William Holmes McGuffey School in Greenfield Village, September 2007
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The McGuffey School was built in Greenfield Village in 1934, created out of barn logs from the 1790s southwestern Pennsylvania farmstead where textbook author William Holmes McGuffey was born. Children living in frontier communities learned to read in rustic schoolhouses like this one. McGuffey's Eclectic Readers gave them an easy, standardized way to do it.
The McGuffey School was built in Greenfield Village in 1934, created out of barn logs from the 1790s southwestern Pennsylvania farmstead where textbook author William Holmes McGuffey was born. Children living in frontier communities learned to read in rustic schoolhouses like this one. McGuffey's Eclectic Readers gave them an easy, standardized way to do it.
Artifact
Digital image
Subject Date
September 2007
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2008.171.779
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Color
Multicolored
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