Edison Institute Schoolchildren outside McGuffey School, Greenfield Village, circa 1942

THF286356 / Edison Institute Schoolchildren outside McGuffey School, Greenfield Village, circa 1942

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1942

Creators

Collection Title

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

EI.1929.2988

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	Photographic prints Photographs Group portraits Boys Girls Open-air museums School children Relocated buildings and structures Edison Institute Schools Henry Ford (Organization). Greenfield Village William Holmes McGuffey School

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.