The Only True Mother Goose (Boston: Monroe & Francis) 1833 – Antique Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with The Only True Mother Goose (Boston: Monroe & Francis) 1833, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Only True Mother Goose (Boston: Monroe & Francis) 1833
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The Only True Mother Goose carries a Boston imprint from 1833, issued by the firm of Monroe & Francis. The Mother Goose name goes back to English nursery rhyme collections of the 18th century, and by the 1830s American publishers, Boston firms among them, were reprinting these verses for children. A volume like this one shows how familiar rhymes were packaged for home reading and the schoolroom in that period, before the trade in children's books expanded. The catalog record is brief, so the item is best read as a document of Boston's early children's publishing.
| Medium | 1 item. |
|---|---|
| Genre | old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Nursery rhymes." |
| Notes | 1833 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,170 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125978 |
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