Corinne Seeds Documentation Project records, circa 1925-1958

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Summary

Creators:
Corinne Seeds Documentation Project
Abstract:
Corinne Seeds (1889-1969)was the principal of the Training School of the University of California, Southern Branch (1925). In 1929, the school was renamed the University Elementary School (UES), and in the late 1940s, the school moved to the UCLA campus with the first permanent UES buildings opening in 1950. She retired in 1957. In 1982, the school was renamed the Corinne A. Seeds University Elementary School in her honor. The collection consists of biographical and historical materials, scrapbooks, sample units of work, publications and studies, and photographs relating to Seeds' work at the UCLA University Elementary School.
Extent:
1 unknown (1 oversize box)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Corinne Seeds Documentation Project (Collection 1419). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of biographical and historical materials, scrapbooks, sample units of work, publications and studies, and photographs relating to Corinne Seeds and her work at the UCLA University Elementary School.

Biographical / historical:

Seeds was born in 1889; in 1925, she became principal of the Training School of the fledgling University of California, Southern Branch, located on North Vermont Ave. in Los Angeles; in 1929, Seeds and the Training School moved to its first Westwood location on Warner Ave., and the school was renamed the University Elementary School (UES); in the late 1940s the school moved to the UCLA campus, and the first permanent UES buildings opened in 1950; Seeds retired as principal of UES in 1957; she died in 1969; in 1982, the school was renamed the Corinne A. Seeds University Elementary School in her honor.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Florence Itkin, 1984.
Processing information:

Processed by Manuscripts Division staff.

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Arrangement:

Arranged in the following series:

  1. Biography of Corinne Seeds.
  2. History of UCLA University Elementary School (UES).
  3. Family School Alliance Scrapbook, 1917-1957.
  4. Sample units of work from UES classes.
  5. Publications and studies related to Seeds' program.
  6. Outdoor education.
  7. Photographs.

Physical location:
Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

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Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Corinne Seeds Documentation Project (Collection 1419). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
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