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Personal papers, correspondence, published works, manuscripts, addresses and scrapbooks of Edna Dean Baker.  Materials are from her time as  a Kindergartener in training, as a teacher and as the president of National Kindergarten and Elementary College and National College of Education, now National Louis University.

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Images of campuses and campus buildings used by the university since 1886.

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Student newspapers from January, 1924 to 1979.  Includes copies of the Underground, a student newspaper that published issues during a break in Chaff publications from 1971 to 1972.

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Information on various Chicago-area settlements including Hull House, Howell House (formerly Bohemian settlement), and Chicago Commons social settlement.

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The Louise Farwell Davis Papers consist of an “abstract” of her Yale University Ph.D. Dissertation, a Curriculum Vitae written in April 1930, news clippings and photographs.

Louise Farwell Davis was on the Faculty of the National Kindergarten and Elementary College/National College of Education from 1928 until ca. 1956.

Scope and Contents The Elizabeth Harrison Papers consist of Correspondence; Publications (Pamphlets/Articles/ Addresses); Manuscripts; “A Course for Mothers Given by the Chicago Kindergarten College” (1891); Journals, Notebooks and Scrapbooks; and Miscellaneous items (documents pertaining to the Chicago Kindergarten Club, the Chicago Kindergarten Training School and the Kindergarten College, personal papers of Elizabeth Harrison, and writings by Mrs. J.N. Crouse, Susan Blow, and William T. Harris).  Within...

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Photographic negatives taken by the Nickerson Photo Company for the National College of Education.  This company took many of the photographs during the 1960's and 1970's that the school used for publications and promotional materials.

All original negative envelopes were marked with "Posted."

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Photographs National-Louis University students, faculty alumni and staff involved in various activities related to the university as well as portraits of individuals.  Some of the activities include theater productions, alumni events, athletics, student academic and non-academic activities, college class work, faculty/staff business, commencement photographs, trustee events and special events for speakers or performances.

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Personal papers, scrapbook, photographs, sheet music, documents, yearbooks and school publications all from Helen Plumb's time as a student at the National College of Education.

Includes some records and photographs of her teaching internship at Garfield School in her hometown of Manitowoc, Wisconsin in 1942.