Summary Information
Wisconsin School for the Deaf: Superintendent's Pupil Records
1852-1938
- Wisconsin School for the Deaf
Series 663
2.8 c.f. (3 archives boxes and 7 volumes)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Superintendent's file on pupils, including enrollment and biographical registers; grade and attendance records; pupils' essays; and correspondence with pupils, their parents, and their friends concerning transportation, health, adjustment, fees, and assorted other matters.
English
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Scope and Content Note
The materials in this series concern the activities of the Wisconsin School for the Deaf's pupils from the school's inception in 1852 through 1938. Documented here are pupil grade and attendance records as well as complete pupil registers from 1852-1936. The biographical registers provide basic information about each pupil, such as age, residence, parents' names, and dates of admission/discharge, as well as, in many cases, comments by WSD staff as to the pupil's specific problems, personality, and abilities. Also charted, when possible, is the pupil's trade after leaving the school. The registers thus provide a valuable source of information on the WSD student body, from admission through their post-WSD lives.
Also included are a few pupil essays and workbooks, detailing some of the educational activities to which the pupils of the school committed themselves. The bulk of the material here, however, is comprised of correspondence from the first third of the 20th Century, from and to the WSD superintendent, T. Emery Bray. Many of the letters are between Bray and his pupils' parents, and concern the pupils' admission, progress, and/or problems that arose during the pupils' time at WSD. However, many other letters are between Bray and his pupils themselves, and provide a firsthand view of the often close relationships formed between the students and the superintendent, as well as the myriad problems encountered by students attempting to adjust to life at WSD and afterwards. One folder, dating from 1928, contains testimonials from former students as to what their education at WSD has meant to them.
Contents List
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Box
1
Folder
1
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Attendance Records, 1882-1891
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Biographical Register of Pupils (by date of admission/discharge)
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Volume
3
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1852-1904
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Volume
4
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1862-1873
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Volume
5
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1894-1905
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Volume
6
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1915-1936
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Correspondence, General
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Box
1
Folder
2
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1903-1906
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1907-1935
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Box
1
Folder
3
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A-F
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Box
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Folder
4
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G -L
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Box
1
Folder
5
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M-R
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Box
1
Folder
6
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S-Z
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Box
1
Folder
7
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, 1928 (Special)
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Correspondence, Individuals
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Box
2
Folder
8
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Adamski, Gertrude, 1922-1924
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Box
2
Folder
9
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Aron, Ellen, 1920-1934
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Box
2
Folder
10
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Barash, Abraham, 1927-1934
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Box
2
Folder
11
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Brockmann, Esther, 1923-1933
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Box
2
Folder
12
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Bush, Laura and Sarah, 1912-1915
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Box
2
Folder
13
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Conroy, George, 1923-1927
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Box
2
Folder
14
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Culver, Beulah and Mildred, 1920-1933
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Box
2
Folder
15
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Denlinger, Dorothy, 1917-1928
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Box
2
Folder
16
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Echikovitz, Mitchel, 1916-1933
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Box
2
Folder
17
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Hansmann, Meta, 1907-1918
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Box
2
Folder
18
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Hultquist, Esther, 1906-1925
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Box
2
Folder
19
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Koch, Anna, 1913-1932
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Box
3
Folder
20
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Larsen, Harold, 1914-1933
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Box
3
Folder
21
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Loll, Dorothy, 1919-1935
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Box
3
Folder
22
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Rood, Marvin, 1928-1934
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Box
3
Folder
23
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Shadowsky, Sylvia, 1914-1932
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Box
3
Folder
24
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Smercheck, Mabel, 1913-1930
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Box
3
Folder
25
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Spears, Frank, Alma and Arthur, 1915-1928
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Box
3
Folder
26
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Essays, ca. 1883-1885
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Box
3
Folder
27
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Examination Papers, 1894, 1902-1904
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Box
3
Folder
28
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Promotion Record, 1939?
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Volume
7
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Pupils' Grade Records, 1914-1938
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Register of Pupils by Session
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Volume
1
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1861-1887
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Volume
2
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1888-1915
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Box
3
Folder
29
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Work Books, 1927-1928
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