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Imogene Myrland Papers

1932 to 1974
AZ 442
Collection Guide

Imogene J. Myrland was an educator in Tucson, AZ and began with setting up nursery schools under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1936. She also organized and directed the Tucson Nursery School in 1946.

The collection contains correspondence, photographs, clippings, financial records, scrapbooks, teaching aids, miscellaneous publications, and other material relating to the organization and development of nursery schools and day care centers in Arizona, especially Tucson. Also includes personal and biographical material, correspondence about and from parent education groups in Tucson, State Child Care Committee of the Arizona Defense Council from 1941-1944, and the Arizona State 4-C Committee from 1970, and scrapbooks of various local nursery schools.

 

 

 

[...] Tucson, AZ [...] the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1936. [...] The collection contains correspondence, [...] Council from 1941-1944, [...] Committee in 1970; [...] 

 

Included materials:
Photographs
Manuscript
Subject Area:
Business
Collection Area:
Arizona & Southwest

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We respectfully acknowledge the University of Arizona is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples. Today, Arizona is home to 22 federally recognized tribes, with Tucson being home to the O’odham and the Yaqui. Committed to diversity and inclusion, the University strives to build sustainable relationships with sovereign Native Nations and Indigenous communities through education offerings, partnerships, and community service.