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- Modern Train from New York, to Sacramento, California, with Pullman's Palace Cars, circa 1870 - The completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869 dramatically improved travel between the eastern United States and California. Pullman quickly began operating first-class trains over the new route on an 81-hour schedule between Omaha, Nebraska, and San Francisco. A journey that had taken months by wagon was reduced to a matter of days by the railroad.
- circa 1870
- Collections - Artifact
Modern Train from New York, to Sacramento, California, with Pullman's Palace Cars, circa 1870
The completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869 dramatically improved travel between the eastern United States and California. Pullman quickly began operating first-class trains over the new route on an 81-hour schedule between Omaha, Nebraska, and San Francisco. A journey that had taken months by wagon was reduced to a matter of days by the railroad.
- School Reward of Merit Given to James Grattan by His Teacher, Miss Carman, 1850-1859 - During the nineteenth century, teachers recognized students with "rewards of merit." These were generally printed and colorfully decorated papers with space available for names of the student and teacher. While the accomplishment of James Gratten is unknown, the image on the reward shows a bat and ball game in 1850s America. But is it baseball, rounders, townball, or just spontaneous schoolyard fun?
- 1850-1859
- Collections - Artifact
School Reward of Merit Given to James Grattan by His Teacher, Miss Carman, 1850-1859
During the nineteenth century, teachers recognized students with "rewards of merit." These were generally printed and colorfully decorated papers with space available for names of the student and teacher. While the accomplishment of James Gratten is unknown, the image on the reward shows a bat and ball game in 1850s America. But is it baseball, rounders, townball, or just spontaneous schoolyard fun?
- School Reward of Merit Given to James Grattan by His Teacher, Miss Carman, circa 1870 - During the nineteenth-century, teachers recognized students with paper "rewards of merit." These small tokens commended a student's excellent work, perfect attendance, good behavior or other noteworthy accomplishment. Some contained simple handwritten sentiments from the teacher to the pupil. Many were printed and colorful, with space available to write in the student's name as well as their own.
- circa 1870
- Collections - Artifact
School Reward of Merit Given to James Grattan by His Teacher, Miss Carman, circa 1870
During the nineteenth-century, teachers recognized students with paper "rewards of merit." These small tokens commended a student's excellent work, perfect attendance, good behavior or other noteworthy accomplishment. Some contained simple handwritten sentiments from the teacher to the pupil. Many were printed and colorful, with space available to write in the student's name as well as their own.
- School Reward of Merit Given to James Grattan by His Teacher, Miss Carman, 1850-1859 - During the nineteenth-century, teachers recognized students with paper "rewards of merit." These small tokens commended a student's excellent work, perfect attendance, good behavior or other noteworthy accomplishment. Some contained simple handwritten sentiments from the teacher to the pupil. Many were printed and colorful, with space available to write in the student's name as well as their own.
- circa 1870
- Collections - Artifact
School Reward of Merit Given to James Grattan by His Teacher, Miss Carman, 1850-1859
During the nineteenth-century, teachers recognized students with paper "rewards of merit." These small tokens commended a student's excellent work, perfect attendance, good behavior or other noteworthy accomplishment. Some contained simple handwritten sentiments from the teacher to the pupil. Many were printed and colorful, with space available to write in the student's name as well as their own.
- School Reward of Merit Given to Frank Bancroft, 1868-1873 - During the nineteenth-century, teachers recognized students with paper "rewards of merit." These small tokens commended a student's excellent work, perfect attendance, good behavior or other noteworthy accomplishment. Some contained simple handwritten sentiments from the teacher to the pupil. Many were printed and colorful, with space available to write in the student's name as well as their own.
- 1868-1873
- Collections - Artifact
School Reward of Merit Given to Frank Bancroft, 1868-1873
During the nineteenth-century, teachers recognized students with paper "rewards of merit." These small tokens commended a student's excellent work, perfect attendance, good behavior or other noteworthy accomplishment. Some contained simple handwritten sentiments from the teacher to the pupil. Many were printed and colorful, with space available to write in the student's name as well as their own.