Angelo Patri papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30000
Subjects: Radio scripts; Newspapers; School principals; Child rearing; Progressive education; Sections, columns; Public schools; Education; Children
Description: Correspondence, writings, radio scripts, biographical material, financial records, and other papers reflecting Patri's role as an educator and popularizer of John Dewey's progressive educational principles.  Traces the evolving nature of education and child rearing from the 1920s to the 1960s.  Patri's writings on children include typewritten copies of his syndicated column "Our Children."  Also includes a draft of his unpublished autobiography pertaining to his years as a public school principal in New York City and correspondence with parents seeking Patri's child rearing advice.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Dr. Frank P. Merolla, executor of the Patri estate, 1966.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Educator and author.  Died 1965.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012086