Construction Progress, William Holmes McGuffey School in Greenfield Village, April 1934

THF707396 / Construction Progress, William Holmes McGuffey School in Greenfield Village, April 1934

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Photographic print

Date Made

03 April 1934

Subject Date

03 April 1934

Creators

Collection Title

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

EI.1929.7384

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
Linen (Material)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 7.5 in
Width: 11 in

Keywords	United States, Michigan, Dearborn Photographic prints Photographs Construction Open-air museums Schools (Buildings) 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.