Collection #

P 0285

 

 

forest fleming garrett
collection, ca. 1898–ca. 1930

Collection Information

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Series Contents

Cataloging Information

 

 

 

Processed by

Pamela Tranfield
September 1994

Revised by Dorothy Nicholson
October 2003

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

 

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF
COLLECTION:

1 document case

COLLECTION
DATES:

Ca. 1898–ca. 1949

PROVENANCE:

Forms part of the Cecil Beeson/Blackford County Historical Society Collection.

RESTRICTIONS:

None

COPYRIGHT:

 

REPRODUCTION
RIGHTS:

Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society.

ALTERNATE
FORMATS:

None

RELATED
HOLDINGS:

None

ACCESSION
NUMBER:

1994.0734T

NOTES:

 

BIOGRAPHiCAL SKETCH

Forest Fleming Garrett (1891–1949) was a teacher at North Ward School in Hartford City from ca. 1910 to the time of her death in 1949.  Her daughter, Delpha C. Garrett Hoist, was a student at North Ward School.  Garrett was the widow of D. C. Garrett (1891–1914). She is buried at Montpelier, Indiana.

North Ward Elementary School housed elementary and junior secondary students between its opening in 1905 and its demolition in 1960.

Sources:

Items found in the collection.

A History of Blackford County, Indiana. Hartford City, Indiana: Blackford County Historical Society, 1986.

Cemetery Records. Blackford County. Reel 175. [ Indiana State Library]

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The collection consists of fifteen black-and-white photographs that represent facets of the family life and career of Forest Fleming Garrett.  Images include interior and exterior shots of North Ward School, including teachers and students. Among those depicted in the school portraits are Forest Garrett's daughter, Delpha C. Garrett Hoist, and her husband, Delpha C. Garrett.

The collection is divided into three series. Series 1: Forest Garrett, ca. 1910, contains four photographs of Garrett at varying ages posed with students, teachers, and members of what may be a dramatic club. Series 2: North Ward School, ca. 1910–ca. 1930, contains eight photographs of teachers and students in classrooms at North Ward School, and one photograph of the school exterior. Series 3: Delpha C. Garrett, ca. 1898–ca. 1913, consists of two photographs of Forest Garrett's husband as a small child at Blake's School in Jackson Township, and as a young man.

series CONTENTS

Series 1: Forest Garrett, ca. 1910–1930

CONTENTS

CONTAINER

[Garrett with students, ca. 1910]

Box 1, Folder 1

[Teachers, North Ward School, ca. 1920–1930]

Box 1, Folder 2

[Dramatic club (?), ca. 1914]

Box 1, Folder 3

Series 2: North Ward School, ca. 1910–ca. 1930

CONTENTS

CONTAINER

[Teachers and students, North Ward School, ca. 1910–1925]

Box 1, Folder 4

[North Ward School, ca. 1930]

Box 1, Folder 5

Series 3: Delpha C. Garrett, ca. 1898–1913

CONTENTS

CONTAINER

[Delpha C. Garrett at Blake’s School, ca. 1898]

Box 1, Folder 6

[Delpha C. Garrett, ca. 1913]

Box 1, Folder 7

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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