More Archives
The North Shore Country Day School Archives preserves and publishes the history of our school for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and researchers around the world.
Additional archival materials are available online using the following links:
Internet Archive: Scanned, searchable archival documents and publications -- links to individual collections:
- Acorn and Alumni Bulletin
- The Mirror, 1920-2016
- Notes, 1938-1970, newsletter with school happenings and featuring and writings on Progressive education pedagogy and philosophy by Perry Dunlap Smith and other teachers
- The Purple and White, all of the issues of the Purple & White student newspaper in our collection compiled in one searchable document
- Country Day Cooks, 1974 cookbook published by the Woman's Board
- The North Shore Country Day School: Seventy Years of Community Learning, history of the School 1919-1990, written by Dr. Nancy Geyer Christopher
- Vin Allison's Favorites Song Book
- The History of the Physical Education Department by Mac McCarty, 1987
YouTube: Digitized film and other moving images
Flickr: Over 25,000 searchable archival photographs
Even more is available in the NSCDS Archives in Leicester Hall.
We're working on making our physical collections more search-friendly and accessible. For now, please contact the Archivist at archives@nscds.org or 847-881-8844 for research assistance or a class visit.
Some collections of interest that haven't been digitized:
- Alumni Association Collection
- Including class histories and reunion records
- Commencement Collection
- Communications Collection
- Course outlines & Curriculum
- Directories
- Faculty and Staff Profiles
- Handbooks
- Performing Arts Collection
- Perry Dunlap Smith Collection
- Student Work Collection