Educatable Children Census

Tallahatchie Co., The Second District

This is a photo of the Charleston Elementary School.

These are actual copies of the Educatable Children Census books located at the Tallahatchie County Office of Mr. David Hargett, Superentendent of the Schools, in Charleston Tallahatchie County, Mississippi.

The first book we did was for the year of 1906. I believe from what I was told that the School Census was taken about every two years. These books are in desperate need of repair, and if these records are not preserved within the next fifty years they will no longer be usable.

These are scanned files, and some are very hard to read. Due to the condition of the book of 1906, it had to be handled very carefully, and no matter how carefully handled some of the edges still broke off and would tear very easily. Due to the fact that I did not have a legal size scanner the pages had to be scanned twice and then when I arrived back home in Texas, edited, copied and pasted to make a whole page. I am afraid that I may not have gotten all of the pages saved, because as most of you know and understand electronics things just do not work out like you want them to sometimes. As time permits I will check these pages when I return to Charleston and try and confirm all are correct. If you find a page that is not numbered correctly, please let me know and I will correct the numbering. For some reason the census taker did not stick to the page numbers, there were pages skipped throughout the book. These pages were numbered when the book was made, and in skipping pages it leaves one who has not seen the books to wonder why there is a skip from page, ie: 88-90, etc. I have all of the pages from Book 1906 up, but am working on putting them in text to be placed at the bottom of the image. Please be patient, it is going to take a while, there are over 300 pages.

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