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Guide to the La Crosse, Wisconsin, Committee on Schools, Resolutions and Reports Relating to Schools, 1866-1932
La Crosse Series 027
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Abstract
- Resolutions and reports from the Committee on Schools to the Common Council, 1866-1932. The materials are arranged in four series: General Resolutions, North Side Schools, South Side Schools, and Special Topics. Resolutions dealing with schools in general (usually multiple schools) were filed chronologically in a General series, along with some historical information on the schools in La Crosse, including buildings that were rented for school purposes. North Side and South Side schools were separated into their appropriate series, North Side Schools and South Side Schools. All of the old school buildings from the North and South sides are well represented, except for the branch schools which often were one to four room wooden buildings. The final series, Special Topics, includes resolutions about Industrial Education, the Normal School (later called State Teachers College, and finally University of Wisconsin-La Crosse), School for the Deaf, Teacher’s Salaries, and Vocational School (originally associated with the high schools; later independent from the city public school system and called Coleman Institute, then known as Western Wisconsin Technical Institute, and finally named Western Wisconsin Technical College).
- Collection Title
- La Crosse, Wisconsin, Committee on Schools, Resolutions and Reports Relating to Schools
- Date of Materials
- 1866-1932
- Creator
- La Crosse (Wis.). Committee on Schools.
- Call Number
- La Crosse Series 027
- Amount
- 2.0 cubic feet
- Physical Description
- 5 archives boxes
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- La Crosse Public Library Archives
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], La Crosse, Wisconsin, Committee on Schools, Resolutions and Reports Relating to Schools, La Crosse Series 027, La Crosse Public Library Archives, La Crosse, WI
Scope and Contents
Common Council resolutions and reports began to be organized by a numbering system in Dec. 1932. Before that time the resolutions were kept folded up in chronological order, roughly by subject or Council committee (such as Parks, Judiciary, Fire, Police, etc.). This set of pre-1932 resolutions represents those labeled as Schools, and date from 1866-1932. While most of the documents are resolutions created by the Committee on Schools, a number of resolutions have communications from the Board of Education attached.
The original order of these reports was not maintained. In arranging this series, the resolutions were grouped alphabetically together by the building or site name; therein, chronologically.
Resolutions dealing with schools in general (usually multiple schools) were filed chronologically in a General series, along with some historical information on the schools in La Crosse, including some information on buildings rented by the Board of Education for use in school purposes. North Side and South Side schools were separated into their appropriate series, North Side Schools and South Side Schools. All of the old school buildings from the North and South sides are well represented, except for the branch schools which often were one to four room wooden buildings. Resolutions about the branch schools were usually filed with the main building, unless the branch later became a “regular” school building (such as the case with Logan Branch School that became the site of Roosevelt Elementary School). Resolutions dealing with more than one school were photocopied and filed under each school name.
The final series, Special Topics, includes resolutions about Industrial Education, the Normal School (later called State Teachers College, and finally University of Wisconsin-La Crosse), School for the Deaf, Teacher’s Salaries, and Vocational School (later Coleman School, Western Wisconsin Technical Institute, and now called Western Wisconsin Technical College). The Vocational School program began in the high schools and the first vocational school not associated with the public school system was located at the former First Ward School site at Vine & 6th streets.
Arrangement
Arranged in four series:
Administrative Information
Publication Information
La Crosse Public Library Archives 1998 October
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Access to Materials
Materials in this collection are available for patron use.
Acquisitions Information
(Accession no. 1996.004) Resolutions were located in the City Clerk’s basement area of City Hall; came to the Archives as part of the Mayor’s Special Committee on Historic Records, Dec. 1996
Processing Information
Processed by Anita Taylor Doering with assistance from Jaime Dechant and Carrie Ann Seib, October 1998
Related Materials
Related Materials
- (370.977571 H19H 1951)
- Historical Development of Public Education in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Up to and Including the Year 1925 by Willard William Hanson
- (371.009 C411)
- A Checklist of La Crosse Schools From the Beginning to 1980 by Barbara Nord and Viola Oertel
- (720.977571 R193C 1996)
- City of La Crosse, Wisconsin Intensive Survey Report: Architectural and HIstorical Survey Project by Joan Rausch and Richard Zeitlin
- (371.6 L119B 1972)
- Building Inventory: La Crosse Area Public Schools, La Crosse, Wisconsin
The La Crosse area clipping file at the La Crosse Public Library Archives has newspaper clippings related to the Board of Education and La Crosse city schools; also a number of annual reports from the Superintendent of Schools to the Board can be found in the public library archives’ annual report file. The 1906 and 1908 annual reports included a nice table of each school site, its date of purchase, legal description, and additions.
To gain a complete picture of the history of any city department, check all of the related Common Council and other city record series that might be applicable (such as Finance for instance). Records of the La Crosse School District are available at the Area Research Center (Special Collections Dept., Murphy Library) at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. These include minutes of the Board of Education.
Controlled Access Headings
Corporate Name(s)
- La Crosse (Wis.). Common Council.
- School for the Deaf (La Crosse, Wis.).
- Western Wisconsin Technical College.
- Wisconsin. State Normal School (La Crosse).
Subject(s)
- Education, Higher--Wisconsin--La Crosse
- Municipal government--Wisconsin--La Crosse
- Public records--Wisconsin--La Crosse
- Public schools--Wisconsin--La Crosse
- Schools--Wisconsin--La Crosse
- Teachers colleges--Wisconsin--La Crosse
- Vocational education--Wisconsin--La Crosse
OCLC Number
46313428
Collection Inventory
(Series 1) General Resolutions |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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History |
1 | 1 | ||
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General resolutions, circa 1930 |
1 | 2-4 | ||
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(Series 2) North Side Schools |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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Franklin/Tenth Ward, 1885-1928 |
1 | 5 | ||
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Jefferson/Fifth Ward, 1875-1928 |
1 | 6 | ||
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Logan, 1891-1931 |
2 | 1 | ||
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Logan High, 1915-1932 |
2 | 2-4 | ||
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Logan Junior High, 1920-1923 |
2 | 5 | ||
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Roosevelt/Logan Branch, 1876-1932 |
2 | 6-8 | ||
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(Series 3) South Side Schools |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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First Ward, 1867-1900 |
3 | 1 | ||
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Second Ward, 1869-1900 |
3 | 2 | ||
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Twenty-First Ward, 1907-1926 |
3 | 3 | ||
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Central High, 1902-1932 |
3 | 4 | ||
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Hamilton/Sixth Ward, 1884-1927 Related MaterialsJohn St. School |
3 | 5-6 | ||
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High school building, 1877-1921 |
3 | 7-8 | ||
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Hogan, 1899-1931 |
4 | 1-3 | ||
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Johnson St./Third Ward branch/Hamilton branch/Sixth Ward branch, 1876-1886 Related MaterialsHamilton/Sixth Ward |
4 | 4 | ||
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Lincoln/Third Ward, 1871-1927 |
4 | 5-9 | ||
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Washington/First Ward branch, 1891-1932 |
5 | 1 | ||
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Washburn, 1907-1927 |
5 | 2-3 | ||
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Webster, 1895-1927 |
5 | 4 | ||
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(Series 4) Special Topics |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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Industrial Education, 1916-1922 |
5 | 5 | ||
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Normal School, 1871-1932 |
5 | 6 | ||
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School for the Deaf, 1866-1899 |
5 | 7 | ||
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Teachers' salaries, 1919-1920 |
5 | 8 | ||
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Vocational School, 1920-1926 |
5 | 9-11 | ||
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