Scope and Contents

This collection is composed of eighteen ledgers, documents, and photographs from Alamo Township schools from 1879 to 1954.

The ledgers and documents contained within this collection are linked to several schools throughout the township such as Tamarack, Hackley, Oak Grove, and Williams School. The ledgers contain material such as teacher contracts, student grades, and student attendance records.

Scope and Contents The collection is composed of one ledger from the Charleston Township District School #3, 1919-1926.The cover indicates that the ledger was produced by W. M. Welch MFG. Company. The ledger is titled Welch’s System Combining Attendance, Classification, Gradation, and Close Supervision.The ledger is 76 pages filled with information regarding the Charleston Township District School #3, including teachers, student names, grades, material taught in class, condition of...

Scope and Contents The Kalamazoo School District began in 1833 and by 1865,consisting of the Union School on the corner of South West and West Vine Streets along with four ward schools. This census in the notebook, compiled in 1865, shows 2151 students which differs a little from the yearly catalogs, which showed 2,090 at the end of the 1864-1865 school year and 2,332 at the end of the 1865-1866 school year. The names are not in alphabetical order but seem arranged according to where the students lived. This...

Abstract

This collection consists of two boxes of material from the Millwood Elementary School. The collection contains class photos, photos of the school, record books, and account books and scrapbooks from the Millwood Mothers club.