One-room schools
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: One-room schools were commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland and Spain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In most rural (country) and small town schools, all of the students met in a single room. There, a single teacher taught academic basics to several grade levels of elementary-age boys and girls.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Geddes Town Hall School records
Collection
Identifier: 015.GTHS
Abstract
The Geddes Town Hall Schoolhouse records contain materials from both the Town Hall School, as well as materials documenting the donation, move and use of the structure in 1987. The earliest records generated by the one-room school include correspondence, school district inspections, fiduciary documents, teacher contracts, and student exercises. Later records are comprised primarily of administrative files including meeting minutes and proposals, newspaper...
Dates:
1832 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1986 - 1992
Found in:
Eastern Michigan University Archives
Louise Zahn papers
Collection
Identifier: 018.LZ
Abstract
The Louise Zahn papers contain documents from 1913 to 1921, from the personal files of Michigan State Normal College student Louise Zahn. The collection includes materials from the education and teaching career of Louise Zahn, before her marriage and subsequent retirement from teaching. This collection is useful to the study of women in college and the teaching profession from the late 1910s to early 1920s.
Dates:
1913 - 1921
Found in:
Eastern Michigan University Archives
Michigan One-Room Schoolhouse Association records
Collection
Identifier: 018.MORSA
Abstract
The Michigan One-Room Schoolhouse Association (MORSA) records provide examples of the efforts of MORSA between 1994 and 2019 as it pertains to research, publications, and special events. Founded after the first Michigan One-Room Schoolhouse Conference held at Eastern Michigan University in May of 1993, the Association is a “consortium of owners, historians, teachers, students and preservationists dedicated to promoting and preserving these treasured buildings…”and conducts an annual day-long...
Dates:
1874 - 2019; Majority of material found within 1994 - 2019
Found in:
Eastern Michigan University Archives