Finding Aid for the Corinne Seeds Documentation Project LSC.1419
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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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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Florence Itkin, 1984.
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[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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Biography
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.
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.
Organization and Arrangement
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Elementary school principals -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archives.
Corinne Seeds Documentation Project--Archives.
Seeds, Corinne A. (Corinne Aldine)
UCLA Lab School
box 1
History of Miss Seeds, "Box I."
box 2
History of University Elementary School during Miss Seeds' administration. , "Box II."
1925-1957
box 3
Family School Alliance Scrapbook.
1917-1957.
box 4
Summer Demonstration School. Daily record of
The Westwood Movement, 5th Grade, Nora Heflin, teacher.
1939.
box 5
Summer Demonstration School. Daily record of
The Study of Trains, 4th Grade, Mildred Frazee, teacher.
1940.
box 6
Study of
The Inca People, 6th Grade, Gertrude Maloney, supervising teacher.
Spring 1942.
box 7
Units-of-work. Social Studies Sequences, Kindergarten through 6th Grade. "Box IV."
box 8
Teacher-prepared information relating to the Units-of-Work.
box 9
"Harbor box": a unit of study as part of transportation in the community, Grade 1.
box 10
"Westward Movement Box": a 5th Grade unit of work.
box 11
Publication and studies related to Miss Seed's program (doctoral and master's theses) "Box V."
box 12
Publications and studies related to Miss Seeds' program, "Box V."
box 13
Outdoor education. Diana Anderson, PhysdicalEducation Suervisor.
1952-1955.
box 14
Outdoor education. Diane Anderson.
1956-1958.
box 15
Photographs of School program.
