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Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This is a collection of scrapbooks created by John G. Crabbe. The subject of all the news clippings is either education in Kentucky in the early part of the 20th century or the career of John Grant Crabbe.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Acquisition Source:
Roberts, Marie
Box and Folder Listing
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Box 2],
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- Box 1
- Item 1: Scrapbook, 1907
- This volume consists of news clippings relating to Crabbe's campaign for Superintendent of Public Instruction in Kentucky. The volume was originally a Truant Register.
- Item 2: Scrapbook, 1908
- This volume deals education across Kentucky and also includes clippings related to Crabbe's campaign for Superintendent of Public Instruction.
- Box 2
- Item 1: Scraps: J.G. Crabbe, 1909-1910
- There are many clippings about school suffrage for women and segregation in schools. Includes notices of his appointment as president of Eastern and other education based articles. There are also obituaries and notices of local events in Richmond as well as numerous articles on the Normal Schools.
- Item 2: Scrapbook, 1908-1910
- Covers various education topics across the state including a fight for funding of schools in Frankfort.
- Box 3
- Item 1: Scraps: J.G. Crabbe, 1909
- Includes several articles about textbooks, about the women who are pushing for improved education, and numerous articles about education at all levels, Several letters and telegrams about the County Unit law are also included as well as a letter from L.M. Montgomery and one from Eliza Calvert Hall regarding books they had published.
- Item 2: Scraps: J.G. Crabbe, 1908-1909
- Ruric N. Roark obituary, scandal involving the theft of answers to test questions, Kentucky State Fair, Harrodsburg anniversary, Crabbe's appointment to Eastern president, construction of Kentucky State buildings, Roark Building cornerstone laid, location of the Western Normal School, textbooks, school suffrage, segregation and school funding are all covered in this volume. Articles about education at all levels across the state are also included.
- Item 3: Scraps: J.G. Crabbe, 1909-1916
- Includes a Ruric N. Roark obituary and a number of articles about Chautauquas, James B. McCreary, national education news, the Normal School and Model Laboratory School and the faculty at both. Articles on G.D. Smith's work with growing fruit in the mountains of Kentucky, an article regarding reparations for the bombing of the Lustania and notices of Dr. Crabbe leaving Eastern are also included.
