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- William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace in Greenfield Village, April 1934 -
- April 23, 1934
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William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace in Greenfield Village, April 1934
- William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace - This log home is typical of Scots-Irish log structures built in the densely forested area of southwestern Pennsylvania during the late 1700s. Anna and Alexander McGuffey lived here for five years and had three children before moving west to Ohio. Their second child, William Holmes (1800-1873), went on to create the popular Eclectic Readers for frontier schoolchildren.
- circa 1790
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William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace
This log home is typical of Scots-Irish log structures built in the densely forested area of southwestern Pennsylvania during the late 1700s. Anna and Alexander McGuffey lived here for five years and had three children before moving west to Ohio. Their second child, William Holmes (1800-1873), went on to create the popular Eclectic Readers for frontier schoolchildren.
- William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace in Greenfield Village, circa 1934 - Irving Bacon, a Ford Motor Company employee and Henry Ford's personal artist, created pen-and-ink drawings to illustrate guidebooks for the Edison Institute Museum and Greenfield Village (now The Henry Ford) when they officially opened to the public in 1933. An illustrated souvenir guidebook helped visitors navigate the exhibits and grounds. Ford also used these drawings in other company publications.
- circa 1934
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William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace in Greenfield Village, circa 1934
Irving Bacon, a Ford Motor Company employee and Henry Ford's personal artist, created pen-and-ink drawings to illustrate guidebooks for the Edison Institute Museum and Greenfield Village (now The Henry Ford) when they officially opened to the public in 1933. An illustrated souvenir guidebook helped visitors navigate the exhibits and grounds. Ford also used these drawings in other company publications.
- Interior of William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace in Greenfield Village, 1954 -
- August 11, 1954
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Interior of William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace in Greenfield Village, 1954
- Henry Ford with a McGuffey Reader inside William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace, Greenfield Village, 1940 -
- September 23, 1940
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Henry Ford with a McGuffey Reader inside William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace, Greenfield Village, 1940
- Interior of William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace in Greenfield Village, June 2003 -
- June 07, 2003
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Interior of William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace in Greenfield Village, June 2003
- Interior of William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace in Greenfield Village, June 2003 -
- June 07, 2003
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Interior of William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace in Greenfield Village, June 2003
- Interior of William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace in Greenfield Village, June 2003 -
- June 07, 2003
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Interior of William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace in Greenfield Village, June 2003
- Henry Ford by the Fireplace at William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace, Greenfield Village, 1940 - Part of Henry Ford's love of the past stemmed from his fondness for the McGuffey Readers he had read as a boy. But collecting hundreds of readers was not enough to satisfy his yearning to re-claim this part of his past. In 1932, he purchased the log birthplace of William Holmes McGuffey and moved it to Greenfield Village.
- September 23, 1940
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Henry Ford by the Fireplace at William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace, Greenfield Village, 1940
Part of Henry Ford's love of the past stemmed from his fondness for the McGuffey Readers he had read as a boy. But collecting hundreds of readers was not enough to satisfy his yearning to re-claim this part of his past. In 1932, he purchased the log birthplace of William Holmes McGuffey and moved it to Greenfield Village.
- William Holmes McGuffey Smokehouse - This building is a replica of a shed found on site when Henry Ford's assistants dismantled McGuffey's log home birthplace in southwestern Pennsylvania. While there is no evidence that this was originally a smokehouse, the size and form of the original shed, and the presence of other smokehouses in the area, suggest that this might have been one.
- circa 1790
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William Holmes McGuffey Smokehouse
This building is a replica of a shed found on site when Henry Ford's assistants dismantled McGuffey's log home birthplace in southwestern Pennsylvania. While there is no evidence that this was originally a smokehouse, the size and form of the original shed, and the presence of other smokehouses in the area, suggest that this might have been one.