Goldsberry collection of open-air school photographs

Arrangement

The Goldsberry collection of open-air school photographs is arranged in 3 series:

• Part 1: Open-air education in the United States, by topic
• Part 2: Open-air education in the United States, by state and city and school
• Part 3: Open-air education in foreign countries, by country

Original Arrangement

Louise Dunham Goldsberry established the following basic topical and geographical categories for the collection: Part 1. Open-air education in the United States, by topic [See: Goldsberry, p. 60]; Part 2. Open-air education in the United States, by state and city and school name [See: Goldsberry, p. 14-20]; Part 3. Open-air education in foreign countries, by country [See Goldsberry, p. 266-277]. (Prints and Photographs staff added an "Unidentified locations" category. NB: Unidentified images - both foreign and domestic - are combined in one folder and appear at the very end of the collection list.)

Within Goldsberry's original categories, Prints and Photographs staff divided collection material into folders according to the quantity of images for a particular school, city, state, country, or topical category. (Geographical names have been updated to associate material with current (1994) country designations rather than those of the 1910s and 1920s when the material was originally gathered). Images from disparate schools or cities within a state - if found in small quantities - are housed together and indexed at the state level; images from a particular school or city - if found in large quantities - are housed separately in their own folder(s) and indexed at the city/school level. The quantity of material corresponding to each entry appears in the parentheses following the description.

For example, 22 images from several different cities in Alabama are housed together and indexed at the state level in LOT 5338-9 (F) Alabama (22 items). While 16 images from University of California, Berkeley are housed together and indexed at the city/school level in LOT 5338-12 (F) California - Berkeley (University of California) (16 items).