Geography Reader's IV: Europe by Issac Oscar Winslow
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content: 1910
name: label: publisher
content: D.C. Heath & Company
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content: <i>Geography Reader’s IV: Europe</i> attempts to combine the best features of a textbook and those of a geographical reader. Contents include a description of most European countries’ physical features, along with a brief history of the main cities, industries, and climate. There are review questions at the end of each chapter. There are numerous black and white illustrations of peoples and activities. The red cover contains an illustration of two men seated within a shield-like frame and globe. One holds the tools of a farmer and the other the tools of a factory worker.
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content: Issac Oscar Winslow (1856-1949) authored a series of <i>Geography Readers</i> that were widely used as textbooks. He also authored books on the principles of agriculture and arithmetic for use in public schools. In addition, Winslow served as the Superintendent of Providence Public Schools in Rhode Island.
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content: The famed publishing company was founded in Boston by Edwin Ginn and Daniel Collamore Heath in 1885 and specialized in textbooks. D.C. Heath and Company was owned by Raytheon from 1966 to 1995. When Raytheon exited the textbook market, it sold the company to Houghton Mifflin. The deal gave Houghton Mifflin a substantial boost as a publisher of textbooks in modern languages, science, language arts, social studies and mathematics.
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content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Geography
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
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content: Gift of Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 2017.3049.18
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content: 2017.3049
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content: 2017.3049.18
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content: book
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content: instructional materials
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 6 in x 1/2 in; 19.685 cm x 15.24 cm x 1.27 cm