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Roslyn Elementary School scrapbooks and photographs

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Held at: Old York Road Historical Society [Contact Us]

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Old York Road Historical Society. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

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As of 2011, Roslyn Elementary School was one of seven elementary schools in the Abington School District in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Roslyn's original schoolhouse, the Valley School, was built in 1822. A separate building for Roslyn Elementary School was erected in 1926; it was knocked down and replaced in 2007.

Bibliography:

"Roslyn Elementary School." Abington Patch. Accessed November 30, 2011. http://abington.patch.com/listings/roslyn-elementary-school.

Film Baby. "Roslyn Elementary School: The Legacy of the Little School That Could." Accessed November 22, 2011. http://www.filmbaby.com/films/3274.

The Roslyn Elementary School scrapbooks and photographs, circa 1953-1996, consist primarily of scrapbooks, with a few photograph albums of class pictures. Most scrapbooks in this collection contain photographs, newspaper clippings, and flyers. One album from the 1960s appears to have been created by a teacher or administrator, and includes board minutes, correspondence, and ephemera. Some scrapbooks were created by the Roslyn Parent-Teacher Association. There is at least one scrapbook from Roslyn Preschool. The collection also includes a few photograph albums of class pictures.

Gift, 2005.

Summary descriptive information on this collection was compiled in 2011-2012 as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR), using data provided by the Old York Road Historical Society. The HCI-PSAR project was funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This is a preliminary finding aid. No physical processing, rehousing, reorganizing, or folder listing was done in the HCI-PSAR project.

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Old York Road Historical Society
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Finding aid prepared by Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Michael Gubicza through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories
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This preliminary finding aid was created as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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