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Manuscript Group 1110
Ira Ten Broeck Smith (1888 - 1957):
Risley School Collection
Papers, 1906 - 1957
5 items
Processed by Carl A. Lane, 1980
Provenance Note:
The Ira Ten Broeck Smith Collection of Risley School materials was donated to the Society as a gift from Barbara Smith Irwin on February 13, 1980. Barbara Smith Irwin is Ira Ten Broeck’s daughter.
Scope and Content Note:
The Ira Ten Broeck Smith Collection contains materials relating to his teaching days at the school in Risley, New Jersey. The documents in this collection span the years 1906-1957, with the bulk of information culminating from 1906. This collection includes four photographs and a notebook kept by Ira Ten Broeck Smith, (1888-1957), while he taught at a one-room school house in Risley, New Jersey, in 1906. The notebook contains names of pupils, birth dates, biblical and literary quotations, and a few sketches. Of particular interest is a photograph of the interior of the classroom in which he taught, there are also photos of his students.
Item List:
Smith’s class book, 1906. This volume includes names of students, their birth dates, a list of educational texts Smith utilized, psychological sketches, famous quotations, adages, biblical citations, and drawings.
Two photos of Smith’s class in Risley, 1906. Duplicates. (in one photo the students are numbered)
One photo of the interior of the Risley one room schoolhouse, 1906.
One photo of students and parents outside the Risley School, circa 1906.
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