First Weeks at School by Jennie H. Stickney and Susie C. Peabody
date: label: date made
content: 1886
name: label: publisher
content: Ginn and Company
label: author
content: Peabody, S. C.
notes: label: Description
content: First Weeks at School is a richly illustrated primer with both color and black white illustrations. It contains basic lessons in vocabulary, reading, writing, numbers, and arithmetic. As a teacher’s edition, it also contains suggested topics for teachers to explore issues further. The front cover illustration is of a young girl carrying a wicker basket and hat, while walking in the woods and discovering a rabbit. The back cover is illustrated with an older girl carrying a basket and flowers, walking in a field near a home.
label: Description
content: Co-author Jennie H. Stickney graduated from the Oswego Normal and Training School of New York in 1863. She subsequently worked as a teacher. She was an author of children’s readers and teacher’s guides on a variety of topics, including language, insects, birds, and pets. Stickney edited children’s versions of Aesop’s Fables and Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales. Her books were published in multiple editions in the late 19th and early 20th Century. She collaborated with author Susie Caroline Peabody (1855-1945), an 1875 Boston Normal School graduate, and teacher from Waltham, Massachusetts in creating First Weeks at School.
label: Description
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. Printer/typesetter J. S. Cushing and Co. was founded in Boston in 1878. This company became the largest typesetter of textbooks in the United States by the end of the 19th Century.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: social studies
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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: 2017.0095.006
label: accession number
content: 2017.0095
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0095.006
objectType: label: Object Name
content: book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: red; grey (outside color)
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.6 cm x 13 cm x .6 cm; 6 15/16 in x 5 1/8 in x 1/4 in