"McGuffey's New Fourth Eclectic Reader," Originally Published 1885, Reprinted by Henry Ford, 1930

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Artifact Overview

Henry Ford remembered fondly the McGuffey Readers he studied in the one-room schools of his youth. He even had them reprinted in 1930, so that students in his Edison Institute Schools could learn from them as well. Ford -- having looked up some of his childhood classmates -- gave this reprinted Reader to Olive Burdeno, who had attended school with Ford in the 1870s.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Textbook

Date Made

1930

Creator Notes

Written by Willilam Holmes McGuffey. Reprinted by Henry Ford in 1930 from the 1885 edition published by Van Antwerp, Bragg & Company.

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2018.30.4

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of the Estate of E. Quirk and Helene McGrath.

Material

Hardbound
Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Printing (Process)

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 7.25 in
Width: 4.938 in