Highlights : Children : School books

Subcategory School books contains 10 item(s).

	"Geography Made Easy" 1798 L99.108 This 1798 geography schoolbook provided children in New England with a "window to the world."
	"Smith's Geography on the Productive System; for Schools, Academies, and Families" 1835 L99.114 Spellers, readers, arithmetic books, and geography texts like Roswell Smith's Geography, with its typical question-and-answer format, were the most widely-owned schoolbooks in the 1830s and '40s.
	"Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Comparison and Classification" 1827 L99.116 This 1827 geography school textbook approached the study of geography through "comparison and classification" of the "Degrees of Civilization" of races and countries in the same manner in which it made comparisons of the size of towns, rivers and mountains.
	"The Young Reader; To Go With The Spelling Book" 1835 L00.011 The Young Reader was one of many readers that parents could purchase for their children by the 1830s.
	"The North American Arithmetic. Part First for Young Learners" 1841 L00.012 Early 19th century arithmetic books taught addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division often using problems from everyday life as the author did in this book.
	"Rudiments of Geography" 1823 L00.013 This 1823 geography school textbook approached the study of geography through "comparison and classification" of the "Degrees of Civilization" of races and countries in the same manner in which it made comparisons of the size of towns, rivers, and mountains.
	"Mitchell's Primary Geography. An Easy Introduction to the Study of Geography: Designed for the Instruction of Children" 1846 L00.024 This 1846 geography schoolbook, with its "ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ENGRAVINGS AND FOURTEEN MAPS" provided school children with a visual "window to the world."
	"New England Primer" c. 1800 L00.032 School books known as primers formed a basic tool of teaching the young how to read.
	"The National First Reader; or Word-Builder" 1869 L00.047 In mid-19th century America, a child's life was not "all work and no play." This schoolbook gives us ideas of what children did for fun-marbles, kites, hoops, and swings.
	"New And True Stories For Children, With 100 Pictures" 1849 L01.006 This schoolbook, published in New York in 1849, helped to satisfy a big demand for schoolbooks in New England and New York.