Pierpont's Second Reader/ The Young Reader
date: label: date made
content: 1835
name: label: maker
content: Pierpont, John
notes: label: Description
content: <i>The Young Reader</i> is an early 19th Century second reader and was intended to be a companion to the publisher’s Spelling Book. The lessons contain traditional fables and poems. The author has also taken the liberty of creating some new versions. There are a number of black and white illustrations and it is 162 pages long. It is the twentieth edition which was published in 1835, with the front cover is missing.
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content: Author John Pierpont (1785-1866) was a poet, educator, and Unitarian minister. He graduated from Yale College in 1804. Pierpont was instrumental in establishing Boston's English Classical School in 1821 and gained national recognition as an educator. He published two of the better-known early school readers in the United States:<i>The American First Class Book</i> (1823) and <i>The National Reader</i> (1827).
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content: He also wrote <i>The Little Learner</i>, which is advertised on <i>The Young Reader’s</i> back cover. He actively supported the abolitionist and temperance movements. He unsuccessfully ran for Governor and U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. John Pierpont was the maternal grandfather of financier J. Pierpont Morgan.
label: Description
content: <i>The Young Reader</i> was published by George F. Cooledge of New York City, New York.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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: 2014.3127.25
label: nonaccession number
content: 2014.3127
label: catalog number
content: 2014.3127.25
objectType: label: Object Name
content: book
label: Object Type
content: Books
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content: books
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 3 3/4 in x 1/2 in; 15.24 cm x 9.525 cm x 1.27 cm