The Children's Primer by Ellen M. Cyr
date: label: date made
content: 1900
name: label: maker
content: Ginn and Company
notes: label: Description
content: <i>The Children’s Primer</i> is a reader for the primary grades and a forerunner to the “Dick and Jane” and similar easy reader series. Each chapter is illustrated with drawings of children playing at home or in a natural setting. The front cover contains an intricate, puzzle-like pattern, with a large scallop shell and a seaside scene.
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content: Author Ellen M. Cyr (1860-1920) taught in the Holmes Primary School in the township of Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was a prolific author of a series of children’s readers for the elementary grades.
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content: Edwin Ginn founded the publishing company Ginn Brothers in the City of Boston in 1867. The firm was reorganized under the name Ginn & Company in 1885 and became particularly known for its school texts. In 1895, the company built a new publishing factory, the Athenaeum Press, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ginn & Company continued to be a successful publisher of educational texts for 70 years.
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content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.3049.40
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content: 2017.3049
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content: 2017.3049.40
objectType: label: Object Name
content: book
label: Object Type
content: instructional materials
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in x 1/2 in; 18.415 cm x 13.97 cm x 1.27 cm