Notebook and Oriels. Curriculum notes by long-time Westborough schoolteacher, Annie Fales.
Official collection name: Annie E. Fales Papers
Location: Shelving
Local identifier: LH.035
Creator: Annie E. Fales
Date: ca. 1901-1960
Extent: 1.5 linear feet (one box)
Subject: Schools–Westborough (Mass.); Schools–Westborough (Mass.)–Periodicals
Scrapbook, videos, and framed cartoon documenting the 1943 Westborough High School Championship Football Team and its 50th reunion.
Official collection name: Carroll and Marion Fay 1943 Westborough Championship Football Team Collection
Location: Under map case.
Local identifier: LH.083
Creator: Carroll Fay
Date: 1943-1993
Extent: 1.5 linear feet (1 box)
Subject: Society & Culture; Sports teams
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Books, hard drive, a ledger book detailing the lives of boys at the State Reform School in Westborough from 1856-1857, annual reports, and a book about the history and life at the school. The collection also includes Delinquents in the Making by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck and Crime in the Making by Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub, both of which used data from the Lyman School to study delinquency and criminality in young people. See also the folder for “Lyman School” in the Local History by Subject collection (LH.001). The Lyman School is also featured in the Westborough Center online exhibit, “Changing Pictures of Childhood: A Comparative History of Child Welfare in Westborough.” See also the The Robert Cleaves Collection of Lyman School Records.
Official collection name: Records of the Lyman School for Boys [State Reform School]
Location: Shelving and unprocessed box in work shelving.
Local identifier: LH.016
Creator: Westborough Public Library
Date: 1847-1959
Extent: .5 linear foot (books, film, hard drive) + one unprocessed box
Subject: Reformatories–Massachusetts–Westborough (Mass.); Lyman School for Boys
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The Robert Cleaves Collection of Lyman School Records covers the early years of the State Reform School for Boys and the Lyman School for Boys. Most notably, the collection includes meeting minutes of the school’s Board of Trustees beginning with its very first meeting in 1847 up until 1860 and a collection of photographs showing the boys engaging in a number of activities between 1905 and 1912. Records from this collection is featured in the Westborough Center online exhibit, “Changing Pictures of Childhood: A Comparative History of Child Welfare in Westborough.” See also Records of the Lyman School for Boys [State Reform School].
Official collection name: The Robert Cleaves Collection of Lyman School Records
Location: Shelving
Local identifier: LH.070
Creator: Robert Cleaves
Date: 1847-1946
Extent: 1 linear foot (2 boxes + Map Case folder)
Subject: Reformatories–Massachusetts–Westborough (Mass.); Lyman School for Boys
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Finding aid: LH070 – Robert Cleaves Collection of Lyman School Records
Bound School Committee reports.
Official collection name: Westborough School Committee Reports, 1881-1900, 1910, 1970-1971
Location: Reference shelving
Local identifier: LH.050
Creator: Town of Westborough
Date: 1881-1900, 1910, 1970-1971
Extent: .5 linear feet
Subject: Schools–Westborough (Mass.)–Periodicals
Most of the records in this collection were created in the nineteenth century. They document planning for the repair and building of schools, splitting the town into separate districts, the hiring and firing of teachers, and the administering of schools within each district. Documents relating to disciplining students include the “Report on Events Leading to Expelling Emey Colburn by the Westborough School Association, 1840” (OS.02), “Adopted By-Laws Concerning Truant Children, 1871” (1.015), and entries from March 14-28, 1887 in School Committee Records, 1862-1892 (1.002).
Official collection name: Historical Records of the Town of Westborough: Schools
Location: Shelving and Oversize
Local identifier: OD.004 (Accession number 2015.02)
Creator: Town of Westborough
Date: 1724-1932
Extent: 3 linear feet (1 banker box + 1 oversize box)
Subject: Schools–Westborough (Mass.)
Finding aid: OD004 – Westborough School Docs
Run, with gaps, of The Oriel, Westborough High School’s literary magazine.
Official collection name: The Oriel
Location: Shelving
Local identifier: LH.043
Creator: Westborough High School
Date: ca. 1915-1953
Extent: .75 linear feet (two boxes)
Subject: Schools–Westborough (Mass.)–Periodicals
Pictures and stories by third grade students about why they think Westborough is special.
Official collection name: Third Grade Archives Projects
Location: Shelving
Local identifier: LH.062
Creator: Westborough Public Library
Date: 2018
Extent: .25 linear feet (1 box)
Subject: Westborough (Mass.)–Pictorial works
