Guide to the Edith Lisolette Gordon Papers

Title: Edith Lisolette Gordon Papers
Dates: 1917[1975-1980]1989
Language of Material: English
Location: Bank Street College Archives New York, NY
Preferred Citation: Edith Lisolette Gordon Papers, Box #, Bank Street College Archives, New York, NY

Administrative History

This collection was donated to the Bank Street College Archives by Edith Gordon in 2005. The collection was processed by Kate Kearns and Lindsey Wyckoff in 2006. Original order and series were retained in the processing of this collection.

Series G Interview Transcripts was de-accessioned by Teacherâ•˙s College Special Collections and transferred to Bank Street College Archives in 2008. It is unclear where or when these materials were collected, they were left in the order in which they arrived and a new series was created. It was added to the collection by Lindsey Wyckoff in 2008.

Biographical Note

Edith L. Gordon entered the graduate school of Bank Street College of Education in 1955 as part of an experimental program sponsored by the Ford Foundation in which students began teaching in inner city schools after only one semester of coursework and student teaching.

In 1974 on a professional visit to the Bank Street School for Children Gordon learned from President Francis Roberts that no history of Bank Street existed. Realizing the importance of beginning such a project while so many original Bank Streeters were still active, she began to interview many important figures to compile an oral history of Bank Street. With the help of President Roberts and the guidance of Barbara Biber, Charlotte Biber Winsor and Claudia Lewis, the oral history project officially began in 1975. As the interviews amassed Gordon came to realize that the in order to properly document, corroborate and analyze them she needed to improve her research and writing skills. She matriculated in the graduate history program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her work collecting oral histories continued, and became the basis for her doctoral dissertation. Her dissertation Educating the Whole Child: Progressive Education and Bank Street College of Education, 1916-1966 was accepted by the History Department of SUNY Stony Brook in 1988.

Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of materials compiled by Edith Gordon in the course of collecting Bank Street oral histories and writing her dissertation, including research, correspondence, tapes, transcripts, photographs, drafts, and administrative records. Also included are files containing notes and clippings on numerous important figures in the history of the College. The collection is 6.25 linear feet. The collection consists of the following series:

A - Bank Street Publications
B - Historic Figures
C - Oral Histories
D - Administrative Records
E - Research Notes and Resources
F - Photographs
G - Interview Transcripts

Box 1

SERIES A
BSC Catalogs
BSC Conferences
BSC Newsletters
BSC PR Brochures
BSC Publications
BSC Reports
BSC Research- Annual Reports
BSC Research Studies
Cartoon Situations Test
Cooperative School for Student Teachers Annual Report, 1934-1935
Personality Test
Roberts Convocation-Shenker Inauguration
School for Children

Box 2

SERIES B
Antler, Joyce
Publication Association
Barbour, Frederica- BSC Board
Barr, Marilyn
Bernard, Viola, MD, Psych
Biber, Barbara (1)
Biber, Barbara (2)
Biber, Barbara and Charlotte Winsor-Writings of
Black, Irma Simonton
Bliven, Rosie
Burrows, Lucy
Buttolph, Edna Gibson
Cohen, Dorothy
Cremin, Lawrence A.- T.C. President
Doak Tarnay, Elizabeth
Frank, Josette
Fuller, Virginia
Franklin, Adele- All Day Nursery Schools
Fischel, Maxine
Gilkeson, Elizabeth
Slocum Goldberg, Rosalie- Writer's Lab Illustrator 1937
Harlow, Sue- HJNS Parent/Volunteer
Hocking, Richard- T.C.
Hooks, Bill
Hurd, Edith Thacher- CSST 1933
Jansen, William- NYC School Supt 1950's
Johnson, Harriet M.- Papers
Kandell, Florence
Kerlin, Sally
Killian, Ailenn Voight '34
Klopf, Gordon
Kraber, Willie
Lewis, Claudia
Lincoln, Dr. Edith M.
McIntosh, Millicent
Mead, Margaret
Minuchin, Patricia- Research
Mitchell, John M.
Mitchell, L.S. and W.C.- ELG Musings
Mitchell, Lucy Sprague- Quotes
Mitchell, Lucy Sprague- Research, Papers, etc.
Mitchell, Arnold
Mitchell, Wesley Clair- A Personal Sketch by LSM
Niemeyer, John
Niemeyer, John- incomplete

Box 3

SERIES B (continued)
Niemeyer, John- Interview II
Niemeyer, John- Interview III
Niemeyer Era- 60's material
Obituaries, BSC
Palmer, Alice Freeman- 1903 Tribute- Boston Globe
Parker, Virginia
Pemberton, Priscilla
Perry, Charlotte
Phelps, Mary
Pine, Tillie
Polier, Justine
Powell, Alice Mendham
Reece. Ellen Steel
Reich/Brussel, Eleanor
Roberts, Francis J. (1)
Roberts, Francis J. (2)
Rolfe, Howard and Polly
Russell, Virginia
Schonborg, Virginia
Seaver-Helfman, Elizabeth
Shapiro, Edna
Stanton, Jessie
Winsor, Charlotte
Woodcock, Louise- Why, Because, If
Yeomans, Edward- N.S. History
SERIES C
Oral History- California Trip Plans, Journal, Notes
Oral History Interview Notes
Frederica Barach Barbour
Marilyn Barr
Viola Bernard Tape 1
Viola Bernard Tape 2
Evie [Evelyn] Beyer Tape 1
Evelyn Beyer Tape 3
Barbara Biber Tape 1
Barbara Biber Tape 2
Barbara Biber Tape 3
Barbara Biber Tape 2
Barbara Biber Tape 3 Original
Barbara Biber Tape 3 / Rank Smith
Barbara Biber Tape 1
Barbara Biber Tape 2
James Black
Rose Bliven
Eleanor Reich Brussel
Julia Keasbey Clarke Tape 1
Julia Keasbey Clarke Tape 2 / Claudia Lewis Tape 2
Dorothy Cohen Tape 1
Dorothy Cohen Second Interview Tape 1
Maxine Fischel
Josette Frank
Marjorie Franklin
Virginia Fuller Tape 1
Virginia Fuller Tape 2
Mary Ellen Bauman Gilder
Elizabeth Gilkeson Tape 1
Elizabeth Gilkeson Tape 2
Rosalie Slocum Goldberg
Ronnie Gordon on J. Stanton Copy Tape
Sue Harlow
Betsy Hiteshew
Richard Hooking / Beyer Tape 2
Edith Hurd Tape 1
Florence Kandell Tape 1
Florence Kandell Tape 2
Anita Kaplan / Betsey Hiteshew
Sally Kerlin Tape 1
Sally Kerlin Tape 2
Aileen Voigt Killian Tape 1 copy
Aileen Voigt Killian Tape 2
Aileen Voigt Killian Tape 1 / Barbara Martin Tape 2
Wilhemina Kraber Tape 2
Ursula Krainock
Bill Hooks
Elizabeth Lamb Tape 1
Elizabeth Lamb Tape 2
Alita Letwin / Lois Ellenstein
Claudia Lewis Tape 1
Claudia Lewis Tape 2 Copy
Millicent McIntosh
Alice Mendham Powell Tape 1
Alice Mendham Powell Tape 2
Jan Miller / Elaine Blumberg
Patricia Minuchin Tape 1 Original
Patricia Minuchin Tape 2
Arnold Mitchell
John Mitchell
Sprague Mitchell
Manuel Navas
Jack Niemeyer Tape 1
Jack Niemeyer Tape 2
Jack Niemeyer Tape 1
Jack Niemeyer Tape 2
Jack Niemeyer Interview 3 Tape 1
Jack Niemeyer Interview 3 Tape 2
Virginia Parker
Priscilla Pemberton
Charlotte Perry Tape 1
Charlotte Perry Tape 2
Mary Phelps
Tillie Pine
Ellen Steele Reese
Dr. Francis Roberts Tape 1 Original
Dr. Francis Roberts Tape 2 Original
Polly & Howard Rolfe Tape 1
Polly & Howard Rolfe Tape 2
Virginia Russell
Sheila Sadler Interview 2 tape 1
Sheila Sadler Tape 2
Sheila Sadler Tape 3 / Willie Kraber
Peter Sauer
Virginia Schonborg Tape 2
Virginia Schonborg Tape 3
Virginia Schonberg Original Tape 3
Marilyn Schwartz
E. Schwartzchild / Pearl Lock
Annette Shapiro Original
Edna Shapiro
Leo Shapiro
Roz Sherman
Randolph Smith Tape 1 Original
Randolph Smith Tape 2 Copy
Elizabeth Doak Tarnay tape 1
Elizabeth Doak Tarnay tape 2
Charlotte Winsor tape 1
Charlotte Winsor tape 2
Charlotte Winsor tape 3
Charlotte Winsor tape 4
Charlotte Winsor
Billie Woodward / Edith Hurd
Card File
SERIES D
Agreement: BSC/E.L. Gordon
Bank Street Business
BSC History Project- OH Interviewees
Bank Street Grant Applications
Bank Street Oral History Date Books
Bank Street Oral History Expenses
Conferences Attended
Correspondence (1)
Correspondence (2)
Correspondence (3)
Correspondence
Correspondence
Correspondence
Correspondence
Correspondence- Thank You Responses
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Application
Bibliographies re: BSC Personnel
Bibliographies
Bibliographies- Dissertation
Oral History Consent Form
Oral History Papers
Signed Releases- Copies

Box 4

SERIES E
19th Century Education
Alison, David- Searchlight: An Expose of NYC Schools
Arthurdale: Experiment in Community Living by Bruce Beezer
Articles and Reviews- Relevant Ideas to BSC History
Appraisal of Teacher Competency Ed. Research Bulletin
Articles about BSC and Its Works
Authority and Freedom in the Education of Children by Sidonie Matzner Gruenberg
Ayers, William- Early Childhood Article- Male Perspective
Bank Street College Class Notes
Bank Street College Publications 1917-1958
Bank Street Finances
Biography of BEE- LSM unpublished
BEE Enrollment Statistics
BEE Publications
Chapter Outline- BSC History
Child Care- U.S.
Child Life in Schools, Articles
Child Study Association
Childhood Education
Citizen's Committee for Children of New York
City and Country School- 12th Street
Cohen, Sol- The History of the History of American Education 1900-1976
Cooperative School for Student Teachers
Cooperative School for Student Teachers- Draft
Day Care, Nursery School Articles- Historical
Dewey, John
Dissertation Defense Notes/Editorial Suggestions
Dissertation Thoughts and Organization
Drawings
Experimentalism and American Education by John L. Childs
Feminism as Life-Process: The Life and Career of Lucy Sprague Mitchell by Joyce Antler
Innovation of Propositions by Ernest R. House
Innovations in Teacher Training: A History of the Cooperative School for Student Teachers, Bureau of Educational Experiments, 1929-1934
Keeping Faith with Democracy by Agnes Snyder
Leeds, Caroll- A Scale for Measuring Teacher, Pupil Attitudes and Teacher Pupil Rapport
Let Us Show Them That We Love Them by the Staff of the Harriet Johnson Nursery School
Little Red School House
Lucy Sprague Mitchell Oral Memoir (Copied from Arnold Mitchell)
The Meaning of Progressive Education by John A. Hockett
Mental Hygiene in a Teacher Training Program by Caroline B. Zachary
NEA Articles
Notes
Notes for Bibliography
The Nursery School of the BEE 1919 to 1954- Draft (1)
The Nursery School of the BEE 1919 to 1954- Draft (2)
Nursery School Printed Matter
NYC Scene- Draft
Open/Basic Education
Open Education
Organized Teachers and Educational Reform During the Progressive Era 1890-1920 by Wayne Urban
Personality Aspects of Teaching- BSC Monograph
Progressive Education
Progressive Education
Progressive Education
The Progressive Educator and the Depression by C.A. Bowers
Progressive Educators-Articles and Obituaries
The Progressive Educator Movement and the Question of Women by Sari Knopp Biklen
The Project Method by William H. Kirkpatrick
Public School Treatment of Low Income Children by Mary R. Harvey
Publications- BSC Related
Reforming Teacher Education in the 1970's by Francesco Cordasco
Schaab, Marcia Stecker- Masters Thesis on Jessie Stanton
Summaries and Chronologies- BSC
Teacher Selection Project- NYT
Teacher Selection- Stan ford Meeting
SERIES F
Negatives
Photographs (1)
Photographs (2)

Box 5

SERIES G
Release forms for Edith Gordon interviews
Frederica Barach Barbour
Marilyn Barr
Viola Bernard
Viola Bernard - correspondence and supplemental material
Evelyn Beyer
Barbara Biber
Irma Simonton Black
Rosie Bliven
Eleanor Reich Brussel
Lodema Burrows
Julia Keasby Clarke
Dorothy Cohen
Josette Frank
Marjorie Bodansky Franklin
Florence Friend - written reminisence
Virginia Fuller
Mary Ellen Bowman Gilder
Elizabeth Gilkeson
Sue Harlow
Eleanor Bowman Hogan
Edith Thacher Hurd
Florence Kandell
Sally Kerlin
Aileen Voight Killam
Margaret Churchill Labowitz (interview by Cynthia White)
Elizabeth (Boots) Lamb
Claudia Lewis
Millicent McIntosh
Jan Miller
Patricia Minuchin
Arnold Mitchell
John Mitchell
Sprague Mitchell
Manuel Navas
Virginia Parker
Charlotte Perry
Tillie Pine
Ellen Steele Reece
Howard and Polly Rolfe
Fran Roberts
Virginia Russell
Sheila Sadler
Peter Sauer
Virginia Schonberg
Leo Shapiro
Edna Shapiro
Annette Frank Shapiro
Rosalyn Sherman
Randolph Smith
Betty Doak Tarnay
Charlotte Winsor - corrected transcript
Charlotte Winsor - uncorrected transcript

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