Education

Scope and Contents Ash Grove School District was officially organized in 1909, but may have existed in other forms earlier than this, as multiple school shared this name going back to 1885.The site of the school was about 12 miles southwest of downtown Dodge City, about 1 mile north of today’s Ford County roads known as 102 Road and Wilburn Road. The land that the school was built on was owned by a man named Samuel Harrell, who had come to this area from Cassville, Missouri. This location is only...

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This collection contains correspondences to the DCAPTL, programs for mass piano festivals and other recitals, scrapbooks, league yearbooks, minutes, tests and quizzes, photographs, and newspaper clippings.

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This collection contains record books, reporting forms, and insurance information for the Enterprise School (Dist. 58) in Ford County from 1942 to 1947, after which the school was closed and auctioned off.

Content Description This collection contains materials related to Joseph G. Trindle and his wife, Susie Appuhn, as well as their son, J.G. Trindle. Most of the materials in the collection are related to education, and include report cards from the 1930s, commencement programs from the 1880s and 1890s, school assignments (which include drawings made at Garfield School in Liberal, Kansas), and two scrapbooks. There are also correspondences, an autograph book, and catalogs for rope and machinery from the early...

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This collection contains a book entitled A Kansas Souvenir. A Book of Information Relative to the Moral, Educational, Agricultural, Commercial, Manufacturing and Mining Interests of the State. This book, from 1896, contains promotional information on these various subjects throughout Kansas and serves as a sort of advertisement for immigration to Kansas and the various industries, schools, and agricultural opportunities in the state at the time.

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This collection contains a catalog of classes taught at the Kansas State Normal School for the 1889-1890 school year, as well as a teaching exam given to a student of the school in 1901.

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This collection contains record books and forms related to Richland School (District no. 55) in Ford County, Kansas. These materials include clerks', teachers', and treasurers' records, and are largely administrative in nature.

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Record books, correspondences, photographs, and forms related to budgets, finances, and other school operations for Richland Valley School in Ford County, Kansas.

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This collection contains just one yearbook from 1961 of The Crusader, a yearbook from Saint Mary of the Plains High School in Dodge City, Kansas.