1896
GUSN-283402
The image caption reads "A New England Dame School in Old Colony Times, 1713." The text at the top of the calendar reads "The teacher made the figures on the sanded floor with her rod and her pupils with their square pieces of birch-bark and bits of charcoal copied the sums she had given them, Records of Oxford, Mass., by Mary de Witt Freeland."
advertising
business (commercial function)
insurance
schools (institutions)
children (people by age group)
calendars
1 calendar ; 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches
EP001
Ephemera collection
EP001.13.02.021
15 1/2 x 12 1/2 (HxW)(inches)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Oxford (Worcester county, Massachusetts)
New England Mutual Life Insurance Company (Publisher)
Merrill, Frank T., 1848- (Delineator)
American Bank Note Company (Printer)
calendars
Freeland, Mary de Witt
Post Office Square (Boston, Mass.)
Item
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