Education

Scope and Contents This artificial and still open collection contains printed broadsides, brochures, posters, and other advertising material. Printed processes used include: woodblock printing, engraving, lithography, and photolithography. The majority of the material was produced during the 19th century in New England and the Middle Atlantic states. The most numerous ads are for furniture, clothing and dress, pottery and glassware, and booksellers/stationers. The many illustrations depict products, mechanical...

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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.

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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.

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Notebook kept by student Joseph Decoteau on the history of France, written in French.

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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.