Katherine Camp Mayhew papers, [ca. 1896-1949],-[ca. 1896-1902] (bulk)
Collection Number: 6561

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Katherine Camp Mayhew papers, [ca. 1896-1949],-[ca. 1896-1902] (bulk)
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
6561
Abstract:
Papers consist of source material gathered for THE DEWEY SCHOOL: THE LABORATORY SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 1896-1903, a book by Katherine Camp Mayhew and her sister Anna Camp Edwards, a colleague at the school. Included are twelve logbooks containing weekly reports on curriculum, classroom activities, and student progress, 1896-1902; drafts, notes, and correspondence relating to specific chapters of the book, ca. 1896-1934; syllabi, course outlines, clippings of articles about the school, minutes of teachers' meetings, lists of students and teachers, photographs of children, and printed material. Of note are notes and correspondence by John Dewey relating to the preparation of the book (in which he had a hand), and memoranda, reports, syllabi, articles, and miscellaneous writings by Dewey, ca. 1890s-1930, relating to the running of the Laboratory School, courses at Teachers College, Columbia University, and miscellaneous matters.
Creator:
Mayhew, Katherine Camp.
Edwards, Anna Camp, 1876-1956.
Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
Quanitities:
5.7 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Teacher, author.
Mayhew taught at the Laboratory School of the University of Chicago.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Papers consist of source material gathered for THE DEWEY SCHOOL: THE LABORATORY SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 1896-1903, a book by Katherine Camp Mayhew and her sister Anna Camp Edwards, a colleague at the school. Included are twelve logbooks containing weekly reports on curriculum, classroom activities, and student progress, 1896-1902; drafts, notes, and correspondence relating to specific chapters of the book, ca. 1896-1934; syllabi, course outlines, clippings of articles about the school, minutes of teachers' meetings, lists of students and teachers, photographs of children, and printed material. Of note are notes and correspondence by John Dewey relating to the preparation of the book (in which he had a hand), and memoranda, reports, syllabi, articles, and miscellaneous writings by Dewey, ca. 1890s-1930, relating to the running of the Laboratory School, courses at Teachers College, Columbia University, and miscellaneous matters.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Cite As:

Katherine Camp Mayhew papers, #6561. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
SUBJECTS

Names:
University of Chicago. University Elementary School
Columbia University. Teachers College
Subjects:
Women authors.
Women teachers.
Education -- Study and teaching.
Education -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Education -- Experimental methods.
Laboratory schools -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Series I. The Dewey Logs
Box 1
Elementary School - school plan and notes, news clippings about the school
 1896-1899, April, June 1900
Box 1
History - Groups IV-VI
 1899-1901
Box 1
Science - Groups IV-IX and history and science
 1899-1901
Box 2
Math and Science - Groups III-X
 1899-1901
Box 2
History - Groups IV-X Elementary Record Nos. 2, 7 & 8
 1900-1901
Box 2
Quarterly Reports - various subjects; list of students enrolled 1899-1902; child study, Group IV
 1901-1902
Box 3
Group Reports - all subjects and groups
 1901-1902
Box 3
Sewing; Children's Record; History of Ab (story created by pupils about cave people) typed children's essays
 1899-1901, 1896-1897
Box 3
Cooking - subprimary-Group X
 1899-1900
Box 4
Cooking - all groups
 1900-1901
Box 4
All primary - suggested outlines; curriculum for subprimary and kindergarten; "Three Years of the University Elementary School"; outlines for courses
 1899-1901
Box 4
Miscellaneous - instructions for children's health; teachers' circular 1899; reports on courses; Play: "Colonial Days in Virginia"; outline of history courses; class schedule
 1899-1901
Box 4
"The University Elementary School"
 n.d.
Box 4
"Three Years of the University Elementary School"
 January 1899
Box 11 Folder 1
University Record, excerpts
 1897-1898
Box 11 Folder 2
University Record
 1898-1899
Series II. Source Material for Specific Chapters
Box 12 Folder 1
Chapter Outlines
 1896-1900, 1930
Box 12 Folder 2
Chapter I, "General History" - notes, drafts, teacher lists
 1896-1902
Box 12 Folder 3
Chapter I, "General History" - notes, drafts, teacher lists
 1896-1902
Box 12 Folder 4
Chapter I, "General History" - drafts
 n.d.
Box 12 Folder 5
Chapter 1, "General History" - published material describing school
 1896-1902
Box 12 Folder 6
Chapters II & III - articles relating to chapters on curriculum
 1895-n.d.
Box 12 Folder 7
Chapters II & III - notes and drafts, articles by John and Alice Dewey on curriculum
 n.d.
Box 12 Folder 8
Chapters II & III - on curriculum drafts
 November 18, 1930 &amp, n.d.
Box 12 Folder 9
Chapters II & III - on curriculum drafts
 November 18, 1930 &amp, n.d.
Box 12 Folder 10
Chapter III, "Experimental Practices Developing the Curriculum"- drafts
 n.d.
Box 12 Folder 11
Chapter III, "Experimental Practices Developing the Curriculum"- drafts
 n.d.
Box 12 Folder 12
Chapter III, "Experimental Practices Developing the Curriculum"- drafts
 n.d.
Box 12 Folder 13
Chapter IV, "Household Occupations" - notes
 1896-1902
Box 12 Folder 14
Chapter IV, "Household Occupations" - article by Katherine B. Camp
 October 1901
Box 13 Folder 1
Chapter IV, "Household Occupations" - drafts
 n.d.
Box 13 Folder 2
Chapters IV & V on household occupations - excerpts not used - notes and drafts
 1896-1902
Box 13 Folder 3
Chapters IV & V on household occupations - excerpts not used - notes and drafts
 1896-1902
Box 13 Folder 4
Chapters IV & V on household occupations - excerpts not used - notes and drafts
 1896-1902
Box 13 Folder 5
Chapters IV & V on household occupations - excerpts not used - notes and drafts
 1896-1902
Box 13 Folder 6
Chapter V, "Social Occupations Serving the Household" - notes
 1898-1901
Box 13 Folder 7
Chapter V, "Social Occupations Serving the Household" - notes and drafts
 1896-1901
Box 13 Folder 8
Chapter V, "Social Occupations Serving the Household" - notes and drafts
 1896-1901
Box 13 Folder 9
Chapter V, "Social Occupations Serving the Household" - notes and drafts
 1896-1901
Box 13 Folder 10
Chapter V, "Social Occupations Serving the Household" - notes and drafts
 1896-1901
Box 13 Folder 11
Chapters V & VI - drafts
 n.d.
Box 13 Folder 12
Chapter VI, "Progress Through Invention and Discovery" - notes
 1898-1899
Box 13 Folder 13
Chapter VI, "Progress Through Invention and Discovery" - notes
 1898-1899
Box 13 Folder 14
Chapter VI, "Progress Through Invention and Discovery" - notes
 1898-1899
Box 13 Folder 15
Chapter VI, "Progress Through Invention and Discovery" - notes
 1898-1899
Box 13 Folder 16
Chapter VI, "Progress Through Invention and Discovery" - notes
 1898-1899
Box 14 Folder 1
Chapter VI-X, XVI on teaching history; Thesis by Laura L. Runyon with correspondence
 1906
Box 14 Folder 2
Chapter VII, "Progress Through Exploration and Discovery" - reports on Group V
 1898-1902
Box 14 Folder 3
Chapter VII, "Progress Through Exploration and Discovery" - reports on Group V
 1898-1902
Box 14 Folder 4
Chapter VII, "Progress Through Exploration and Discovery" - notes
 1898-1902
Box 14 Folder 5
Chapter VII, "Progress Through Exploration and Discovery" - drafts
 n.d.
Box 14 Folder 6
Chapter VIII, "Local History" - notes and drafts
 1898-1901
Box 14 Folder 7
Chapter VIII, "Local History" - notes and drafts
 1898-1901
Box 14 Folder 8
Chapter VIII, "Local History" - notes and drafts
 1898-1901
Box 14 Folder 9
Chapter VIII, "Local History" - notes and drafts
 1898-1901
Box 14 Folder 10
Chapter VIII, "Local History" - notes and drafts
 1898-1901
Box 14 Folder 11
Chapter IX, "Colonial History and the Revolution" - excerpts not used
 1898-1902
Box 14 Folder 12
Chapter IX, "Colonial History and the Revolution" - excerpts not used
 1898-1902
Box 14 Folder 13
Chapter IX & X on colonists - notes and drafts
 1896-1899
Box 15 Folder 1
Chapter X, "European Background of the Colonists" - notes and drafts
 1898-1902
Box 15 Folder 2
Chapter X, "European Background of the Colonists" - notes and drafts
 1898-1902
Box 15 Folder 3
Chapter X, "European Background of the Colonists" - notes and drafts
 1898-1902
Box 15 Folder 4
Chapter X, "European Background of the Colonists" - unused material - notes and drafts
 1898-1902
Box 15 Folder 5
Chapter X, "European Background of the Colonists" - unused material - notes and drafts
 1898-1902
Box 15 Folder 6
Chapter X, "European Background of the Colonists" - unused material - notes and drafts
 1898-1902
Box 15 Folder 7
Chapter X, "European Background of the Colonists" - unused material - notes and drafts
 1898-1902
Box 15 Folder 8
Chapter XI, "Experiments in Specialized Activities" - notes
 1898-1900
Box 15 Folder 9
Chapter XI, "Experiments in Specialized Activities" - printed extract from Elementary School Teacher and notes
 1902-1903
Box 15 Folder 10
Chapter XI, "Experiments in Specialized Activities" - draft
 n.d.
Box 15 Folder 11
Chapter XII, "Experiments in Specialized Activities" - notes
 n.d., 1901
Box 15 Folder 12
Chapter XII, "Experiments in Specialized Activities" - notes, draft, suggested titles for book
 1899-1901
Box 15 Folder 13
Chapter XII, "Experiments in Specialized Activities" - notes, draft, suggested titles for book
 1899-1901
Box 16 Folder 1
Chapter XIII, "Experiments in Specialized Activities " - notes and Chapter XIV, "Principles of Growth Guiding Selection of Activities" - draft, revised copy
 n.d. &amp, October 1934
Box 16 Folder 2
Chapter XIV, "Principles of Growth Guiding Selection of Activities" - drafts including one by Dewey
 August 1930 &amp, October 1934
Box 16 Folder 3
Chapter XV, "Experimental Activities Developing Scientific Method and Concepts" - notes and drafts
 1897-1904, 1930
Box 16 Folder 4
Chapter XV, "Experimental Activities Developing Scientific Method and Concepts" - notes and drafts
 1897-1904, 1930
Box 16 Folder 5
Chapter XV, "Experimental Activities Developing Scientific Method and Concepts" - notes and drafts
 1897-1904, 1930
Box 16 Folder 6
Chapter XV, "Experimental Activities Developing Scientific Method and Concepts" - notes and drafts
 1897-1904, 1930
Box 16 Folder 7
Chapter XV, "Experimental Activities Developing Scientific Method and Concepts" - notes and drafts
 1897-1904, 1930
Box 16 Folder 8
Chapter XV, "Experimental Activities Developing Scientific Method and Concepts" - notes and drafts
 1897-1904, 1930
Box 16 Folder 9
Chapter XV, "Experimental Activities Developing Scientific Method and Concepts" - articles pertaining to chapter
 June &amp, September 1903
Box 16 Folder 10
Chapter XV, "Experimental Activities Developing Scientific Method and Concepts" - notes
 1899-1902
Box 16 Folder 11
Chapter XVI, "Experimental Activities Developing Origins and Backgrounds of Social Life" - notes and drafts
 April 1900-n.d.
Box 17 Folder 1
Chapter XVII, "Experimental Activities Developing Skills in Communications and Expression" - notes, drafts, article from Elementary School Record 1900
 1930-1932
Box 17 Folder 2
Chapter XVII, "Experimental Activities Developing Skills in Communication and Expression" - articles and drafts
 1898, 1903
Box 17 Folder 3
Chapter XVII, "Experimental Activities Developing Skills in Communication and Expression" - articles and drafts
 1898, 1903
Box 17 Folder 4
Chapter XVIII, "Teachers and School Organization" - drafts and correspondence
 August 1929
Box 17 Folder 5
Chapter XVIII, "Teachers and School Organization" - material cut from chapter
 n.d.
Box 17 Folder 6
Chapter XVIII, "Teachers and School Organization" - material cut from chapter
 n.d.
Box 17 Folder 7
Chapter XIX, "Parents and Children" - notes
 1900
Box 17 Folder 8
Chapter XIX, "Parents and Children" - notes, lists of parents, courses, teachers, notes on teachers meeting, correspondence
 n.d.
Box 17 Folder 9
Chapter XIX, "Parents and Children" - photographs
 n.d.
Box 17 Folder 10
Chapter XIX, " Parents and Children" - notes, drafts, correspondence (signed) from Dewey
 April 22, 1901
Box 17 Folder 11
Chapter XIX, "Parents and Children" - teachers notes on students, correspondence
 1900-1903, 1929
Box 18 Folder 1
Chapter XIX, "Parents and Children" - correspondence, lists of parents and children
 1900-1901, 1928-1930, 1933
Box 18 Folder 2
Chapter XIX, "Parents and Children" - notes and drafts
 n.d.
Box 18 Folder 3
Chapter XIX, "Parents and Children" - notes and drafts
 n.d.
Box 18 Folder 4
Chapter XX, "Evaluation of Principles and Practices" - notes and articles
 1896-1897, 1904
Box 18 Folder 5
Chapter XX, "Evaluation of Principles and Practices" - notes and articles
 1896-1897, 1904
Box 18 Folder 6
Chapter XX, "Evaluation of Principles and Practices" - notes and drafts
 n.d.
Box 18 Folder 7
Chapter XX, "Evaluation of Principles and Practices" - notes and drafts
 n.d.
Box 18 Folder 8
Appendix I, "The Evolution of Mr. Dewey's Principles of Education" - draft
 n.d.
Box 18 Folder 9
Appendix II, "Theory of the Chicago Experiment" - draft written by John Dewey
 n.d.
Series III. Miscellaneous Source Material
Box 19
The Elementary School Teacher
 May 1903
Box 19
The Elementary School Teacher
 June 1903
Box 19
The Elementary School Teacher
 September 1903
Box 19
The Elementary School Teacher
 October 1903
Box 19
The Elementary School Teacher
 November 1903
Box 20
The Elementary School Teacher
 December 1903
Box 20
The Elementary School Teacher
 January 1904
Box 20
The Elementary School Teacher
 March 1904
Box 20
The Elementary School Teacher
 May 1904
Box 21 Folder 1
Ella Flagg Young: Contributions to Education No. I: Isolation in the School; Review of Isolation in the School; Contributions to Education No. VI: Some Types of Modern Educational Theory; Partial review of Dewey's Democracy and Education
 1901-1907
Box 21 Folder 2
Alice C. Dewey: notes, syllabus: Elementary Education
 1903, 1907
Box 21 Folder 3
Source articles by teachers
 n.d.
Box 21 Folder 4
William H. Kilpatrick: The Project Method
 October 12, 1918
Box 21 Folder 5
Miscellaneous articles by George H. Mead and S. F. MacLennan
 April 1898
Box 21 Folder 6
Notes on source material; correspondence
 n.d.
Box 21 Folder 7
Stories by pupils
 n.d.
Box 21 Folder 8
College Curriculum including College of Education
 1904, n.d.
Box 21 Folder 9
News clippings on education, etc.
 1939-1947, n.d.
Box 21 Folder 10
Miscellaneous material; notes and drafts
 n.d.
Box 21 Folder 11
Miscellaneous material; notes and drafts
 n.d.
Box 21 Folder 12
Miscellaneous material; notes and drafts
 n.d.
Box 21 Folder 13
Miscellaneous material; notes and drafts
 n.d.
Box 21 Folder 14
Miscellaneous material - correspondence, syllabus - Creative Teaching, notes
 May 16, 1933 &amp, n.d.
Series IV. Writing of John Dewey
Box 22 Folder 1
Chapter I, "General History" - Dewey's 1st report after merger of Laboratory School with School of Education
 1902-1903
Box 22 Folder 2
Chapter 1, "General History" - articles by Dewey mentioned in footnote pp. 4-5
 1895-1897
Box 22 Folder 3
Chapter 1, "General History" - articles by Dewey mentioned in footnote pp. 4-5
 1895-1897
Box 22 Folder 4
Chapter I, "General History" - notes, prospectus, drafts, one by John Dewey; one by Alice Dewey
 1899-1900
Box 22 Folder 5
Notes of Conference with Dewey
 September 1930
Box 22 Folder 6
Miscellaneous writing of John Dewey
 1896-1900
Box 22 Folder 7
Miscellaneous writing of John Dewey
 1896-1900
Box 22 Folder 8
Miscellaneous writing of John Dewey
 1900
Box 22 Folder 9
John Dewey: History of Education: Volumes I-VII; Psychology for Teachers: Volumes I-IV
 1907
Box 22 Folder 10
John Dewey at 90 - articles
 October 1949