Logs Used to Build the William Holmes McGuffey School, January 1934

THF708044 / Logs Used to Build the William Holmes McGuffey School, January 1934

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

24 January 1934

Creators

Collection Title

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

EI.1929.P.188.9825

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 4.75 in
Width: 6.75 in

Keywords	United States, Michigan, Dearborn Photographic prints Photographs Logs (Wood) Open-air museums Radio stations Radio towers Trucks Henry Ford (Organization). Greenfield Village William Holmes McGuffey School WWI (Radio station : Dearborn, Mich.)

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.