Portsmouth (Va.) Teachers’ Registers
| Creator | Portsmouth (Va.) Public Schools |
| Description | Volumes from both black and white schools recording student names, attendance, and grades. Directions for completing the registers are listed in the front matter; teachers were required to write neatly; use “good black ink”; and record the names of their pupils alphabetically, “the boys first.” School holidays were carefully noted, including the funeral of Jefferson Davis (1889) and Decoration Day. Descriptions of the school buildings and lists of the textbooks were also recorded. Occasionally the volumes include lists of classroom visitors, indigent pupils, or student prizes for attendance and deportment. School principal and teacher Willis A. Jenkins tucked a schedule of daily exercises in his 1886 register. The day began at 9:00 with roll call and included lessons in geography, grammar, calisthenics, physiology, arithmetic, history, and writing. Thirty minutes were allowed for lunch and recess combined. Organized by school district, then by white or colored school, then by school number. |
| Call number | Accession 44316 |
| Date from | 1882 |
| Date to | 1955 |
| Geographic school | Portsmouth, VA |
| Size | 154 volumes |
| Access restrictions yes/no | yes |
| Access restrictions | Student information in these unprocessed materials may be RESTRICTED under the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Please contact Archives Research Services prior to visiting the Library of Virginia. |
| Part Of larger collection yes/no | no |
| Larger collection title | |
| URL | http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi04026.xml |
| Repository | Library of Virginia |
| Repository address | 800 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219-8000 |
| Repository contact name | |
| Repository contact title | Archives Reference Services |
| Repository contact email | archdesk@lva.virginia.gov |
| Repository contact phone | (804) 692-3888 |
| DoveRegion | region5 |
| Subjects | o African American students
o Public schools o School children o Segregation in education o Public schools–Virginia–Portsmouth |
| Types | Government papers |