Normal School Diploma – Katie R. Smith, 1890
Content Description
This collection consists of diplomas and certificates belonging to students who attended the San Jose State Normal School in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Materials include: Normal School, State of California Educational Department, Board of Education, and Department of Public Instruction certificates and diplomas awarded to Normal School alumni. Also included are: a Normal School Browning Literary Club certificate, a Louisiana Purchase Exposition silver medal award for a Normal School exhibition, an 1880s lithograph of the first Normal School building, and the Normal School 1885 graduating class’ roster photograph with graduation program pamphlet. Brief biographical information on Normal School graduates in this collection was gathered from the Alumni Records (Handwritten Journals) in the San Jose State Normal School Records, MSS-2010-04-01, San Jose State University Library Special Collections & Archives.
Dates
- Creation: 1890
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Teaching record: 1890-1891 Opened school at Stokes Valley District, Tulare County 1891-1892 teaching in Wilson District near Morson, Tulare County 1892-1894 Primary department of Diruba Public Schools 1894 Coves District – Tulare County 1899-1905 Nevada County – Principal of Evergreen School. Santa Clara County 1906 Other work: 1909-1910 touring Europe 1911-1922 Principal Mayfield School Santa Clara County 1923-1939 Grant School San Jose California 1944 President Golden Grads Special: Americanization
Extent
From the Collection: 1 flat file drawers
From the Collection: 23 folders
Language of Materials
English
Repository Details
Part of the SJSU Special Collections & Archives Repository
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