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Explorer of American textbooks. 🔎
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Bibliographic Adventurer 📚
Independent Researcher & Rare Book Collector 📖
Help me find lost books:
http://losthistorybooks.com/help-me/
@adamlaats.bsky.social Here’s another great illustration from different book by the same author. This scene shows the family playing. Later in the book, the big sister helps her little brother with his school work in front of this same fireplace.
September 15, 2025 at 10:31 PM
@adamlaats.bsky.social Here’s another great illustration from different book by the same author. This scene shows the family playing. Later in the book, the big sister helps her little brother with his school work in front of this same fireplace.
@adamlaats.bsky.social that seems to be referring to informal educational practices. This textbook from 1869 has the perfect illustration of this. The young boy is educated by a professional teacher at school, then shares what he learned with his family members at home.
September 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
@adamlaats.bsky.social that seems to be referring to informal educational practices. This textbook from 1869 has the perfect illustration of this. The young boy is educated by a professional teacher at school, then shares what he learned with his family members at home.
This one was tricky, but I ultimately figured it out! This image depicts the city of Damascus, Syria. I found it in an Illustrated Family Bible published by Cassell & Co. in London, England.
books.google.com/books?id=cmK...
books.google.com/books?id=cmK...
August 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This one was tricky, but I ultimately figured it out! This image depicts the city of Damascus, Syria. I found it in an Illustrated Family Bible published by Cassell & Co. in London, England.
books.google.com/books?id=cmK...
books.google.com/books?id=cmK...
Here we see boys running away from a man carrying a stick. I found this in Picture Lessons in Verse published by the Religious Tract Society in London, England. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mc...
August 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Here we see boys running away from a man carrying a stick. I found this in Picture Lessons in Verse published by the Religious Tract Society in London, England. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mc...
This illustration depicts a drunk man at a bar. I found this in The Fools Pence printed by the American Tract Society in New York. I also found it in a few other publications by the American Tract Society over the years.
archive.org/details/sele...
archive.org/details/sele...
August 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This illustration depicts a drunk man at a bar. I found this in The Fools Pence printed by the American Tract Society in New York. I also found it in a few other publications by the American Tract Society over the years.
archive.org/details/sele...
archive.org/details/sele...
So far, I’ve been able to identify the source of a few illustrations.
This is a very simple engraving of people in a winter landscape.
I found it in a school book published in Concord, New Hampshire, USA in the 1820s. archive.org/details/amer...
This is a very simple engraving of people in a winter landscape.
I found it in a school book published in Concord, New Hampshire, USA in the 1820s. archive.org/details/amer...
August 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
So far, I’ve been able to identify the source of a few illustrations.
This is a very simple engraving of people in a winter landscape.
I found it in a school book published in Concord, New Hampshire, USA in the 1820s. archive.org/details/amer...
This is a very simple engraving of people in a winter landscape.
I found it in a school book published in Concord, New Hampshire, USA in the 1820s. archive.org/details/amer...
I should have heeded this warning. The letters listed in the attached register were not in the box after all. 🙃
August 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I should have heeded this warning. The letters listed in the attached register were not in the box after all. 🙃
I have noticed that as well, but there are some interesting exceptions. For example, consider the crisis over Land of the Free by Caughey, Franklin, and May that began in 1966. But by the next year, educators in California and Pennsylvania had published a thorough defense of the book.
August 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I have noticed that as well, but there are some interesting exceptions. For example, consider the crisis over Land of the Free by Caughey, Franklin, and May that began in 1966. But by the next year, educators in California and Pennsylvania had published a thorough defense of the book.
I had a surprising amount of fun browsing old ecclesiastical Journals. This is from the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio.
July 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I had a surprising amount of fun browsing old ecclesiastical Journals. This is from the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio.
I finally found the missing piece! The name change was announced in the January 1870 edition along with a brief explanation. The Freedman was remamed Our School and Home. Now I just need to find copies. I have combed through Worldcat and it appears there are no known copies.
July 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I finally found the missing piece! The name change was announced in the January 1870 edition along with a brief explanation. The Freedman was remamed Our School and Home. Now I just need to find copies. I have combed through Worldcat and it appears there are no known copies.
A large group from Georgia that escaped together: Summer, Toney, Harry, Jack, George, Bess, Cloe with two children, Cretia with three children, August, Abel, Polydora, Tomboy, June, and Fanny.
July 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A large group from Georgia that escaped together: Summer, Toney, Harry, Jack, George, Bess, Cloe with two children, Cretia with three children, August, Abel, Polydora, Tomboy, June, and Fanny.
A man named Tom from South Carolina.
July 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
A man named Tom from South Carolina.
A man named Dick from North Carolina.
July 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
A man named Dick from North Carolina.
A man named John Bibbin from Virginia.
July 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A man named John Bibbin from Virginia.
A man named Dickinson from Maryland.
July 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
A man named Dickinson from Maryland.
A boy named John from Delaware.
July 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A boy named John from Delaware.
A man named Ishmael from Pennsylvania.
July 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A man named Ishmael from Pennsylvania.
A man named Quash from New Jersey.
July 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
A man named Quash from New Jersey.
A man named Joe from New York.
July 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A man named Joe from New York.
A man named Sy from Connecticut.
July 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
A man named Sy from Connecticut.
A woman named Lucy from Rhode Island.
July 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
A woman named Lucy from Rhode Island.
A man named Pompey from Massachusetts.
July 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
A man named Pompey from Massachusetts.
I’ve been looking at runaway slave ads from the American Revolutionary War and it’s been a humbling experience. If you have some time, I invite you to read some of their names in the thread below. 🗃️🧵
A man named Bone from New Hampshire.
A man named Bone from New Hampshire.
July 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I’ve been looking at runaway slave ads from the American Revolutionary War and it’s been a humbling experience. If you have some time, I invite you to read some of their names in the thread below. 🗃️🧵
A man named Bone from New Hampshire.
A man named Bone from New Hampshire.
I recently got to view some of William F. Allen’s handwritten notes from the 1860s. This excerpt includes a musical transcription of a song he heard former slaves singing near Helena, Arkansas. It would ultimately be published in Slave Songs of the United States in 1867.
June 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I recently got to view some of William F. Allen’s handwritten notes from the 1860s. This excerpt includes a musical transcription of a song he heard former slaves singing near Helena, Arkansas. It would ultimately be published in Slave Songs of the United States in 1867.
I just got images of Palier Nason from Harvard Library. This was another children’s magazine created by American missionaries. It includes articles in both Tamil and English.
May 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I just got images of Palier Nason from Harvard Library. This was another children’s magazine created by American missionaries. It includes articles in both Tamil and English.