Portrait of Harriet Spining McGuffey, circa 1845

THF251521 / Portrait of Harriet Spining McGuffey, circa 1845

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1845

Collection Title

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

EI.1929.2677

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8.500 in
Width: 6.438 in

Keywords	Photographic prints Photographs Portraits McGuffey, Harriet Spining, 1804-1850 McGuffey family William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace

Artifact
William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace
This log home is typical of Scots-Irish log structures built in the densely forested area of southwestern Pennsylvania during the late 1700s. Anna and Alexander McGuffey lived here for five years and had three children before moving west to Ohio. Their second child, William Holmes (1800-1873), went on to create the popular Eclectic Readers for frontier schoolchildren.