High schools -- Missouri

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This collection consists of correspondence and school memorabilia from Eleanor Shane’s early life. Cards and letters illustrate Eleanor’s social life while the school items showcase her education and activities as an elementary school student through college. In addition to the various school items, there are also two memory books in which Eleanor recorded aspects of her time as a student at Mt. Washington School.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of newspapers printed, published, and created by students at various Jackson County, Missouri junior high, high schools and colleges or universities. The schools within this collection include Manual High and Vocation School, Paseo High School, Northeast Junior High School, Northeast High School, Southeast High School all of Kansas City. Truman High School published a monthly school magazine title,The Spirit. Colleges included in the collection are Junior College of...

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This collection contains materials related to Lone Jack High School in Lone Jack, Missouri. The majority of the collection is student newspapers, most of which were created during World War II, offering insights to the experiences of students during the conflict. Two student newspapers are included, Newetta and School Daze. One folder contains issues and pages with no dates. There is also a folder containing a program for the schools 1946 Dramatics Contests.

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This collection contains a scrapbook from Maude Zallee Jefferis. This scrapbook primarily contains messages, autographs, photographs, drawings, and paintings from her classmates at Soldan High School in St. Louis, Missouri. There are also two groups of photos in the collection which were found in the scrapbook. These include senior photographs of Zallee Jeffries’s classmates, as well as some older photographs of babies, which are unidentified.

Scope and Contents This collection contains materials related to Northwest High School in Kansas City, Missouri. These materials include student newspapers from the school, as well as student registers, photographs of some of the early graduating classes, class rosters, and memorabilia collected by students over the years. The collection also contains two boxes of minutes books and registers from various student clubs, including various literary societies, the Shakespeare Club, Mathematics Club, Girls’ Club,...

Scope and Contents Items in this collection were found in yearbooks that were donated to the library. The yearbooks have been donated by individuals and the items left were of a personal nature such as photographs, programs from a school event, or a graduation announcements. When possible, the school and year were noted when the item was removed from the yearbook. Items in this collection give a more detailed view of the activities and students who attended a particular high school. The collection is organized...

Scope and Contents All the items in the collection were donated together, but relate to the Guthrie, Sherman, and Grindley families. All are from the Kansas City area, but the connection between the families is not clear from the items. Some of the photographs in the collection are identified. Several school photographs from Ravenwood Elementary in North Kansas City School District and Chrisman High School in Independence, Missouri have the names of those in the group photographs identified. One folder...