Portsmouth School Department Records - MS032

Provenance: Placed on deposit by the Portsmouth School Department in July of 1991 with additions made in September of 1998.

Citation: Portsmouth School Department (MS032), Portsmouth Athenaeum

Size: 2.5 linear feet (37 volumes)

Access: No restrictions

Processed by: Unknown

Summary

Various public school registers, scrapbooks of Portsmouth High School, record books of births (1882), and books listing teachers and attendance records at various schools.

Note: Finding aid is in the process of being revised.

Folder List

Box 1

Haven School Registers (8 volumes):

General attendance, 1850-1855
1 st Division, 1873-1877
2 nd Division, 1883-1888
3 rd Division, 1874-1883
4 th Division, 1870-1883 and 1883-1888
6 th Division, 1879-1888
Attendance number and weather book, 1872-1888

Cabot School Registers (4 volumes):

General attendance, 1875-1884
5 th Division, 1878-1884
5 th and 6 th Division, 1885-1887
6 th Division, 1878-1887

Manning School Registers (2 volumes):

General attendance, 1878-1885 and 1877-1882

Lafayette School Registers (1 volume):

General attendance, 1887-1896

Box 2

Bartlett School Registers (4 volumes):

General attendance, 1850-1853
6 th Division, 1874-1888, 1876-1886 and 1886-1887

Walker School Registers (5 volumes):

General attendance, 1872-1882
1 st Division, 1882-1888
2 nd Division, 1881-1888
4 th Division, 1873-1887 and 1887-1888

Spalding School Registers (4 volumes):

General attendance, 1870-1878 and 1886-1887
3 rd and 4 th Division, 1878-1886
6 th Division with lists of books read by pupils, 1886-1887

Box 3

Peabody School Registers (5 volumes):

General attendance, 1873-1877 and 1877-1883
3 rd and 4 th Division, 1884-1888
5 th and 6 th Division, 1883-1888
6 th Division, 1884-1887

Jones School Registers (4 volumes):

1 st Division, 1878-1884 and 1885-1888
2 nd Division, 1882-1888
4 th Division, 1886-1887

High School Registers (4 volumes):

General attendance, 1896-1899
Committee Record books/scrapbooks, 1878-1889, 1889-1898 and 1898-1903
Miscellaneous loose papers

Box 4

Franklin School Registers (3 volumes):

General attendance 1849-1864, 1856-1875 and 1883-1888

Hanover Street School Registers (3 volumes):

General attendance 1862-1867, 1868-1880 and 1869-1882

Dennett School Register (1 volume):

General attendance 1863-1876

School Registers (names of schools unknown) (6 volumes):

1870-1883, 1856-1866, 1865-1880, 1873-1882, 1875-1887, 1873-1877

Portsmouth High School Scrapbook (1 volume):

1902-1941

Box 5

Financial Record Books (8 volumes):

1893-1899, 1900-1902, 1902-1904, 1904-1906, 1906-1908, 1908-1912, 1909-1911, 1918-1925

Miscellaneous Registers (11 volumes):

Attendance Register (all schools) 1888, 1889, 1891, 1892
Promotions Register 1888
Text books and supplies book 1891-1892
High School Committee meeting minutes record books 1846-1870, 1868-1886
Books listing teachers and attendance at various schools 1874-1875 and 1902
Record book of births 1882

Portsmouth School Department Registers (includes all schools)

1887-1888 to 1924-1925 (37 volumes) Missing school year 1893-1894

Diploma of William B. Paul, Portsmouth High School, 1916

Misc. Registers of various Portsmouth Schools, 1925-1935 (1998 addition)