The Campus School at Western database is an initiative of Western Washington University Special Collections. It offers access to photographs and other original material documenting all aspects of the Campus School, a public school located on the institution's campus, from its beginnings in 1899 until closure in 1967.

The goals of the database are to record the teachers, administrators, and staff who created and sustained the Campus School experience; provide unique images of students and their work; document the changing environment of the school throughout its nearly seven decades of service; and illustrate the two Campus School reunions held in 1993 and 2007.

The database includes images from the Campus School Collection and the Campus History Collection in Special Collections. Many of the images, as well as most of the artifacts pictured in the database, were donated by Campus School alumni, friends, and affiliates during the Campus School Memories Project undertaken 2005-2007 in preparation for the exhibit "Teaching Learning-Learning Teaching: The Campus School, 1988-1967," displayed at the Whatcom Museum, June-October 2007.

Special Collections gratefully acknowledges the generosity and support of these donors. Through their continuing contributions to the Campus School Memorabilia Preservation Fund, they are helping to ensure the preservation of these materials for generations of researchers to come.

Images included in the database were scanned from photographic prints or print publications using an Epson Perfection 1640SU or a Microtek ScanMaker 9800XL scanner and saved in jpg format. Some manipulation of the images was done to present the best possible image. The scanned images were then linked with descriptive data using CONTENTdm software. The original resources reside in Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections.