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Guide to The Packer Collegiate Institute records 2014.019

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Collection processed by Pratt Institute, School of Library and Information Science graduate students and John Zarrillo. Digital materials processed by Erica López in 2019.

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on August 09, 2022
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 Revised by John Zarrillo Revised by Maggie Schreiner to incorporate additional material Revised by Aliki Caloyeras and Maggie Schreiner to include digitized material. Revised by Maggie Schreiner to reflect the incorporation of born digital materials Revised by Amy Lau to include COVID-19 oral histories Updated by Alice Griffin to include CBH language.  , March 2017 , September 2018 , February 2020 , December 2020 , February 2021 , May 2022

Container List

Series 4: Circulars, catalogues, and curriculum guides, 1846-2007. 11.6 Cubic Feet in twenty five boxes

Scope and Contents

The series contains Brooklyn Female Academy and Packer Collegiate Institute circulars, catalogues, curriculum guides, and supplements, dating from 1846 to 2007. The circulars and catalogues contain annual commencement exercises; lists of students and graduates, members of the board of trustees, faculty and staff; course of study; and historical notations. The later curriculum guides focus primarily on Packer's course of study. Of note is a pamphlet entitled "Packer and the War" that was produced circa 1943.

Curriculum guides for 1987 to 1989 are filed in Sub-series 12.4: Curriculum files.

Catalogues for the Packer's Junior College are filed in Sub-series 20.2: Subject files.

Arrangement note

Arranged chronologically, with bound sets and supplements placed at the end of the series.

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 19 Folder : - Circular and Catalogue
1846-1871
Box: 557 Folder : - Circular and Catalogue
1849
Box: 157 Folder : 13 Catalogue
1859
Box: 508 Folder : 8 Circular and Catalogue
1860
Box: 508 Folder : 9 Catalogue
1863
Box: 508 Folder : 10 Circular and Catalogue
1867
Box: 508 Folder : 11 Catalogue
1869
Box: 20 Folder : - Circular and Catalogue
1871-1890
Box: 557 Folder : - Circular and Catalogue
1873-1877
Box: 508 Folder : 12 Catalogues (two volumes)

General note

Belonged to Lola de la Mesa, Class of 1884

1882-1884
Box: 558 Folder : - Circular and Catalogue
1883-1910
Box: 21 Folder : - Circular and Catalogue
1890-1903
Box: 363 Folder : 4 Guide to Curriculum
1901-1902
Box: 22 Folder : - Circular and Catalogue
1903-1908
Box: 23 Folder : - Circular and Catalogue
1907-1912
Box: 508 Folder : 13 Catalogue
1911
Box: 559 Folder : - Catalogue
1911-1915
Box: 24 Folder : - Circular and Catalogue
1912-1921
Box: 508 Folder : 14 Catalogue
1915
Box: 559 Folder : - Catalogue
1917-1918
Box: 559 Folder : - Catalogue
1921-1928
Box: 25 Folder : - Catalogue
1921-1930
Box: 508 Folder : 15 Catalogue
1926
Box: 26 Folder : - Catalogue
1930-1936
Box: 559 Folder : - Catalogue
1930-1941
Box: 27 Folder : - Catalogue
1936-1941
Box: 508 Folder : 16 Catalogue
1938
Box: 28 Folder : - Catalogue
1941-1956
Box: 560 Folder : 1 Catalogue
1942-1945
Box: 508 Folder : 17 Catalogue and "Packer and the War" pamphlet
1943-1944
Box: 560 Folder : 1 Catalogue
1954, 1956, 1959-1961, 1965
Box: 29 Folder : - Catalogue
1959-1968
Box: 509 Folder : 1 Catalogue and supplement
1965
Box: 509 Folder : 2 Catalogs
1973-1974
Box: 509 Folder : 3 Curriculum Guide
1984-1985
Box: 509 Folder : 4 Curriculum Guides
1991-2000
Box: 509 Folder : 5 Curriculum Guides
2001-2004
Box: 509 Folder : 6 Curriculum Guides
2005-2007
Box: 509 Folder : 7 Circulars and Catalogues (bound)

General note

Includes address delivered at opening of school, Act to Incorporate and by-laws Brooklyn Female Academy, commencements, and other reports.

1846-1854
Box: 510 Folder : 1 Circulars and Catalogues (bound)

General note

Includes address delivered at opening of school, Act to Incorporate and by-laws Brooklyn Female Academy, commencements, and other reports

1846-1854
Box: 510 Folder : 2 Circulars and Catalogues (bound)
1846-1855
Box: 557 Folder : - Circulars and Catalogues (five bound volumes)
1846-1882
Box: 30 Folder : - Circulars and Catalogues (bound)
1858-1907
Box: 510 Folder : 3 Circulars and Catalogues (bound)
1878-1882
Box: 510 Folder : 4 Circulars and Catalogues (bound)
1898-1901
Box: 31 Folder : - Circulars and Catalogues (bound)
1908-1945
Box: 32 Folder : - Circulars and Catalogues (bound)
1940-1964
Box: 560 Folder : 1 Supplement of the Catalogue
1942-1945
Box: 33 Folder : - Supplement of the Catalogue (41 pamphlets)
1942-1968
Box: 511 Folder : 1 Supplement of the Catalogue
1942, 1953, 1968
Box: 560 Folder : 1 Supplement of the Catalogue
1954, 1956, 1959-1961, 1965

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