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A combination of personal and professional materials comprise this series which encompasses her childhood through early career, including a letter from Edna James Blain Smith to Clara's mother asking permission for her to spend the night in order to view the inauguration parade in January 1896, and several recommendation letters from school superintendents and teachers contracts from Bound Brook Public School, Manchester Township School, and Passaic County Schools. Also included are several affectionate “Haledon Students’ Love Notes to Teacher” from 1901.

Clara Wolverton’s “Grades Book” is a handwritten notebook documenting her teachers’ names and the grades she earned in each subject from Centennial Grammar School 1892 - 1894, Trenton High School 1894 - 1898, through New Jersey State Normal School 1898 - February 1901. There are some additional loose pages with calculations and class lists also housed with the book.

This series contains a wide range of materials from her high school through professional years. From Trenton High School, there are tickets and programs for graduation exercises which contain lists of names of graduating students. From State Normal School, there are Matriculation (enrollment) cards, performance programs, and graduation event materials starting in 1898 until 1901. Of particular note are hand-written song lyrics to "Farewell to State Schools'' and "Seniors" sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle, as well as printed songs for holidays and February Class of 1901. From Wolverton’s early teaching years, there are event programs from her school, social, and possibly church activities. In addition, there are some personal items including a business card for her brother G. Wolverton Jr. at Prudential LIfe Insurance Company, a Pennsylvania Railroad Company Photographic Monthly Commutation ticket from 1929 when she may have still been a student at University of Pennsylvania, Red Cross membership certificates during WWI, and Botanical Society of Pennsylvania meeting programs and studies from the early 1920s. It is unknown if Clara Wolverton attended these programs for pleasure or part of her continued education to become a science teacher.

The financial materials include bills addressed to Clara's father Gabriel Wolverton for the use of books at New Jersey State Normal School for $1.00 per quarter, a receipt for class of 1901 dues, and receipts for a subscription to the Signal.

These are various blank forms for the observation of school children, likely from student teaching or Normal School class work.

Gift cards, possibly once attached to flowers, and greeting cards to Clara Wolverton.
(Not all scanned)