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Black Hawk County Rural School Records

 Collection
Identifier: RSC-RSR-007

Scope and Contents

This collection contains documents from the rural school system of Black Hawk County, Iowa dating from 1858-1970. The records cover a majority of the rural schools’ histories, but they are not comprehensive: some records were lost before their transfer to the Center for the History of Rural Iowa Education and Culture. The collection material is arranged into three series: “County Board of Education, 1910-1970”, “Office of the Superintendent, 1858-1967”, and “District and School Records, 1882-1968”. Series 1. “County Board of Education, 1910-1970” contains records created by or utilized by the County Board of Education. This material includes County Board of Education Meeting Minutes, County Board of Education Financial Records, Reorganization and Consolidation Records, and Atlases. Series 2. “Office of the Superintendent, 1858-1967” contains records created or utilized by the Office of the Superintendent. This series contains Superintendents' Annual Reports, High School Normal Training Records, Teachers' Examination Records, Record of Teachers' Certificates, and Eighth Grade Examination Records. Series 3. “District and School, 1882-1968” contains records that pertain to individual school districts. This series contains a District Board of Education Secretaries' Record and Daily Attendance Registers.

Dates

  • Created: 1858-1970
  • Other: Majority of material found in 1900-1960
  • Other: Date acquired: 05/01/2009

Extent

6.50 Linear Feet

4 boxes, 35 volumes other_unmapped

Language of Materials

English

Technical Access Requirements

This collection contains materials on microfilm that will require the use of a microfilm reader.

Source of Acquisition

Black Hawk Area Education Agency (AEA #267)

Method of Acquisition

Donation

Related Materials

See [url=https://archon.library.uni.edu/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=111&q]RSC/RSR/100 Multiple County and Area Education Agency (AEA) Records[/url] - Box 55, Folders 10-13; Box 56, Folders 1-3; and Box 65, Reel 68. See [url=https://archon.library.uni.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=122&q=]RSC/HEC/002 Aletha Hutchison (Jacobs) Collection, 1898-1960[/url]. See [url=https://archon.library.uni.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=135&q=]RSC/HEC/003 William H. Dreier Papers, 1930-2006[/url]. See [url=https://archon.library.uni.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=121&q=]RSC/HEC/005 Jerry and JoAnn Kramer Collection, 1883-2006[/url]. See [url=https://archon.library.uni.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=131&q=]RSC/HEC/006 Fred W. Cover Papers, 1898-1946[/url]. Records relating to Black Hawk County, Cedar Falls Township, #6 Eddy school are located in [url=https://archon.library.uni.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=120&q=]RSC/HEC/008 Harry Barck Collection, 1915-1958[/url]. See [url=https://archon.library.uni.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=119&q=]RSC/HEC/009 Jane Fauser Collection, 1902-1989[/url]. See [url=https://archon.library.uni.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=128&q=]RSC/HEC/018 Nancy Brochers Collection, 1905-1941[/url].

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Other Descriptive Information

Box 2 contains and is located with CHRIEC's over-sized material

Title
Archon Finding Aid Title
Author
Kyle Morris, Amy Rekward, and Dustin Witsman
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
eng

Repository Details

Part of the UNI Museum Collections Repository

Contact:
1227 W 27th Street
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls IA 50614 US