Box 52 includes the following years: 1922-1923; 1934-1935; 1948-1949; 1960-1988. Box 53 includes the following years: 1988-2010.

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School District No. 3 record books, scrapbooks and photographs.
School District No. 3 record books, scrapbooks and photographs.
Call Number 410-54
Date 1910-1955
Contents 4 books.
Description Three scrapbooks and one record book for School District No. 3 containing various documents and clippings that span the years 1910-1955. Box also includes two mounted photographs.

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Boulder public schools record books and scrapbook.
Boulder public schools record books and scrapbook.
Call Number 410-55
Date [1935-1969]
Contents 3 books.
Description Three record/scrapbooks pertaining to the Washington School Parent-Teachers Association, the School District No. 3 retirement program, and the Follow Through program.

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Boulder Public Schools miscellaneous documents and photographs.
Boulder Public Schools miscellaneous documents and photographs.
Call Number 410-56
Date [1904-2010]
Contents 9 folders.
Description Documents related to Boulder County schools, many pertaining to the Washington School Parent-Teachers Association.

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Boulder public schools miscellaneous documents.
Boulder public schools miscellaneous documents.
Call Number 410-57
Date [1884-1982]
Contents 20 folders.
Description Documents, correspondence, and newspaper clippings related to various Boulder public schools.

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School children outside Washington School photographs.
School children outside Washington School photographs.
Call Number 410-58-1
Date [1950-1959]
Contents 4 photographs.
Description Scanned images of 35mm black and white slides showing school children outside of the Washington School building at 1215 Cedar Avenue. Photos are believed to date circa 1950s based on clothing. Several children are wearing jeans.

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Unidentified schoolyard photographs.
Unidentified schoolyard photographs.
Call Number 410-58-2
Date [1950-1959]
Contents 4 photographs.
Description Scanned images of 35mm black and white slides showing school children in unidentified school yards. Photos are believed to date circa 1950s based on clothing. Several children are wearing jeans.

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Unidentified school children photographs.
Unidentified school children photographs.
Call Number 410-58-3
Date [1950-1959]
Contents 2 photographs.
Description Scanned images of 35mm black and white slides showing school children in unidentified outdoor locations. Photos are believed to date circa 1950s based on clothing.

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Unidentified school interior photographs.
Unidentified school interior photographs.
Call Number 410-58-4
Date [1950-1959]
Contents 3 photographs.
Description Scanned images of 35mm black and white slides showing unidentified school interiors with school children. Photos are believed to date circa 1950s based on clothing.

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Unidentified athletic fields photographs.
Unidentified athletic fields photographs.
Call Number 410-58-5
Date [1950-1959]
Contents 2 photographs.
Description Scanned images of 35mm black and white slides showing children playing football on unidentified athletic fields. The two photos may be of the same field, and the building in the background of photo 2 may be Boulder High School. The photos are believed to date circa the 1950s based on other photos in the collection. some children are wearing football helmets.

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Children playing outside Boulder High School photograph.
Children playing outside Boulder High School photograph.
Call Number 410-58-6
Date [1950-1959]
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A scanned image of a 35mm black and white slide showing girls playing on the field next to Boulder High School. Photo is believed to date circa 1950s based on other photographs in the collection and the children's clothing.

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