School Registers (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition without jacket on somewhat rubbed blue cloth will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A group of three commercially printed register/ledgers filled out in manuscript._____ All are from schools in District 59 in Harvey County, Kansas, dated from 1875 to 1900._____ I. McVicar, P.; Teacher's Register; / For the Use of / Public and Private Schools; Crane & Byron; Topeka; 1872/nd; (40pp) _____Oblong ledger, 9 x 11.5", rather shabby, with several pages free and at least one missing._____ The first 28 pages are a daily attendance register of pupils by name. _____ At least the first sheet is missing but the rest covers the period from Oct.4, 1875 to Jan. 29, 1879._____ Followed by two filled in pages of "General Enrollment for the Year.", the only date being for the period from Oct. 1878 to Jan. 1879. _____ Lists students, parents name, residence and where born. The next four pages list the courses offered from Sept, 1874 to Jan. 1879, with number of pupils enrolled and the author of the textbook used._____ Concludes with two pages of a "Visitors' Register" signed by attendees listing their residences, dated from Oct. 1875 to Feb. 1879. _____ According to Sanders' Harper County history, the school district was not organized until 1879._________ II. Felter, S.A.; District Clerk's / Official / Record Book / Approved by the / State Superintendent of Public Instruction.; Geo. W. Martin/Kansas Pub. House; Topeka; 1877/nd; unnumbered Quarto ledger, shabby, shaken and tenuous. _____ Among the titled sections filled out in hand are: ____"Register of District Officers" listing directors, clerks and treasurers from 1880 to 1900 _____"Term Register of Teachers Employed" listing teacher, residence, salary/month, total paid and grade taught from 1880 to 1900.____ "Register of Orders Drawn on Treasurer".who was paid and for what, from 1880 to 1897._____ Includes everything from teachers' monthly salaries to loads of coal to chalk and erasers._____ "Annual Financial Report".from 1880 to 1888 and from 1896 to 1901._____ Details the source of all receipts and expenditures by general group_____. In a good case of living close to the edge, closed 1883 with a total of 41 cents in the school fund._____ "Annual Statistical Report" from 1879 to 1903. _____ Census data for public and private schools by gender, grade, age etc. Also values of assets and mil levy amounts. _____ Concludes with the minutes of the annual and special board meetings from 1880 to 1899. __________ III. Campbell, M.S.; Campbell's / Economic School Register, / Containing a / Monthly and Annual Report; Burrows Brothers Co; Cleveland, Oh; 1880/nd; (6pp) Small folio, 12.75 x 11.5", shabby, shaken and tenuous._____ Pupils' attendance records from 1890-92. One leaf is missing.