Lincoln Consolidated School collection
Scope and Contents
The Lincoln Consolidated School collection contains information on budgets, Eastern Michigan University relations, personnel, administration, meeting minutes, superintendents, curriculum, faculty, staff, clippings, and correspondence. The collection is arranged alphabetically and is divided into five series. Records date from 1920 to 2006.
The five series that are included in the collection are: Administration; Board of Education; Curriculum, Faculty and Staff; History; and Publicity and Outreach. The Administration series includes a sub-series of Eastern Michigan University Relations, and Personnel. The Board of Education series contains two sub-series of Meeting Minutes and Superintendents. The Publicity and Outreach series also includes a sub-series of clippings.
Dates
- Creation: 1920 - 2006
Conditions Governing Access
Researchers are asked to request materials 24 hours prior to visiting the the University Archives.
Biographical / Historical
The Lincoln Consolidated School was founded in the early 1920s. Eastern Michigan University played a large role in helping to combine ten rural school districts, most of them one room school houses, into one large school district. This had only been done once before in Washington State. The Lincoln Consolidated School helped to blaze a trail for all other school districts both in Michigan and around the United States that were hoping to accomplish a similar goal. Lincoln Consolidated worked closely with Eastern Michigan University not only as a funding source, but as a place of education for many of EMU's student teachers. Consolidating the schools was a huge success, growing quickly and is still in operation today.
Extent
2.2 Linear Feet (1 record center carton, 2 oversized cartons, 7 fold-lid clamshells, 3 film reel boxes, 1 oversized flat folder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Lincoln Consolidated School collection documents the development of Michigan's first large consolidated school district. In the 1920s ten small school districts, mostly one room school houses, were combined to form one large school district. The large record carton is arranged alphabetically and divided into five separate series. The Administration series includes budget, Eastern Michigan University Relations, fundraising, reports and surveys, and personnel. The Board of Education series contains information about administration, meeting minutes, and the schools superintendents. The Curriculum, Faculty and Staff series contains block prints, curriculum, curriculum council meeting minutes, faculty and staff, teacher laboratory manual, and student teachers. The History series includes books and scrapbooks, From My Window, A History of the Lincoln Consolidated, general school history, and a scrapbook history of Lincoln Consolidated. The Publicity and Outreach series includes clippings, correspondence, International Northern Great Plains Conference, the Mariner, and special programs.
Additions to the collection in 2023 included 1929-1933 newspaper clipping scrapbooks mostly documenting athletics, records from one room schoolhouses that formed Lincoln Consolidated, WWII scrapbook documenting Lincoln Consolidated pupils and staff in service, film reels and video cassettes, saved newspapers, and various scrapbooks created by teachers, class historians, and past pupils. Records date from 1920-2006.
Arrangement
Box #1: 1. Administration, including budget information, an overview of Eastern Michigan University's relationship with Lincoln Consolidated School, funraising and personnel information; 2. Board of Education, which includes information on administration, board of education meeting minutes, and the search for a new superintendent in the early 1960s; 3.Curriculum, Faculty, and Staff, includes information about the schools curriculum, curriculum council meeting minutes, and student teachers; 4. History, including the history and forming of the Lincoln Consolidated School; 5. Publicity and Outreach, includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, yearbooks and special programs.
Box #2: 1929-1932 scrapbooks, containing newspaper clippings and photos, mostly pertaining to athletics
Box #3: school pictures- class of '38, 1932-1933 scrapbook of athletics, scanned copy of Ellen Gould created scrapbook housed in a three-ring binder.
Box #4: Photos- LCS, loose newspaper clippings and realia pertaining to decades 1940, 1950, 1960, and 1980, Footsteps of the Past booklet, Course Grading book from 1896-1899, Combination Register for Schoolhouse, Records of School District No. 5 Township of Augusta 1885-1919, unnamed ledger from 1836, Teacehrs Report Augusta Township School District No. 8 from 1890-1892, Teacher Record from 1893-1897, Hardy School Director Book of Records District No. 8 in 1924, Brick School Songs book from Sadie Cox, meeting notes from unnamed board kept by Sceretary Doris Day from 1933-1934.
Box #5: Lincoln Histories, school house materials, Willis news clippings, Willis scrapbook.
Box #6: WWII scrapbook, Board of Education record book 1938.
Box #7: class historian created scrapbooks.
Box #8: 6 large cassettes. 3 labeled 1936 movie, Murals, Cosmos, and 3 unlabeled.
Box #9: Reel 1/2 from David Flower, LHS K-12 1935
Box #10: Reel 2/2, LHS K-12 1935
Box #11: Reel 1/1 from David Flower, one room school house reunion, Lincoln, 1935, color.
Box #12: Five scrapbooks put together by Lincoln High School teacehr Robert Preiskorn.
Box #13: 25th Anniversary of LCS Guest Book, class historian created scrapbook.
Oversized flat folder: Ypsi Record and Ypsi Daily Press newspapers, saved by community member.
- Title
- Lincoln Consolidated Schools collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Elizabeth Searls
- Date
- July 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Eastern Michigan University Archives Repository
Bruce T. Halle Library, Room 310
955 West Circle Drive
Ypsilanti Michigan 48197
734-487-2673
lib_archives@emich.edu