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Slippery Rock State Normal School

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Albert & Frank Fetzer Herbarium Collection, c.1897

 Collection
Identifier: 6-7-1-M-12 -2019-018
Content Description

Herbarium collection of 68 mounted plants and 14 student botany worksheets. Albert and Frank Fetzer graduated from the SRSNS Class of 1897 and made this collection as students of the Normal School. The Donation was made in the memory of Francis Fetzer and Lola M. Fertzer Maurhoff, children and nephew/niece of Frank Fetzer and Albert Fetzer.

Dates: 1896 - 1897

Alma Hepler Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 6-7-12
Content Description

Personal papers and memorabilia from Slippery Rock State Normal School/Slippery Rock State Teachers College alumna Alma Daub (nee Hepler). Contents include personal essays, report cards, publications, and school notes.

Dates: 1910 - 1979

Eliott Baker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 15-1-C-1
Scope and Contents This collection consists of items owned, used, or collected by Eliott Baker, retired Executive Director of the Office of Academic Records and Summer School. It includes a number of realia, including original door hinges from Old Main dating to 1913, Baker’s signature stampers, and a book belonging to the Normal School in 1889. Also included are numerous items of SRU-branded memorabilia collected by Baker over the years, as well as recruitment publications from the Office of Admissions,...
Dates: Date Range; Majority of material found within 1980 - 2019

Enrollment Statistics and Reports Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 38-14-1
Content Description This collection contains enrollment statistics and miscellaneous records and reports for Slippery Rock University between 1889 and 2015. Within the enrollment statistics can be found various information regarding age, race, gender, and ethnicity of students enrolled at SRU during any given time. There can be found with this information limited data regarding other Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) institutions. Also, in this collection can be found miscellaneous reports...
Dates: 1889 - 2015

Grace M. Lee Photographic Scrapbook, 1915-1919

 Series
Identifier: 140-022
Dates: Majority of material found within 1915 - 1919; Digitized: 2020-01-23

Grace M. Lee Photographic Scrapbook,1915-1919

 Collection
Identifier: RG-140-22
Content Description

Grace M. Lee's photographic scrapbook includes photos and handwritten descriptive text depicting student life and events at the Slippery Rock State Normal School, circa 1917. Also included are images of rural scenes and bridges in Pittsburgh, circa 1919.

Dates: 1914 - 1919

Helen Sankey Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 6-7-13
Content Description

The contents of this collection include three photographic albums and miscellaneous loose photographs belonging to former Slippery Rock State Normal School student, Helen Sankey (class of 1926). Photos are primarily personal in nature, showing trips, family, friends, and other events. Dates for the photographs range from 1922 to 1929.

Dates: 1922 - 1929

Mary Emma McKelvey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 130-04
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of school projects, personal textbooks, and various records, correspondence, and documents from 1904 belonging to Mary Emma McKelvey, a Slippery Rock State Normal School student.

Dates: 1904

The Walter V. Powell Postcard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 10-1-C-19
Content Description

Collection of Slippery Rock State Normal School, Slippery Rock State Teachers College, and Slippery Rock Borough postcards accumulated by Dr. Walter V. Powell.

Dates: 1907 - 1960