"Old Stone Jug" School Once Attended by John Burroughs, Roxbury, New York, 1944
THF241529 / "Old Stone Jug" School Once Attended by John Burroughs, Roxbury, New York, 1944
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Artifact Overview
John Burroughs (1837-1921), an internationally known naturalist and writer, was born on a dairy farm near Roxbury, New York, in the Catskills Mountains. Burroughs was the seventh of ten children and like the rest of his siblings he went to school when not working on the farm. This small stone schoolhouse was the first school Burroughs attended.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
20 May 1944
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
00.1334.434
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: 4 in
Width: 4.875 in
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SetJohn Burroughs: American Naturalist
- 19 Artifacts
John Burroughs was a keen observer of the natural world. He hiked the woods around his native Catskills home, fished the streams, listened to birdsongs, and cataloged the world he found there in essays that influenced others to find that same love of nature. While other naturalists celebrated towering mountains, scenic vistas, and the untamed wilderness, Burroughs urged his readers to find grandeur in the local, accessible, and familiar.