Providence School Department records

Series 1. Bound Manuscripts

Container	Description	Date
Box 28	School Committee Meeting Minutes, Vol. 2	1828 June 02-1837 May 25
Box 28	School Committee Meeting Minutes, Vol. 11	1898 June 24-1902 February 28
Box 28	School Committee Meeting Minutes, Vol. 14	1912 January 26-1915 December 31
Box 28	School Committee Meeting Minutes, Vol. 15	1916 January 28-1920 December 31
Box 28	School Committee Meeting Minutes, Vol. 16	1921 January 28-1925 November 27
Box 28	School Committee Meeting Minutes, Vol. 17	1925 December 1-1935 April 22
Box 28	School Committee Meeting Minutes, Vol. 18	1935 April 30-1944 January 24
Box 28	School Committee Meeting Minutes, Vol. 19	19440124/19500424
Box 28	School Committee Meeting Minutes, Vol. 21	1955 May 9-1957 December 23
Box 17-18, Box 28	School Committee Meeting Minutes- published	1890-1960
Box 19, Box 28	School Committee Meeting Minutes- unbound	1859-1965, circa
Box 28	Committee on Evening Schools, Minutes (1 vol.)	1903 January 26-1916 December 27
Box 28	School Committee Appointments For Quarterly Examination of Schools	1862 November 11-1864 February 12
Box 28	Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, Vol. 3	1903-1910
Box 28	Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, Vol. 4	1910 May 17-1916 June 9
Box 28	Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, Vol. 5	1916 June 12-1922 December 28
Box 28	Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, Vol. 6	1923 January 26-1923 November 25
Box 28	Committee on Apportionment - minutes	1917 February 20-1925 September 25
Box 28	Committee on Grammar and Primary School - Minutes, Vol. 6	1913 September 19-1925 November 27
Box 28	Schools - Alterations and Repairs, Vol. 11	1953 October-1965 April
Box 28	Teacher Retirement Fund	1897 October 4-1904 February
Box 28	Teacher Ret.Fund-Pay Roll/Historical Data	1897-1925
Box 28	Trustees Retirement Fund Vol. 1	10/19/1897-10/5/1916
Box 28	Trustees Retirement Fund Vol. 2	1/1/1917 - 3/18/1925
Box 28	Teacher Pay Rolls (Evening School)	1893-1897
Box 28	Pub. Sch. Teacher Pay Rolls (Evening Sch.)	1892-1893
Box 12	Teacher Pay Rolls (Office Copies) Vol. V	1910-1913
Box 12	Teacher Pay Rolls (Office Copies) Vol. VI	1913-1917
Box 12	Teacher Pay Rolls (Office Copies) Vol. VII	1917-1921
Box 12	Teacher Qualifications "education of" (3 telegram files)	circa 1910-1920
Box 28	Graduation Lists (unbound)	1910-1945 (with gaps)
Box 11	Superintendent of Schools and Others- Authorizing Salaries and Positions (correspondence) (4 binders)	1926-1953
Box 11	Newspaper Scrap Book - labeled "invoices"	12/28/1928 - 9/8/1929
Box 11	Newspaper Scrap Books (8 volumes)	1955-1966

Series 2. Minutes and Adopted Resolutions of the School Board/Committee
Minutes of the Providence School Board include resolutions adopted by the board and are contained within the minutes during the 1960's and 1970's. Later on, a sub-series was created called Adopted Resolutions. Another sub-series also emerges called "Resolutions" which are resolutions arranged numerically. These resolutions can also appear within the minutes. Generally there is some duplication between the different sub-series. Generally all records are arranged by school or calendar year. Most of the records from the 1970's need preservation photocopying.

Container	Description	Date
Box 31	Minutes (transcript)	February 28, 1966
Box 31	Resolutions 398-674	September 1965-June 1966
Box 31	Resolutions 1-250	September 1966-June 1967
Box 31	Resolutions 251-462	September 1967-August 1968
Box 31	Minutes	1970
Box 31	Resolutions 241-529	September 1969-September 1970
Box 31	Minutes/Adopted Resolutions	January-December 1971
Box 31	Minutes (Series 00)	1971-1972
Box 32	Minutes/Adopted Resolutions	January-December 1972
Box 32	Minutes	January-December 1974
Box 32	Minutes/Adopted Resolutions	January-December 1975
Box 32	Minutes (Series 00)	December 1972-December 1975
Box 32	Resolutions 606-796	July 1974-June 1975
Box 32	Resolutions 797-988	June 1975-June 1976
Box 32	Resolutions 1-182	July 1976-June 1977
Box 33	Minutes/Adopted Resolutions	January-December 1976
Box 33	Minutes/Adopted Resolutions	January-December 1977
Box 33	Resolutions 184-397	July 1977-June 1978
Box 33	Minutes	January 1976-June 1979
Box 33	Minutes/Adopted Resolutions	December 1977-June 1979
Box 34	Minutes/Adopted Resolutions	September-December 1979
Box 34	Minutes/Adopted Resolutions	January-June 1980
Box 34	Resolutions 354, 398-898	August 1978-June 1980
Box 34	Minutes	1980
Box 34	Minutes	December 1978-April 1981
Box 34	Minutes	June 1979-June 1982
Box 34	Minutes/Adopted Resolutions	July-December 1980
Box 35	Minutes/Adopted Resolutions	June 1981
Box 35	Minutes/Adopted Resolutions	1980-1981
Box 35	Resolutions 899-1217	June 1980-June 1981
Box 35	Minutes	May 1981-June 1982
Box 35	Minutes/Adopted Resolutions	July 1981-June 1982
Box 35	Minutes/Adopted Resolutions	July 1982-June 1983
Box 36	Minutes/Adopted Resolutions	July 1982-December 1983
Box 36	Minutes/Adopted Resolutions	July 1983-June 1984
Box 36	Minutes/Adopted Resolutions	July 1984-June 1985
Box 36	Minutes	1985
Box 36	Minutes/Adopted Resolutions	August 1985-June 1986
Box 36	Minutes	1986
Box 36	Minutes	1987
Box 37	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	July 1986-June 1987
Box 37	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	July 1987-June 1988
Box 37	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	July-December 1988
Box 37	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	September-December 1988
Box 37	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	January-December 1989
Box 37	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	January-June 1989
Box 37	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	July-December 1989
Box 38	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	January-June 1990
Box 38	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	July-September 1990
Box 38	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	January-December 1990
Box 38	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	January-December 1991
Box 38	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	June 1990-May 1991
Box 38	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	October 1990-April 1991
Box 38	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	May-September 1991
Box 38	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	October 1991-June 1992
Box 38	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	January-December 1992
Box 39	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	June 1992-February 1993
Box 39	Resolutions 9-606	1992-1993
Box 39	Minutes of Sub committees	1992-1994
Box 39	Minutes	1993
Box 39	Minutes	1994
Box 39	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	February 1993-January 1994
Box 39	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	January-December 1994
Box 40	Minutes	1995
Box 40	Minutes	1996
Box 40	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	January-August 1995
Box 40	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	August 1995-January 1996
Box 40	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	February-August 1996
Box 40	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	August 1996-March 1997
Box 41	Minutes	1997
Box 41	Minutes	1998
Box 41	Minutes	1999
Box 41	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	March-June 1997
Box 41	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	July-October 1997
Box 41	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	November 1997-June 1998
Box 41	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	July-December 1998
Box 41	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	July 1997-June 1998
Box 41	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	January-June 1999
Box 42	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	January-June 1999
Box 42	Minutes	2001
Box 42	Minutes/Resolutions, Adopted	2001
Box 43	Decisions of the Commissioner	September 1990-[1993]
Box 43	Decisions of the Commissioner	1992-1996 (1996)
Box 43	Decisions of the Commissioner	1992-1997
Box 43	Decisions of the Commissioner	1993-1996
Box 43	Desegregation Report	1992
Box 43	Annual Report	1991-1992

Series 3. Images
Box 2-4
Includes Copper plates (wood mounted) of images used for Annual Reports, etc.

Series 4. Printed Reports and Manuals
Box 7-30

Container	Description	Date
Box 20	School Committee Annual Reports	1864 - 1964 w/gaps
Box 20	School Committee Report, Centennial	1899 - 1900
Box 23	School Manual of RI	1896
Box 13-14	School Committee Manuals / Directories	1861 - 1950 w/gaps
Box 23	Central High School Year Books	1994 - 1995, 1997
Box 27	City Auditor - Annual Reports	1871 - 1933 w/gaps
Box 27	Directory of Public Schools	1959 - 1967
Box 23	Educational Review	1895
Box 15-16	Providence City Manuals	1876 - 1920
Box 5-6	RI School Reports	1879 -1919 w/gaps
Box 22	RI Manuals	1880 - 1954 w/gaps
Box 23	Reports, Board of Ed. and Comm. of Public School	1872 - 1907 w/gaps
Box 23	School Manual of RI	1896
Box 23	Courses of Study	1899 - 1915
Box 25-26	Early Records of the Town of Providence
Box 23	Department of Interior - Educational Bulletins	1916 - 1922
Box 24	Department of Interior - Commissioner of Education Reports	1907 - 1916
Box 29	Budgets	1943 - 1961
Box 29	Providence - City Financial Reports	1947 - 1955
Box 29	School Survey of Buildings - Improvement Needs	1955 - 1958
Box 30	Miscellaneous Volumes / Reports

Series 5. Lantern Slides
Lantern slides were used for the publication of the 'Report of the School Committee, for the year 1899-1900: Centennial Celebration of the Establishment of the Public Schools" in the City of Providence. Printed by Snow and Farnham, City printers, 63 Washington Street, Providence, 1901.

Original brown kraft wrapper labeled "School Centennial Lantern Slides."

Some of the slides are cracked. #29 and #30 have multiple cracks and are unstable. A portion are reproductions of the Providence Town Papers and are transcribed in the school committee report of 1899-1900.

Container	Description	Date
	Slide 1. President Manning
	Slide 2. Map of Providence 1803, cracked
	Slide 3. Providence 1809 from a painting on load from the RIHS
	Slide 4. Missing (not received)
	Slide 5. Transit Street School (photograph)
	Slide 6. John Howland (from engraving)
	Slide 7. Providence Town Council meeting October 17, 1800 (document)
	Slide 8. Providence Town Council meeting (document)
	Slide 9. Providence Town Council meeting January 6, 1801 (document)
	Slide 10. Providence Town Council meeting January 8, 1801 (document)
	Slide 11. An Address to Visitants of the First District School by Ann Eliza Martin aged 16 years
	Slide 12. An Address to Visitants of the First District School by Sarah Pratt aged 13 years
	Slide 13. Geography being an abridgement of the American Universal Geography March 1806
	Slide 14. Morse Geography, Western half of North America from the latest discoveries 1806
	Slide 15. Morse Geography page 51, table division of North America
	Slide 16. Morse Geography page 137, Massachusetts
	Slide 17. Scott's Elocution, plate I
	Slide 18. Scott's Elocution, plate II
	Slide 19. Scott's Elocution on Gesture
	Slide 20. Dr. Messer (from painting)
	Slide 21. Providence Town Council meeting September 5, 1817 (document)
	Slide 22. Providence Town Council meeting April 29, 1819 (document)
	Slide 23. Providence Town Council meeting January 7, 1820 (document)
	Slide 24. Providence Town Council meeting June 7, 1820 (document)
	Slide 25. Correspondence Christopher Hill to Jerh Lippitt Esq. June 22, 1820
	Slide 26. Correspondence Moses Curtis to Jerh Lippitt, June 24, 1820
	Slide 27. Annual Report excerpt School Committee, July 1820
	Slide 28. Providence Grist Mill, old copy book (several cracks)
	Slide 29. Nature Demands, old copy book (several cracks, unstable, 2 pieces)
	Slide 30. The Rose, old copy book (several cracks, unstable, missing glass)
	Slide 31. President Wayland (photograph)
	Slide 32. Supt. Bishop (from etching)
	Slide 33. Professor Harkness (several cracks)
	Slide 34. Prospect Street School (taken from photographic image c. 1870)
	Slide 35. School for 48 pupils (floor plan)
	Slide 36. Desk - early school art LW Russell.
	Slide 37. Notice of Special Meeting to elect President of the Committee May 19, 1842 (1 crack)
	Slide 38. School committee 1844 (from printed reports) (several cracks)
	Slide 39. Supt. Greene (photograph), (several cracks)
	Slide 40. Supt. Leach (photograph), (several cracks)

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