Papers of Clarence L. Houghton, an Ithaca newspaperman, pertaining to local events and organizations.

Sets of drawings for two different buildings: August 29, 1919 plans for a 3-floor pitched roof building that was never built and April 26, 1920 plans for the existing building.

Information booklets prepared by the Ithaca Board of Education and the Committee for Responsible Education. Also, records of the Ithaca Citizens Committee on School Board Candidates from 1973-1974, including minutes of meetings and Gould Colman's handwritten notes.

Included are photographs, maps, brochures, booklets, programs, broadsides, invitations, historical outlines, and other printed items pertaining to subjects including local politics and government, urban renewal, religion, civic and social events and organizations, musical and dramatic productions, transportation, educational institutions, and geology of the region.

Pamphlets, brochures, and leaflets on various aspects of the Ithaca City School District, including annual budgets, planning, kindergarten, vocational education, and community involvement.

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.

Includes crrespondence concerning the resignation of William L. Gragg as Superintendent of Schools, Ithaca, New York, 1960-1962; correspondence with E. A. Lutz, President of the Board of Education; mimeographed and typed material concerning superintendent qualifications, and other school matters; clippings concerning Gragg's resignation; and printed material concerning education.

Two-week diaries kept by seventh-grade Boynton Junior High School (Ithaca, New York) social studies students of Mrs. Heather Begent after having read selections in WHAT THEY WROTE. Also diaries kept by seventh-grade students at Lansing Middle School in May 1984.

Includes two account books for a retail business, 1936-1941; broadside advertising weekly review classes offered by the school; two folders of notes on problems and solutions for courses in mechanics; and a letter and note addressed to Schaff from Yale University Library (1942).