icon for Home page
icon for Kid's Home page
icon for Digital Collection
icon for Activities
icon for Turns Exhibit
icon for In the Classroom
icon for Chronologies
icon for My Collection

Online Collection
Select a page:

Title page
(c) Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield MA. All rights reserved.
Contact us for information about using this image.



label levels:

This schoolbook gives us ideas of what children did for fun - marbles, kites, hoops, and swings. Although they tend to be a bit too picture perfect, pictures in old school books can give us information about the daily life of children. This Reader has 2 whole sections on "Play"-"Plays for Girls" and "Plays for Boys." (See pictures on pages 79, 81 and 89 by clicking on the "Select a page" menu above.) Younger girls were allowed to play more roughly than teenaged schoolgirls. As they got older, they were supposed to do more "lady-like" activities. The picture of younger girls in this book shows them in more active play on the school grounds - running, swinging, and playing hoops and ring-toss. Note the one room schoolhouse in the background.

 

top of page

"The National First Reader; or Word-Builder"

publisher   A. S. Barnes and Company
author   Richard Greene Parker (1798-1869)
date   1869
location   New York
height   6.75"
width   4.5"
process/materials   printed paper, ink
item type   Books/Textbook / Schoolbooks
accession #   #L00.047


Look Closer icon My Collection icon Transcription icon Detailed info icon


ecard icon Send an e-Postcard of this object



See Also...

Marbles

Boy in a Skeleton Suit

"The New McGuffey Second Reader"


button for Side by Side Viewingbutton for Glossarybutton for Printing Helpbutton for How to Read Old Documents

 

Home | Online Collection | Things To Do | Turns Exhibit | Classroom | Chronologies | My Collection
About This Site | Site Index | Site Search | Feedback