Our Pet's A B C: A Picture Alphabet Book for LIttle Folks by Fannie E. Ostrander
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890-1900
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content: <i>Our Pet's A B C: A Picture Alphabet Book for LIttle Folks.</i> One page is devoted to each letter and contains a short, rhyming poem which describes the activity going on in an accompanying black and white illustration. The illustrations and introductory letters have been colored in with crayons. There are also 13 one-page childhood stories, which feature black and white illustrations that have mostly been colored over.
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content: The front cover features a multi-color illustration of two blonde-haired little girls grooming their pet dog. The inside front and back cover pages contain two identical black and white illustrations of a seated girl drawing a flower and a seated boy drawing a stick figure. These have been colored in with crayons also. The title page and facing inside cover page contain black and white illustrations of children and their toys. This volume is 40 pages in length and was printed ca. 1890-1900. The inside front cover page contains the following inscription: “To Julia From Aunt Mattie, Xmas 1916.”
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content: These stories were penned by Fannie E. Ostrander (1859–1921), an American writer, editor and teacher. Born in North Haven, Connecticut, Ostrander was a graduate of the Wisconsin State Normal School. She taught school for several years before going to work for a publishing house in Chicago in 1899. She wrote a series of magazine articles titled "New Lines of Thought", and wrote both prose and verse for a number of magazines. She wrote a number of novels and books for children, as well.
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content: Charles E. Graham & Company was a publisher active in New York City from the late 19th to the early 20th Centuries. This house published a wide variety of juvenile literature, from classics such as <i>Grimm’s Fairy Tales</i> and <i>The Three Little Pigs</i> to original children’s story books.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
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content: Gift of Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.3049.81
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content: 2017.3049
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content: 2017.3049.81
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content: book
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/4 in x 7 1/4 in x 1/4 in; 24.765 cm x 18.415 cm x .635 cm