Tuesday, March 31, 2020

BOOKS IN THE LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSE

Homemade tiny schoolbooks from the early 1900s and 2 printed Alphabet books:

The Little Red Schoolhouse by probably Josephine E. Watt (Homemade; author is not identified but is probably the same author of Number Book and Test Book). Size: 2" x 2.75"
Number Book by Josephine E Watt (Homemade). Size: 2" x 2.25"
Test Book by Josephine E. Watt (Homemade). Size: 4" x 2.25"
Two Alphabet Books (printed in the USA, publisher unknown). Size: 2-1/8" x 2.5"



Here is the story "Mr. Phillips is Annoyed" handwritten in The Little Red School House.









All of the books have been housed by the Miniature Book Library in a miniature Little Red Schoolhouse from the Pine Creek Collection (Wisconsin):








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