GUIDE TO THE PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY (NINTH DISTRICT) COLLECTION

COLLECTION NUMBER:
C086.

NAME OF COLLECTION:
Parent Teacher Association of San Diego County (Ninth District) Collection.

LOCAL CONTROL NUMBER(S):
Photographic prints: OP 17119/1-200.
Film negatives: 99:19991/12-24.
Glass negatives: 99:19991/1-11 (cold room, cabinet 150)
Lantern slides: no local control number(s) assigned.

DATES OF MATERIAL:
1915-1953.

EXTENT:
188 photographic prints: gelatin silver; 23 x 28 cm. or smaller.
35 photomechanical prints (20 sheets): b&w; 10 x 8 in. or smaller.
26 negatives (13 glass, 13 film); 18 x 36 cm. or smaller.
6 slides: lantern, b&w; 3¼ x 4 in.

SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHER(S):
George J. Vreeland, Melvin H. Sykes, Guy Sensor, Schuyler U. Bunnell, and Walter E. Averrett.

REPOSITORY:
San Diego History Center
Booth Historical Photograph Archives
P.O. Box 81825
San Diego, CA 92138
1-619-232-6203

ACQUISITION INFORMATION:
Transfer from San Diego Historical Society Research Archives, 1979 or 1980?

RESTRICTIONS:
Restricted access to glass negatives and lantern slides, except by permission of curator. All other materials open for research.

COPYRIGHT:
For permission to reproduce or publish, contact the curator of the Booth Historical Photograph Archives at the San Diego Historical Society. Reproduction or publication of any part of this collection must include the following information next to the image(s) or in a special section of credits: Parent Teacher Association of San Diego County (Ninth District) Collection, San Diego History Center, Booth Historical Photograph Archives.contact the curator of the Photograph Archives of the San Diego Historical Society.

ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT:
Arrangement: numerical by item.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:
San Diego Council of Parents and Teachers organized in 1914. Ninth District California Congress of Parents and Teachers, including all of San Diego County, established in 1917.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTES:
Used primarily for Parent Teacher Courier and other publications and presentations of the Ninth District California Congress of Parents and Teachers [i.e. Parent Teacher Association]. Documents members, functions, and events. Contains photographic and photomechanical prints, film and glass negatives, lantern slides, and clippings. Subjects include PTA officers and members, teachers and school administrators, meetings, banquets, conventions, membership campaigns, Founders Day celebrations, and the first American Indian PTA. Also, school children involved in various activities; medical and dental examinations; milk distribution to undernourished children; school safety patrols; Roosevelt Junior High School trolley stop; Washington School in 1922; and newsboys selling Tijuana tabloid The Rounder . Glass plate negatives depict students at La Mesa Heights School.

SUBJECTS INDEXED:
Educational organizations – California – San Diego County.
Education.
Children – Health & welfare.
Schools.
Teachers.
School principals
Students.
School safety patrols.
Newspaper carriers.
San Diego County (Calif.) – Education.
Indians – California – Education.

CONTENTS LIST:
Photographic Prints, Photomechanical Prints, and Film Negatives
Folder 1
OP 17119/1-50
Portraits of PTA officers and members, teachers, and school administrators.

Folder 2
OP 17119/51-66
Portraits of PTA officers and members, teachers, and school administrators.

Folder 3
OP 17119/67-117
Group portraits of PTA members, PTA meetings, San Diego Mayor Harley Knox (1943-1951), Superintendent of Schools Dr. Will C. Crawford (1934-1954), banquets, exhibitions, membership campaigns, and other events. Also, members of first American Indian PTA organized in Pala, Calif., in 1934.

Folder 4
OP 17119/118-131
PTA members involved in theatrical productions and music shows for Founders Day and other events. Accompanied by program for 1948 music performance by the Ninth District Parent Teacher Choral Club.

Folder 5
OP 17119/132-169
Includes mostly children involved in various school related activities and functions; children performing, singing, and playing musical instruments; the “largest harmonica band in the United States”; children sleeping; medical and dental examinations of infants, children, and older students; milk distribution to undernourished children; school recesses; American Indian children with a goat; newsboys selling Tijuana tabloid The Rounder , accompanied by a handwritten list of boys who sold the newspaper in National City; and Washington School building in 1922.

Folder 6
OP 17119/170-177
School safety patrols and views of Roosevelt Junior High School trolley stop at Park Boulevard and Upas Street (ca. 1930).

Folder 7
OP 17119/178-181
U.S. Navy aerial view of the Strand, looking from Imperial Beach toward San Diego (1928), and other miscellaneous photographs.

Folder 8
OP 17119/182-200
Photomechanical prints [from in-house publications?] of PTA members, functions, groups, and co-founders Alice Birney and Phoebe Hearst.

Folder 9
Clippings, including “PTA Celebrates 50th Anniversary” from February 23, 1947, San Diego Union .

Folder 10
99:19991/12-18
Film negatives of American Indian children with goat [see OP 17119/132-133] and unidentified group of people.

Folder 11
99:19991/19-24
Film negatives for lantern slides with photocopy of original caption cards. Depicts co-founders of National Congress of Mothers (later the National PTA); Mrs. C. C. Noble, prominent in organization of San Diego County’s Ninth District California Congress of Parents and Teachers [see also OP 17119/15 & 66)]; tree planting ceremony at 1935 California Pacific International Exposition’s Hall of Education; and Ninth District delegates attending state conventions in 1922, 1930, and 1937.
Lantern Slides
Six slides shown at Ninth District Founders Day luncheon on February 6, 1956, with caption cards. Restricted access to lantern slides, except by permission of curator.
Glass Negatives
99:19991/1-11
La Mesa Heights School children in classroom, outdoors during recess, dressed in Sioux Indian costumes, and performing Indian club drill. Restricted access to lantern slides, except by permission of curator.