Nursery and Kindergarten Stories by Rebecca Sophia Clarke and Mary D. Brine
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content: 1902
name: label: maker
content: May, Sophie
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content: Brine, Mary D.
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content: Saalfield Publishing Co.
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content: <i>Nursery and Kindergarten Stories</i> is an anthology containing original short stories, songs and rhymes by numerous writers for young readers. There are 370 original black and white engravings. The red cover features a young girl in a gold dress and red bonnet holding two dolls and pulling a toy. It is over 400 pages in length.
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content: Sophie May was the pseudonym used by Rebecca Sophia Clarke (1833-1906), an American children's author. She wrote forty-five books, chief among them were the very popular <i>Little Prudy</i> and <i>Dotty Dimple</i> series. Clarke lived most of her life in her hometown of Norridgewock, Maine, save for ten years spent as a teacher in Evansville, Indiana.
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content: Mary D. Brine (1816-1913) was a successful poet, author and lyricist from New York. Among her many other children’s books were <i>Grandma’s Attic Treasures: A Story of Old Time Memories,</i> and <i>Thoughts and Fancies: Poems and Pictures of Life and Nature.</i> She is perhaps best known for her poem, “Somebody’s Mother.” Brine also wrote the lyrics for “Hearts and Flowers,” a late 19th-century piano piece that was a popular hit.
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content: The Saalfield Publishing Company published children's books, educational toys and games from 1900 to 1977. It was once one of the largest publishers of children's materials in the world. The company was founded in 1900 in Akron, Ohio, by Arthur J. Saalfield (1863-1919). The company published the works of authors such as Louisa May Alcott, Horatio Alger, P. T. Barnum, Daniel Defoe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Dr. Seuss. In 1977, the Saalfield Publishing Company shut down, and its library and archives were purchased by Kent State University.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Akron
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
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content: The Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.3127.40
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content: 2014.3127
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content: 2014.3127.40
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: 9 1/4 in x 7 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 23.495 cm x 18.415 cm x 3.81 cm