How to Organize, Classify, and Teach a Country School
date: label: date made
content: 1900
notes: label: Description
content: <i>How to Organize, Classify, and Teach a Country School</i> contains administrative guidelines and curriculum outlines for rural schoolteachers. It is the sixth in a six-part series of "Educational Aids" by the author. The red cover is decorated with a delicate black and white illustration of two long-stemmed flowers. A sticker on the inside front cover identifies the book as property of "The Public School Library of School District No. 61 [in the] County of Pipestone" in Minnesota. Handwritten in black ink on the first page is "Presented by Mr. Parks to Miss Reaka Hinch Aug. 6th 1901". "Reaka Hinch" is handwritten in upper right corner of the back inside cover, and an unused library slip in its pocket is still attached.
label: Description
content: W. M. Welch was also the creator of such educational aids such as <i>Classification Register and Course of Study for Country Schools, Institute Record, Reporting Sheets,</i> and <i>Memory Gems</i>. W.M. Welch & Company was a 19th Century Chicago publishing house specializing in educational books and materials.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Minnesota, Pipestone
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0095.007
label: accession number
content: 2017.0095
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0095.007
objectType: label: Object Name
content: book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: fabric (outside material)
label: Physical Description
content: red; black (outside color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19.8 cm x 13.8 cm x 1.3 cm; 7 25/32 in x 5 7/16 in x 1/2 in