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Photograph of Vegas Heights Elementary School, Las Vegas, circa 1940s

Date

1940 to 1949

Description

A group of pre-school children dressed in costume for Halloween standing in front of one of two portable buildings added to the Vegas Heights Elementary School in Las Vegas, Nevada. The newly-added portable is the building to the left.

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Fort Mojave Industrial School correspondence, administrative and financial information

Date

1890 to 1893

Archival Collection

Description

From the Fort Mojave Indian School Records (MS-00034). The records of the Fort Mohave Industrial School consist of two bound books of correspondence and cover the years 1890-1893. The second book contains press-copies of letters written by the school's superintendent Samuel McCowan in reply to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Thomas J. Morgan's and Assistant Commissioner R.V. Belt's letters to people doing business with the school. All letters that are direct responses include the identification number of the first letter and can therefore be matched with appropriate correspondence in the first book. While the binding is in excellent condition, many pages are missing and a good number of letters are too faint to read. Yet, the originals of these letters can be found in the National Archives and Record Services microfilmed collection titled Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, Arizona Superintendency. The letters in this book relate to finance, policy implementation, annual reports, school functions, curriculum, school employment, and census data. Financial information includes: itemized accounts of all foodstuffs such as livestock and grains, and materials supplies purchase for the school such as lumber, farming implements, seeds, fruit tress, clothing, medicine, blankets, and furnishings. Also related to financial matters are requests for travel reimbursements for recruiting trips, the placing of ads in newspapers to solicit bids from suppliers, and accounts for salaries paid to school personnel. Administrative information includes annual reports of the number of students in the school. They reflect the difficulties McCowan encounters from parents in his recruiting efforts and his solutions to these problems, such as withholding food rations from families and hosting feasts at the school to lure families in. Other administrative materials include reports on the location and condition of Indian bands, which include the names of prominent band leaders and McCowan's observation of cultural rituals, his survey of the surrounding land and its suitability for farming, blue prints for the schools irrigation projects, and reports on problems between encroaching whites and resident Indians. Policy information includes reports from McCowan on his efforts to comply with Bureau of Indian Affairs educational policies and guidelines, reports on how school personnel are implementing the curriculum and the types of supplies used to accomplish this, and queries from McCowan on whether to hire students out to nearby whites as wage laborers. During scanning, the readability of the pages has been enhanced. The original manuscript has missing pages.

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Panaca Elementary School and Lincoln County High School first graduating class, undated

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Elbert Edwards Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00214
Collection Name: Elbert Edwards Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Photograph of school children dancing, Las Vegas (Nev.), late 1930s

Date

1936 to 1939

Description

School children dancing on the lawn at Las Vegas [Grammar] School, 4th and Bridger Streets. Site Name: Las Vegas Grammar School (Las Vegas, Nev.) Street Address: 401 South Las Vegas Boulevard

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Clark County School District: Cyril S. Wengert and M. E. Ward Elementary Schools specifications, 1970

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

J. A. Tiberti Construction Records
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Collection Number: MS-00855
Collection Name: J. A. Tiberti Construction Records
Box/Folder: Box 012

Archival Component

South view of St. Joseph's Catholic School: photographic print

Date

1970 to 1979

Description

From the Historic Building Survey Photograph Collection (PH-00345). St. Joseph's Catholic School, 1300 Bridger Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Photograph of school children, Las Vegas (Nev.), circa 1928

Date

1927 to 1929

Description

George Ullom, Jr., stand with his classmates in front of school. He stands in the third row, sixth from left,

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Remarks before the Clark County Classroom Teachers Association Senate, Las Vegas, 1982 October 26

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Cannon Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00002
Collection Name: Howard Cannon Papers
Box/Folder: Box 25 (Speeches)

Archival Component

Photograph of Fifth Street School, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 1958

Date

1958-06

Description

Photograph of rear exterior of Fifth Street School (also known as the Las Vegas Grammar School), Las Vegas, Nevada. Typed sticker on back reads, "Photo by Mrs. Mary Willis. 5th Street School shortly before it was demolished to make way for the construction of the Federal Building." Site Name: Fifth Street School (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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