Tour of the Archives

School Board Meeting Minutes

• 1882 - present are in the Archives
• Minutes are indexed 1882 to 1971
• Partially indexed, 1971-1975

News Clippings

• 1927 - present
• Sources include:
• The Seattle Times
  The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  The Seattle Star

District Relations Publications

• 1913 - present
  
  1913 - 1934 Seattle School Bulletin (a.k.a. Seattle Public Schools Bulletin)
  1935 - 1939 Seattle Public Schools Bulletin
  1939 - 1941 Seattle Educational Bulletin
  1942 - 1970 Seattle Schools
  1971 - 1975 and 1980 - 1981 Seattle Schools Report to Parents
  1977 - 1984 Pergola
  1984 - 1989 Focus
  1990 - 1991 Making the Grade
  1991 - present Focus

Annual Reports and Financial Statements

• 1885 - present

Final Budgets

• 1960 - present

Directories (Staff)

• 1897 - present

Student Newspapers

• 1891 - present (varies according to school)
  
  Cleveland High School
  Garfield High School
  Lincoln High School
  Queen Anne High School
  West Seattle High School
  

Trophies

• 
• 1910 - 1980s

Students Creative Writing

• 1939 - 1980s

Planning, Research, and Evaluation Reports

• 1924, 1974 - 1994

District Publications

• 1885 - present (cataloged in R-Base)

High School Annuals

• 1904 - 1996

School Histories

• 1951
• 1961
• 1974

School Building Dedication Programs

School Building Permanent Record Cards

• 1890s - 1966
  
• Construction dates, enrollments, principal, grade configuration

Commencement Programs

• 1886 - present

Scrapbooks

Photograph Albums

Photograph Collection

• 1874 - present
• Organized according to school

Theses and Dissertations

• Featuring works written by scholars who utilized the Archives

Textbook Collection

Superintendent Files

• Earliest is Superintendent Cooper's files, 1901 - 1922

Architectural Renderings of School and Administrative Buildings

Racial Distribution Reports of Students and Staff

• 1958 - present

School Mascots and Memorabilia