Lawrence Public Schools - Annual Reports of the School Committee 1915-1973

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Author: Mary Pannos

Folder “Sixty-Ninth Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1915”. (2) (1990.083.006, 2018.073)

Folder “Seventieth Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1916”. (2) (1990.083.007, 2018.073)

Folder “Seventy-First Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1917”. (1990.083.008)

Folder “Ninety-First Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1937”. (1995.075.002)

Folder “Ninety-Ninth Annual Report of the School committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945”. (1990.083.009)

Folder “One Hundred First Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1947”. (2) (1990.083.010, 2018.073)

Folder “One Hundred Third Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1949”. (2018.073)

Folder “One Hundred Seventh Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1953”. (2) (1988.094.053, 1990.083.011)

Folder “One Hundred Eighth Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1954”. (1990.038.012)

Folder “One Hundred Ninth Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1955”. (1990.083.013)

Folder “One Hundred Eleven Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1957”. (1990.083.014)

Folder “One Hundred Twelfth Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1958”. (1990.083.015)

Folder “One Hundred Thirteenth Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1959”. (1990.083.016)

Folder “One Hundred Twenty-Third Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1969”. (1995.075.003)

Folder “One Hundred Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the School Committee of the City  of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1973”. (4)

Lawrence Public Schools - Superintendent Material and Budget Material

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Author: Mary Pannos

Folder List of Lawrence Public School Superintendents (incomplete) from 1853 - 1987.

Folder Dr. Mary Lou Bergeron Employment Contract, June 30, 2010.

Folder Dr. Wilfredo T. Laboy Employment Contract with Amendments for years 2001, 2004 and 2007.

Folder Dr. Wilfredo T. Laboy Superintendent Evaluation for School Year 2006-2007.

Folder Dr. Fritz F. Lindquist. This folder contains teacher recommendations and newspaper articles pertaining to Dr. Lindquist.

Folder James F. Scully. This folder contains 1991 newspaper articles pertaining to Superintendent Scully. Additional materials pertaining to James Scully are included in the James F. Scully Collection at https://lawrencehistory.org/sites/LHIST-D10-PR1/files/uploads/lps_super…

Folder Dr. Eugene F. Thayer. This folder contains an invitation for the Farwell Reception for Dr. Thayer on May 27, 1987. (1988.077.009)

Folder Proposed Budget. This folder contains the Lawrence Public School proposed budget report for the FY 1992. (1998.079.039)

Folder Proposed Budget. This folder contains the Lawrence Public School proposed budget report for the FY 1994. (2022.052)

Folder Proposed Budget. This folder contains the Lawrence Public School proposed budget report for the FY 2008. 

 

Strike of 1912- Oversized - Newspaper Articles and Strike Related Objects Box 10

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Author: Mary Pannos

Folder #1 Various Strike of 1912 related newspaper articles (photocopies) from Lawrence and Boston newspapers dated between January-March 1912.

Folder #2 Publication. "Bobbins and Bayonets - Documentary Sources on the 1912 Lawrence, Massachusetts Textile Strike", Random House Viewpoints in American Labor. (1986.114.002)

Object #1 Billy Club with leather wrapping used during the Strike of 1912. (1995.002.003)

Object #2 Spoke made for Police to use during Strikes of 1912 and 1919. (2018.011.066)

Object #3 Policeman's whistle used during the Strike of 1912. (2018.017.067)

Object #4 Baton used during the Strike of 1912. (2018.049.001)

Object #5 Billy Club used during the Strike of 1912. (2022.022.119)

Object #6 Billy Club used in the Strike of 1912. (2022.022.120)

Object #7 Billy Club used in the Strike of 1912.

 

Strike of 1912 - General Writings Box 3 (cont.)

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Author: Mary Pannos

Folder 33 Strike of 1912 Poems 

Folder 34 A Spark of Electricity - The 1912 Bread & Roses Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts" article featured in the History Channel Magazine, September-October 2012 

Folder 35 Theater Espresso 2010 - "American Tapestry", Strike of 1912 Related 

Folder 36 Cleansing History: Lawrence, MA, The Strike For Four Loves of Bread and No Roses, and the Anthropology of Working Class Consciousness. by Gerald M. Sider, Response by Paul Buhle 

Folder 37 "Roots of Textile" The Independent - Zone V - January, 8 1978 

Folder 38 Articles re: Bread & Roses Strike (Irish Echo) 

Folder 39 Rosario Contarino on the Bread & Roses Strike 

Folder 40 Rocco, Angelo - Interview August 22, 1975 & Eulogy February 22, 1984 

Folder 41 "The Lawrence Strike of 1912 and the Failure of the MA Socialist Party" by Dr. Henry F. Bedford 

Folder 42 Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA), newsletter, Spring/Summer 2012 

Folder 43 "Lawrence, MA: The Strike of 1912" booklet published by Immigrant City Archives (4)

Folder 44 Anarchy and Who's to Blame? Statement of the IWW (October 5, 1912) 

Folder 45 "The Great Strike at Lawrence" by Steven Holman, Grade 8, Wetherbee School, 1968 (2013.084.001) 

Folder 46 Excerpt from "Trouble Downtown: the Local Context of Twentieth-Century America" by Henry F. Bedford. Excerpt is chapter 1, "Not Enough Pay": Lawrence, 1912. We have full book in the LHC library (2015.007.002)

Folder 47 Narrative Proposal "We Fight For Roses", Lot of Theater Program Reviews by Gavin Ellen

Folder 48 Letter from Lawrence Center Labor Union to District Attorney Henry C. Atwill pertaining to Union member Desire Steuer, September 28, 1913

Folder 49 "Many Nationalities Represented Among the Strikers in Lawrence", Boston Globe, January 28, 1912 (1984.005.081b)

Folder 50 "Mrs. Weizenbach and the Misses Steindl Fined on Charges", Boston Globe, Evening Tribune, February 16, 1912

Folder 51 Wage Rates/Expenses Data for Lawrence workers circa 1911-1912

Folder 52 Poster "General Strike to Free Ettor and Giovannitti Monster Mass Meeting, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn"

Folder 53 "The Industrial Revolt at Lawrence" by John Martin, March 7, 1912

Folder 54 "Accordi e Dissonanze" by Onorio Ruotolo

Folder 55 "Radicals, Revolutionaries, Rebels and Reformers" by Rebecca Zurier, Art for the Masses Magazine

Folder 56 "On the Line, A Dramatization Dealing with the Great Lawrence, Mass., Textile Strike of 1912" poster

Folder 57 "Hold the Fort" music and lyrics

Folder 58 Book Reviews, "Commonwealth of Toils" by Tom Juravich, William F. Hartford and James R. Green and "Where is Our Responsibility" by William F. Hartford, Boston Globe, November 18, 1996

Folder 59 "A Reign of Terror in an American City: Some of the Ways in Which Lawrence was Held in Subjection by a Gang of Out of Town Agitators" by Citizens' Association, Lawrence, Mass. (2019.091.021)

Folder 60 Lawrence Public Library Bibliography (Periodicals - Reference Room)

Folder 61 "The Lawrence Strike of 1912" by John B. McPherson (1912) (2009.036.001)

Folder 62 Article "The Lawrence Strike of 1912: A View of Textiles and Labor Fifty Years Ago" by Robert L. Tyler published in The Cotton History Review, July 1961, Vol. II, No. 3 (1983.082.003)

Folder 63 "Bread & Roses: Not Just Subsistence, But Dignity" by Gregory DL Morris, Financial History Magazine, Winter 2022

Folder 64 "St. Peter and The Scab" poem written by Philip Sutcliffe (1993.024.002)

 

Location
2nd Floor Stacks - Shelving

2025.009

Created:
Author: Amita Kiley
CRM Contact ID
4402
Donor Organization
Lawrence Historical Commission
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Kiley, Amita
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  • Small collection of assorted records and a ledger book tracking deliveries and shipments in 1915, all from Boston and Maine Railroad

2025.008

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Author: Amita Kiley
CRM Contact ID
8794
Donor
Rick Dube
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Kiley, Amita
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  • Photograph taken in June 1908 of the Wetherbee School graduates visit to Boston.  One of the students grew up to be Rear Admiral William Sullivan, related to the donor’s late wife

In Memory of
Kathleen Sullivan Dube

2025.007

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Author: Amita Kiley
CRM Contact ID
6606
Donor
Mark Svendsen
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Kiley, Amita
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  • Assorted Lawrence-related postcards

  • Chair used in Bishop’s Restaurant

  • 2 medals depicting Lawrence General Hospital Emergency Room and their 100th anniversary

  • Bottle opener from Cold Spring Brewery

2025.006

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Author: Amita Kiley
CRM Contact ID
3760
Donor
Joan Kelley
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  • Badge – Lawrence Auxiliary Fire Department – Civil Defense, c. 1950.  It belonged to the donor’s father, Eugene Kelley.  The donor said that the men wore black rubber coats and boots and practiced at the South Canal.  Donated in memory of Eugene Kelley

  • Ticket to Lawrence Grammar Schools graduation on June 17, 1953

  • Souvenir tray from the Atlantic Co-operative Bank

In Memory of
Badge donated in memory of Eugene Kelley

2025.005

Created:
Author: Amita Kiley
CRM Contact ID
8793
Donor
Dr. Marianela Rivera
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  • Anonymous letter sent to Dr. Rivera and other members of the Lawrence School Committee dated January 27, 2017, about the concern that Lawrence High School students were not being served because of severe limitations and cuts being made to the school’s library to make way for Abbot Lawrence Academy. 

2025.003

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3747
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Casey Coburn
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picked up at donor's home by Amita Kiley
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  • Scrapbook that belonged to Francis J. Casey, LHS Class of 1927.  The scrapbook contains information on his military career, work as a letter carrier, political pursuits, and correspondence.