Lura Kinsey Collection, ca. 1868-1963

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Lura Kinsey Collection, ca. 1868-1963

AHS-ND 9


Descriptive Summary
Creator:	Kinsey, Lura
Collection Name	Lura Kinsey Collection
Inclusive Dates:	ca. 1868-1963
Physical Description	1 linear foot
Abstract	Papers from Lura Kinsey school days, both as a student and later as a teacher. Kinsey was born in Flagstaff in 1891. She attended Emerson High School and graduated from the Northern Arizona Normal School in 1912. She earned both a BA and an MA from the University of Arizona, Tucson . Her teaching career spanned 47 years with the Flagstaff, Arizona school system. In 1932 she became principal of her high school alma mater, and in 1957 saw a local school named after her. Kinsey died in Flagstaff, 1965.
Collection Number	AHS-ND 9
Language	English
Repository	Arizona Historical Society/Flagstaff Archives PO Box 6022 Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6022 Phone: 928 523 5551 Fax: 928 774 1596 Email: ahsnad@infomagic.net

Biographical Note

Lura Kinsey was born in Flagstaff in 1891. She attended Emerson High School and graduated from the Northern Arizona Normal School in 1912. She earned both a BA and an MA from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Her teaching career spanned 47 years with the Flagstaff, Arizona school system. In 1932 she became principal of her high school alma mater, and in 1957 saw a local school named after her. Kinsey died in Flagstaff, 1965.

Scope and Content Note

The Collection is (1) linear foot in volume. Consisting of papers from local Flagstaff, Arizona School teacher, Lura Kinsey school days, both as a student and later as a teacher. Also included are photographs of the Northern Arizona region collected by Kinsey.

Organization

4 Series: I. School Papers; II. Correspondence; III. Miscellaneous Papers; IV. Photographs

Restrictions

None.

Copyright

It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for Northern Arizona University and the Arizona Historical Society, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.

Related Material

Bessie Kidd Best, AHS Photographic Collection, #676

Access Points

Personal Name(s)

Kinsey, Lura, 1891-1965--Archives.

Subject(s)

School principals--Arizona--Flagstaff.

Schools--Arizona--Flagstaff.

Students--Arizona--Flagstaff.

Teachers--Arizona--Flagstaff.

Genre Form(s)

Correspondence.

Photographs.

Administrative Information

Credit Line

Arizona Historical Society/Flagstaff, AHS-ND 9

Container List


Series I. School Papers, ca. 1905-1936
	11 folders. Various school papers including essays, reports, and written tests of Lura Kinsey.

Box-folder
1.1		School papers, ca. 1909
			Reports Mexican culture in North America, etc.

Box-folder
1.2		School papers, 1909-1929
			Class/reading notes and exams on history, education, and biology; English and philosophy papers.

Box-folder
1.3		School papers, 1929-1931
			Education studies, history papers, English papers.

Box-folder
1.4		School papers, ca. 1927-1931
			Biology, education, sociology, and plant ecology papers and syllabi.

Box-folder
1.5		School papers, ca. 1930
			Exams forms.

Box-folder
1.6		School papers, 1911 and 1920
			A composition book and a Blue Book exam.

Box-folder
1.7		School papers, ca. 1929
			History notes, World War I and Latin American history.

Box-folder
1.8		School papers, ca. 1934-1936
			Education report books.

Box-folder
2.1		School papers, 1911-1912
			School notebook.

Box-folder
2.2		School papers, ca. 1905
			Physical geography text with Question and Answers section written in by Kinsey.

Box-folder
2.3		School papers: Thesis, 1936
			University of Arizona Thesis: A Comparison of the Achievement of American and Mexican Seventh and Eight Grade Pupils.


Series II. Correspondence, ca. 1909-1931
	1 folder. Correspondence. Some are writing exercises and some are actual correspondence.

Box-folder
2.4		Correspondence, ca. 1909-1931
			School exercises as well as official correspondence from the Flagstaff Public School administration and National Geographic Society.


Series III. Miscellaneous Papers, 1868-1963
	4 folders. Pamphlets, awards, newspaper clippings.

Box-folder
2.5		Federated Community Church yearbooks, 1937-1948


Box-folder
2.6		Education and religious booklets, ca. 1936-1948


Box-folder
2.7		Miscellaneous teaching related materials, 1868-1963
			Lura Kinsey teaching award and grammar school certificate; Arthur Kinsey grammar school certificate, 1868.

Box-folder
2.8		Miscellaneous school related materials, 1921-1954
			Graduation announcement for Emerson eighth grade class, 1940; The Emerson Newsbag school publication, 1939-1940; booklets on education, Elementary School Principalship, Opening and Closing exercises; Thomas Elementary Christmas Program, 1948; Program for Emerson School corner stone laying ceremony, 1940; other booklets, etc.


Series IV. Photographs, ca. 1912-1952
	11 folders. Photographs of Northern Arizona area.

Box-folder
See: Lura Kinsey Photographic Collection #18		Forty-two photographs of Northern Arizona, 1912-1952
			Forty-two photographs. Emerson School children, ca. 1940-1950; snow scenes of Flagstaff, Arizona, ca. 1916, 1952; Grand Falls; St. Anthony Academy; Grand Canyons El Tovar Hotel, 1912, Grand Canyon views, Beaver Creek Ranch Campus, San Francisco Peaks, Mount Elden, Flagstaff, Arizona.