Schools -- Books
Subject
Subject Source: Local Lc
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Carpenter, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1773
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks maintained by Charles Carpenter, Grafton, between 1939-1963. Subjects include descriptions of libraries, book and manuscript collections, museums, rare and unusual books, magazines, book reviews, newspapers, and advertisements for books.
There are items as early as 1838, 1875, 1898, 1905, 1917, but the mass of the collection is in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Recurrent topics include book...
Dates:
1829-1963
Charles Carpenter, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2106
Scope and Contents
One notebook used by Mr. Carpenter while he was writing “History of American Schoolbooks.” Collection also includes 4 notebooks and 14 small scrapbooks containing notes and clippings about William McGuffey and the McGuffey readers. Also included is a small tabloid newspaper and a letter to Reverend Ira Sherman from William McGuffey, November 5, 1847.
Dates:
1847-1965