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Penn Foster Career School is a U.S. for-profit, [1] regionally and nationally-accredited [2] [3] distance education school offering career diploma programs and certificate programs. It was founded in 1890 as International Correspondence Schools, or ICS. Penn Foster is headquartered in Scranton, Pennsylvania .
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Abstract
1. Newsletters, circulars, marketing materials, photographs, scrapbooks, course books, textbooks, documents, and other artifacts from the records of the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton (ICS).
Source
1. Thompson Education Direct, Gifts
Creator(s)
1. International Correspondence Schools of Scranton (ICS)
Digital Access
Only a small selection of materials from this collection has been digitized. All digitized materials are publicly available online. Please note that many ICS publications have been digitized by other libraries and organizations and may be available via the Digital Public Library of America, Internet Archive, HathiTrust, and/or Google Books.
Physical Access
Physical materials may be browsed by appointment in the Reading Roomof the University Archives and McHugh Family Special Collections.
Rights
Items in the University of Scranton Archives and McHugh Family Special Collections may be made available to visiting researchers to support research, scholarship, education, and private study under an assertion of fair use (17 U.S.C. 107). The University of Scranton respects the intellectual property rights of others and does not claim any copyright interest in these materials. It is your responsibility to determine the ownership and status of copyright in any materials you may wish to use be...
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains newsletters, circulars, marketing materials, photographs, scrapbooks, course books, textbooks, documents, and other artifacts from the records of the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton(ICS), dating from 1897 to present.
Inventory
Processing of this collection is continually ongoing as new materials are regularly acquired. Please contactMcHugh Family Special Collections staff for the most up-to-date inventory.
A deed of gift was signed in 2006 by Thompson Education Direct, which has since been acquired by Penn Foster. Prior to the deed of gift, Thompson Education Direct had been donating materials periodically since 2002.
Processing
Processing of this collection began in 2006 and is continually ongoing as new materials are regularly acquired.
Digitization
Selected materials from the collection have been digitized, generally upon researcher demand. Materials were digitized in-house using an Epson Expression 10000XL. Most images were captured at 300 dpi, 24-bit color in TIFF format.
Harvesting
Metadata from this collection is exposed via Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Known, active harvests include: 1. WorldCat (via OCLC Digital Collection Gateway) 2. Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) via PA Digital
Materials in this collection may contain harmful or offensive language or imagery. In the interests of historical integrity, we do not remove these images or words from archival materials. This note is to inform users of the content before accessing the material online or requesting access to material in person. We do this so that researchers may d...
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CONTACT NORTH AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS. Address: Oak & Pawnee Sts. Scranton, PA 18515. General Phone Number: Not Provided. Financial Aid Phone Number: Not Provided. Admissions Phone Number:
Education. Corporate Phone Number. +1 800-471-3232. Customer Support Phone Number. ...
International Correspondence School. 1921, W. Scott Collins; 2005–2007 wings, Hemmler+Camayd. Wyoming Ave. at Ash St. This was the second headquarters of the pioneering mail-order instructional school ( LK15 ). Its source is the familiar crenellated Tudor Revival tower of England's Hampton Court, rendered here in buff brick.
Sep 4, 2015 · The International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania grew out of a question and answer column written by Thomas J. Foster, publisher of Colliery Engineer and Metal Miner. In 1885, Pennsylvania passed a Mine Safety Act, which required miners and inspectors to pass examinations on mine safety.
Special Collections News International Correspondence Schools Collection The International Correspondence Schools of Scranton (I.C.S.) was a pioneer in distance education in the early twentieth century. Founded in 1891, it had its beginnings as a question and answer section in the pages of Colliery Engineer and Metal Miner, a mining journal published in Shenandoah,
