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[McGuffey's Eclectic Primer (Cincinnati, 1849), page from above, with illus. from A to M] – Vintage Print

[McGuffey's Eclectic Primer (Cincinnati, 1849), page from above, with illus. from A to M] — historic print
[McGuffey's Eclectic Primer (Cincinnati, 1849), page from above, with illus. from A to M]. Historic print from the Cincinnati collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [McGuffey's Eclectic Primer (Cincinnati, 1849), page from above, with illus. from A to M], preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[McGuffey's Eclectic Primer (Cincinnati, 1849), page from above, with illus. from A to M]

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This woodcut page from *McGuffey's Eclectic Primer*, printed in Cincinnati in 1849, pairs the letters A through M with small pictured illustrations, a common method for teaching children to read by linking each letter to a familiar object. William Holmes McGuffey's readers, first issued in the 1830s, became some of the most widely used schoolbooks in the United States, and Cincinnati, a major printing center on the Ohio River, was where many of them were produced. Pages like this one show how early schoolbooks combined simple engraved images with basic literacy instruction for young learners.

Medium1 print : woodcut.
Notes1849
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 972 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125759

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