Box 1

Journal titled "Report of Visits in Model Schools," kept by Harriet Bartholomew of New Britain, Connecticut starting February 6th 1860. Bartholomew's entries record thoughts on visits to various schools and classrooms, including class content and structure, assignments, and student behavior.

The diary of Joseph Cowell of Greenville, New York, dating from April 1, 1856 to September 20, 1859. Cowell's entries record events from daily life, including farming, livestock, and church related activities.

An interior design collage album made by Tressa Myrick as a school assignment, titled "Our Blue Heaven." The album includes hand-drawn floor plans, decoration plans made from images cut out of magazines and other printed ephemera, estimated cost lists, and hand-written explanations for multiple bedrooms, a living room, dining room, kitchen, laundry, library, and a roof-top pool and garden.

Letter from S.A. Adams, a manager at Bettelini Cycle Agency of Jacksonville, Florida, to N. N. Hill Brass Co., requesting catalogs and samples of their bells. The letter is typewritten on a half-sheet of Bettelini Cycle Agency company letterhead.

Photograph album titled "Business Houses of Cordell," with 58 photographs that document the commercial storefronts and immediate environs of the Courthouse Square District in New Cordell, Oklahoma.

Receipt book used by three generations of the Kendall family of New Castle County, Delaware, beginning in 1768. Transactions recorded include the purchase of a winding sheet, ice, and grave digging for the furneral of Jesse Kendall, medicine, various food and dry goods, and goods imported from Jamaica.

An American Book Company Deutsches Schonschreiben zum gebrauch in schulen in fuenf heften (Eclectic Educational Series, German penmanship copybook no. 4) German language penmanship copybook used by student Hazel A. Burbank.

Collection consisting of a copy of the pamphlet Palmer's Improved Tanning Machine and a photograph of the exterior of an unidentified tannery, with employees leaning out of the windows, and examples of tanned hides displayed. It is unclear whether the pamphlet and photograph are connected, beyond the subject matter of both items.

Trade card and pin-back button for ToideyCo Convertible CarSleeper children's car seat.