Ithaca High School publications

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 2652

Scope and content

Commencement programs, course catalogs, student publications, and leaflets from Ithaca High School. Included are issues of student literary periodicals, Seward, The tattler, and The souvenir tattler; a leaflet addressed to voters on the proposed new high school building and its projected cost, 1912; and a few annual reports on the Ithaca public schools in general. Some of the publications include a picture of the building that housed the high school from 1885-1912.

Dates

1889-1925.

Creator

Ithaca High School (Ithaca, N.Y.) (Organization)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Ithaca High School was founded in 1875 as the successor to the Ithaca Academy, a private school that had operated since the 1820s. A new building for the high school on the site of the former academy was built in 1885; that building burned on February 14, 1912. Architect William Henry Miller, who designed many buildings at Cornell University, designed the new building, which the high school occupied from 1915 to 1960. That building was later used as DeWitt Junior High school for a number of years and then saved from demolition by local architect William Downing, who converted it into a mixed-use apartment and commercial building now known as the Dewitt Mall. The Ithaca High School newspaper, the Tattler, founded in 1892, is one of the oldest high school student newspapers in the country; it continues today.