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Guide to the San Jose State Normal School Records

MSS-2010-04-01

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Collection Contents

Series I: Administrative and Financial Records 1861-1932

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series documents the administrative and financial aspects of the San Jose State Normal School. Included are accounting books in English and Spanish, bills issued for building maintenance labor, correspondence regarding financial matters, payroll records for special appropriations, and numerous ledgers and files documenting incidental funds transactions, invoices paid, and maintenance completed. Also included are handwritten minutes of the Normal School Board of Trustees, records pertaining to the daily operations of the school, trustee information, and statistical reports prepared for the Bureau of Education. Of special interest in this series are documents, newspaper clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, and petitions filed by interested parties from Chico, Colusa, Red Bluff, and Redding in an effort to convince the selection committee of the Board of Trustees for the State Normal School that their city should be chosen as the place to establish the first branch of the State Normal School on the West Coast.

Arrangement

Files are arranged alphabetically by format and chronologically by date.

Box 1

Accounting Ledgers 1867-1895

Box 2

Bills, Incidentals, Invoices Paid, Receipts, Vouchers 1861-1901

Box 3

Board of Trustees Minutes, Correspondence, Petitions 1863-1895

Box 4

Board of Trustees Reports, Surveyor General Reports 1884-1900

Box 5

Financial Records 1888-1932

Box 6

Payroll Records, Bills for Building Maintenance Provided 1906

Series II: Legal Documents 1870-1936, undated

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series is comprised of legal documents, including architectural contracts, insurance contracts, and land deeds. Also included is a historically significant document written by the architects who surveyed and summed up the damages the San Jose State Normal School building suffered during the 1906 earthquake.

Arrangement

Files are arranged alphabetically by format and chronologically by date.

Box 7

Legal Documents 1870-1936, undated

Series III: Office of the Registrar Records 1860-1934

Series Scope and Content Summary

The materials in this series document the early curriculum, coursework, and student body demographic of the San Jose State Normal School. Included are attendance and achievement records, commencement records, course catalogs, diplomas, enrollment statistics, faculty meeting minutes, grade books, graduate lists, and official entrance exams for a variety of subjects, teacher training manuals, and student placement records. Of special interest in this series are student contracts, which detail the commitment to teach in the public school environment for a set amount of time after graduation from San Jose State Normal School. These contracts allowed students to attend and graduate from San Jose Normal School without the payment of tuition fees. Also included are two ledgers containing promises made by students to report in writing to the President of the State Normal School twice a year for three years after graduation, and once a year thereafter while working in the teaching profession to uphold the San Jose State Normal School's high standards and ensure the continuation of the graduate time line.

Arrangement

Files are arranged alphabetically by format and chronologically by date.

Box 8

Attendance, Grading, Graduation & Scholarship Records 1872-1934

Box 9

Course Catalogs and Diplomas 1873-1912

Box 10

Entrance Exams and Training Manuals 1877-1932

Box 11

Faculty Meeting Minutes 1881-1923

Box 12

Forms, Instructions, Exam Questions Scrapbook circa 1860

Box 13

Student Enrollment Statistics in Ledger (Fragile) 1862-1867

Box 14

Student Enrollment Statistics in Ledgers 1899-1912

Box 15

Student Placement Records (Cards) 1863-1890

Box 16

Student Placement Records (Cards) 1891-1901

Box 17

Student Placement Records (Cards) 1902-1909

Box 18

Student Placement Records (Cards) 1910-1913

Box 19

Student Placement Records (Cards) 1915-1919

Box 20

Student Placement Records (Cards) 1920-1926

Box 21

Student Placement Records (Cards) 1927-1930

Box 22

Student Promises (Ledger) 1914-1918

Series IV: Student, Faculty, and Alumni Records and Publications 1863-1927, undated

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series documents materials created by teachers, students, and alumni of the San Jose State Normal School. Included are Alpha Phi Omega meeting minutes, photo albums, scrapbooks, sketches, teachers' daily class journals and class diaries, as well as the meeting minutes, journals, and record books created by various student societies. Of special interest in this series are several volumes of Memory's Lane journals composed by students, which provide first-hand accounts of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and its impact on the San Jose State Normal School campus. Also noteworthy is a student petition directed at the Board of Trustees circa 1890, requesting them to rescind a policy that suspended Bible readings on campus. In addition, this series holds memorabilia from the 1926 Fiestas de las Rosas festival and the dance drama Nightingale and the Rose performed in the same year. Also included are scrapbooks created by students, such as Mabel B. Dowser's herbarium, Sarah Rich's extensive collection of geography clippings and class notes, as well as Hazel MacIntosh's Ero Sophian Society book.

Arrangement

Files are arranged alphabetically by format and chronologically by date.

Box 23

Alpha Phi Omega Alumni Meeting Minutes 1898-1909

Box 24

Alumni Records (Handwritten Journals) 1863

Box 25

Alumni Records (Handwritten Journals) 1868-1906

Box 26

Alumni Records (Handwritten Journals) 1906-1921

Box 27

Bible Reading Student Body Petition circa 1890

Box 28

Class Journals 1874, 1927

Box 29

Copies of Guide Posts Publication circa 1927

Box 30

Herbarium and Geography Scrapbook 1895, undated

Box 31

Memory's Lane Journals 1925-1927

Box 32

Nightingale and the Rose, Fiestas de las Rosas 1926

Box 33

Normal School Societies Minutes and Records 1873-1918

Box 34

Photo Albums 1885, 1887

Box 35

Scrapbook by Hazel MacIntosh 1914

Series V: Miscellanea 1871-1990, undated

Series Scope and Content Summary

The items in this series are a collection of miscellaneous materials related to the San Jose State Normal School, accumulated over the years by various sources. Included are newspaper clippings, photographs, posters, and select items that were gathered from the overall collection to become part of an exhibit commemorating the 150th anniversary of San Jose State University in 2007. Of special interest in this series is a compilation of analytical data regarding the San Jose State Normal School. Comprised of enrollment and graduation statistics and graphs; grade distribution figures; warning card counts; and withdrawal rates, this large ledger provides at-a-glance information about some of the Normal School's vital statistics. Also included are various publications by students, staff, and alumni, such as re-union class of 1878 brochures, poems commemorating the class of 1884, the Christmasse Booke of the 1913 class, the Alumni Bulletin, and several issues each of Teacher and Student, Pacific Coach Teacher, and La Torre publications.

Arrangement

Files are arranged alphabetically by format and chronologically by date.

Box 36

Affidavits, Constitutions, Letters, News Clippings 1871-1925

Box 37

Commencement & Convocation Records 1877-1990, undated

Box 38

Normal School Analytical Data (Ledger) undated

Box 39

Photos, Clippings, Historical Sketch Books 1889-1966

Box 40

Various Publications 1878-1937

Series VI: Textiles 1881-1921

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series is comprised of a small number of realia, including the San Jose State Normal School banner, flags created by individual classes, and a dress worn by a 1906 Normal School alumnus.

Box 41

Class of 1916 Alumnus Gown 1916

Box 42

Normal School Banners and Flags 1881-1921

Collection Contents

Administrative and Financial Records

Accounting Ledgers

Bills, Incidentals, Invoices Paid, Receipts, Vouchers

Board of Trustees Minutes, Correspondence, Petitions

Board of Trustees Reports, Surveyor General Reports

Financial Records

Payroll Records, Bills for Building Maintenance Provided

Legal Documents

Office of the Registrar Records

Attendance, Grading, Graduation & Scholarship Records

Course Catalogs and Diplomas

Entrance Exams and Training Manuals

Faculty Meeting Minutes

Forms, Instructions, Exam Questions Scrapbook

Student Enrollment Statistics in Ledger (Fragile)

Student Enrollment Statistics in Ledgers

Student Placement Records (Cards)

Student Promises (Ledger)

Student, Faculty, and Alumni Records and Publications

Alpha Phi Omega Alumni Meeting Minutes

Alumni Records (Handwritten Journals)

Bible Reading Student Body Petition

Class Journals

Copies of Guide Posts Publication

Herbarium and Geography Scrapbook

Memory's Lane Journals

Nightingale and the Rose, Fiestas de las Rosas

Normal School Societies Minutes and Records

Photo Albums

Scrapbook by Hazel MacIntosh

Miscellanea

Affidavits, Constitutions, Letters, News Clippings

Commencement & Convocation Records

Normal School Analytical Data (Ledger)

Photos, Clippings, Historical Sketch Books

Various Publications

Textiles

Class of 1916 Alumnus Gown

Normal School Banners and Flags

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