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| American Antiquarian
Society, Worcester, MA. Has nearly 1500 19th-century readers,
speakers, and spellers, plus a wide range of other materials related to
literacy in early American history up to 1876. |
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Barnard Textbook Collection, Trinity College, Watkinson Library,
Hartford, CT. Has 7,000 textbooks from 17th through 19th century. |
| Butler
Library, Rare Book and Manuscript Room, Columbia University, New
York, NY. Has many 19th-century textbooks in its Plimpton Collection,
plus some 300 American spelling books. |
| Canadian
Children's Literature Service, Ottawa, Canada. Includes 800 files on
Canadian authors and illustrators. |
| Center for Research Libraries,
Chicago, IL. Has a very large collection of 85,000 old textbooks and
45,000 children's books (which are mostly 1951 and later). |
| Center for the Study of Books in
Spanish for Children and Adolescents, California State University,
San Marcos, CA. Has 3,000 20th-century books in Spanish for children and
adolescents. |
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Children's Book Collection, Department of Special Collections at the
University Research Library, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. Is strong in English
and American publications before 1840; has foreign language materials,
early games and pop-up books, primary and secondary American textbooks,
a collection of modern juvenile books and Russian children's books
published between the two world wars. |
| Children's Literature
Research Collections, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. The
Kerlan Collection contains more than 65,000 children's books, primarily
by 20th-century American writers, as well as manuscripts and
illustrations for more than 8,700 titles. |
| Cotsen Children's Library,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Contains 20,000 items, most of them
illustrated books, and manuscripts, puzzles, hornbooks and toys, from
the 15th to the 20th centuries, in French, German, Farsi, Urdu etc. |
| de Grummond Children's
Literature Research Collection, McCain Library and Archives, The
University of Southern Mississippi. H as drafts from over 75 authors and
illustrators, 34,000 books, 600 early 19th-century books, and 250
children's magazines. |
| Elizabeth
Nesbitt Children's Literature Collection, University of Pittsburgh,
School of Information Science, Pittsburgh, PA. Has 12,000 volumes of
18th and 19th-century British and American children's literature plus
300 chapbooks. |
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George Arents Research Library for Special Collections, Syracuse
University, Syracuse, NY. Has most of the textbooks published by the
American Book Company 1890-1965, and some early 19th-century texts. |
| Guggenheim
Memorial Library, Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ. Has 100
readers plus 2,500 pre-1900 textbooks. |
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John A. Neitz Old Textbook Collection, University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA. Has over 15,000 old primary and secondary school texts,
most published before 1900. |
| Lilly
Library Chapbook Collection, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
Contains a sizable collection of chapbooks. |
| Linda Hall Library, Kansas
City, MO. Extensive collection of historical documents related to
science and technology. |
| McGuffey
Museum, Oxford, OH. Tel: (513) 529-4666. The largest collection of
McGuffey readers in existence is housed in the Special Collections
Library of the Museum. |
| Milbank Memorial Library,
Special Collections, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York,
NY. Has 3,000+ pre-1900 textbooks and 14,000 post-1900 texts. |
| Monroe Gutman Library,
Harvard University, Graduate School of Education, Cambridge MA. Has
35,000 volumes of American textbooks between 1800-1950. |
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Nila Banton Smith Historical Collection in Reading, Special
Collections Department, Hofstra University Library, Hempstead, NY. Has
over 3,500 readers and reading instructional manuals dating from 1640,
along with 2,000 books in its companion children's literature
collection. |
| Osborne
Collection of Early Children's Books, Toronto Public Library,
Toronto, Canada. Includes books, artwork, original manuscripts and
letters representing English children's literature from the 14th century
to the present day, plus l9th- and 20th-century children's books in
English relating to Canada. |
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Russell B. Nye Culture Collection, Michigan State University
Libraries, East Lansing, MI. Includes over 2,000 item collection of
19th- and early 20th-century textbooks, as well as pop culture reading
materials from comic books to trade books. |
| Smithsonian Institution Archives,
Institutional History Division, Washington, DC. Assorted texts and oral
histories from various time periods and regions of the U.S. |
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Special Collections
Department, Library, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. Has
2,000 pre-1865 textbooks. |
| The Blackwell History
of Education Research Collection, Northern Illinois University,
DeKalb, IL. Over 10,000 items, ranging from educational newspapers,
journals and magazines to slates, hornbooks, battledores, teaching
devices, textbooks, and writing instruments. |
| The Library of Congress,
Washington, DC. Holds some 200,000 children's books, including picture
books, folktales, poetry, nonfiction, books in braille, movable books
and books in electronic formats. |
| The New York Historical
Society, New York, NY. Has a large collection of 19th-century
textbooks, as well as manuscript writing and ciphering notebooks. |
| The New York Public Library, New
York, NY. Has a huge collection of texts under the headings: Reading
Books; Primers, American; English Language--Spelling Books, American;
Dialogues, American; Recitations, American; Elocution. |
| The
Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, CT. Houses the 6,800
volume Barnard Textbook Collection, consisting mostly of books used from
colonial times to the end of the 19th century. |
| US
Department of Education Research Library, Department of Education,
Washington, DC. Sizable collection of early American textbooks, journals
and holdings in the history of education, and 12,000 18th- and
19th-century textbooks published in U.S. |
| Walter
Havighurst Special Collections Library, King Collection of Early
Children's Literature, Miami University, Oxford, OH. Has a large
collection of early American children's literature, 6,000 textbooks and
some 200 McGuffey volumes. |
| Young
American Readers , Young American Readers is AN EXHIBITION drawn
from the first of several donations to the Kenneth Spencer Research
Library from Charles and E. Jennifer Monaghan, of Brooklyn, N. Y., that
over the course of the next few years will total about 1,400 volumes.
The books have been designated the Charles and E. Jennifer Monaghan
Collection. With its focus on the teaching of reading and writing in
Colonial America and the United States, the Monaghan Collection
complements and extends the Spencer Library's already substantial
holdings in this field. This library holds many similar volumes—books
from this state and region of the United States, in the Kansas
Collection—and books from across the seas, especially from Britain, in
the Department of Special Collections. Now, much strengthened by the
Monaghans' gift, these collections give the Spencer Library the
opportunity to support in great depth those faculty and students who
seek to learn about a most important part of the history of education .
. . and to offer some delight to anyone who may wonder how our forebears
learned to read! |
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