This collection consists of City of Lawrence Public Schools Manuals from 1970 to 1982. The following years are not included: 1971-1972.

This collection consists of City of Lawrence Public Schools Manuals from 1940-1969. Included in this collection is the Manual of the Independent Industrial School 1947-1948.

This collection consists of City of Lawrence School Directories and Public Schools Manuals from 1898-1939. The following years are not included: 1902, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1909, 1910. Included is the Manual of the Independent Industrial School 1926-1927.

Folder “The Annual Report of the School Committee of the Town of Lawrence 1848-9”

Folder "Fourth Annual Report of the School Committee of the Town of Lawrence for the Year 1850-51"

Folder "No. VII Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence...for the School Year 1853"

Folder "Eighth Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence...for the School Year 1854"

Folder "Forty-Seventh Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts 1893" (1998.077.020)

Folder "Forty-Eighth Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts 1894" (1998.054.044)

Folder "Forty-Ninth Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts 1895" (1998.077.021)

Folder "Fifty-Fifth Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts 1901" 

Folder "Fifty-Sixth Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts 1902" (2018.073)

Folder "Fifty-Eighth Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts 1904" (2018.073)

Folder "Fifty-Ninth Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts 1905" (2018.073)

Folder "Sixtieth Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts 1906" (2018.073)

Folder "Sixty-Second Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts 1908" (2) (2018.073)

Folder "Sixty-Third Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts 1909" (2018.073)

Folder "Sixty-Fifth Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts 1911"

Folder "Sixty-Sixth Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts 1912 (2) (2018.073)"

Folder "Sixty-Eighth Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts 1912 (2) (2018.073)" 

Grade Books This collection consists of eleven (11) Mark Books for the Wetherbee School, School Year 1956-1957 which are listed by Teacher/Room Number/Grade:

I.V. Cotter/Room 8/Grade 4

Marie R. Barrett/Room 7/Grade 4

Agnes M. Shine/Room 5/Grade 5

M.L. Cotter/Room 9/Grade 6

Mr. Duhamel/Room 6/Grade 7

Unknown/Room 10/Grade 6

Mrs. McDonald/Room 1/Grade 7

Miss Corrigan/Room 2/Grade 7

K.B. Murphy/Room 4/Grade 8

Miss Dineen/Room 5/Unknown Grade

Evelyn C. Dempsey/Room 7/Unknown Grade

M.F. Hayes/Room 8/Unknown Grade

Plan Books This collection consists of two (2) Plan Books for the Wetherbee School, School Year 1956-1957 which are listed by Teacher/Room Number/Grade:

Miss Corrigan/Grade 7

Mary M. Dineen/Room 5/Unknown Grade

Teacher Absences This collection consists of thirteen (13) Teacher Absences Log Books for the Wetherbee School, School Years 1966-1979.

Journal This one (1) log book "Journal and Notes/78-79" for the Wetherbee School consists of mainly empty pages.

Ledger 

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)

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. 

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.

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)