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: Collection is currently unprocessed and not available for research.
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)