School Needlework by Olive C. Hapgood
date: label: date made
content: 1892
name: label: maker
content: Ginn and Company
notes: label: Description
content: <i>School Needlework</i> is the Teacher's Edition which supplements the companion instruction manual by providing practical suggestions as to how to teach the lessons. The author asserts in the Preface that the importance of sewing instruction in the public schools is broadly recognized. There are many black and white illustrations of stiches, sewing patters, and fabrics. Page one contains a message emblematic of the 19th Century’s view of the role of girls and women: "Dear Girls: You have now become old enough to prepare for women's duties; one of these is the art of sewing, ...By following the given directions carefully, you will become able to dress your dolls, assist your mothers in mending, make garments, fancy articles, etc."
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content: Author Olive C. Hapgood was a teacher of sewing in the Boston Public School System.
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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: The Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.3127.37
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content: 2014.3127
label: catalog number
content: 2014.3127.37
objectType: label: Object Name
content: book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 5 in x 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 12.7 cm x 1.27 cm