Henry Ford with Edison Institute Schoolchildren outside McGuffey School, Greenfield Village, June 1934

THF286360 / Henry Ford with Edison Institute Schoolchildren outside McGuffey School, Greenfield Village, June 1934

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

15 June 1934

Creators

Collection Title

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

EI.1929.P.188.10391

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	Photographic prints Photographs Group portraits Open-air museums School children Schoolhouses Relocated buildings and structures Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 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.