First series contains proof of birth and birth registration records (73 boxes, ca. 8000 records), demonstrating the age of an individual with form of proof taken from passports, baptismal certificates, letters from clergy, and birth certificates, in a variety of languages. The Lawrence Continuation School (existed from 1920-1952, teaching children between ages of 14 and 15 who also worked at least 4 hours weekly) records for both girls and boys include name, dates, grades, addresses, academic history, and sometimes post school history. The collection also includes high school records (for both boys and girls) indicating if an individual attended school during the 1970s, which school attended, and if they graduated. Lawrence Training School (fifth series, on small index cards) records include names of individuals attending Lawrence Training School, if graduation was attained, and in some cases, jobs held after graduation. Miscellaneous records series includes three scrapbooks chronicling the Lawrence Public Schools through newspaper clippings and ephemera (1897-1905), account book (1956-1965), and various documents such as insurance policies, contracts, financial papers, lists of foster children educated by Lawrence Public Schools, and memorandum of agreement between the Lawrence School Committee and Harvard University for the study of the Lawrence schools in 1954.