Collection 01-1002 - Peterborough Normal School collection

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Peterborough Normal School collection

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    01-1002

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    • 1930's (Creation)
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      Peterborough Normal School

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    1 cm of textual records.
    1 photograph : 14 negatives.

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    Peterborough Normal School was officially opened on September 15, 1908 and operated until the late 1960's. The school was located in Peterborough, Ontario, and several hundred teachers were trained there over the years of operation. The first principal was Duncan Walker.

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    This collection consists of 14 photograph negatives of Peterborough Normal School, undated, and portraying people and the grounds of the school. The negatives are enclosed in a J.J. Gilfillan, Orono, Ontario, photographer's envelope, with the name Calvin Hamm, Orono, Ontario written on it. Calvin Hamm was born on March 28, 1909 at Orono, son of Ernest Hamm and Florence Hughson. He was appointed Principal of the Morley Consolidated School at Stratton in September 1935 and received his B.A. at Western University in June 1943. He later taught high school in Fort Frances (taken from a typed information enclosure which accompanies the collection). Also included is a Peterborough Normal School Christmas Card, undated; a Peterborough Normal School Literary Society invitation, 1930; and a photograph of the "Floating Bridge, Bridgenorth, Chemong Lake, 1933."

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    This collection was donated by an unknown source.

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        Peterborough Normal School Yearbooks are in Special Collections: TC LH3 .P37 N6 and also in the pamphlet collection (linked below)

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