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[McGuffey's Eclectic Primer (Cincinnati, 1849), showing log hut, washtub, bed, and cat] – Historic Reproduction

[McGuffey's Eclectic Primer (Cincinnati, 1849), showing log hut, washtub, bed, and cat] — historic print
[McGuffey's Eclectic Primer (Cincinnati, 1849), showing log hut, washtub, bed, and cat]. 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 log hut, a washtub, a bed, and a cat make up the plain household scene in this woodcut from McGuffey's Eclectic Primer, printed in Cincinnati in 1849. The primer was part of a series compiled by William Holmes McGuffey, an Ohio educator, and issued by the Cincinnati firm of Truman & Smith. Cincinnati was a busy printing and publishing center on the Ohio River at the time, and McGuffey's readers went on to shape reading instruction in American schools for generations. Simple pictures like this one were meant to help young children connect printed words with everyday objects they already knew.

Medium1 print : woodcut.
Notes1849
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,201 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125758

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