Construction of William Holmes McGuffey School, Greenfield Village, 1934

THF98571 / Construction of William Holmes McGuffey School, Greenfield Village, 1934

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1934

Creators

Place of Creation

Collection Title

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

P.A.6460

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8.25 in
Width: 10 in

Keywords	United States, Michigan, Dearborn Photographic prints Photographs Schools (Buildings) Building construction Henry Ford (Organization). Greenfield Village William Holmes McGuffey Schoolhouse

Artifact
William Holmes McGuffey School
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.