La Creole Academy records
Scope and Contents
The collection (1892) contains short student essays hand-written on Academy writing stationery on subjects such as physical geography, rhetoric, algebra, Latin, the solar system, and book keeping. The collection also includes a journal of the minutes of the faculty of Dallas College, which was born of the 1900 merger of La Creole Academy and Lafayette Seminary. The journal dates from 1904 to 1914.
Dates
- 1892 December 13
Creator
- La Creole Academy (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to the public. Collection must be used in Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room. Collection or parts of collection may be stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives in advance of your visit to allow for transportation time.
Conditions Governing Use
Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Biographical / Historical
La Creole Academic Institute was built in 1846 between the towns of La Creole and Dallas, Oregon as a non-sectarian, liberal arts college; the name of the school would later change to La Creole Academy.
[Source: Eighth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Oregon, presented to the Legislative Assembly, Regular Session, 1889. pg. 69].
Extent
0.025 linear feet (1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
La Creole Academic Institute was built in 1846 between the towns of La Creole and Dallas, Oregon as a non-sectarian, liberal arts college; the name of the school would later change to La Creole Academy. The collection (1892) contains student essays hand-written on Academy writing stationery on physical geography, rhetoric, algebra, Latin, the solar system, and book keeping subjects. The collection also includes a journal of the minutes of the faculty of Dallas College, dating from 1904 to 1914.
Physical Description
1 folder.
Processing Information
Collection processed by staff.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
This collection received a basic level of processing including minimal organization and rehousing.
Description information is drawn in part from information supplied with the collection and initial surveys of the contents.
- College prose, American -- Oregon -- Dallas Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- College students -- Oregon -- Dallas -- Manuscripts Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Colleges and Universities Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Dallas (Or.) -- History -- 19th century Subject Source: Lcnaf
- Education, Higher -- Oregon -- Dallas -- History -- 19th century Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Essays Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Oregon -- Dallas Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Oregon -- Polk County Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Polk County (Or.) -- History -- 19th century Subject Source: Lcnaf
- Universities and colleges -- Oregon -- Dallas Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the La Creole Academy Records
- Status
- Revise Description
- Author
- Tanya Parlet.
- Date
- 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
- Sponsor
- Funding for production of this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Repository Details
Part of the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Repository
