Finding Aid for the Jackson County, MO School Newspaper Collection

This collection consists of newspapers printed, published, and created by students at various Jackson County, Missouri junior high, high schools and colleges or universities. The schools within this collection include Manual High and Vocation School, Paseo High School, Northeast Junior High School, Northeast High School, Southeast High School all of Kansas City. Truman High School published a monthly school magazine title,The Spirit. Colleges included in the collection are Junior College of Kansas City and the University of Kansas City, now the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Each edition provides a glimpse into the daily lives of students attending each institution as well as the history, culture, and society of the time period.

Files

https://content.mymcpl.org/files/original/e182dda5ae11106bd38491c7bb7bde9e.pdf

Reference

Nicole Schlagel, Archivist, Midwest Genealogy Center, Finding Aid for the Jackson County, MO School Newspaper Collection, Midwest Genealogy Center, Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, Missouri, 2016; updated 2019

Cite As

Nicole Schlagel, Archivist, Midwest Genealogy Center and Jolene Clark, Archivist, Midwest Genealogy Center, “Finding Aid for the Jackson County, MO School Newspaper Collection,” Genealogy Gallery, accessed November 22, 2024, https://content.mymcpl.org/items/show/748.

Title

Finding Aid for the Jackson County, MO School Newspaper Collection

Subject

Genealogy
Family history

Description

This collection consists of newspapers printed, published, and created by students at various Jackson County, Missouri junior high, high schools and colleges or universities. The schools within this collection include Manual High and Vocation School, Paseo High School, Northeast Junior High School, Northeast High School, Southeast High School all of Kansas City. Truman High School published a monthly school magazine title,The Spirit. Colleges included in the collection are Junior College of Kansas City and the University of Kansas City, now the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Each edition provides a glimpse into the daily lives of students attending each institution as well as the history, culture, and society of the time period.

Creator

Nicole Schlagel, Archivist, Midwest Genealogy Center
Jolene Clark, Archivist, Midwest Genealogy Center

Publisher

Midwest Genealogy Center, Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, Missouri

Date

2016; updated 2019

Contributor

Jolene Clark, Archivist, Midwest Genealogy Center

Format

Portable Document File Format; 428 KB; 4 pages.

Language

English

Type

Text

Identifier

jackson county, mo school newspaper collection.pdf