History of Education
teacher, education, union, school, school supplies
New York, NY: National Teachers' Institute, November 4, 1874. A circular for the National Teachers' Institute and the American Educational Union. The front features their mission statement as well as various testimonials surround by a border of 34 state seals. It states that the societies are responsible for "supplying schools.....
Price: $110.00
social welfare, charity, school, social clubs, community
Curtis Bay, MD: The Neighborhood House, 1916. 10 pages (including covers) staple brochure printed for the Neighborhood House in an effort to help generate funds for the charity. Founding in 1906 the goal of the Neighborhood house was to support the community of Curtis Bay by providing school and social.....
Price: $55.00
children, school
Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Bros., Inc, 1929. unpaginated. Printed color applied board cover, blue patterned background, illustrated end papers, black and white illustrations and full page color illustrations. The Peek-A-Boo children, Kenneth, Algernon, and Jane kept getting into trouble. Their nurse gave her notice and their parents were fed up. They.....
Price: $45.00
children's books, religion
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: Printed By B. Clay, 1862. " Printed under the direction of the committee of general literature and education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge". 16 pages, bound in green paper wrapper with decorative border; engraved frontisepiece. Tells the story of the potato.....
Price: $25.00
Vaudeville, Parties, Colleges and Universities, Ivy League
New Haven, Connecticut: The Whaples-Bullis Co., 1916. Printed poster (14" by 11", verso blank) promoting the Yale Class of 1916 Senior Smoker, a raucous party held at Byers Hall, then part of the Sheffield Scientific School and now incorporated into Silliman College. According to the message at the foot of.....
Price: $150.00
program, school & universities, Appleton academy
New Ipswich, NH: Appleton Academy, November 24th & 25th, 1862. A program for the Appleton Academy in New Ipswich, NH that ironically served both as list of the students' scheduled times for those final exams and their graduation program. The cover of the program features a black and white engraving.....
Price: $85.00
Advertising, Promotional, Education, Stammerers
Boston: 1907. Promotional Piece with image of group in front of building. Appears to have a sign that states "All Are Welcome". The group consists of men, women, and children. Reverse states that the Eastern Branch will close on the fifteenth day of April 1907. "No pupils will be accepted.....
Price: $35.00
Education, Women's History, Social History
New London, CT: New London Literature and Science Institution, 1854-1878. A printed 8" x 5 1/4" form completed by M. J. Emerson for Ellen E. Fisher. The narrative discusses scholarship, attendance and cooperation with teachers. The student's information is recorded on Absences from Chapel exercises, Meeting on the Sabbath and.....
Price: $90.00
reward of merit, school, education
Ithaca, NY: Andrus, Gauntell & Company, 1856. A "Premium Award" given a student at public school in Ithica, NY for Regular Attendance and Good Deportment for the past week. The card is sweetly decorcated with both an out border and an inner one around the award. Along with two illustrations.....
Price: $30.00
Hampton University, Samuel Chapman Armstrong, black university, native americans, Indians,
Hampton, VA: The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Dec-10. Some of the articles within this volume are "African Agriculture by Monroe N. Work, The Indian of To-day by Henry Roe Cloud, and The American Rural School by William A. Aery. Additionally there are ten images from photographs found within the.....
Price: $125.00
teacher, retirement, poem, humor, photograph, humor
Queens, NY: PS19, Jun-41. A memoir book presented to Rose A. Maguire, an elementary school teacher, upon her retirement in June 1951. She taught at a school located in Queens, NY called PS 19 Corona (now known as Marino Jeantet Elementary). The memoir book features over fifty pages of short.....
Price: $275.00
Libraries and Institutions, Natural History
Worcester, Massachusetts: Worcester Lyceum and Library Association, c.1858. Printed letter to the Friends of Worcester Lyceum and Library Association requesting volunteers to aid in the Association's upcoming Christmas Fair: "The Fair Committee therefore ask the ladies of Worcester County to contribute such articles of skill, taste and usefulness as will.....
Price: $100.00
trade catalogue, Printing and Publishing, Education, Temperance
Great Britain: Tonic Sol-Fa Agency, October 1882. A trade catalogue for the Tonic Sol-Fa Agency, who sold a variety of books and sheet music. This specific catalogue was their teacher's edition, and in addition to the books and sheet music it also sold a different supplies a teacher might use.....
Price: $110.00
women's history, schools & universities, billheads and letterheads
Tuscaloosa, AL: Tuskaloosa Female College, October 1, 1866. This item is a tuition receipt for Miss Mary J. Nelson dated October 1, 1806. It is specifically stated on the receipt that it is for "literary tuition" for one term, at the cost of $39. Payment for the tuition was paid.....
Price: $50.00
children's books, religion, morality
London: Frederick Warne and Company. 16 pages, engraved frontisepiece. Cover is a purple wrapper with a decorative border. "Price One Penny" printed on top of border on front and back cover. Children's story with religious and moral lessons. One of a set of twelve, part of a series of such.....
Price: $25.00
clock, time, telling time, tell time, education, educational, german. langers hausen,
1950s. 8 pp. Litho on board throughout. German lnaguage. A book that teaches young children how to read the clock. The cover has a clock on it with movable hands, (missing from the book), so they can change the time. The book takes a group of children through their day.....
Price: $45.00
Children's Toys, Early Learning, Education, Trivia
Leominster, Massachusetts: W.S. Reed Toy Company, c.1890. The original "World's Educator" trivia game for children and adults, manufactured by W.S. Reed Toy Co., featuring fine chromolithography. Originally patented in 1887, the game was re-released in 1919 by the same company, with different illustrations. To play, one must use the teetotum.....
Price: $425.00
cooper union, women's art school, year book,
1932. 40 p. with paper wraps. The typical yearbook with photo images and summaries. This is followed by a series of tongue-in-cheek narratives on the events and organizations experienced by the students through the year. Appropriately includes lots of artwork. One quite specific to their chosen studies is "What the.....
Price: $45.00
Children's stories, Conduct of life, morals
Philadelphia, PA: Fisher & Bro, Fisher & Denison, c1850. 192 pp. Cloth stamped boards. Miniature book. Wood-cut drummer boy frontisepiece. This book has several short stories along with over a half a dozen charming black and white illustrations to go along with. A list of the stories found within are.....
Price: $125.00
Mathematics, Education, Science & Technology, Broadside
New York: Pudney & Russell, 1856. A 37" x 26" broadside chart. This chart commends itself to the actual want of every individual, being a Universal Guide in every department of Mechanical and Mercantile business, and likewise, to a definite extent, in Scientific and Philosophical pursuits, involving principles of practical.....
Price: $275.00
schools & universities, speech, literature, educational, collegiate society, literary society
Carlisle, PA: Office of the "Herald" 1827. A copy of the speech given by Charles F. Mayer, to the Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical Societies (UPS) of Dickinson College on Tuesday, September 28, 1827. John Jenkins was a member of the Belles Lettres Society at Dickinson College, and he was.....
Price: $125.00
Mathematics, Tables and Formulas, Arithmetic, School books
Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1838. Second edition of a book of multiplication tables by Charles W. Greene, educator and director of Greene's Academy in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Greene conceived of the project after discovering that having his pupils commit times tables to memory was an "irksome labor" (advertisement), and.....
Price: $125.00
storms
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. unpaginated. Illustrated applied cover, color illustrations by Margaret Bloy Graham, 1953 Caldecott Honor Book. A little boy in the country watches a storm and asks his mother about the thunder and lightning. a young man in the city watches a storm from his window.....
Price: $25.00
education, Italy, England, Ethiopia, scrap book
New Haven: 1936. Created by Chester Katzman, an eleven year old boy from New Haven, CT, this scrap book was a school assignment to record an imaginary European tour taken by the student. The book includes various short essays on what was seen, the history and agriculture of the countries.....
Price: $200.00