Students Planting a Garden behind McGuffey School in Greenfield Village, 1967

THF133292 / Students Planting a Garden behind McGuffey School in Greenfield Village, 1967

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Photographic print

Date Made

May 1967

Subject Date

May 1967

Creators

Collection Title

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

EI.1929.P.B.46818

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8.125 in
Width: 10 in

Keywords	United States, Michigan, Dearborn Photographic prints Photographs Gardening One-room schools Open-air museums School children Edison Institute Schools 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.