A Guide to the Toms Brook High School Class Registers Collection

Compiled by Eryn Kawecki

September 3, 2019

Descriptive Summary

Repository: Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia, USA

Title: Toms Brook High School Class Registers Collection, 1912-1916

Date Range: 1912-1916

Collection Number: 2019-0021

Extent: 1 box, 5 folders

Language: English

Abstract: Class registers belonging to Gladys Brown, a teacher for Toms Brook High School. The registers list students’ names, student attendance, a list of students from other districts, and other information relating to the classroom.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions: This collection is open to researchers without restrictions. Researchers must register and agree to all copyright laws and archives policies before using the collection. Please contact the Shenandoah County Library before visiting to use this collection.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] Toms Brook High School Class Registers Collection, 1912-1916, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia, USA.

Acquisition Information: The items in this collection were purchased from Laughlin Auctions on June 15, 2019.

Processing Information: Items were sorted and then processed chronologically. 

Biographical/Historical Note

The items in this collection reflect classroom information recorded by Gladys Brown, a teacher at Toms Brook High School.

The school was existed as early as 1874. That year county resident Levi Pitman noted his brother began teaching there. Five years later the school superintendent, John Grabil, recorded that the student population at Toms Brook was 90.

The school that held these pupils stood from the 1870s until 1935 when a brick school building, which still stands, was constructed. During the time the old frame school was in operation three additions were made, including one in 1906 which was designed to house the new High School program recently adopted by the county.

Scope and Content

The Zepp Post Office Collection consists of .5 linear feet of material, which is stored in 1 box. The collection includes 5 class registers.

Inventory

Folder 1.1            Toms Brook High School, Gladys Brown Class Register, 1912-1913

Folder 1.2            Toms Brook High School, Gladys Brown Class Register, 1913-1914

Folder 1.3            Toms Brook High School, Gladys Brown Class Register, 1914-1915

Folder 1.4            Toms Brook High School, Gladys Brown Class Register, 1914-1915

Folder 1.5            Toms Brook High School, Gladys Brown Class Register, 1915-1916