This display contains many children's books which are normally located in Special Collection's Rare Book Collection. These volumes were all published between 1879 and 1917, and contain some of the detailed illustrations created during the time period. Most of the books were written purely for pleasure reading, but others, like the readers, were published for educational purposes.
Readers are books students used to practice their reading skills and oral recitations.
Its illustrations, formed with lines and dots, were drawn with black ink. This reader's purpose is similar to Harpers and contains the same types of illustrations. This book was written for older children and has black and white line illustrations. As you can see in the drawing to the right, color illustrations are also present. This book contains very detailed black and white line drawings.