Accession Number: 42
Pine Mountain Settlement School Records, 1911-1983
Selected Photographs, 1864-1984
Online Catalog Record (BANC)


Overview
History
Part A - Selected Records
        Series I - Board Minutes and Reports, 1913-1983
        Series II - Director's Office Files, 1911-1949
            Subseries A - Correspondence, 1916-1949
            Subseries B - Subject Files, 1911-1949
        Series III - Student Records, c. 1919-1949
        Series IV - Library Files, 1911-1983
Part B - Selected Photographs

1. Incorporation Data, 1913
2. Board of Trustees, 1917-1949 (see also Series I)
3. Curriculum / Curriculum Committee, 1929-1948
4. Committees / Staff Information
5. Community Extension Centers, 1919-1948
6. Financial Records, ca 1916-1949
7. Personnel Records, ca 1939-1949
8. Physical Plant, 1916-1949
9. Programs / Special Events, 1917-1945 (see also Series IV)
10. Publicity / Fundraising, 1911-1949
11. Rules and Regulations, ca 1920s-1940s
12. Students, 1913-1946

1. Articles of Incorporation (copy), ca 1913
2. Incorporation Data: Site Proposal (copy), ca 1913
3. Conveyance of Land to PMSS, William and Sallie Creech (copy), ca 1913
4. By-laws, 1947

5. Executive Committee Reports to Board of Trustees, 1917-1918, n.d.
6. Director's Reports to the Board: Hubert Hadley, 1930-1931
7. Director's Reports to the Board: Glyn Morris, 1931-1942
8. Director's Reports to the Board: Arthur Dodd, 1942
9. Director's Reports to the Board: William Webb, 1943-1944
10. Director's Reports to the Board: H. R. S. Benjamin, 1944-1949
11. Survey of PMSS, Survey Results, 1949
12. Annual Reports to the Board of Trustees, 1935-1942
13. Board Meetings, Minutes, 1913-1948
14. Board Correspondence, 1918-24

1. Board Correspondence, 1925-1932

1. Board Correspondence, 1932-1939

1. Board Correspondence, 1939-1942

1. Board Correspondence, 1942-1949
2. Staff Meetings, Minutes and Reports, 1918-1936

1. Staff Meetings, Minutes and Reports, 1937-1949
2. Staff Memos, ca 1931-1938
3. Staff Schedules, ca 1937-1938

4. Kentucky Board of Education, Correspondence re: Accreditation, 1928-1939
5. Vocational Guidance Program, Proposal, 1928
6. University of Kentucky, Correspondence re: Curriculum, 1936-1937
7. Educational Temperatures, Evaluation of PMSS, 1938
8. Evaluation of PMSS, 1939
9. "General Statement of History and Philsophy of PMSS for Members of the Staff," 1948
10. Accreditation Reports, 1940-1948
11. Education Programs, Correspondence, 1939-1949
12. "A Staff Report.Practical Application of Labor, Academic & Group Relations," Glen LaRue, 1944
13. Survey, Need for Post-High School Educational Institution in Harlan County, ca 1940s
14. Harlan County Guidance Institute, 1947
15. Curriculum Committee, Minutes and Reports, 1939-1948
16. Curriculum, Course Syllabi, ca 1934-1941
17. Cooperative Plays, 1930s-1940s
18. Catalogs of PMSS, ca 1938-1945

1. Citizenship Committee, Minutes and Reports, 1932-1940
2. Attitudes Committee, Minutes and Reports, 1938
3. Committee on the Future of PMSS, Minutes and Reports, 1938
4. Community Group, Minutes and Reports, 1938-1942
5. Teacher Meetings, Minutes, 1938-1941
6. Staff Reactions to Organized Church Membership at PMSS, 1940
7. Church Committee, Minutes and Reports, 1946-1947
8. "Recommendations for a Religious Program in Pine Mountain Community," Vladimir Hartman, CSM, 1946
9. Job Analyses, 1941-1944
10. Labor Program Awards, 1941-1948

11. Work Supervision Committee, Minutes and Reports, 1944-1949
12. Kitchen Reports, B. Bishop (Dietitian), 1944-1946
13. Grounds Department, Minutes and Reports, 1947-1949
14. Committees, Miscellaneous, 1930s-1940s

15. Community Extension Work, 1919-1932
16. Line Fork Settlement Documentation, 1920-1941
17. Big Laurel Settlement Documentation, ca 1923; 1927-1940

1. Medical and Health Care, Correspondence, 1923-1937
2. Pine Mountain Health Association, 1934-1939
3. Medical and Health Care, Correspondence, 1940; 1944-1948
4. Credit Union Documentation, 1924-1925
5. Red Cross Aid, Correspondence and Questionnaires, 1931
6. "Itinerant Teacher," Correspondence, 1938
7. "Little Schools," Reports, 1945-1946

8. Bequests and Estates, ca 1930-1942
9. Bookkeeping Procedures/Office Management, 1913-1915; 1947
10. Contract, Between PMSS and Joe Wilson Family, 1940
11. General Ledger, 1916-1920

1. General Ledger, 1916-1920 (continued)
2. General Journal (2 volumes), Jan. 1916-Jan. 1920
3. Purchase Journal, Jan. 1916-June 1920
4. Cash Journal (2 volumes), July 1919-July 1920
5. Cash Disbursements Journal, Nov. 1916-July 1917
6. Cash Receipts Journal, Jan. 1916-Jan. 1918

1. Cash Receipts Journal, Jan. 1916-Jan. 1918 (continued)
2. Student Journal, Feb. 1918-July 1920
3. Receipts and Disbursements (2 volumes), Fireside Industries, 1926-1933
4. Audit Reports, 1922-1935; 1938; 1940-1941; 1944-1947; 1948

1. Personnel, A-Br, ca 1913-1949

1. Personnel, Br-Ch, ca 1913-1949

1. Personnel, Cl-Fl, ca 1913-1949

1. Personnel, Fo-Ho, ca 1913-1949

1. Personnel, Hu-L, ca 1913-1949

1. Personnel, M-Pal, ca 1913-1949

1. Personnel, Par-She, ca 1913-1949

1. Personnel, Shi-Tr, ca 1913-1949

1. Personnel, Tu-Wi, ca 1913-1949

1. Personnel, Wo-Z, ca 1913-1949
2. Applications: Teachers for Branch Schools, 1923-1934
3. Applications: Preachers, 1923-1927
4. Applications: Housemothers, 1928-1932
5. Applications: Farmer, 1929-1931
6. Applications: Director, Frank Page, 1931
7. Applications: Laurel House, 1931-1932
8. Applications: Secretary, 1931-1932
9. Applications: Summer Workers, 1931-1932
10. Applications: Teachers, A-B, 1929-1932

11. Applications: Teachers, C-Z, 1929-1932
12. Applications: Volunteers, 1931-1932
13. Applications: Nurse, 1932-1934
14. Applications: General, 1930-1949
15. Applications: Personnel Agencies, 1926-1936
16. Salary Policy Study, 1945

1. Physical Plant, 1916-1949
2. Buildings and Grounds, Reports, 1916-1926
3. Zande House, Correspondence, 1926-1928
4. Open House, Correspondence, 1927, n.d.
5. Reservoir, Correspondence, 1937-1939
6. Electric Power, Correspondence, 1928-1942
7. Industrial Building, Correspondence, 1935-1937
8. Laurel House, 1940-1941 (Includes information on fire)
9. West Wind Building, Correspondence, 1940-1941
10. Farm, Correspondence and Reports, 1941-1949
11. Fire Protection, 1943-1948
12. Equipment: Acquisition, Lists, Needs, 1943-1948
13. Government Surplus Property, Inquiries and Property
14. Secured 1945-1949
15. Repairs, 1944-1949
16. Road Construction/Improvements, Efforts to Secure, 1944-1948
17. Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation (REA), 1946-1949
18. Sawmill, Purchase of, 1946-1947
19. Utilities Systems, 1943-1948

1. Community Fairs, 1917, 1922, 1929-1932
2. Community Day, 1938
3. Pageant on PMSS, by Grades 5-8, 1919
4. Christmas Programs, ca 1932
5. Christmas, Mummers' Plays, 1940
6. May Day, ca 1923-1949
7. Commencement Programs, ca 1925-1945
8. Aunt Sal's Day, 1931
9. Sunday Evening Prayers, 1935-1940
10. Stage Productions, 1936-1942
11. Silver Jubilee, 1938
12. Creech Centennial, 1945

13. Publicity, ca 1913-1920, n.d.
14. Fundraising, Reports of Evelyn Wells, 1921-1923
15. Publicity, 1930s
16. Fundraising / Publicity, Alice Cobb, 1944-1948
17. PMSS Newsletters, 1913-1919, 1927
18. Pine Mountain Messenger, 1922
19. Worker's Notes, ca 1940

1. PMSS Newsletters, 1945-1949
2. Announcements, Closing of School, 1949
3. Historical Sketches of PMSS, 1911-1935
4. Correspondence (includes letters from Edith Storer and Harriet Poe), ca 1911-1949
5. Ide-Show Scripts, n.d.

1. General, 1920s-1940s
2. Character and Citizenship, 1920s-1940s
3. Handbook for Workers and Visitors, n.d.
4. Health, 1920s-1940s
5. Meals, 1920s-1940s
6. Workers and Housemothers, 1920s-1940s
7. Staff Handbooks

1. List of Students, 1913-1928
2. Enrollments and Housing, 1916-1939
3. Student Questionnaire, ca 1928
4. Alumni Statistics on Graduates, 1927-1946
5. Miscellaneous, Ballad and Folk Song Publications

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