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[Description and dates], Box/folder number, MS 49, Buffalo Association for Childhood Education Records, 1892-1959, University Archives, The State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Terms of AccessBuffalo Association for Childhood Education Records, 1892-1959, are open for research.
CopyrightCopyright of papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the University Archives before publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Most papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise specified.
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The Buffalo Kindergarten Union was established in 1892 at the suggestion of the Superintendent of the Buffalo Free Kindergarten Association. In 1896, the BKU joined the International Kindergarten Union and in 1920 the Kindergarten Section of the New York State Teacher's Association. The International Kindergarten Union became the Association for Childhood Education and circa 1932 the Buffalo Kindergarten Association became the Buffalo Association for Childhood Education, a branch of the National Association for Childhood Education.
Minute books, 1892-1921, of the Buffalo Kindergarten Union, and scrapbooks, 1930-1959, of the Buffalo Kindergarten Union and its successor, the Buffalo Association for Childhood Education, containing clippings, reports, letters, announcements and programs, memorabilia, photographs and other items concerning the history and activities of the Buffalo Kindergarten Union, Buffalo Association for Childhood Education, the Kindergarten Section of the New York State Teachers' Association and the National Association for Childhood Education. Also includes a printed report of the Buffalo Free Kindergarten Association for 1892-1893.
This collection has been maintained in its original order.
| Box | Contents | |
| 1 | Buffalo Kindergarten Union. Minute Book, 1892-1894 | |
| 1 | Buffalo Kindergarten Union. Minute Book, 1894-1904 | |
| 1 | Buffalo Kindergarten Union. Minute Book, 1904-1910 | |
| 1 | Buffalo Kindergarten Union. Minute Book, 1910-1916 | |
| 1 | Buffalo Kindergarten Union. Minute Book, 1916-1921 | |
| 2 | Historians Book of the Buffalo Kindergarten Union, 1915-1921 | |
| 2 | Report of the Kindergarten Union, 1892-1920, 1926? | |
| 2 | National ACE Conventions, 1938-1956 | |
| 2 | Scrapbook, 1952-1956 | |
| 3 | Scrapbook, 1931-1941 | |
| 3 | Scrapbook, 1937-1938 | |
| 4 | Scrapbook, 1942-1952 | |
| 4 | Scrapbook, 1956-1959 | |
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