Guide to the Cornell Nursery School Records,
1920-1970

Collection Number: 23-13-2365

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
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Date	Description	Container
	Series I: Nursery School – Student Records - Restricted
1920s-1960s	A-Bon	Box 1
1920s-1960s	Bon-Cha	Box 2
1920s-1960s	Chi - Fi	Box 3
1920s-1960s	Fi-Hen	Box 4
1920s-1960s	Her-Jan	Box 5
1920s-1960s	Jen-Kle	Box 6
1920s-1960s	Lon-Mat	Box 7
1920s-1960s	Mat-Mot	Box 8
1920s-1960s	Mot-Ove	Box 9
1920s-1960s	Ot-Rai	Box 10
1920s-1960s	Rai-Sal	Box 11
1920s-1960s	Sal-Smi	Box 12
1920s-1960s	Smi-Ter	Box 13
1920s-1960s	Tha-Web	Box 14
1920s-1960s	Wel-Z	Box 15
Late 1960s-early 1970s	not alphabetical	Box 16-18
Late 1960s-early 1970s	not alphabetical and F-Gre from the 1920s-1930s	Box 19
1920s-1930s	Gre-Ha	Box 20
1960s	not alphabetical	Box 21
	Staff Records	Box 22
1930s	Parents Meetings, Monday Council Reports, Records on students who attended the nursery school	Box 23
1940s	Student Histories of College students who enrolled in Family Life Courses-100, 220 and 330-arranged alphabetically	Box 25
1950s	Observations of nursery school children done by students when Katherine Reeves was the Director	Box 37
	Series II: Correspondence - Restricted
1940-1943	Katherine Reeves Correspondence	Box 26	Folder 1
1939-1940	Katherine Reeves Correspondence	Box 26	Folder 2
1938-1939	Katherine Reeves Correspondence	Box 26	Folder 3
1937-1938	Katherine Reeves Correspondence	Box 26	Folder 4
1939	Katherine Reeves Correspondence	Box 26	Folder 5
1937	Katherine Reeves Correspondence	Box 26	Folder 6
1936	Katherine Reeves Correspondence	Box 26	Folder 7
1935	Katherine Reeves Correspondence	Box 26	Folder 8
1934	Katherine Reeves Correspondence	Box 26	Folder 9
1930-1933	Katherine Reeves Correspondence	Box 26	Folder 10
1936-1937	Correspondence – Visiting Groups	Box 26	Folder 11
1940	Correspondence – Katherine Reeves – Sabbatic	Box 26	Folder 12
1939-1942	Correspondence – Freshman orientation	Box 26	Folder 13
	Series III: Nursery School Information: Curriculum, Programs, Publications- Restricted
1920s-30s	Administrative records - Family Life 100 material from the 1940s	Box 24
1940	"Democracy Begins at Home"	Box 26	Folder 14
1939	Plans for play group – summer school	Box 26	Folder 15
	Manuscripts of Articles and Talks	Box 26	Folder 16
	Material for Talks	Box 26	Folder 17
	Family Morale and National Strength	Box 26	Folder 18
1940	Family Life Conference	Box 26	Folder 19
1937	Family Counseling Program	Box 26	Folder 20
	Integrated Course – Economics of the Household	Box 26	Folder 21
1936-1937	Publicity Committee – ACE	Box 26	Folder 22
	Affiliations Committee – NYS – Childhood Education (Inactive)	Box 26	Folder 23
1936-1937	Literature Committee – ACE	Box 26	Folder 24
	Records for Albany – Miss Beebe's Curriculum	Box 26	Folder 25
1937	Pi Lambda Theta – Katherine Reeves	Box 26	Folder 26
	Religious Education	Box 26	Folder 27
1933-1934	Association for Childhood Education	Box 26	Folder 28
1934	Joyce Jones – Cornell	Box 26	Folder 29
	Housekeeper's Duties	Box 26	Folder 30
1939	Educational Policies	Box 26	Folder 31
	The Association for Arts in Childhood	Box 26	Folder 32
1940	American Library Association	Box 26	Folder 33
	Seminar on the Young Child and the Family	Box 26	Folder 34
1940	Summer session	Box 26	Folder 35
	Study of Summer Session	Box 26	Folder 36
1940-1941	Home Economics Curriculum	Box 26	Folder 37
1937	Dionne Quintuplets Research Conference	Box 26	Folder 38
1937	Students interested in Assistantships in summer school laboratories	Box 26	Folder 39
	Family Life 220 – Evaluation reports	Box 26	Folder 40
	Participation material from other centers	Box 26	Folder 41
	Mimeographed material	Box 26	Folder 42
1937-1938	Study Club letters	Box 26	Folder 43
	Language development	Box 26	Folder 44
	Sampling of Extension material	Box 26	Folder 45
	Sampling of Extension material	Box 26	Folder 46
1936	Seminar in Home Economics Education	Box 26	Folder 47
1938	School visiting	Box 26	Folder 48
1938	The Child – published by the Children's Bureau	Box 26	Folder 49
1927-1930	Food and Nutrition – 131	Box 26	Folder 50
	Pamphlets	Box 26	Folder 51
	Curriculum Organization – Dr. Bonser	Box 26	Folder 52
1933-1946	Nursery School Correspondence – A-Z	Box 27	Folder 1-19
	Home Nursing and Homemaking – syllabus	Box 27	Folder 20
	Home Nursing and Home Hygiene – syllabus	Box 27	Folder 21
	Home Economics – Sr. High School Curriculum	Box 27	Folder 22
1938	Dr. Spafford's Notes	Box 27	Folder 23
	Foods and Nutrition Material	Box 27	Folder 24
1929-1930	Problems for Parent Educators – edited by Flora Thurston	Box 27	Folder 25
1930s-1940s	Nursery School Enrollment	Box 27	Folder 26
1920s-1950s	Nursery School Enrollment	Box 27	Folder 27
1940-1941	Enrollment	Box 27	Folder 28
1941-1942	Enrollment	Box 27	Folder 29
1934-1953	Enrollment	Box 27	Folder 30
1935-1950	Enrollment – summer session	Box 27	Folder 31
1970s	Nursery School Lists	Box 27	Folder 32
	Child Development – Iowa State College	Box 27	Folder 33
1934	Committee on Minimum Essentials	Box 27	Folder 34
1934	Minimum Essentials – building	Box 27	Folder 35
	Parent – Child Self Study Card	Box 27	Folder 36
1950	Music Questionnaires – Helen Murray	Box 27	Folder 37
1945-46	Menus	Box 27	Folder 38
1946-47	Menus	Box 27	Folder 39
1949-1950	Menus	Box 27	Folder 40
1950-1952	Menus	Box 27	Folder 41
1944-1945	Menus	Box 27	Folder 42
1937-1947	Nursery School Schedules	Box 27	Folder 43
1930s-1950s	Sample Form Letters	Box 27	Folder 44
1937	Correspondence Concerning Miss Webber	Box 27	Folder 45
	Nursery School Staff – Records and Reports	Box 27	Folder 46
1926-1933	Licences fo Nursery School	Box 27	Folder 47
	Course Evaluations – Family Life 100	Box 27	Folder 48-49
1952-1957	Home Economics Student Faculty Committee	Box 27	Folder 50
1930s	Family Life Course Material	Box 27	Folder 51-53
1935-1936	Family Life 100 – Suggestions and Criticisms	Box 27	Folder 54
	Family Life 100 – Criticisms	Box 27	Folder 55-56
1930	Summer Parents' Meeting	Box 27	Folder 57
	Memoranda to Parents	Box 27	Folder 58
	Series IV: Nursery School: Photographs and Films
1930s	Photographs, Films, one folder from the Cornell Chapter of the American Association of University Professors and index cards with nursery school expenditures listed	Box 28
	Photographs	Box 29
	Lantern Slides	Box 30
	Negatives and glass slides	Box 33	Folder 1
	Nursery School Activities Photographs (10 of them) : Childhood Education September Issue; Lunchtime – April 20, 1926 with Karl Von Bug, Rodney Kearl, David Levine, Janet Carson, Rand Wilson, Elizabeth Wilson, Steven Schwartz and Jeanne Specht (2 copies); Tarri Balhell, Lynne Munschauer, Karl Von Bug, Rodney Kearl at the Nursery School, May 23, 1957; Kim O'Conner, Rodney Kearl and Scott Partridge, May 24, 1957; Lynne Munschauer, Jacie Balliett, Patricia Hughes, Jean Anderson (participating student), Peter Campbell, Janet Corson and Steven Schwartz	Box 33	Folder 2
1943	Nursery School Children – 18 photographs, including Peter Racedalph	Box 33	Folder 3
	Nursery School Activities – various years: 20 photographs, including 15 contact sheets	Box 33	Folder 4
	Nursery School Activities – various years: 8 photographs, 2 photos dated July 9, 1970	Box 33	Folder 5
	Outdoor Activities – 13 photographs including photographs of playground equipment from Child-Life and Play Speciality Association, Hollistor, Massachusetts	Box 33	Folder 6
	Outdoor Activities – 25 Photos	Box 33	Folder 7
	Outdoor Activities – 28 photos, including Lois Ann at 2½ thumbtacking her paper to an easel and a photo of Goerge Washington Chang at the Nursery School, that was used in the Post Standard, July 16, 1944	Box 33	Folder 8
	Outdoor Activities: 24 photos, including John Leete Stule and Ann Leete Wheeler, riding tricycles	Box 33	Folder 9
	Outdoor Activities: 10 photos	Box 33	Folder 10
	Outdoor Activities: early years, 15 photos	Box 33	Folder 11
	Nursery School Facility: 12 photos	Box 33	Folder 12
	Indoor Activities: various years, 15 photos	Box 33	Folder 13
	Indoor Activities: various years, 20 photos	Box 33	Folder 14
	Eating Activities: various years, 23 photos	Box 33	Folder 15
	Nursery School Groups of students and teachers: 18 photos	Box 33	Folder 16
	Nursery School Hygiene: various years, 16 photos	Box 33	Folder 17
1957	Photos of Jennifer Birckmayer, Director of the Nursery School	Box 34	Folder 1
	Nursery School Activities: 35 photos	Box 34	Folder 2-6
	Nursery School Negatives	Box 34	Folder 7-8
	Photographs	Box 34	Folder 9-11
	Negatives	Box 34	Folder 12
	Series V: Scrapbook, Baby Books, Toys
1921-1926	Domecon Baby Books	Box 31
1948-1950	Information About Baby Sheila	Box 31
1930s and 1940s	Oversized scrapbook describing the early days of the Nursery School	Box 35
	Wooden gift toys produced by the Milton Bradley Co.	Box 36

Guide to the Cornell Nursery School Records,1920-1970

Collection Number: 23-13-2365

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

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Guide to the Cornell Nursery School Records,
1920-1970

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library