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RG 21. Price Laboratory School

 Record Group
Identifier: RG 21
Record Group 21 contains records, ephemera, and more related to the functioning of the Malcolm Price Laboratory School and its associated programs throughout the school's history. Please see below for specific collections. It also contains the papers of faculty, staff, and alumni, which are titled according to the person's name, followed by "Papers."

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Annabeth Gish Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/06/02
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of two copies of the program for the show, "Love, Loss, and What I Wore," performed March 24, 2018 by the Cedar Falls Community Theatre. Gish starred in the production and signed one of the programs.

Dates: March 24, 2018

Annuals: Little Tutor, Courant, Little Panther, Panther, NUHS Yearbook

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/04
Scope and Contents This collection consists of editions of the Malcolm Price Laboratory School yearbook. There are gaps in this collection that may reflect years in which the annual was not published. The annuals primarily document the high school portion of the school, but many of the volumes also include coverage of the elementary and middle school students. In addition to the yearbooks, the collection includes miscellaneous content; a 1956 class reunion book; a 1976 bicentennial booklet; and a 1997...
Dates: 1916-2012

Bobbette Marie Blaker Fortney Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/06/01
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of material put together by Bobbette Marie Blaker during the time that she attended the Malcolm Price Laboratory School in the mid-1950s. The collection includes photographs, programs, classwork, and a large scrapbook. This collection is a very good view of student life at the Laboratory School during that period.

Dates: c. 1954-1957

Butzier Theater Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/03
Scope and Contents

Most of this collection consists of programs, publicity, previews, reviews, production photos, and congratulatory notes relating to the productions. The material in Boxes 1-12 is arranged chronologically by the date of the production. Marked director's copies of some of Professor Butzier's productions are in Box 13.

Dates: 1960-1985

General Audiovisual Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/07
Scope and Contents Audiovisual material was scattered throughout the boxes received by the Archives. Some of the media were labeled with a subject and date. Some had only a subject or a date on a label. However, large portions of this collection were without labels or any other sort of identification when they arrived. The processor arranged identifiable material chronologically and by media format. At this point, none of the material has been viewed by the processor of this collection to verify either the...
Dates: c. 1980s-2011

James L. Kelly Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/02/01
Scope and Contents

This small collection is strong in the area of the mission and role of the Malcolm Price Laboratory School in the 1980s and 1990s. The files of the Laboratory School Study Team are especially instructive. It also provides good documentation on the threats to close the school in 2002 and then again in 2012.

Dates: c. 1984-2012

Joan E. Duea Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/02/04
Scope and Contents

Professor Duea has been part of the effort to preserve Laboratory School history. In 2015, she began to give some of her papers to the University of Northern Iowa Archives. This collection is under development. Substantial additions to this collections are likely.

Dates: c. 1982-1998

Judith Marshall Finkelstein Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/02/03
Scope and Contents This collection is strong from at least two points of view. First, it documents Professor Finkelstein's career at the University of Northern Iowa. It records in depth her innovations at the Laboratory School, often from local, early proposals for enhancements in her own classroom all the way to the scholarly documentation of her findings. As a bonus, the collection also includes the tangible classroom results in the form of a selection of the artwork and writing of her students. The material...
Dates: 1968-2010

Laboratory School General Artifacts

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/11
Scope and Contents

The material in this collection consists of artifacts from the Malcolm Price Laboratory School.

Dates: 1974; Undated

Laboratory School General Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 21/01/08
Scope and Contents This is a composite collection consisting of material already in the University Archives as well as considerable additional material that came to the University Archives in the summer of 2012, as part of the process of clearing the Malcolm Price Laboratory School building after the school's closing in June 2012. Boxes 1 and 2 are student and staff portrait photographs. They consist primarily of photographic sheets with individual photographs of students and staff in each school...
Dates: 1958-2012