Early childhood education

The bulk of the Harriet M. Johnson Papers were created by Johnson in the course of her professional life, in the early twentieth century. Much of the materials concern her establishing and administering to the Nursery School of the Bureau of Educational Experiments. Her work was collected in observational notes, reports, speeches, correspondence, publications, and other formats.

The Elizabeth C. Gilkeson Papers were generated by Gilkeson in the course of her professional life, through the mid to late twentieth century. Much of the materials concern her lead role on Bank Street College’s Children’s Programs, the School for Children, as well as her faculty position at Vassar and as founder of Poughkeepsie Day School. Gilkeson’s work was collected in notes, reports, speeches, correspondence, administrative files, and other formats.

The Doris B. Wallace Papers were created over the course of Wallace’s career with the Research Division of Bank Street, through the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. The materials span her research study endeavors, focusing on the Psychological Impact of School Experience Study, Head Start Evaluation, and community and family. Her work was collected in observational notes, reports, correspondence, publications, administrative files, and several other formats.

This collection documents Vecelia McGhie’s work as Cooperative School student, nursery school teacher and Bank Street College Graduate School staff member. Record genres include administrative records, correspondence, instructional and educational works, notes, publications, reports, and school records. It consists of five series. See the scope and contents note of each series for further information.

The Salvatore "Sal" Vascellaro papers were created and collected during Dr. Vascellaro's tenure at Bank Street College of Education, and include research materials collected for his dissertation on the early Bank Street Long Trips (1935-1952) and his interviews with Claudia Lewis which took place in the 1990s.

The Pearl Zeitz papers were created and collected during Pearl's tenure at Bank Street College of Education as a teacher, faculty member, and administrator. The materials include photographs, documents, and slides from her social studies teaching and materials on the China Study Project, a trip Pearl led with parent Tang Yungmei in 1979 that took 15 eighth-grade Bank Street students to China.

This record group of the institution was generated by the division of Follow Through at Bank Street College. The late twentieth century learning model and project was developed and sponsored by Bank Street in several communities across the country. Correspondence, reports, audiovisual media, notes, curricula, and other record types document the business of the project as a whole and within each community.