Skip to main content

Elementary and Secondary Education

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:

Portland Federation of Teachers records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2354
Abstract

Records include correspondence, 1920-1974; membership rolls, 1954-1972; bulletins, 1944-1962; administrative records, 1919; documents regarding salaries, civil rights, retirement, and school financing; and documents of other teaching associations, including the High School Teachers Union and the Oregon Education Association. Collection is partially processed.

Dates: 1919-1974

Portland Grade Teachers' Association records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1753
Abstract

The Portland Grade Teachers' Association was founded in 1912 to improve working conditions for teachers and raise and maintain professional standards of elementary school teachers. Records include minutes, membership lists, scrapbooks, constitution and by-laws, ledgers, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and letters.

Dates: 1912-1985

Portland Public Schools during World War I photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 319
Abstract

Album containing 109 black and white photographs of activities of the Portland Public Schools during World War I. Includes exterior photographs of school buildings, as well as interior views of classrooms and workshops, and classes and activities such as mechanical drawing, forging, wood turning, plumbing, carpentry, textiles, printing, gardening, cobbling, and band.

Dates: circa 1909-1918

Portsmouth School Old Timer's Club records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2847
Abstract

The Portsmouth School Old Timer's Club held a picnic every year for alumni of Portsmouth School in the Portsmouth area of Portland to socialize. Collection includes administrative records; member lists and member list books; a scrapbook; an account book; a minute book; correspondence; receipts; and promotional mailings and flyers.

Dates: circa 1953-1975

Marie Holst Pottsmith photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 460
Abstract This collection consists of original sheet film negatives taken by Marie Holst Pottsmith, the bulk of which she made during the eight months of 1908 that she taught in the remote Finnish community of Hamlet, Oregon. These images document people, farming, and community life in Hamlet. Other photos in the collection depict her studies at the University of Oregon; her time teaching at Fisher, Washington; and her early married life as a Presbyterian minister’s wife in Washington and Oregon. The...
Dates: 1908-circa 1956; Majority of material found within 1908-1919

The prairie flower

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2536
Abstract

Photocopy manuscript school paper, 20 pages, including reminiscences and chapter titles such as "Bad habits" and "My dear pupils."

Dates: 1874 December 18

Oral history interview with Laurence Pratt

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9487
Abstract

Digitized audio recording of an oral history interview with Laurence Pratt conducted on December 15, 1981. Pratt discusses his career teaching English at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, and as a high school teacher in Portland, Oregon, as well as his work as an author and poet.

Dates: 1981 December 15

Arthur John Prideaux papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1377
Abstract

Arthur John Prideaux was principal of Woodstock School in Portland for 34 years. Collection includes correspondence, clippings and memorabilia regarding education and schools, particularly regarding Woodstock School. Also included are memorabilia and clippings regarding Methodist Church history and activities in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1876-1972

Public School No. 1 of Multnomah County annual report

 Collection
Identifier: Coll866
Abstract

Annual report of Public School No. 1 of Multnomah County, Oregon Territory, for 1858-1859, listing average attendance and the names of teachers. Public School No. 1, also known as Central School, opened in 1858. The school closed in 1885, and the site later became the Portland Hotel, and then Pioneer Courthouse Square.

Dates: 1859 April 8

Ridgeway School records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1773
Abstract

School District No. 55 in Wasco County was organized in 1894. Ridgeway School was constructed in 1895. Records include district clerks' record books, school registers and record books, district clerks' annual reports, correspondence, teachers' contracts, financial records, and library records.

Dates: 1894-1913