Guide to the Stanford University, School of Education, Records
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Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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Overview
Call Number: SC0237
Creator:
Stanford University. Graduate School of Education.
Title: Stanford University, School of Education, records
Dates: 1891-1894
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
Custodial History
Transferred from Cubberley Library, School of Education, Stanford University.
Information about Access
None.
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permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University
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Cite As
Stanford University, School of Education, Records (SC0237). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
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.
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.
Access Terms
Barnes, Earl, 1861-1935.
Barnes, Mary Sheldon, 1850-1898
Stanford University. Graduate School of Education.
Vostrovsky, Clara.
Education, Primary--California--Stanford.
Box 1, Folder 1
Kindergarten records: drawings by the children
1892-1893
Scope and Content 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 Content 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 Content 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.