Salt Lake City (Utah) School Children’s Constitution and Flag Monument Books
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About the Collection
This series contains two books compiled by the school district to document and commemorate the erection of the School Children's Constitution and Flag Monument on the west side of Washington Square in front of the Salt Lake City and County Building.
Salt Lake City School District (Utah) School Children's Constitution and Flag Monument books
This series contains two books compiled by the school district to document and commemorate the erection of the School Children's Constitution and Flag Monument on the west side of Washington Square in front of the Salt Lake City and County Building. The books were compiled in 1952 and include copies of newspaper articles about the erection of the monument and photographs of the dedication in 1937 and the opening of the monument time capsule in 1952. They also contain documentation of efforts to erect a flag pole not only at the City and County Building, but at each school in the district as well. The bulk of the volumes is taken up by negative photostatic copies of the lists of children's aspirations. These lists are arranged by school and grade and, in most cases, include a photograph of the school and information about the flag pole for that school. The lists typically give the grade and teacher, the name of each student and the career they wanted to pursue when they grew up. In some cases (especially for younger grades) teachers apparently wrote all the information, but in many cases the information is written in each students own hand.