Archives
HathiTrust: http://www.hathitrust.org/
You can conduct a catalog search from this page, but you can also apply an LC classification visualization through the link at the bottom-right:
LA - History of Education shows 1,273 items available
LH - College and student magazines and papers shows 920 items available

On-line Sources
Images of Lancastrian Schools:  Google images lists over 1500 images

The “Nietz Old Textbook Collection” is a full-text collection with digital editions of 140 schoolbooks and two surveys of historic schoolbooks by John Nietz available at: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/nietz/
The collection is primarily nineteenth century textbooks however there are secondary sources and search tools located at the site. I also felt the site would be of interest to many others.  (David J. Roof)

Archival Sources for Historians: National/Transnational
The American Historical Association's Archiveswiki "is intended to be a clearinghouse of information about archival resources throughout the world" designed mainly for historians, although others may find it useful:
http://archiveswiki.historians.org/?RefBy=FN

Published Sources
Directory of Historical Textbook and Curriculum Collections, Judy Walker (ed.), Chicago:  Assoc. of College and Research Libraries, Division of the American Library Association, 2005.

Fifteenth to Eighteenth Century Rare Books on Education:  A Catalog of the Title Held by the Education Research Library, Washington, DC:  National Institute of Education, 1976.

School Collectibles of the Past, Lar and Sue Hothem, Lancaster, Ohio: Hothem House (Box 458, Lancaster, Ohio), 1993. 
--llustrates and has brief descriptions of a wide assortment of school artifacts. Provides useful informaltion and images of school items—don’t assume this is merely an antique guide.

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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock

--the largest collection of Native American press materials in the world housed in the Sequoyah Research Center and American Native Press Archives.  Dan Littlefield (dflittlefiel@ualr.edu), Jim Parins (jwparins@ualr.edu), and Bob Sanderson (resanderson@ualr.edu) have been traveling to tribal councils all across America at their own expense every summer for over thirty years requesting that the press materials be made available to them
--a very large and high quality collection of Native American art that makes the trip to Little Rock worth the effort all by itself.

Archives
Pasadena Unified School District
Pasadena Unified School District "vault" located in the PSUD headquarters:

351 South Hudson Avenue Pasadena, CA 91101-3599

(626) 795-6981
-- for the history of the school system, including documents on the many desegregation battles including some court records and correspondence; school records, board minutes (including, if they still function, audio tapes); and many photographs;

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City of Pasadena
The Pasadena History Museum (formerly the Pasadena Historical Society)
470 W Walnut Street Pasadena, CA 91103
(626) 577-1660
--for the history of the city, especially its "Black History Collection" and the "Tournament of Roses Collection" on the history of desegregation and nineteenth- and twentieth-century immigration history

California Institute of Technology archival collection
1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, California 91106
(626) 395-6811
-- for the early history of the city , especially the papers of Amos Throop;
--for the records of one of the largest eugenic efforts in the nation, see the extensive records of the Pasadena Betterment Foundation, in the E.S. Gosney Papers.

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Archives
Connecticut Historical Society Library
--items of interest, including the accounbt books of Stephen Coit, merchant, who sold goods to Prudence Crandall, teacher in Connecticut

Yale University

Museums
Prudence Crandall Museum, Canterbury
--home and school, which was the first Academy for African-American women, in the 1830s; has archival documents and links to other archives

Personal Collections
Tedd Levy, PO Box 20, Old Saybrook, CT 06475 (tedd.levy@sbcglobal.net)
(Former social studies teacher, with varied collection or pre-1920 public school collection; no guides; only K-12)
-- postcards of schools, teachers, students and other school views;
-- correspondence by or about teachers and teaching;
-- photographs;
-- some student assignments, writing books, etc.
-- some catalogs of school materials and furniture;
-- rewards of merit;
-- report cards;
-- school souvenir booklets;
-- some reports from Superintendents of Education, and others;
-- some common school publications and
-- miscellaneous items.

On-line Document Sources

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Archives
Emory University
the papers of Dr. Ulysses Byas, a black principal

Archives
Hawaii State Archives
Archives of the government of Hawaii (1790 to present), including documents on schools. 

Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society Library
Records, personal journals, letters, and photos, 19th-century Congregational missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands. Includes information on schools and missionary teachers.

University of Hawaii Library
The University Archives holds records on the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

University of Hawaii Library Archives
The Hawaiian & Pacific Collections house records on schools and other documents on Hawaii and other Pacific Islands.

Hawaiian & Pacific Collections

Center for Oral History, University of Hawaii
The Center preserves recollections of Hawaii’s people through oral interviews. Transcripts of the interviews are available at the University of Hawaii Library and the Hawaii State Library. Contact the staff for particular transcripts that relate to schools and schooling in Hawaii.

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Archival Collections
Loyola University at Chicago:
Holds the Women and Leadership Archives at Loyola University Chicago (WLA). Collections include the Mundelein College Records, which relate directly to women and education in some form: Chicago all-girls Catholic high schools, all-women Catholic colleges, women in higher education, women religious as educators, women in education reform, and women educators.
(note: the WLA Director interested in expanding the collections in the area of women's education or women in education because it is such a cornerstone of our overall collection strength, especially women or women's organizations involved in Chicago Public Schools or the Cook County Board of Education, but I would welcome just about anything under the broader umbrella of women/education (please contact Beth Myers: emyers@luc.edu)

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Archival Collections
State Historical Society Library in Des Moines:
Archivist: Shari Stelling (shari.stelling@iowa.gov ph) 515-281-5070
--a collection of 28 teaching certificates issued to Ella Pullman while she was teaching in one-room schools in Adams, Taylor and Guthrie counties in Iowa; second and first class certificate issued from 1876-1901 (to be given to the library in July 2010)

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Archival Collections

University of Maryland, College Park
Archival materials on the history of the University

The Association for Childhood Education International Archives (Hornbake Library) 
finding aid and a description of the collection: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1693

Special Collections in Performing Arts (Performing Arts Library) 
--Materials on Music Education
list of collections on this topic: http://digital.lib.umd.edu/archivesum/rguide/msed.jsp and http://lib.guides.umd.edu/scpa_musiced

Contact: Elizabeth A. Novara
Curator, Special Collections
2208C Hornbake Library
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742
enovara@umd.edu
301-314-2712 TEL
301-314-2709 FAX
http://www.lib.umd.edu/histmss/

On-line Sources

Archival Collections
Gutman Library Special Collections, Harvard University Graduate School of Education:
--All materials relate to the history of education in the United States; 
--Includes several large collections; see for example:
--Peter B. Dow - Man : A Course of Study records, 1959-1986, bulk 1964-1978 (includes press clippings, correspondence, and reports regarding the controversies that arose in connection with MACOS. Finally, the collection contains evaluations of the curriculum program as well as interviews with many of the people who were involved with the program's development)
--Harold Howe Papers, 1930-2003, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Washington, (1965-1968) (bulk 1965-2002)
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/library/collections/special/

Contact:
Edward Copenhagen
Special Collections Librarian
edward_copenhagen@harvard.edu

General contact:
Telephone: 617-384-9363
special_collections@gse.harvard.edu

Archival Collections
The Walter P. Reuther Library, Detroit:
 AFT Southern Regional Office Collection 1968-1999
-- contains information about AFT organizing drives, collective bargaining issues and various education reform initiatives in the Southern Region of the United States including the Virgin Islands.  Of note will be correspondence with the AFT from Louisiana, New Orleans, United Teachers of Dade, Fort Bragg and United Faculty of Florida from the 1970s-1990s.  Some notable issues are the Right to Eat, vouchers and social promotion.
http://reuther.wayne.edu/node/6641

For more information please contact Dan Golodner at ad6292@wayne.edu

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Archives

Bank Street College of Education Archives
--contain the institutional records of Bank Street College of Education as well as historical materials relating to the College: the history of Bank Street College; the evolution of progressive education in the United States in the 20th century; administrative activities, teaching, research, and outreach programs of the College and its predecessor, the Bureau of Educational Experiments, from the founding of the Bureau in 1916 through the present. Materials include official divisional administrative records, faculty and staff papers, audio-visual materials, photographs and artifacts. The archives encompass approximately 600 linear feet.
http://bankstreet.edu/archives/guide-archives/

Contact: Lindsey Wyckoff, Archivist/ Special Collections Librarian

Bank Street College Library, 610 W. 112th Street, New York, NY 10025
lwyckoff@bankstreet.edu
(212) 875-4562

Buffalo State College has catalogued and collected over 5,000 pieces of Science Education Curricula that is mostly from the post-sputnik National Science Foundation funded “alphabet” materials.  The archive also has many antique science methods and science text books that go back to the early 1800’s.   Additionally, there are manipulatives and multi-media products that were part of the various science programs:

http://www.buffalostate.edu/stc/documents/Books.pdf

(Catherine Lange, Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences and Earth Science Education)

Hofstra University: Long Island Studies Institute
The Nila Banton Smith Historical Collection in Reading contains primers, readers, textbooks, and teachers’ manuals related to the teaching of reading from the colonial times to the present. It forms a complement to the instructional materials on reading held in the Curriculum Materials Center (CMC) in Hagedorn Hall. The collection was brought together by H. Alan Robinson; major contributors include Lenore Sandel, Melanie Freese, Vincent Faorone, and Julius Chodorow.
Long Island Studies Institute
032 Axinn Library
123 Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY 11549-1230
(516) 463-6411

Municipal Archives, NYC
Holds NYC Board of Education Archives, including records of NYC schools from 1840s to 1960s, including photo archives (turn of 20th c. to 1960s)
www.nyc.gov

New York Historical Society, NYC
Location of the archival holdings of the NY Public School Society and other materials related to schools in nineteenth-century NYC
www.nyhistory.org

New York State Archives, Albany
Holds New York State Department of Education records, and other educational materials
www.archives.nysed.gov/

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Archival Collections
Bowling Green State University:
The Center for Archival Collections established the National Student Affairs Archives in 1982. The CAC, interested in establishing special collections reflective of the University's strong graduate programs, began to acquire the historical records from several professional associations involved in student affairs and higher education. Bowling Green State University's masters level program in College Student Personnel and doctoral program in Higher Education and Student Affairs are both recognized as among the best in the nation. Now comprising the institutional papers of numerous national, regional, and state (Ohio/Michigan) professional associations, the private collections of several individuals who have been extremely active in the field, and a cataloged library of books and pamphlets, the National Student Affairs Archives is used extensively by the associations, and by faculty and graduate students. The CAC is committed to actively acquiring additional collections for this special collecting area. If you are interested in using these sources for research or if you are interested in donating collections, please contact Ann Bowers (abowers@bgnet.bgsu.edu) at the CAC.

Student Affairs History Project:

A Wide Variety of Education-Related Primary Sources at BGSU, most from professional organizations, teachers, and students in the region, as well as BGSU/BG Normal College-affiliated students, faculty, and organizations.

The Education Memorabilia Center/Little Red Schoolhouse on the campus of Bowling Green State University is a restored 1875 building with period furnishings and curriculum materials.

The Wood County Public Library in the city of Bowling Green, Ohio also has records of a survey collected in the 1960s (?) of the county's one-room schoolhouses.

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Archival Collections
Lincoln University of PA Archives include student newspapers, college catalogues, alumni newsletters, board of trustee minutes, etc., freely accessible to all from the website.

[Susan Pevar, Special Collections Librarian, Langston Hughes Memorial Library]

Penn State University in University Park, PA, has several collections relation to history of visual arts education:  The Albert A. Anderson, Jr. and Evelynn M. Ellis Art Education Collection

The National Art Education Association:

The papers of Viktor Lowenfeld, an Austrian emigrant known for his research and post-war teaching in art education, as well as other collections on art education history.

Philadelphia Free Library holds Philadelphia schools archival materials
www.freelibrary.org

Library Company of Philadelphia
Holds a strong collection in the early national period, educational as well as political; includes good material in African American history (including education) and early Jewish education in Philadelphia.
www.librarycompany.org

Balch Institute, Philadelphia
Holds ethnic archives, including much good educational material, including Slavic,
Italian (Leonard Cavello archives), and Jewish (early Jewish religious education in the Philadelphia Jewish Archives, housed at the Balch)
www.balchinstitute.org/manuscript_guide

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Archival Collections
The Seattle School District maintains an active archive, including a small museum, and has a trained archivist, Eleanor Toews.  This would be valuable for anyone interested in the Northwest or urban school districts:
http://www.seattleschools.org/area/archives/index.xml

See also for state archives: http://www.sos.wa.gov/archives/Default.aspx

On-line Document Sources

 
Needs
Washington State does not have very good statewide collection policy; many local districts in the state could be encouraged to donate their holdings to an appropriate archive, is someone were willing to receive the materials.

Archives
Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives
1201 17th Street, N.W./Washington, DC 20036
Director and supervisory archivist: Kimberly Springle. Ms. Springle (202.730.0478)
Sumner School maintains the historical records of the DC Public Schools.
Included in the materials: a complete set of bound Board meeting minutes; a complete (or nearly complete) set of Board meeting transcripts on microfilm; correspondence received by the Board, reports, curriculum guides, etc.; folders for various DC Public Schools.

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Archives
Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Archives
Edmonton Public School Board
http://archives.epsb.net/

On-line Sources

British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
Vancouver School Board
http://www.vsb.bc.ca/VSBheritage

On-line Sources
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/general/guides/eh-guide.pdf
--BC Archives research note on schools-related records, issued periodically

http://www.viu.ca/homeroom/
-- a web site on schools entitled “The Homeroom”, edited by Patrick Dunae

See also: Patrick A. Dunae, The School Record: A Guide to Government Archives Relating to Education in British Columbia, 1852-1946  (1990)

Ontario
Archives
The Thames Valley Museum School houses the archives for the Oxford County Board of Education in Ontario Canada up to 1969, when the board was amalgamated with the Thames Valley District School Board, and holds records back to mid 1800’s.
 www.museumschool.ca

The Archives Association of Ontario may have school records: http://aao.fis.utoronto.ca/

On-line Sources

Toronto, Ontario
Archives

Toronto District School Board Archives
-- The TDSB's collection is very impressive: there some real gems in the
collection, including student record cards and the complete records of
the Home and School Association. There are, however, few finding aids.
One was published in 1977 that is actually pretty good.

Virtual Museum

Toronto Catholic District School Board Archives

Virtual Museum

On-line Sources

Archives
The Library for History of Education Research (Bibliothek fuer Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung), Berlin, Germany, a fine library for scholars working on the history of education in Germany. The library has over 700,000 volumes, and offers comfortable workspaces for visiting scholars. I would add that the library also contains an archive that holds the personal files of several important European educators including Pestalozzi and Froebel. It is also easily accessible via the U-Bahn (Warschauer Strasse).

The George Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig, Germany ( an excellent collection of textbooks, which is strongest in the fields of history, civics, and science. While the library's holdings are particularly rich in terms of German textbooks from the 19th and 20th centuries, there are also materials from throughout Europe. Additionally, the GEI offers short-term research grants to visiting scholars to use the library (and a pleasant guest house for those working at the Institute).

Archives
All of the following web sites are Japanese language sites:
Kyoto Municipal Museum of School History
http://kyo-gakurehaku.jp/Default.htm has a collection of Edo period through WWII era materials on schooling in the city of Kyoto.

Tottori Prefectural Archives
Several years ago archivists there made copies of the historical documents held by every public school in the prefecture and catalogued the copies in the prefectural archives.
http://www.pref.tottori.lg.jp/dd.aspx?menuid=9499

Kaichi gakkou (Kaichi primary school)
Several tens of thousands of documents have been preserved and archived from the Kaichi gakkou primary school which dates from 1873 in the city of Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture. Twenty or so volumes of this material have been reproduced and published.
http://www.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp

Shinano kyouiku hakubutsukan (Shinano museum of education)
This small facility in Nagano City, Nagano Prefecture has a collection of textbooks dating from the end of the Edo period, historical journals of the Shinano kyouikukai (a local teachers' association), children's artwork, etc.
http://www.shinkyo.or.jp/

The library (http://www.nier.go.jp/library/) of the National Institute for Educational Policy Research in Tokyo has government documents, textbooks, and other materials on education primarily from the late 19th century to the present.

Materials can also be found in many major university libraries, the National Diet Library, and other government archives, municipal museums, as well as in schools themselves.  The oldest public school in a particular area sometimes has administrative logs and other materials dating to the institution's founding sitting in a safe in the principal's office.  Public schools in Japan are frequently being combined in recent years as the number of school age children declines, so if one can find a school that traces its ancestry to several older ones, and obtain permission from the principal to have a look, a treasure of historical materials may be waiting.

Archives

Online

Nationaal Archief has 27 historical photographs of Dutch school life, all without known copyright restriction, available for tagging, commenting, and downloading)

Institute of Education, University of London [Becky Webster. Deputy Archivist, Information Services, Institute of Education, University of London]:
--Institute’s papers which cover the period from our establishment as the London Day Training College in 1902 to the present
--100 deposited collections that cover all areas of education, including all levels of UK education from pre-school and school through to further, higher, teacher and adult education, in formal, informal and experimental settings. It includes research, practice, policy and thought in education and related areas:
Personal papers of significant individual educationists such as researchers, practitioners, policy makers, writers and thinkers (particularly individuals who have a close association to the Institute); Records of corporate bodies such as trade unions, professional bodies, societies, associations, pressure groups and special interest groups; Records of research projects and initiatives.

Leading Educational and Social Research

Lists of separate collections are at:
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/services/1511.html>http://www.ioe.ac.uk/

services/1511.html
(for papers of individuals)
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/services/1512.html>http://www.ioe.ac.uk/

services/1512.html
(for records of organizations)

Web links to collections and guides
http://archive.ioe.ac.uk/DServe>http://archive.ioe.ac.uk/DServe
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/services/documents/Services_Library/SG1_

School_architecture and_design_(March_2009)  Subject Guide 1: School architecture and design (pdf) Subject Guide 1: School architecture and design (pdf)
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/services/documents/Services_Library/SG2_

Comparative_Education_(March_2009)  Subject Guide 2: Comparative education (pdf)
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/services/documents/Services_Library/SG3_

Progressive_Education_(March_2009) Subject Guide 3: Progressive education (pdf)

http://www.ioe.ac.uk/services/documents/Services_Library/SG4_post-war_educational_reconstruction_(March_2009) Subject Guide 4: Post-war educational reconstruction (pdf)
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/services/documents/Services_Library/SG5_

child_psychology_(March2009) Subject Guide 5: Child psychology (pdf)
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/services/documents/Services_Library/SG6_Voice_

and_Memory_(March_2009) Subject Guide 6: 'Voice' and 'memory' (pdf)
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/services/documents/Services_Library/SG7_

Women_and_education_(March_2009) Subject Guide 7: Women and education (pdf)
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/services/documents/Services_Library/SG8_

family_history_(March_2009) Subject Guide 8: Family history (pdf)

Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick
--Records of the National Union of Teachers, the National Union of Students and the British Educational Research Association (BERA) http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/subject_guides/

education/>http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/subject_

guides/education/

Others in Development
--Guides on careers guidance and counseling, vocational education, the work of ILEA (the Inner London Education Authority) and health education.

London School of Economics
The London School of Economics has in the past couple of months has been posting some great sets of photos of college life, all with "no known copyright restrictions" status, ready for tagging and commenting as part of the Flickr Commons project. Among the sets of particular interest:

LSE Founders and Early Days 1895-1920s (20 photos):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/sets/72157622618340936/

Around the School 1930s (14 photos):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/sets/72157622618744118/

Around the School 1940s (19 photos):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/sets/72157622494371009/

Around the School 1950s (14 photos):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/sets/72157622494388421/

Around the Schol 1960s (62 photos):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/sets/72157622492394527/

Around the School 1970s (80 photos):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/sets/72157622492545507/

Around the School 1980s (80 photos):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/sets/72157622492586053/

Around the School 1990s (6 photos):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/sets/72157622618893958/

Formal LSE Staff Portraits (58 photos):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/sets/72157622618001338/

Published Sources
History of Education Researcher
--Volumes published in May and November each year by the UK History of Education Society, includes items about archives and archival acquisitions (mostly those in the
UK) relevant to the field.  For information:
http://www.historyofeducation.org.uk/page.php?id=27