Sonoma County Superintendent of Schools records,
Scope and Contents
Official records and related materials.
Dates
- Creation: 1859-1967
- Creation: Majority of material found in (
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1871-1948)
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access:
Materials stored offsite, but collection is open to research. In many cases, further details on individual volumes can be found by calling staff at the Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library. To view these materials, please call staff at link to request they be brought from the Archives to the Library
Conditions Governing Use
Collection does not circulate and may be photocopied or photographed by arrangement only.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the Sonoma County Library. The Sonoma County Library has made this collection available and believes that the collection is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Collection may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Preferred credit line is: Courtesy, the Sonoma County Library. Please see additional reproduction and reuse information at link
Extent
32 Volumes
Abstract
This collection contains records and related materials from the Sonoma County Superintendent of Schools includes financial documentation pertaining to the operations of the schools within the district, as well as data relating to the geographic division of school boundaries etc. The "Scrapbooks" include newspaper clippings concerning Sonoma County schools for the periods covered.
Arrangement of the collection
Organized into 17 series:
- Census reports, public schools, 1859-1860
- School district account books, 1871-1948
- Annual report, 1879-1967
- School district boundaries, 1894-1955
- Scrapbooks, 1953-1955
- Annual report of public schools, 1881-1949
- Register of requisitions, 1891-1897
- Ledger -- Superintendent of Schools, 1908-1911
- Fee book journal , 1886-1946
- District school, state, county, library and special funds, 1887-1907
- Record of requisitions -- State funds/Special funds, 1902-1906
- Record book -- school district, 1907-1914
- Applications of the Board of Education, 1898-1911
- Journal -- Financial records, account books, school district, 1866-1870
- Register of teachers' certificates, 1880-1934
- Register of requisitions, 1880-1908
- Record -- common schools, 1860-1865
Arranged chronologically within each series.
Genre / Form
- Account books
- Archival materials
- County government records
- Job applications
- Ledgers (account books)
- Official reports
- Registers (lists)
- School records
- Scrapbooks
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Sonoma County Superintendent of Schools records, 1859-1967 (bulk, 1871-1948)
- Author
- Finding aid author: Mark Cooper.
- Date
- Published Feb 28, 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in:English
Repository Details
Part of the Sonoma County Archives Repository