Contents

• DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
• ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
• COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
• SERIES LIST
• INFORMATION FOR USERS
• SUBJECTS
• CONTAINER LIST

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Cornell Nursery School records, 1920-1970.
Collection Number: 23-13-2365

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

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INFORMATION FOR USERS

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CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
		Series I: Nursery School - Student Records
		Access restricted
		Scope and Contents Lists containing student names are in accession file.
Box 1		A-Bon	1920-1969
		Restricted
Box 2		Bon-Cha	1920-1969
		Restricted
Box 3		Chi - Fi	1920-1969
		Restricted
Box 4		Fi-Hen	1920-1969
		Restricted
Box 5		Her-Jan	1920-1969
		Restricted
Box 6		Jen-Kle	1920-1969
		Restricted
Box 7		Lon-Mat	1920-1969
		Restricted
Box 8		Mat-Mot	1920-1969
		Restricted
Box 9		Mot-Ove	1920-1969
		Restricted
Box 10		Ot-Rai	1920-1969
		Restricted
Box 11		Rai-Sal	1920-1969
		Restricted
Box 12		Sal-Smi	1920-1969
		Restricted
Box 13		Smi-Ter	1920-1969
		Restricted
Box 14		Tha-Web	1920-1969
		Restricted
Box 15		Wel-Z	1920-1969
		Restricted
		not alphabetical	1965-1975
Box 16		not alphabetical
		Restricted
Box 17		not alphabetical
		Restricted
Box 18		not alphabetical
		Restricted
Box 19		not alphabetical and F-Gre from the 1920-1939	1965-1975
		Restricted
Box 20		Gre-Ha	1920-1939
		Restricted
Box 21		not alphabetical	1960-1969
		Restricted
Box 22		Staff Records
		Restricted
Box 23		Parents Meetings, Monday Council Reports, Records on students who attended the nursery school	1930-1939
		Restricted
Box 25		Student Histories of College students who enrolled in Family Life Courses-100, 220 and 330-arranged alphabetically	1940-1949
		Restricted
Box 37		Observations of nursery school children done by students when Katherine Reeves was the Director	1950-1959
		Restricted
		Series II: Correspondence
Box 26	Folder 1	Katherine Reeves correspondence	1940-1943
Box 26	Folder 2	Katherine Reeves correspondence	1939-1940
Box 26	Folder 3	Katherine Reeves correspondence	1938-1939
Box 26	Folder 4	Katherine Reeves correspondence	1937-1938
Box 26	Folder 5	Katherine Reeves correspondence	1939
Box 26	Folder 6	Katherine Reeves correspondence	1937
Box 26	Folder 7	Katherine Reeves correspondence	1936
Box 26	Folder 8	Katherine Reeves correspondence	1935
Box 26	Folder 9	Katherine Reeves correspondence	1934
Box 26	Folder 10	Katherine Reeves correspondence	1930-1933
Box 26	Folder 11	Correspondence - Visiting groups	1936-1937
Box 26	Folder 12	Correspondence - Katherine Reeves - Sabbatic	1940
Box 26	Folder 13	Correspondence - Freshman orientation	1939-1942
		Series III: Nursery School Information: Curriculum, Programs, Publications- Partially Restricted
Box 35	Folder 1	Child training and Nursery School Annual Reports	1925-1927
Box 24		Nursery school children observations and parent interviews	1931-1940
		Restricted
Box 24		Monday Council	1930-1932
		Restricted
Box 24		Home visitation reports	1949-1951
		Restricted
Box 26	Folder 14	"Democracy Begins at Home"	1940
Box 26	Folder 15	Plans for play group - summer school	1939
Box 26	Folder 16	Manuscripts of articles and talks
Box 26	Folder 17	Material for talks
Box 26	Folder 18	Family Morale and National Strength
Box 26	Folder 19	Family Life Conference	1940
Box 26	Folder 20	Family Counseling Program	1937
Box 26	Folder 21	Integrated course - Economics of the Household
Box 26	Folder 22	Publicity Committee - ACE	1936-1937
Box 26	Folder 23	Affiliations Committee - New York State - Childhood Education (Inactive)
Box 26	Folder 24	Literature Committee - ACE	1936-1937
Box 26	Folder 25	Records for Albany - Miss Beebe's curriculum
Box 26	Folder 26	Pi Lambda Theta - Katherine Reeves	1937
Box 26	Folder 27	Religious education
Box 26	Folder 28	Association for Childhood Education	1933-1934
Box 26	Folder 29	Joyce Jones - Cornell	1934
Box 26	Folder 30	Housekeeper's duties
Box 26	Folder 31	Educational policies	1939
Box 26	Folder 32	The Association for Arts in Childhood
Box 26	Folder 33	American Library Association	1940
Box 26	Folder 34	Seminar on the Young Child and the Family
Box 26	Folder 35	Summer session	1940
Box 26	Folder 36	Study of summer session
Box 26	Folder 37	Home Economics curriculum	1940-1941
Box 26	Folder 38	Dionne Quintuplets Research Conference	1937
Box 26	Folder 39	Students interested in assistantships in summer school laboratories	1937
Box 26	Folder 40	Family Life 220 - Evaluation reports
Box 26	Folder 41	Participation material from other centers
Box 26	Folder 42	Mimeographed material
Box 26	Folder 43	Study Club letters	1937-1938
Box 26	Folder 44	Language development
Box 26	Folder 45	Sampling of Extension material	1933-1937
Box 26	Folder 46	Sampling of Extension material	1933-1936
Box 26	Folder 46A	Sampling of Extension material	1930-1934
Box 26	Folder 47	Seminar in Home Economics Education	1936
Box 26	Folder 48	School visiting	1938
Box 26	Folder 49	The Child - published by the Children's Bureau	1938
Box 26	Folder 50	Food and Nutrition - 131	1927-1930
Box 26	Folder 51	Pamphlets
Box 26	Folder 52	Curriculum organization - Dr. Bonser
Box 27	Folder 1-19	Nursery School correspondence - A-Z	1933-1946
Box 27	Folder 20	Home Nursing and Homemaking - syllabus
Box 27	Folder 21	Home Nursing and Home Hygiene - syllabus
Box 27	Folder 22	Home economics - Senior high school curriculum
Box 27	Folder 23	Dr. Spafford's notes	1938
Box 27	Folder 24	Foods and nutrition material
Box 27	Folder 25	Problems for Parent Educators - edited by Flora Thurston	1929-1930
Box 27	Folder 26	Nursery School enrollment	1930-1949
Box 27	Folder 27	Nursery School enrollment	1920-1959
Box 27	Folder 28	Enrollment	1940-1941
Box 27	Folder 29	Enrollment	1941-1942
Box 27	Folder 30	Enrollment	1934-1953
Box 27	Folder 31	Enrollment - summer session	1935-1950
Box 27	Folder 32	Nursery School lists	1970-1979
Box 27	Folder 33	Child development - Iowa State College
Box 27	Folder 34	Committee on Minimum Essentials	1934
Box 27	Folder 35	Minimum essentials - building	1934
Box 27	Folder 36	Parent - Child self study card
Box 27	Folder 37	Music questionnaires - Helen Murray	1950
Box 27	Folder 38	Menus	1945-1946
Box 27	Folder 39	Menus	1946-1947
Box 27	Folder 40	Menus	1949-1950
Box 27	Folder 41	Menus	1950-1952
Box 27	Folder 42	Menus	1944-1945
Box 27	Folder 43	Nursery School schedules	1937-1947
Box 27	Folder 44	Sample form letters	1930-1959
Box 27	Folder 45	Correspondence concerning Miss Webber	1937
Box 27	Folder 46	Nursery School staff - Records and reports
Box 27	Folder 47	Licences of Nursery School	1926-1933
Box 27	Folder 48-49	Course evaluations - Family Life 100
Box 27	Folder 50	Home Economics Student Faculty Committee	1952-1957
Box 27	Folder 51-53	Family Life Course material	1930-1939
Box 27	Folder 54	Family Life 100 - Suggestions and criticisms	1935-1936
Box 27	Folder 55-56	Family Life 100 - Criticisms
Box 27	Folder 57	Summer parents' meeting	1930
Box 27	Folder 58	Memoranda to parents
		Series IV: Nursery School: Photographs and Films
Box 28		Folder from the Cornell Chapter of the American Association of University Professors and index cards with nursery school expenditures listed	1930-1939
Box 28		Photograph album of Miss Reeves' students working with nursery school children	1929-1930
Box 28		16 mm Films-Black and white film of back yard play group (Summer 1939) use DVD #142; one color film of backyard play group (summer of 1939) use DVD #145; Troy Studies - baby in high chair, playpen (1928) use DVD #143; film from D.D. Scarborough (October 1929) use DVD #144	1928-1939
Box 28	F-824	Silent color film of students playing at the Cornell Nursery School. (Use DVD-1006 in same box.)	1940
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
Box 28	DVD-1006	Silent color film of students playing at the Cornell Nursery School - copy of film F-824	1940
Box 28		Various photographs and negatives and glass negatives of nursery school children	1920-1939
F 40	F-40	Film showing a nursery school, bathing cute baby; Library Tower; Students on quadrangle; alumni reunion; singing on steps of Goldwin Smith; feeding baby.	1930
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
		Scope and Contents It is unclear if this film is from this collection and whether it shows the Cornell Nursery School.
Box 28	DVD-764	Copy of Film F-40
Box 28	F-178	Practice Babies - Domecon babies. (Use DVD-1010 in same box.)	1938
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
		Scope and Contents Home Economics students with babies and children.
Box 28	DVD-1010	Practice Babies - Domecon babies - copy of Film F-178
Box 29		Photographs
Box 30		Lantern slides
Box 33	Folder 1	Negatives and glass slides
Box 33	Folder 2	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 3	Nursery School children - 18 photographs, including Peter Racedalph	1943
Box 33	Folder 4	Nursery School activities - various years: 20 photographs, including 15 contact sheets
Box 33	Folder 5	Nursery School activities - various years: 8 photographs, 2 photos dated July 9, 1970
Box 33	Folder 6	Outdoor activities - 13 photographs including photographs of playground equipment from Child-Life and Play Speciality Association, Hollistor, Massachusetts
Box 33	Folder 7	Outdoor activities - 25 Photos
Box 33	Folder 8	Outdoor activities - 28 photos, including Lois Ann at 2½ thumb tacking her paper to an easel and a photo of George Washington Chang at the Nursery School, that was used in the Post Standard, July 16, 1944
Box 33	Folder 9	Outdoor activities: 24 photos, including John Leete Stule and Ann Leete Wheeler, riding tricycles
Box 33	Folder 10	Outdoor activities: 10 photos
Box 33	Folder 11	Outdoor activities: early years, 15 photos
Box 33	Folder 12	Nursery School facility: 12 photos
Box 33	Folder 13	Indoor activities: various years, 15 photos
Box 33	Folder 14	Indoor activities: various years, 20 photos
Box 33	Folder 15	Eating activities: various years, 23 photos
Box 33	Folder 16	Nursery School groups of students and teachers: 18 photos
Box 33	Folder 17	Nursery School hygiene: various years, 16 photos
Box 34	Folder 1	Photos of Jennifer Birckmayer, Director of the Nursery School	1957
Box 34	Folder 2-6	Nursery School activities: 35 photos
Box 34	Folder 7-8	Nursery School negatives
Box 34	Folder 9-11	Photographs
Box 34	Folder 12	Negatives
		Series V: Scrapbook, Baby Books, Toys
Box 31		Domecon baby books	1921-1926
Box 31		Information about the twins, Mary Alice and Rose Ann and Baby Sheila	1937, 1948-1950
Box 35		Oversized scrapbook describing the early days of the Nursery School	1930-1949
Box 36		Wooden gift toys and tru-tone, no-roll crayons all produced by the Milton Bradley Company
Box 32		Box 32
		Restricted