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	"New And True Stories For Children, With 100 Pictures" 1849 L01.006 This schoolbook, published in New York in 1849, helped to satisfy a big demand for schoolbooks in New England and New York.
	Nathan Loomis' Copy Book Mar 5, 1815 1984.14 Copy books were used in schoolroom exercises in the 19th century, this one, used by Nathan Loomis, to display skill with the pen. One Nathan Loomis' descendents was Amherst's Mabel Loomis Todd.
	"The New McGuffey Second Reader" c. 1901 L01.124 William Holmes McGuffey authored what would become one of the 19th century's biggest sellers, McGuffey's Readers. His readers taught science, history, and morality, among other subjects.
	"An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking" 1793 L99.106 Although he is best-remembered today for his American dictionary, Noah Webster also wrote and published some of the most successful American textbooks of the late 18th and early 19th century.
	"Geography Made Easy" 1798 L99.108 This 1798 geography schoolbook provided children in New England with a "window to the world."
	"Smith's Geography on the Productive System; for Schools, Academies, and Families" 1835 L99.114 Spellers, readers, arithmetic books, and geography texts like Roswell Smith's Geography, with its typical question-and-answer format, were the most widely-owned schoolbooks in the 1830s and '40s.
	"A Practical System of Modern Geography" 1841 L99.115 This 1841 geography schoolbook, with its "numerous engravings of manners and customs," provided school children with a visual "window to the world."
	"Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Comparison and Classification" 1827 L99.116 This 1827 geography school textbook approached the study of geography through "comparison and classification" of the "Degrees of Civilization" of races and countries in the same manner in which it made comparisons of the size of towns, rivers and mountains.
	"The New England Primer" c. 1905 L99.139 Schoolbooks were profitable for printers in New England and New York as the northeast took the lead in the public education movement in the years of the New Republic.
	"Rudiments of Reading" 1815 L00.010 "Readers" such as this example were among the most common of early 19th century schoolbooks. This one is by the Rev. Samuel Willard, minister in Deerfield in 1815.

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