My Grandmother's Books

In my last post I mentioned that I had several boxes of books from when my grandmother (on my mother's side) taught a one-room schoolhouse. I did a quick project for one of my MLIS courses where I suggested someone should scan all these books in and create a website dedicated to the history of American education.

Teaching materials/textbooks are typically left out of library collection development practices. They aren't considered worth keeping. It's only through the lens of history that we can see the potential value of the books.

Here's the list of books I had when I did the project for school. I've since uncovered another box of books that fills in many of the gaps I have here. I'm not sure what interest this is for anybody but me, but here it is:

Teacher's Materials

Corrective Arithmetic: For Supervisors, Teachers, and Teacher-Training Classes
by Worth J. Osburn, under the Editorshop of B. R. Buckingham
copyright 1924; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Geographic Principles: Their Application to the Elementary School
by Douglas C. Ridgley, PhD.
copyright 1925; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

A Guide to Literature for Children
by Walter Taylor Field
copyright 1928; Ginn and Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

The Improvement of Reading: A Program of Diagnostic and Remedial Methods
by Arthur I. Gates
copyright 1928; The Macmillan Compan, New York, New York.

An Introduction to Education Measurements
by Norman Fenton, PhD. and Dean A Worchester, PhD.
copyright 1928; Ginn and Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

Material, Aids and Devices for Teachers: Practical Classroom Helps Volume I
arranged and edited by Florence R. Signor
copyright 1925; F. A. Owen Publishing Company, Dansville, New York.

Material, Aids and Devices for Teachers: Practical Classroom Helps Volume II
arranged and edited by Florence R. Signor
copyright 1925; F. A. Owen Publishing Company, Dansville, New York.

Present-Day Standards for Teaching
by F. Burker Fitzpatrick
copyright 1926; F. A. Owen Publishing Company, Dansville, New York.

Psychology of Elementary School Subjects
by Homer B. Reed
copyright 1927; Ginn and Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

Self-Help Methods of Teaching English: A Guide and Ally for Teachers of Elementary English
by Julia H. Wohlfarth
copyright 1926; World Book Company, New York, New York.

Silent and Oral Reading: A Practical Handbook of Methods Based on the Most Recent Scientific Investigations
by Clarence R. Stone
copyright 1926; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

The Teaching of Ideals
by W. W. Charters
copyright 1929; The Macmillan Company, New York, New York.

The Will to Work: A Study in Character Education
by Charles L. Robbins
copyright 1928; Row, Peterson and Company, Evanston, Illinois.

Student Materials

The Aldine Speller: Parts Three and Four for Grades Five, Six, Seven, and Eight
by Catherine T. Bryce and Frank J. Sherman
copyright 1916; Newson & Company, New York, New York

An American History
by David Saville Muzzey, PhD.
copyright 1911, 1917, 1920, and 1923; Ginn and Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

American Literature: A Study of the Men and the Books That in the Earlier and Later times Reflect the American Spirit
by William J. Long
copyright 1913 and 1923; Ginn and Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

Ancient History
by Philip Van Ness Myers
Second Revised Edition, copyright 1904 and 1916; Ginn and Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

Caesar's Gallic War (Book I - IV)
edited by James B. Greenough
copyright 1898 and 1904; Ginn and Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

Community Life and Civic Problems
by Howard Copeland Hill
copyright 1922; Ginn and Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

Composition and Rhetoric
by Charles Swain Thomas, Will David Howe, PhD., and Zella O'Hair
copyright 1908; Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, New York.

Elements of General Science
by Otis William Caldwell, PhD. and William Lewis Eikenberry
copyright 1914 and 1918; Ginn and Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

Elementary Biology: An Introduction to the Science of Life
by Benjamin C. Gruenberg
copyright 1919; Ginn and Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

Elson Grammar School Reader Book One
by William H. Elson
copyright 1911; Scott, Foresman & Co., Chicago, Illinois.

Elson Grammar School Reader Book Two (missing)
by William H. Elson
copyright 1911; Scott, Foresman & Co., Chicago, Illinois.

Elson Grammar School Reader Book Three
by William H. Elson
copyright 1910; Scott, Foresman & Co., Chicago, Illinois.

Elson Grammar School Reader Book Four
by William H. Elson
copyright 1909; Scott, Foresman & Co., Chicago, Illinois.

Elson Primary School Reader Book Four: Fourth Grade
by William H. Elson
copyright 1912 and 1913; Scott, Foresman and Company, Chicago, Illinois.

Everyday Arithmetic Book One
by Franklin S. Hoyt and Harriet E. Peet
copyright 1915; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

Everyday Arithmetic Book Two
by Franklin S. Hoyt and Harriet E. Peet
copyright 1915; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

First Course in Algebra
by Herbert E. Hawkes, PhD., William A. Luby, and Frank C. Touton
copyright 1909, 1910, and 1917; Ginn and Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

A First View of English and American Literature
by William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett, and Percy H. Boyton
copyright 1905 and 1909; Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, New York.

The Heath Readers: First Reader
copyright 1903; D. C. Heath & Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

The Heath Readers: Second Reader
copyright 1903; D. C. Heath & Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

High School Geography: Physical, Economic, and Regional
by Charles Redway Dryer
copyright 1911 and 1912; American Book Company, New York, New York.

History of Europe Our Own Times: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: The Opening of the Twentieth Century and the World War
by James Harvey Robinson and Charles A. Beard
copyright 1921; Ginn and Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

A History of the United States
by Henry Eldridge Bourne and Elbert Jay Benton
copyright 1913 and 1919; D. C. Heath & Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

Latin for Beginners
by Benjamin L. D'Ooge, PhD.
copyright 1909 and 1911; Ginn and Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

Live Language Lessons First Book
by Howard R. Driggs
copyright 1917; The University Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois.

Live Language Lessons Second Book
by Howard R. Driggs
copyright 1917; The University Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois.

Live Language Lessons Third Book
by Howard R. Driggs
copyright 1917; The University Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois.

Plane Geometry
by George Wentworth and David Eugene Smith
copyright 1888, 1899, 1910, and 1913; Ginn and Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

Practical Business Arithmetic
by John H. Moore and George W. Miner
copyright 1906; Ginn and Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

Practical English for High Schools
by William D. Lewis and James Fleming Hosic, PhM.
copyright 1916; American Book Company, New York, New York.

Primer of Physiology: Being a Practical Textbook of Physiological Principles and Their Applications to Problems of Health (New-World Health Series Book III)
by John W. Ritchie
copyright 1917; World Book Company, New York, New York.

Problems of American Democracy: Political, Economic, Social
by Henry Reed Burch, PhD. and S. Howard Patterson
copyright 1922; The Macmillan Company, New York, New York.

Rural Life at the Crossroads
by Macy Campbell
copyright 1927; Ginn and Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

Stories of Early American History
by Wilbur F. Gordy
copyright 1913; Charles Scriber's Sons, New York, New York.

Stories of Later American History
by Wilbur F. Gordy
copyright 1915; Charles Scriber's Sons, New York, New York.