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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Corinne Seeds Documentation Project records
Creator:
Corinne Seeds Documentation Project
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1419
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): circa 1925-1958
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.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Florence Itkin, 1984.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9942329103606533
[Identification of item], Corinne Seeds Documentation Project (Collection 1419). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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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.
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.
Arranged in the following series:
- Biography of Corinne Seeds.
- History of UCLA University Elementary School (UES).
- Family School Alliance Scrapbook, 1917-1957.
- Sample units of work from UES classes.
- Publications and studies related to Seeds' program.
- Outdoor education.
- Photographs.
- Corinne Seeds Papers (Collection 838). Available at UCLA Library Special Collections.
- UES: the history of the creative elementary school [oral history transcript] / Corinne Seeds, interviewee. UCLA Oral History Department interview, 1963. Available at UCLA Library Special Collections.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Elementary school principals -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archives.
Corinne Seeds Documentation Project--Archives.
Seeds, Corinne A. (Corinne Aldine)
UCLA Lab School