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Otago Girls' High School : Records

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Reference NumberARC-0056CreatorOtago Girls' High SchoolDescriptionThis collection includes admission, progress and withdrawal registers (1871-1974), individual pupil files (1982-2000), enrolment records (1945-2002), attendance registers (1906, 1974-2000), examination records (1940-1986), sixth form certificate records (1989-1996), principals' diaries (1945-1984), Board of Trustees records (1989-1999), papers and plans relating to the school redevelopment (1978-1988), reports and prospectuses (1863-1995), school magazines (1886-2008), newspaper clipping scrapbooks (1981-1993), jubilee papers (1920-1996), papers of ex-headmistress M.H.M. King (1874-1954), photographs (1870-1998), and plans (1958-1994). Other material includes drawings, certificates, music manuscripts, hat badges and a banner.
Only a small part of this collection is digitised and available through Digital Collections. Information about other items can be found on the Hākena catalogue, through the Library Catalogues link above.History / BiographyOtago Girls' High School was the first public girls' school in the southern hemisphere. It opened on 6 February 1871 as the Girls' Provincial School, after a long campaign by educationalist Learmonth Whyte Dalrymple.

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