Lansdowne Friends School records
Scope and Contents
The collection contains School Committee minutes, financial records, reports, and correspondence.
Dates
- Creation: 1994 - 2012
Creator
- Lansdowne Friends School (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce items in this collection beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder or their heirs/assigns. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
The Lansdowne Friends School was established in 1902 by members of the Lansdowne Friends Meeting and was incorporated in 1979. The school is governed by a School Committee appointed by the Monthly Meeting. It is guided by its mission of providing a "challenging educational program guided by Quaker values, especially those of respect for all people and peaceful problem solving."
Extent
.75 linear ft. (1.5 letter-size Hollinger boxes.)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The collection is arranged by series and then chronologically.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was deposited by John McKinstry, Head of the School, in October of 2018.
Separated Materials
Reports of the Lansdowne Friends School Committee, 1965-1989, form part of the records of Lansdowne Monthly Meeting.
Processing Information
Alison Sielaff processed the collection in November of 2018.
- Title
- Lansdowne Friends School Records
- Author
- Finding aid created by Alison Sielaff in 2018.
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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