Reese Library Special Collections: Teaching and Education in Augusta: Manuscript materials

 

The following is a list of manuscript collections held by Reese Library Special Collections, which are related to the history of teaching and education in Augusta, Georgia. These unpublished collections include many primary source materials. Primary sources are generally original documents created at the time being studied, whereas secondary sources (like books), were written later, and reflect upon a given time period or event.                                                                                                                                                                                              

 

MSS 012: Aquinas High School history collection

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This collection documents the history of Aquinas High School. Collection materials include a chronology, names of faculty and staff, the program of 25th anniversary,  "25 years of Catholic education for the people of the CSRA," an informal narrative history, memorial tributes, names of committees, "Aquinas remembers 1957-1982."

 

MSS 029: Tubman High School class of 1921 photograph

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Single photograph of the class of 1921, with a clipping from the Augusta Chronicle regarding the 50th reunion on may 30, 1971.

 

MSS 060: Richmond County schools clippings

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This collection is comprised of a single folder of clippings related to schools in Richmond County, GA.

 

MSS 172: Augusta and Richmond County public schools directory, 1921

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This collection is comprised of the single volume of the Augusta and Richmond County public schools directory for 1921.

 

MSS 173: Manual of General Information- Public Schools of Augusta, 1930

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This collection is comprised of the single volume Manual of General Information for the public schools in Augusta, GA for the year 1930.

 

MSS 231: African American teachers oral histories, 1930-1955

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This collection records the experiences of African-American teachers who taught in one room schools in Burke County, Georgia between 1930 and 1955.  Six of the fourteen interviews discuss the role of Jeans supervisors in the schools. Jeans supervisors were funded by the philanthropist Anna Jeans to raise the level of educational opportunities in the South.

 

MSS 256: Miss A.A.M. Clarke School advertisement, 1866

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This advertisement includes a listing of subjects offered with a tuition schedule.  Names of individuals serving as school referees and their places of residence are listed as well.

 

MSS 292: Sarah G. Stokes diploma, 1878

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Diploma was awarded to Sarah G. Stokes by the Public Schools of Richmond County, a high school Diploma from the Girl’s [Tubman] High School on June 28. 1878

 

MSS 344: Richmond County Retired Teachers' Association scrapbooks

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This collection is comprised of scrapbooks which document the history of the Richmond County Retired Teachers' Association.

 

MSS 357: Augusta Christian School records

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This collection documents the history of Augusta Christian Schools.

 

MSS 384: Augusta schools ephemera, 1888-1891

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Rules of Order of the Central Grammar School, graduation announcement Sacred Heart Academy, advance sheets for “Men of Mark."

 

ARCHS 013: Houghton School scrapbook

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This collection is comprised of the single handwritten year book of Houghton Elementary School, illustrated with drawings and photographs and list of pupils and teachers.

 

ARCHS 060: Tubman High School records, 1907-1974

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This collection documents the history of Tubman High School. Collection materials include: course of study 1907-1908, lists faculty; graduation program, 1908; graduation program 1909; Centennial program-November 10,1974; invitation to centennial; paper napkin from centennial. Graduates are listed in the programs for 1908, 1909, and 1919.

 

ARCHS 068: Augusta Free School Society record book, 1821-1829

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This collection is comprised of the single volume record book of the Augusta FreeSchool Society, which documents the activities of the Society, founded in Augusta in 1821 to support the education of poor children from the Augusta area. The record book includes the Augusta Free School charter, constitution, the minutes of the board of directors, and a list of subscribers.

 

ARCHS 070: Sacred Heart Parochial School records, 1876-1886, 1908-1909, 1911-1913, 1923

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This collection is comprised of the records of the Sacred Heart Parochial School in Augusta, Ga.

 

ARCHS 135: Chloe Peebles diploma, 1934

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This collection is comprised of the single Tubman High School diploma of Chole Peebles.