Seattle School District Archives
Did you know the district has an extensive archive (complete with a trained archivist)? They do and it's a valuable resource. They have all manner of memorabilia - bound volumes of School Board minutes, uniforms, yearbooks, letters to the School Board, newspaper clippings - you name it. Archivist Aaren Purcell would be more than glad to look at what any school, group or individual has to offer the archive. I asked her about limits and she said, "I'll look at anything." She recently received boxes of materials from Ingraham that had been sitting in some closet for years. I myself helped to organize the archives at Roosevelt High and they have some pretty amazing artifacts. I put out this information for a two-fold reason. One is that rarely are these items being stored properly at schools and will deteriorate much more quickly if stored improperly. Two, you have no idea how important any one item might be historically. Even thoug...