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NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN CHILDREN & WHAT THEY READ

VOICES FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA

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Abbreviations: JR = Juvenile Rambler
JG = Juvenile Gazette; Being an Amusing Repository for Youth
LC = The Little Corporal
MM = Robert Merry's Museum
OYF = Our Young Folks
ST = The Student
SMate = The Schoolmate
SL = The Slave's Friend
S&S = Student & Schoolmate
YPMag = Young People's Magazine
Mirror = Young People's Mirror
Cab = Youth's Cabinet
YC = Youth's Companion
YMAG = Youth's Magazine (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Also see annotated bibliographies on various subjects, including 19th-century children, their books, and social history; works by Jacob Abbott; and works on and by Samuel Griswold Goodrich

ART & ARTWORK

"Anna's Picture," by "Florence," in The Token (1836)
"Among the Studios, no. 3," by T. B. Aldrich & Winslow Homer (OYF; July 1866)

ROGERS GROUPS; JOHN ROGERS (artist)

Rogers groups in the Little Corporal (1867)

AMATEUR ART

Sarah Tuttle's scrapbook (1834-1860s)

ASTRONOMY; ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS

a planetary alignment (MM; June 1871)

IN POETRY

"To the Departing Comet" (American Monthly Magazine; Jan 1836)
"Distant Worlds" (MM; July 1852)

AURORA BOREALIS; NORTHERN LIGHTS

"The Aurora Borealis," by "Francis" (YMAG; April 14, 1837)

MOON

"The Moon" (MM; June 1841)

IN FICTION

"Sissy's Ride in the Moon," by Annette Bishop & Mary Ann Hallock (OYC; Nov 1869)

COMETS

DONATI'S COMET; COMET DONATI

"The Comet" (MM; Oct 1858)
"The Comet" (MM; Nov 1858)

HALLEY'S COMET; COMET HALLEY

"To the Departing Comet" (American Monthly Magazine; Jan 1836)

METEORS; LEONIDS

Meteors and the Leonids of 1833, by Samuel Goodrich (1843)

APPAREL

CLOTHING

"Dress," by "Obi," in "The Ladies Wreath"
"What Cashmere Shawls are Made Of," in Science & technology notes (YC; 1865)

CLOTHING OF GIRLS

"Clothing for Girls," by G. M. J. (1853)
"Balmorals," in "The Literary Gazette," Emaline Wicks & J. V. H. Scoville (1861)

CLOTHING IN FICTION

"The Protegee," by Eliza Leslie, in The Pearl (1837)
"Vanity Punished" (YC; Sept 9, 1847)
"Dress and Address," by Nathan Sargent (YC; Dec 30, 1847)
"The Opera Cloak" (YC; 6 June 1861)
"The City Girl," by "Gail Hamilton" (Abigail Dodge) (OYF; March 1865)

MAKING CLOTHING

KNITTING

"The Busy Knitter," by William Oland Bourne (Cab; Aug 1851)
"The Knitters" (YC; Dec 26, 1861)
"Knitting-Work," by Genie M. Wilde (OYF; March 1872)

SEWING

"The Sewing-Machine" (MM; Jan 1857)
"Old Times & New," by Margaret (MM; Aug 1858)

SEWING IMPLEMENTS: STRAIGHT PIN

Notice to resubscribe, The Business of Robert Merry's Museum

WEAVING; HOMESPUN

"A Story of the Revolution" (MM; Aug 1844)

JEWELRY

IN LITERATURE

"To a Lady," in Eliza Piatt's copybook (1845)

CONCEPTS

DEFINING BEAUTY

"Anna's Picture," by "Florence," in The Token (1836)
"The Beautiful School-Girl," by Caroline Gilman, in The Pearl (1837)

DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION

"The Change of the Seasons" (MM; Nov 1850)

COMMUNITY; COMMUNITIES; COMPUTERS & CYBERCOMMUNITIES

"An 'Online Community' of the Nineteenth Century," by Pat Pflieger (2001)

COUNTRY LIFE & CITY LIFE; RURAL LIFE & URBAN LIFE

"The Little Wood-Cutter" (PP; April 13, 1833)
"City and Country," by A. D. Woodbridge, in The Pearl (1837)
William and Eliza; or, The Visit (1841-1844?)
"Hay-Making" (YC; July 23, 1846)
two celebrations of American Independence Day (YC; July 23, 1846)
"The City Girl," by "Gail Hamilton" (Abigail Dodge) (OYF; March 1865)
"Hunting Eggs," by Mary Ann Hallock (OYF; Jan 1870)

FREEDOM

"The Pretty Robin" (SL; 1836, #8)
"Independence" (SL; 1837?, #16)
"Liberty" (MM; Dec 1842), by Samuel Goodrich

WAR

"The Three Sceptres," by Sarah Josepha Hale, in The Token (1836)
"The Brothers," by Lydia H. Sigourney, in The Pearl (1837)
"War and Glory," by Samuel Johnson (YMAG; July 7, 1837)
"The Farmer and Soldier," by Lydia Sigourney (YC; Feb 12, 1846)

MILITARY LIFE; SOLDIERS; ARMY

"The Brothers," by Lydia H. Sigourney, in The Pearl (1837)

CRIME

"Three Little Boys in Prison," by Charles Holden (1844)
Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)
"Girl Stealing" (YC; Dec 30, 1847)

ECONOMICS

"The Protegee," by Eliza Leslie, in The Pearl (1837)
"About Labor & Property" (MM; Jan 1841)
"Who Needs $4 a Day?" (MM; Mar 1862)
"Blessings of Work," by Julia E. McConaughy (MM; May 1863)

BAD USE OF MONEY

"Story of Peter Brown" (PP; 20 June 1835)
"About Edwin Finley" (PP; 20 June 1835)

GOOD USE OF MONEY

"About Edwin Finley" (PP; 20 June 1835)
"Uncle David," by Catherine Sedgwick, in The Pearl (1837)

PAYING WHAT IS OWED

"The Strawberry Woman," by T. S. Arthur (YC; Sept 9, 1847)
"Letter to the Editor" (YC; Dec 28, 1848)
"The Opera Cloak" (YC; 6 June 1861)

POVERTY & THE POOR

Parley's Story of the Little Gardener, by Samuel Goodrich (1833)
"The Protegee," by Eliza Leslie, in The Pearl (1837)
"The Snow Storm" (YC; Feb 12 1846)
"Little Susan, the Poor-House Girl," by J. A. (YC; Aug 12, 1847)
Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio (series one & two), by "Fanny Fern" (1853)
"Uncle Hiram's Pilgrimage," by William C. Cutter (M; 1857-1860)
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Handie, by Jacob Abbott (1859)
"Living in an Omnibus," by Louisa May Alcott (MM; Oct 1867)
Cousin Tribulation's story, by Louisa May Alcott (MM; Jan 1868)
"Young Italy in Boston," by "Stella" (MM; Jan 1870)
"Lines," by "Cleon," in "The Ladies Wreath"

WEALTH

"Thy Will Be Done," by W. (YC; Nov 22, 1849)

IMPERMANENCE OF WEALTH

"The Lottery Ticket" (MM; 1844)
"Thy Will Be Done," by W. (YC; Nov 22, 1849)

EDUCATION; SCHOOLS; SCHOOL LIFE

"Prospectus" (PP; 16 Mar 1833)
"To the Public" (PP; 16 March 1833)
"The Reading of Young Ladies" (1836; American Magazine of Useful Knowledge)
"To A. S.," in The Pearl (1837)
"Alfred Poole" (MM; May 1845)
"Confinement of Children in School," by Dr. James Jackson (1845)
"Treatment of Children at School," by Dr. S. B. Woodward (1845)
"Female Education" (1848)
Diary of a Little Girl in Old New York, by Catherine Elizabeth Havens (1849-1950; published 1920)
"Conversation. To Young Ladies" (1853)
"Love of Nature (1853; The Mother's Assistant)
rewards of merit
"Education," in "The Literary Gazette," Emaline Wicks & J. V. H. Scoville (1861)
The Good Scholar (1863)
"How to Go to School," by H. E. B. (LC; Dec 1866)
"A Young Savage," by A. Perry (MM; Nov 1870)

IN FICTION

"Story of Peter Brown" (PP; 20 June 1835)
"About Edwin Finley" (PP; 20 June 1835)
"The Sweep and the Tombstones" (SL; 1836, #8)
"The Protegee," by Eliza Leslie, in The Pearl (1837)
"Reading for Young Ladies" (YMAG; July 7, 1837)
The Ladder of Learning (1839)
"My Schoolmates: The Contrast," by Abby (YC; June 5, 1846)
"My Schoolmates: The Inquirer," by Abbie (YC; June 12, 1846)
"My Schoolmates: The Victim," by Abbie (YC; June 19, 1846)
"My Schoolmates: The Widow," by Abbie (YC; June 26, 1846)
"The Boy Who Loved Truth," by Julia A. Fletcher (YC; 26 June 1846)
"My Schoolmates: Kate Kennedy," by Abby (YC; July 2, 1846)
"My Schoolmates: The Sensitive Plant," by Abbie (YC; July 9, 1846)
"The School-Mistress," by M. W. D. (YC; Sept 13, 1849)
"Amy's Holiday" (Cab; Sept 1850)
"The Spelling Lesson" (Cab; Feb 1851)
"Placing a Daughter at School," by Motte Hall (ST; Nov 1853)
"True Courage," by "Aunt Kate" (YC; 3 Aug 1854)
"Mrs. Warner's Prejudice," by Lesina (YC; Aug 16, 1855)
"Clara's Medal," by Christie Pearl (S&S; Sept 1864)
"The Best Girl in School," by Phoebe H. Phelps (S&S; Oct 1864)
"Industry & Idleness," by William L. Williams (S&S; Nov 1864)

IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION

"I'd be a Butterfly" (PP; 28 May 1833)
"About Edwin Finley" (PP; 20 June 1835)
"Self-Denial, or, The Two Cousins" (YC; Jan 7, 1847)
"Clara Sinclair," by Caroline Gilman (Cab; Sept 1850)
"Diligent David," by Francis Forrester (Cab; February 1856)
"Who Needs $4 a Day?" (MM; Mar 1862)
"Going into Business for Himself," by Mrs. P. P. Bonney (YC; 31 Aug 1865)

EDUCATION OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS

"The Good Old Man" (SL; 1836, #11)
"The Mico Schools" (SL; 1839, #38)
Eye and Ear Notes, by "Uncle James" (James Redpath) (YC; 1865)
"Negro Quickness to Learn," in Children & changing times (YC; 1865)

EDUCATION OF THE HEARING IMPAIRED

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

EDUCATION OF NATIVE-AMERICANS

"Birth, Nursing, & Education of Infants; Education & Amusements of Youths," by John Dunn Hunter (1824)
"Indian Youth's Newspaper" (YC; 7 Sept 1854)
"A Young Savage," by A. Perry (MM; Nov 1870)

SUBJECTS STUDIED

MATHEMATICS

IN FICTION

"Clara Sinclair," by Caroline Gilman (Cab; Sept 1850)

SPELLING

The American Spelling Book, by Noah Webster (1800?)
"The Spelling Lesson" (Cab; Feb 1851)

STUDYING

The Ladder of Learning (1839)
"Diligent David," by Francis Forrester (Cab; February 1856)

IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING

"To A. S.," in The Pearl (1837)

TEACHERS

"About Edwin Finley" (PP; 20 June 1835)
"Uncle David," by Catherine Sedgwick, in The Pearl (1837)
"My Own Life & Adventures," by "Robert Merry" (MM; 1841-1842)

ELVES

"The Elves of the Forest Centre," by Pansy (MM; Jan 1858)

ETIQUETTE

The Ladder of Learning (1839)
"Adventures of Billy Bump" (MM; 1848-1850)
"Hints for Children" (YC; April 12, 1849)
The Behaviour Book, by Eliza Leslie (1853)
"How to Go to School," by H. E. B. (LC; Dec 1866)

FEELINGS

ANTICIPATION

"Spring Whistles," by Lucy Larcom & Mary Ann Hallock (OYF; May 1870)

FRIENDS; FRIENDSHIP

"The Choice of Companions" (repr Sunday School Journal; YC; October 12, 1831)
"The City Girl," by "Gail Hamilton" (Abigail Dodge) (OYF; March 1865)

FALSE FRIENDS

"To a Lady," by R., in The Token (1836)

PEER PRESSURE

"Dress and Address," by Nathan Sargent (YC; Dec 30, 1847)
"Laughing Bill" (Cab; Nov 1850)
"Diligent David," by Francis Forrester (Cab; February 1856)

LOVE & ROMANCE

Love Triumphant; or, Constancy Rewarded, by Abner Reed (1797)
"I will Forget Thee"--By B. B. Thatcher, in The Token (1836)
"Wealth and Fashion," in The Token (1836)
"The Wedding Knell," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1836)
"New Year's Day," by Catherine Sedgwick, in The Token (1836)
"Reminiscences of a Rag" (MM; 1844)
"The School-Mistress," by M. W. D. (YC; Sept 13, 1849)
"Unhappy Elopement" (YC; Nov 22, 1849)
"The Four Wills" (Cab; Sept 1854)

FIREWORKS

Two pieces about fireworks (PP; Sept & Oct 1836)

FLOWERS

"I Love you, Flowers," by J. H. Mifflin, in The Token (1836)
Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

FORTUNE TELLING

The Holiday Book, by Francis Woodworth (1854)

GARDENING

Parley's Story of the Little Gardener, by Samuel Goodrich (1833)
Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

GENDER

male

FEMALE; GIRLS & WOMEN

in fiction education motherhood rights

"Female Resources for Writing," by "P. P." (1827; Boston Lyceum)
"Lucy Nelson, the Boy-Girl," by Eliza Leslie (YC; Nov 30, 1831)
Sarah Tuttle's scrapbook (1834-1860s)
"The Reading of Young Ladies" (1836; American Magazine of Useful Knowledge)
"To Our Young Female Readers" (PP; Feb 1836)
"To a Little Girl," in The Pearl (1837)
"My Gentle Girl," by James Nack, in The Pearl (1837)
"The Beautiful School-Girl," by Caroline Gilman, in The Pearl (1837)
"Wishes," by Anna Bache, in The Pearl (1837)
"Advice to a Young Lady," in The Pearl (1837)
"To a Little Girl," in The Pearl (1837)
"Reading for Young Ladies" (YMAG; July 7, 1837)
"Tearing Open the Rosebud" (YC; June 8, 1848)
"A Good Girl at School" (YC; Nov 22, 1849)
Diary of a Little Girl in Old New York, by Catherine Elizabeth Havens (1849-1950; published 1920)
"Who Will Make a Good Wife" (YC; May 30, 1850)
"Clothing for Girls," by G. M. J. (1853)
The Behaviour Book, by Eliza Leslie (1853)
Working, in The Harper Establishment (1855)
"Crooked Spines in Girls," by Helen C. Lewis (1861; Arthur's Home Magazine)
"What is a Darling?" (MM; Oct 1862)
"Working Girls" (MM; Oct 1863)
"Gardening for Ladies" (MM; Nov 1863)
"The Best Girl in School," by Phoebe H. Phelps (S&S; Oct 1864)
Woman's Rights, John Todd (1867)
Woman's Wrongs, "Gail Hamilton (1868)
"Too Good to Be True: 150 Years of Mary Sue," by Pat Pflieger

IN FICTION

"Uncle David," by Catherine Sedgwick, in The Pearl (1837)
"A Story of the Revolution" (MM; Aug 1844)
"My Schoolmates: The Contrast," by Abby (YC; June 5, 1846)
"My Schoolmates: Kate Kennedy," by Abby (YC; July 2, 1846)
"My Schoolmates: The Sensitive Plant," by Abbie (YC; July 9, 1846)
"Skating--Woman's Rights," by William C. Cutter (MM; Feb 1857)
"The Elves of the Forest Centre," by Pansy (MM; Jan 1858)
"Dreaming and Doing," by Mrs. N. McConaughy (MM; Dec 1863)
"The Best Girl in School," by Phoebe H. Phelps (S&S; Oct 1864)
"The Would-be Lady and the True One," by Mrs. P. P. Bonney (YC; March 16, 1865)
"Unella," by Madge (MM; June 1865)
"Imagination or Affectation" (YC; 13 July 1865)
"A Frightened Tiger" (YC; 29 July 1869)
"The Doctor's Little Girl," by C. Alice Baker (MM; 1870)

GIRLS, EDUCATION OF

"The Reading of Young Ladies" (1836; American Magazine of Useful Knowledge)
"To Our Young Female Readers" (PP; Feb 1836)
"Female Education" (1848)
"A Good Girl at School" (YC; Nov 22, 1849)
"Conversation. To Young Ladies" (1853)
"Love of Nature (1853; The Mother's Assistant)

IN FICTION

"My Schoolmates: The Contrast," by Abby (YC; June 5, 1846)
"My Schoolmates: The Inquirer," by Abbie (YC; June 12, 1846)
"My Schoolmates: The Victim," by Abbie (YC; June 19, 1846)
"My Schoolmates: The Widow," by Abbie (YC; June 26, 1846)
"My Schoolmates: Kate Kennedy," by Abby (YC; July 2, 1846)
"My Schoolmates: The Sensitive Plant," by Abbie (YC; July 9, 1846)
"Clara Sinclair," by Caroline Gilman (Cab; Sept 1850)
"Placing a Daughter at School," by Motte Hall (ST; Nov 1853)
"Mrs. Warner's Prejudice," by Lesina (YC; Aug 16, 1855)
"The Doctor's Little Girl," by C. Alice Baker (MM; 1870)

MOTHERS & MOTHERHOOD

"Heroism" (YC; 12 Oct 1831)
"The Afflicted Mother (SL; 1836, #8)
"The Poor Mother" (SL; 1836, #11)
"A Mother's Anger," by Caroline Gilman, in The Pearl (1837)
"The Mother and Babe" (SL; 1837?, #16)
"My Mother," in Eliza Piatt's copybook (1845)
"Touching Expression" (YC; 19 July 1849)
Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio (series one & two), by "Fanny Fern" (1853)
Gala Days, by "Gail Hamilton" (1863)
"The Two Burials," by Julia Pratt Ballard (MM; Nov 1867)

SUFFRAGE; WOMEN'S RIGHTS

Woman's Rights, John Todd (1867)
Woman's Wrongs, "Gail Hamilton (1868)

MALE; BOYS & MEN

"Story of Peter Brown" (PP; 20 June 1835)
"About Edwin Finley" (PP; 20 June 1835)
"The Good Boy" (SL; 1836, #11)
"The Brothers," by Lydia H. Sigourney, in The Pearl (1837)
"Wishes," by Anna Bache, in The Pearl (1837)
"The Boys We Want" (SL; 1837?, #16)
"Yankee Energy" (MM; Sept 1841)
"Another Story for Boys," by Orpha (YC; Jan 7, 1846)
"The Boy Who Loved Truth," by Julia A. Fletcher (YC; 26 June 1846)
"Boys of Sixteen" (YC; Aug 19, 1847)
"Fifteen Young Men" (YC; Sept 13, 1848)
"The Old School House," by J. A. (YC; Nov 15, 1849)
"You Will Be Wanted" (YC; Nov 22, 1849)
"Young Men," by Charlotte Gilman (YC; Nov 22, 1849)
"Hints to Young Men" (YC; Nov 22, 1849)
"Diligent David," by Francis Forrester (Cab; February 1856)
"Industry & Idleness," by William L. Williams (S&S; Nov 1864)
"Going into Business for Himself," by Mrs. P. P. Bonney (YC; 31 Aug 1865)
"Two Ways of Being Manly," by F. W. A. P. (MM; 1868)
"What Does Johnny Read?" (LC; Jan 1872)

GHOSTS

"The Terrified Sailors" (PP; Mar 16, 1833)
"Adventures with Ghosts," by Mrs. Hall (Cab; May 1850)

GIFTS; GIFT-GIVING

"New Year's Day," by Catherine Sedgwick, in The Token (1836)
"The Sail-Boat," by Anna Bache, in The Pearl (1837)
"The Christmas Tree," by Mrs. G., in The Pearl (1837)

GOVERNMENT; POLITICS

"A Federal Catechism," in The American Spelling Book, by Noah Webster (1800?)
"Story of Philip Brusque" (MM; 1841-1842)
"Liberty" (MM; Dec 1842), by Samuel Goodrich
poem (MM; Jan 1846)

POLITICAL POWER

"The Three Sceptres," by Sarah Josepha Hale, in The Token (1836)

GUNS

"How a Man Feels When He is Shot" (YC; Oct 3, 1861)
"Rules to Observe When You Take a Gun in Your Hand," in Science & technology notes (YC; 1865)

HOLIDAYS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; TOYS & GAMES

individual holidays riddles, games, & play social events & parties

William and Eliza; or, The Visit (1841-1844?)
"The Horse & the Bells" (MM; June 1841)
Popular Amusements, by J. T. Crane (1869)

HOLIDAYS

NEW YEAR'S DAY, also see NEW YEAR'S ADDRESSES

"New Year's Day," by Catherine Sedgwick, in The Token (1836)

MAY DAY; MAY QUEEN

"The May Pole of Merry Mount," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1836)
"The Beautiful School-Girl," by Caroline Gilman, in The Pearl (1837)
Eye and Ear Notes, by "Uncle James" (James Redpath) (YC; 1865)

AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY

"Juvenile Celebration of Independence" (PP; Aug 1836)
"Caesar and Jubal" & "Independence," in The Slave's Friend (1837?, #16)
"Independence" (SL; 1837?, #16)
two celebrations of American Independence Day (YC; July 23, 1846)
"Independence Day" (MM; July 1863)
"The Boys' Fourth-of-July," by Julia Pratt Ballard (MM; July 1865)
"July 4, 1865," by "Lulie" (S&S; July 1865)
editorial comment on July 4, 1865 (MM; July 1865)

THANKSGIVING

"Thanksgiving Memories," by Francis Woodworth (Cab; Oct 1856)
"The Volunteer's Thanksgiving," by Lucy Larcom (OYF; Jan 1865)

CHRISTMAS

"Introduction," by A. D. W., in The Pearl (1837)
"The Christmas Tree," by Mrs. G., in The Pearl (1837)
New Year's address (PP; Jan 1838)
"Allie's Christmas Eve," by "Lillie Linden" (MM; Feb 1865)

CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS

"The Christmas Tree," by Mrs. G., in The Pearl (1837)

TWELFTH DAY

New Year's address (PP; Jan 1838)

RIDDLES & PUZZLES & GAMES & SPORTS; PASTTIMES & PLAY

The Riddle Book (1826)
"Remarks on Children's Play," by Oliver Kendall, jr (JG; 1828)
The Riddle Book (1828)
Puzzles (1842-1871)
Diary of a Little Girl in Old New York, by Catherine Elizabeth Havens (1849-1950; published 1920)
Mary Newell's letter (1850)
"Hieroglyphical Letter to the Editor" (Cab; Feb 1851)
"Riddle," by Samuel Goodrich (MM; June 1853)
The Holiday Book, by Francis Woodworth (1854)
Merry's Book of Puzzles (1856)
"Conundrums," "Abbreviations," in "The Ladies Wreath"
Popular Amusements, by J. T. Crane (1869)

GAMBLING

"The Lottery Ticket" (MM; 1844)
Popular Amusements, by J. T. Crane (1869)

GAMES

"Remarks on Children's Play," by Oliver Kendall, jr (JG; 1828)
"The Christmas Tree," by Mrs. G., in The Pearl (1837)
"Cross Questions and Crooked Answers," by Susanna Newbould (Cab; February 1856)

SEASONAL GAMES & ACTIVITIES

Pictured on the covers of Our Young Folks (1865-1867)

ARCHERY

"Remarks on Children's Play," by Oliver Kendall, jr (JG; 1828)
"The Little Archer," by Anna Bache, in The Pearl (1837)

BASEBALL

Pictured on the cover of Oliver Optic's Magazine (1867)
Popular Amusements, by J. T. Crane (1869)

BIRCH-SWINGING

"Swinging on a Birch-Tree," by Lucy Larcom & Winslow Homer (OYF; June 1867)

BLIND MAN'S BUFF; BLIND MAN'S BLUFF

"Remarks on Children's Play," by Oliver Kendall, jr (JG; 1828)

CHESS

Popular Amusements, by J. T. Crane (1869)

CRICKET

Pictured on the cover of Parley's Magazine (1835)

FOOTBALL

"Remarks on Children's Play," by Oliver Kendall, jr (JG; 1828)
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Handie, by Jacob Abbott (1859)

HOOPS

"Remarks on Children's Play," by Oliver Kendall, jr (JG; 1828)

HOPSCOTCH

"Remarks on Children's Play," by Oliver Kendall, jr (JG; 1828)

HUNT THE SLIPPER

"Remarks on Children's Play," by Oliver Kendall, jr (JG; 1828)

ICE SKATING

"Remarks on Children's Play," by Oliver Kendall, jr (JG; 1828)
"The Skater's Song" (Cab; Jan 1849)
"Skating--Woman's Rights," by William C. Cutter (MM; Feb 1857)

JUGGLING

"Remarks on Children's Play," by Oliver Kendall, jr (JG; 1828)

JUMPING ROPE

"Remarks on Children's Play," by Oliver Kendall, jr (JG; 1828)

KITES

"Remarks on Children's Play," by Oliver Kendall, jr (JG; 1828)

MARBLES

"Remarks on Children's Play," by Oliver Kendall, jr (JG; 1828)

SHUTTLECOCK

"Remarks on Children's Play," by Oliver Kendall, jr (JG; 1828)

SWIMMING

"Swimming," in Science & technology notes (YC; 1865)

SWINGING

"Remarks on Children's Play," by Oliver Kendall, jr (JG; 1828)

THREAD THE NEEDLE

"Remarks on Children's Play," by Oliver Kendall, jr (JG; 1828)

TOYS

advertisement for Tuttle's Emporium (Cab; Jan 1854)

BOATS

"The Sail-Boat," by Anna Bache, in The Pearl (1837)
"The Water-melon Boats" (YC; Aug 12, 1847)

DOLLS

"The Spendthrift Doll," by Sarah Orne Jewett (MM; Feb 1871)

SLEDS

"The Snow Storm" (YC; Feb 12 1846)

WHISTLES

"My First Whistle" (MM; Jan 1841), by Samuel Goodrich
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Up the River, by Jacob Abbott (1860)
"Spring Whistles," by Lucy Larcom & Mary Ann Hallock (OYF; May 1870)

SOCIAL EVENTS; PARTIES

The Behaviour Book, by Eliza Leslie (1853)
"Children and Children's Parties," by S.B.S. (1853)
"The City Girl," by "Gail Hamilton" (Abigail Dodge) (OYF; March 1865)
Popular Amusements, by J. T. Crane (1869)

DANCING

"Gossip of the Month" (1847; Democratic Review)
"The City Girl," by "Gail Hamilton" (Abigail Dodge) (OYF; March 1865)
Popular Amusements, by J. T. Crane (1869)

HOUSEHOLD MATTERS

FURNISHINGS; FURNITURE

advertisements for Dr. Brown's Baby-Tender (MM; June & July 1865)

MINNESOTA FARMHOUSE

chapter 3-6, Wool-Gathering, by "Gail Hamilton" [Abigail Dodge] (1867)

HOUSEWORK

"The Would-be Lady and the True One," by Mrs. P. P. Bonney (YC; March 16, 1865)

COOKING: FOOD; RECIPES

Recipe for curds and whey (1828)
Recipes from The Kentucky Housewife, by Lettice Bryan (1839)
"Confectioners" (PP; July 1836)
Recipes from The Virginia Housewife, by Mary Randolph (1860)
"Early Culture of Children," by G. M. J. (1853)
"Physical Education of Children" (1853)

HUMOROUS PIECES

"Silent Companion" (PP; 30 Mar 1833)
"Narrow Escape from a Bear" (PP; 27 April 1833)
joke (PP; June 1836)
"The Spelling Lesson" (Cab; Feb 1851)
"Placing a Daughter at School," by Motte Hall (ST; Nov 1853)
"The Miser and His Dinner" (Cab; Sept 1854)

JOBS; PROFESSIONS; WORKING

The Ladder of Learning (1839)
"About Labor & Property" (MM; Jan 1841)
"Who Needs $4 a Day?" (MM; Mar 1862)
"Working Girls" (MM; Oct 1863)
"Blessings of Work," by Julia E. McConaughy (MM; May 1863)
"Industry & Idleness," by William L. Williams (S&S; Nov 1864)
"Going into Business for Himself," by Mrs. P. P. Bonney (YC; 31 Aug 1865)

BLACKSMITH; BLACKSMITHING

Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Up the River, by Jacob Abbott (1860)

CHIMNEY SWEEPS

"The Sweep and the Tombstones" (SL; 1836, #8)

EXPLORER; EXPLORING

"Dr. Kane's Boat--the Faith," by William Hoyt Coleman (MM; Jan 1859)
editorial (MM; Nov 1872)

FACTORY WORKER

"A Keen Retort," in Children & changing times (YC; 1865)

FARMER; FARMING

"The Farmer and Soldier," by Lydia Sigourney (YC; Feb 12, 1846)
"Hay-Making" (YC; July 23, 1846)
"Watching the Crows," by John Townsend Trowbridge & Winslow Homer (OYF; June 1868)

IN MINNESOTA

chapter 3-6, Wool-Gathering, by "Gail Hamilton" [Abigail Dodge] (1867)

LETTER CARRIER; POSTAL WORKER

Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Up the River, by Jacob Abbott (1860)

PEDDLER

"Story of Peter Brown" (PP; 20 June 1835)
"About Edwin Finley" (PP; 20 June 1835)
"The Lottery Ticket" (MM; 1844)

PRINTER; PRINTING; BINDER

The Harper Establishment (1855)

SHOE-SHINE

"Shine Yer Boots?" in Children & changing times (YC; 1865)

SAILOR

"The Terrified Sailors" (PP; Mar 16, 1833)
"The Slave Trader" (SL; 1836, #11)
Stories by Jack Mason, the Old Sailor, by Francis Woodworth (1851)

TRAPPER

Peter Parley's Story of the Trapper, by Samuel Goodrich (1829)

LIFE STAGES

children & childhood marriage families death & after-life

STAGES OF LIFE

"Life & the Seasons" (Boston Pearl; March 1, 1834)
"Life; its Seasons," by C. W. Everett, in The Token (1836)

CHILDREN; CHILDHOOD

Sarah Tuttle's scrapbook (1834-1860s)
"Three Little Boys in Prison," by Charles Holden (1844)
"Dangers of Childhood, and Means of Obviating Them," by George Whippel (1845; The Mother's Assistant)
"Hints for Children" (YC; April 12, 1849)
"Touching Expression" (YC; 19 July 1849)
"Unnatural Children" (YC; Nov 22, 1849)
Diary of a Little Girl in Old New York, by Catherine Elizabeth Havens (1849-1950; published 1920)
letters from subscribers to Woodworth's Youth's Cabinet (1856-1857)
"An 'Online Community' of the Nineteenth Century," by Pat Pflieger (2001)
photos of children
"What is a Darling?" (MM; Oct 1862)
"What an Iron Bar Became," in Children & changing times (YC; 1865)

IN LITERATURE

Ditties for Children, by Nancy Sprout (1828-1843?)

CHILDREN IN PRISON

"Three Little Boys in Prison," by Charles Holden (1844)

LOST CHILDREN; KIDNAPPED CHILDREN

Peter Parley's Story of the Trapper, by Samuel Goodrich (1829)
"Near 307 Stolen Children" (SL; 1837?, #16)
"Girl Stealing" (YC; Dec 30, 1847)
"Singular Adventure of a Lost Child" (YC; Aug 23, 1855)

NEGLECTED CHILDREN

"Neglected Children" (YC; Feb 23, 1865)

SLAVE CHILDREN

"The Stolen Girls" (YC; June 10, 1847)
Eye and Ear Notes, by "Uncle James" (James Redpath) (YC; 1865)
"White and Colored Slaves (Harper's Weekly; Jan 30, 1864)
"White Slaves (YC; March 9, 1865)

IN FICTION

"Letter from an Infant Slave to the Child of Its Mistress" (SL; 1836, #11)
"Turn About, Fair Play," by Augusta Moore (YC; April 13, 1865)

WORKING CHILDREN

"A Keen Retort," in Children & changing times (YC; 1865)
"Shine Yer Boots?" in Children & changing times (YC; 1865)

IN FICTION

The Ladder of Learning (1839)
"Going into Business for Himself," by Mrs. P. P. Bonney (YC; 31 Aug 1865)

ADULT ATTITUDES TOWARD CHILDREN

"Children's Rights," by "Fanny Fern" (1853)
"Happiest Days," by "Gail Hamilton" (1863)

"HURRIED CHILDREN"; CHILDREN GROWING UP TOO SOON; PRECOCITY

"Precocious Children," by Samuel Goodrich (1844)
"Miss Before Teens," by Giles M'Quiggen (YC; Sept 23, 1847)
"Tearing Open the Rosebud" (YC; June 8, 1848)
"Children and Children's Parties," by S.B.S. (1853)
"Degeneracy of Stature", by Thrace Talmon (1856; The National Era)

CHILD-REARING

works on children & child-rearing
"Birth, Nursing, & Education of Infants; Education & Amusements of Youths," by John Dunn Hunter (1824)
"Case of Conviction," by Francis Wayland (1831)
"Precocious Children," by Samuel Goodrich (1844)
"Unnatural Children" (YC; Nov 22, 1849)
"Children and Children's Parties," by S.B.S. (1853)
"Early Culture of Children," by G. M. J. (1853)
"Physical Education of Children" (1853)
"Early Training of Children" (1854; Fireside Miscellany)
"A Crooked Tree (MM; Feb 1857)
"Children, from One to Three Years of Age" (1861)
"Baby Education" (1861)
advertisements for Dr. Brown's Baby-Tender (MM; June & July 1865)

DISCIPLINING (also see under "OBEDIENCE")

"Case of Conviction," by Francis Wayland (1831)
"Early Training of Children" (1854; Fireside Miscellany)

MARRIAGE & MARRIED LIFE

marriages & deaths in Providence, Rhode Island (JG; 1827-1828)
"The Bride," by Lydia Sigourney, in The Token (1836)
"Wealth and Fashion," in The Token (1836)
"The Wedding Knell," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1836)
"The Young Phrenologist," by John Neal, in The Token (1836)
"Who Will Make a Good Wife" (YC; May 30, 1850)
"My Fortune's Made," by Mary Alexina Smith (YC; Nov 23, 1848)
"Unhappy Elopement" (YC; Nov 22, 1849)
Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio (series one & two), by "Fanny Fern" (1853)
"A new case of secession," in "The Literary Gazette," Emaline Wicks & J. V. H. Scoville (1861)
Gala Days, by "Gail Hamilton" (1863)

FAMILIES & FAMILY LIFE

Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America, by John Dunn Hunter (3rd. ed, 1824)
"Bayler Cooley's Family" (SL; 1836, #11)
"A Slave's Cabin" & "A Slave's Dream," in Slave's Friend" (SL; 1837?, #16)
"Child's Grief," by Mary Ann (YC; April 2, 1846)
"Repining and Repentance" (YC; Feb 12, 1846)
"The Snow Storm" (YC; Feb 12 1846)
"Family & Social Reading" (1848; The Mother's Magazine)
Diary of a Little Girl in Old New York, by Catherine Elizabeth Havens (1849-1950; published 1920)
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: The Three Pines, by Jacob Abbott (1860)
Pictured on the covers of Demorest's Young America (1867 & 1872)
"At Grandma's Bedside," by Edgar Fawcett & Mary Ann Hallock (OYF; May 1870)

RESPECT FOR PARENTS

The Vagabond (1819)
"Good Men" (SL; 1836, #11)
"Unnatural Children" (YC; Nov 22, 1849)
"Going into Business for Himself," by Mrs. P. P. Bonney (YC; 31 Aug 1865)

SIBLINGS

"The Blind Boy," by M. E. L., in The Pearl (1837)
"Do Your Duty to Your Brothers and Sisters," by Lydia Sigourney (YMAG; July 7, 1837)
"A Story of the Revolution" (MM; Aug 1844)
"Sissy's Ride in the Moon," by Annette Bishop & Mary Ann Hallock (OYC; Nov 1869)

ORPHANS

IN LITERATURE

Parley's Story of the Little Gardener, by Samuel Goodrich (1833)
Peter Parley's Short Stories for Long Nights, by Samuel Goodrich (1834)
"Little Susan, the Poor-House Girl," by J. A. (YC; Aug 12, 1847)
"Allie's Christmas Eve," by "Lillie Linden" (MM; Feb 1865)
"Neglected Children" (YC; Feb 23, 1865)
"Turn About, Fair Play," by Augusta Moore (YC; April 13, 1865)

ADOPTION

adoption ads (1856)

DEATH

The Two Doves & the Owl, by Samuel Goodrich (1821)
marriages & deaths in Providence, Rhode Island (JG; 1827-1828)
"A Little Girl Who was Burned to Death" (YC; Jan 11, 1832)
"Little Edward" (YC; Feb 8, 1832)
"Stephen to Mary," by Stephen Ricks (SL; 1836, #10)
"Anna's Picture," by "Florence," in The Token (1836)
"Life beyond the Mountains," in The Token (1836)
"The Wedding Knell," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1836)
"The Dying Child," by Lydia H. Sigourney, in The Pearl (1837)
"To a Little Girl," in The Pearl (1837)
"Deaths" (SL; 1837?, #16)
"The Dying Boy," by Mrs. Larned (PP; Jan 1839)
"Death of the President" (MM; April 1841)
Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)
"The Burial Place," in Eliza Piatt's copybook (1845)
"Lines, on the Death of W.," by S. (YC; Jan 14, 1846)
"Child's Grief," by Mary Ann (YC; April 2, 1846)
"Little Susan, the Poor-House Girl," by J. A. (YC; Aug 12, 1847)
"Sabbath Scholar Drowned" (YC; Sept 13, 1849)
"A Step from the Altar to the Tomb," by J. E. E. (YC; Sept 13, 1849)
"Unhappy Elopement" (YC; Nov 22, 1849)
Buds, Blossoms, and Leaves, by "Eulalie" [Mary Eulalie Fee Shannon] (1854)
"Willie Lincoln," by Emily J. Bugbee (LC; July 1865)
"The Two Burials," by Julia Pratt Ballard (MM; Nov 1867)
"At Grandma's Bedside," by Edgar Fawcett & Mary Ann Hallock (OYF; May 1870)
"Sissy's Ride in the Moon," by Annette Bishop & Mary Ann Hallock (OYC; Nov 1869)
"Death at Sea," "Stanzas," "Lines," in "The Ladies Wreath"
"Death and the Readers of Robert Merry's Museum," by Pat Pflieger (1994)

HEAVEN; AFTER-LIFE

"Stephen to Mary," by Stephen Ricks (SL; 1836, #10)
"Life beyond the Mountains," in The Token (1836)
"The Dying Child," by Lydia H. Sigourney, in The Pearl (1837)
"The Burial Place," "Illusions of Earth," in Eliza Piatt's copybook (1845)

MEDICINE & MEDICAL PROCEDURES; HEALTH

Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America, by John Dunn Hunter (3rd. ed, 1824)
Sarah Tuttle's scrapbook (1834-1860s)

DISEASES

CONSUMPTION

"Little Susan, the Poor-House Girl," by J. A. (YC; Aug 12, 1847)

DISABILITY; DISABLED CHILD

BLINDNESS

"Interview of the Blind with the Deaf and Dumb" (YMAG; April 14, 1837)

IN LITERATURE

"The Blind Boy," by M. E. L., in The Pearl (1837)
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: The Three Pines, by Jacob Abbott (1860)
"Frightened into Seeing," in Science & technology notes (YC; 1865)

DEAFNESS; HEARING-IMPAIRED

"Interview of the Blind with the Deaf and Dumb" (YMAG; April 14, 1837)
"Do Your Duty to Your Brothers and Sisters," by Lydia Sigourney (YMAG; July 7, 1837)
Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

DEAF SLAVE

chapter 11, Wool-Gathering, by "Gail Hamilton" [Abigail Dodge] (1867)

MENTAL DISABILITY

"A Little Girl Who was Burned to Death" (YC; Jan 11, 1832)

HEALTH, IMPORTANCE OF

"My Schoolmates: The Victim," by Abbie (YC; June 19, 1846)

MUSIC; SONGS

"The Snow-Bird" (MM; Feb 1848)
"The Song of the Snow-Bird" (MM; Jan 1858)

"YANKEE DOODLE"

advertisement for Tuttle's Emporium (Cab; Jan 1854)

BY STEPHEN FOSTER: "OLD UNCLE NED"; "THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME"

"Negro Songs--American Music," by Ser. Longley (Western Gem; Oct 1853)

NATURAL HISTORY

animals birds

Peter Parley's Short Stories for Long Nights, by Samuel Goodrich (1834)
"Natural history plates" (MM; 1841)

KINDNESS TO ANIMALS

Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: The Three Pines, by Jacob Abbott (1860)

GEOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PREHISTORIC CREATURES; DINOSAURS

"A Former State of This Earth": Fossils in Early American Works for Children (online exhibit; 2008)
"Petrified Forests" (JR; May 16, 1832)
"Fossil Shells" (PP; June 7, 1834)
"The Fireside" (PP; March 1839)
"Bones of a Mastodon" (Cab; July 11, 1839)
"The Mammoth" (MM; Nov 1841)
"The Picture Gallery: Organic Remains" (Cab; Dec 9, 1841)
"Wonders of Geology" (MM; Jan 1842)
"Who Filled the Coal Hole?" (PP; Feb 1843)
Wonders of Geology, by Samuel Goodrich (1845)
"Petrified Forest on the Nile" (YPMag; March 1846)
"Wonders of Geology," by William Buckland (MM; Dec 1848)
"Geology" (Mirror; March 1849)
"Fossil Foot-Prints" (Mirror; Dec 1849)
"Fossil Tree in the Coal Rocks" (MM; Dec 1852)
"Wonders of Geology" (SMate; March 1852)
"Letters About Geology," by "Professor Pickaxe" (ST; 1853)

ANIMALS

Peter Parley's Winter Evening Tales, by Samuel Goodrich (1829; revised)
Peter Parley's Juvenile Tales, by Samuel Goodrich (1836; revised)

ANTELOPE

The Two Doves & the Owl, by Samuel Goodrich (1821)

BEARS

"Silent Companion" (PP; 30 Mar 1833)
"Narrow Escape from a Bear" (PP; 27 April 1833)
"Jumping Rabbit's Story" (MM; 1843)

BUFFALO

"Jumping Rabbit's Story" (MM; 1843)

CATS

Mary Newell's letter (1850)
"Puss in the Mass. 27th," in Animals in the Civil War (YC; 1861, 1865)

CROCODILES

"Natural history plates" (MM; 1841)

DOGS

"Natural history plates" (MM; 1841)

FOXES

The Two Doves & the Owl, by Samuel Goodrich (1821)

HORSES

"The Horse & the Bells" (MM; June 1841)
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: The Three Pines, by Jacob Abbott (1860)
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Selling Lucky, by Jacob Abbott (1860)
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Up the River, by Jacob Abbott (1860)
"'Faithful Nellie,'" by F. P. C., in Animals in the Civil War (YC; 1861, 1865)

HYENA

"Natural history plates" (MM; 1841)

RHINOCEROS

"Natural history plates" (MM; 1841)

SNAKE

"Snake Fascination" (YC; Aug 24, 1854)

SQUIRREL

"The Squirrel" (MM; Dec 1841)

TIGERS

Peter Parley's Short Stories for Long Nights, by Samuel Goodrich (1834)
"A Frightened Tiger" (YC; 29 July 1869)

TURTLES

"The Age of a Turtle," in Science & technology notes (YC; 1865)

BIRDS

The Two Doves & the Owl, by Samuel Goodrich (1821)
"The Terrified Sailors" (PP; Mar 16, 1833)
"For My Youngest Readers" (PP; 14 Sept 1833)
Peter Parley's Short Stories for Long Nights, by Samuel Goodrich (1834)
Sarah Tuttle's scrapbook (1834-1860s)
"The Snow-Bird" (MM; Feb 1848)
"The Song of the Snow-Bird" (MM; Jan 1858)
"Bird-Catching," by R. H. Stoddard & Winslow Homer (OYF; Aug 1867)

CROWS

"Watching the Crows," by John Townsend Trowbridge & Winslow Homer (OYF; June 1868)

BALD EAGLE; OLD ABE; WAR EAGLE

"The Army of the American Eagle" (LC; July 1865)
"Patriotic Eagle" (YC; 9 Aug 1866)
"The Veteran Eagle," by Maria S. Cummins (OYF; Oct 1866)
"The Veteran Eagle: A Correction" (LC; Nov 1866)
"The Veteran Eagle; and What the Children Did," by Alfred Sewell (LC; Dec 1866)

ROBIN

"The Pretty Robin" & "Robin Red-Breast," in The Slave's Friend" (SL; 1836, #8)

VULTURE

"War and Glory," by Samuel Johnson (YMAG; July 7, 1837)

NIGHT

IN FICTION

"Night," "Midnight," in Eliza Piatt's copybook (1845)

The Slave's Friend (1836-1839)
"The Noble Negro," by Hannah More (SL; 1836, #1)
"The Beautiful Slave" (YMAG; Sept 1837)
"The Noble Negro," by Hannah More (YMAG; Sept 1837)
"Exemplary" (YMAG; Oct 1837)
"Pretty Sight" & "Supporting One's Self," in The Slave's Friend (#38; 1839)
"The Water-melon Boats" (YC; Aug 12, 1847)
"William, the Negro Boy," by Jane L. Gray (Cab; April 1849)
"The King of Ashantee" (MM; Mar 1850)
"Negro Songs--American Music," by Ser. Longley (Western Gem; Oct 1853)
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Handie, by Jacob Abbott (1859)
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Rainbow's Journey, by Jacob Abbott (1859)
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: The Three Pines, by Jacob Abbott (1860)
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Selling Lucky, by Jacob Abbott (1860)
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Up the River, by Jacob Abbott (1860)
Eye and Ear Notes, by "Uncle James" (James Redpath) (YC; 1865)
"Negro Quickness to Learn," in Children & changing times (YC; 1865)
"Simple Gratitude," in Children & changing times (YC; 1865)
"Frightened into Seeing," in Science & technology notes (YC; 1865)

EDUCATION OF

SLAVERY

The Slave's Friend (1836-1839)
"Why Do They Treat the Slaves So?" (SL; 1836, #1)
"About the Slave Trade" (SL; 1836, #2)
"The Beautiful Slave" (YMAG; Sept 1837)
"Reminiscences of a Rag" (MM; 1844)
"The Stolen Girls" (YC; June 10, 1847)
Eye and Ear Notes, by "Uncle James" (James Redpath) (YC; 1865)
"White and Colored Slaves (Harper's Weekly; Jan 30, 1864)
"White Slaves (YC; March 9, 1865)
"Turn About, Fair Play," by Augusta Moore (YC; April 13, 1865)

IN WASHINGTON, DC

chapter 11, Wool-Gathering, by "Gail Hamilton" [Abigail Dodge] (1867)

ABOLITION; ABOLITIONIST

The Slave's Friend (1836-1839)

CHARLES BALL

"Charles Ball's Mother," "The Mother and Babe," "A Slave's Cabin," & "A Slave's Dream," in The Slave's Friend (1837?, #16)

WILLIAM KNIBB

"The Stolen Girls" (YC; June 10, 1847)

GEORGE THOMPSON

"George Thompson" (SL; 1836, #8)

NATIONAL FREEDMAN'S RELIEF ASSOCIATION

"White and Colored Slaves (Harper's Weekly; Jan 30, 1864)

FREEDMEN; FORMER SLAVES; CIVIL WAR VETERAN

chapter 8, Wool-Gathering, by "Gail Hamilton" [Abigail Dodge] (1867)
chapter 11, Wool-Gathering, by "Gail Hamilton" [Abigail Dodge] (1867)

ELDERLY PEOPLE

"A Very Odd Grandfather" (MM; Nov 1852)
"At Grandma's Bedside," by Edgar Fawcett & Mary Ann Hallock (OYF; May 1870)

GRANDPARENTS

"A Very Odd Grandfather" (MM; Nov 1852)

HUGUENOTS

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)
"The Huguenots," in "The Literary Gazette," Emaline Wicks & J. V. H. Scoville (1861)

LEFT-HANDED PEOPLE

"Left-Handed Billy" (MM; Dec 1850)

MORAVIANS

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

NATIVE AMERICANS

education individual nations

"The Indian Arrow-Head," by Mrs. G., in The Pearl (1837)
"Pictures of Various Nations (MM; 1844)
Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)
"The Indians: Week Day School," by Sarah (YC; Aug 12, 1847)
"Deer Hunting," by "Simon Sassafras" (MM; May 1850)
"Samoset," on Eli Harrison Lee's copybook (1850s?)
"The Indian," a reward of merit (1860s)
"Why Have the Indians Disappeared?" (MM; Jan 1862)

IN FICTION

"Gertrude of Wyoming," by Thomas Campbell (1809)
René, Françoise-René Chateaubriand; translated, Samuel G. Goodrich (Connecticut Spectator; 1814)
Peter Parley's Story of the Trapper, by Samuel Goodrich (1829)
Peter Parley's Short Stories for Long Nights, by Samuel Goodrich (1834)
"My Own Life & Adventures," by "Robert Merry" (MM; 1841-1842)
"Tomo and the Wild Lakes," by Rev. John Todd (YC; July 19, 1849)
"The Indian's Story" (MM; Jan 1850)
"Pukkwana," by Susanna Newbould (MM; April 1858)
"The Grateful Indian," by Martha G. (MM; Aug 1862)
"Unella," by Madge (MM; June 1865)
"A Young Savage," by A. Perry (MM; Nov 1870)

IN MINNESOTA

chapter 6, Wool-Gathering, by "Gail Hamilton" [Abigail Dodge] (1867)

EDUCATION OF

"Birth, Nursing, & Education of Infants; Education & Amusements of Youths," by John Dunn Hunter (1824)
"Indian Youth's Newspaper" (YC; 7 Sept 1854)
"A Young Savage," by A. Perry (MM; Nov 1870)

CHEROKEE

"Indian Youth's Newspaper" (YC; 7 Sept 1854)

CHIPPEWA

"My Own Life & Adventures," by "Robert Merry" (MM; 1841-1842)

INUIT

Stories by Jack Mason, the Old Sailor, by Francis Woodworth (1851)

KICKAPOO

IN FICTION

"Jumping Rabbit's Story" (MM; 1843)

MOHAWK

IN FICTION

"Tomo and the Wild Lakes," by Rev. John Todd (YC; July 19, 1849)

OSAGE, OMAHA, MISSOURI

"Birth, Nursing, & Education of Infants; Education & Amusements of Youths," by John Dunn Hunter (1824)
Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America, by John Dunn Hunter (3rd. ed, 1824)

PENOBSCOT

"Walks About Boston: The Indians" (PP; Jan 1836)

SEMINOLE

"The War in Florida" (MM; Feb 1842)

SENECA

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

IN FICTION

"My Own Life & Adventures," by "Robert Merry" (MM; 1841-1842)

PURITANS

"The May Pole of Merry Mount," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1836)

INDIVIDUALS

FRANCIS ABBOT (eccentric)

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

JACOB ABBOTT (writer)

Books by Jacob Abbott

AESOP; AESOP'S FABLES

"Aesop" (SL; 1836, #8)

ALEXANDER ANDERSON (wood engraver)

The Ladder of Learning (1839)

ANTONINUS PIUS

"The Brothers," by Lydia H. Sigourney, in The Pearl (1837)

GEORGE ATZERODT/GEORGE ATZEROTT (assassin)

"The Execution" (20 July 1865)

CHARLES BALL (ex-slave & abolitionist)

"Charles Ball's Mother," "The Mother and Babe," "A Slave's Cabin," & "A Slave's Dream," in The Slave's Friend (1837?, #16)

JAMES N. BARKER (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

P. T. BARNUM; PHINEAS T. BARNUM (showman)

"'Peter Parley'--As Known to His Daughter," by Emily Goodrich Smith

DELIGHT BENEDICT (Samuel Goodrich's first teacher)

"My Own Life & Adventures," by "Robert Merry" (MM; 1841-1842)

ROSALIE BENEDICT

"'Peter Parley'--As Known to His Daughter," by Emily Goodrich Smith

SARAH BISHOP (Connecticut hermit)

poem about Sarah Bishop, by Samuel G. Goodrich (1823)
"My Own Life & Adventures," by "Robert Merry" (MM; 1841-1842)
"'Peter Parley'--As Known to His Daughter," by Emily Goodrich Smith

JOHN WILKES BOOTH (actor & assassin)

"The Great National Tragedy" (YC; 27 April 1865)
"Booth and Bad Literature" (YC; 11 May 1865)
"The Conspirators" (YC; 6 July 1865)

AUGUSTA BOUJEY (ex-slave)

"White and Colored Slaves (Harper's Weekly; Jan 30, 1864)

JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD (editor & poet)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)
Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING; ROBERT BROWNING (writer)

"'Peter Parley'--As Known to His Daughter," by Emily Goodrich Smith

JACOB BURNET (Ohio judge)

"Lines," in Buds, Blossoms, and Leaves, by "Eulalie" [Mary Eulalie Fee Shannon] (1854)

CHARLES XII, OF SWEDEN

"The Brothers," by Lydia H. Sigourney, in The Pearl (1837)

SETH WELLS CHENEY (writer; 1810-1856)

"'Peter Parley'--As Known to His Daughter," by Emily Goodrich Smith

WILSON CHINN (ex-slave)

"White and Colored Slaves (Harper's Weekly; Jan 30, 1864)

CLARK BROTHERS (writers)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

HENRY CLAY (politician)

"'Peter Parley'--As Known to His Daughter," by Emily Goodrich Smith

BAYLER COOLEY (ex-slave)

"Bayler Cooley's Family" (SL; 1836, #11)

RICHARD H. DANA (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

RUFUS DAWES (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

DOROTHEA DIX

"'Peter Parley'--As Known to His Daughter," by Emily Goodrich Smith

ROSINA DOWNS (ex-slave)

"White and Colored Slaves (Harper's Weekly; Jan 30, 1864)
"White Slaves (YC; March 9, 1865)

CHARLES FERSON DURANT (balloonist)

"Mr. Durant" (PP; 14 Sept 1833)

GOVERNOR ENDICOTT

"The May Pole of Merry Mount," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1836)

EDWARD EVERETT (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

EUGENE H. FALES (Union soldier & New York publisher)

"Adventures of a 'Merry' Boy" (MM; Feb 1865)

HENRY J. FINN (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

EDWARD H. FLETCHER (New York publisher)

Republication of Parley's Magazine (c. 1857)

ROBERT FULTON (inventor)

IN FICTION

"My Own Life & Adventures," by "Robert Merry" (MM; 1841-1842)

SAMUEL GRISWOLD GOODRICH (writer & editor)

bibliography of works on him
list of books by Samuel Goodrich
Contemporary reviews of some of Samuel Goodrich's books
Daguerreotypes of Samuel G. Goodrich
"My Own Life & Adventures," by "Robert Merry" (MM; 1841-1842)
"Samuel Griswold Goodrich" (Southern Literary Messenger; 1841)
"My First Whistle" (MM; Jan 1841), by Samuel Goodrich
"The Veritable Peter Parley" (Brother Jonathan; 12 Feb 1842)
"Authorcraft" (Littell's Living Age; 1846)
Recollections of a Lifetime, Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1856)
"Death of Samuel Goodrich" (1860)
Titus Munson Coane reads Peter Parley (1877)
"S. G. Goodrich," by J. C. Derby (1884)
"Peter Parley," by L.H. Martin (1897; The Congregationalist)
"Peter Parley," by Donald G. Mitchell (1897)
"'Peter Parley'--As Known to His Daughter," by Emily Goodrich Smith
Lew Wallace reads Peter Parley (1906)
"Who was Peter Parley?," by Francis Parsons (1922)

W. M. GOODSMITH & CO. (merchant, Chicago, IL)

Rogers groups in the Little Corporal (1867)

CATHARINE GUNTER (editor of Cherokee Rose Buds)

"Indian Youth's Newspaper" (YC; 7 Sept 1854)

BENJAMIN F. HALLETT

"'Peter Parley'--As Known to His Daughter," by Emily Goodrich Smith

MARY ANN HALLOCK FOOTE (artist)

"Sissy's Ride in the Moon," by Annette Bishop & Mary Ann Hallock (OYC; Nov 1869)
"Hunting Eggs," by Mary Ann Hallock (OYF; Jan 1870) "At Grandma's Bedside," by Edgar Fawcett & Mary Ann Hallock (OYF; May 1870)
"Spring Whistles," by Lucy Larcom & Mary Ann Hallock (OYF; May 1870)

DAVID HAROLD/DAVID HEROLD (assassin)

"The Execution" (YC; 20 July 1865)

HARPER BROTHERS (publishing house)

The Harper Establishment (1855)

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON (president)

"Death of the President" (MM; April 1841)

CASPAR HAUSER (mystery)

"Caspar Hauser" (PP; 30 Mar 1833)
"Caspar Hauser" (MM; Oct 1850)

CATHERINE ELIZABETH HAVENS (diarist); RENSSELAER HAVENS (merchant)

Diary of a Little Girl in Old New York, by Catherine Elizabeth Havens (1849-1950; published 1920)

MRS. EZEKIEL C. HAWKINS

"Invocation," in Buds, Blossoms, and Leaves, by "Eulalie" [Mary Eulalie Fee Shannon] (1854)

NANCY E. HICKS (editor of Cherokee Rose Buds)

"Indian Youth's Newspaper" (YC; 7 Sept 1854)

ALFRED HILL (drowning victim)

Buds, Blossoms, and Leaves, by "Eulalie" [Mary Eulalie Fee Shannon] (1854)

JAMES A. HILLHOUSE (poet)

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

WINSLOW HOMER (artist)

"Among the Studios, no. 3," by T. B. Aldrich & Winslow Homer (OYF; July 1866)
"Swinging on a Birch-Tree," by Lucy Larcom & Winslow Homer (OYF; June 1867)
"Bird-Catching," by R. H. Stoddard & Winslow Homer (OYF; Aug 1867)
"Watching the Crows," by John Townsend Trowbridge & Winslow Homer (OYF; June 1868)
"Strawberries," by John Townsend Trowbridge & Winslow Homer (OYF; July 1868)
"Green Apples" (OYF; Aug 1868), by John Townsend Trowbridge & Winslow Homer
Review of John Greenleaf Whittier's Illustrated Ballads of New England (YC; Nov 1869)

WILLIAM J. HOWLAND; WILLIAM HOWLAND (wood engraver)

"Wood Engraving" (Cab; April 1848)

REBECCA HUGER (ex-slave)

"White and Colored Slaves (Harper's Weekly; Jan 30, 1864)
"White Slaves (YC; March 9, 1865)

JOHN DUNN HUNTER (warrior & writer)

Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America, by John Dunn Hunter (3rd. ed, 1824)
"John Dunn Hunter," by Samuel Goodrich (1843; Curiosities of Human Nature)

ANNA MARIA HYDE (poet)

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

MARY JOHNSON (ex-slave)

"White and Colored Slaves (Harper's Weekly; Jan 30, 1864)

ELISHA KENT KANE (explorer)

"Dr. Kane's Boat--the Faith," by William Hoyt Coleman (MM; Jan 1859)

OLIVER KENDALL, JR (editor)

Juvenile Gazette (1827-1828)

WILLIAM KNIBB (abolitionist)

"The Stolen Girls" (YC; June 10, 1847)

LAJOS KOSSUTH (Hungarian patriot)

"Kossuth's Address to America" & "Song--The Magyar Chief," in Buds, Blossoms, and Leaves, by "Eulalie" [Mary Eulalie Fee Shannon] (1854)

ELI HARRISON LEE (penman)

Eli Harrison Lee's copybook (1850s?)

WILLIAM LEGGETT (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

ALONZO LEWIS (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

ABRAHAM LINCOLN (president)

"The Inauguration of President Lincoln" (YC; March 9, 1865)
assassination of Abraham Lincoln (YC; 1865)
"The Great National Tragedy" (YC; 27 April 1865)
"Booth and Bad Literature" (YC; 11 May 1865)
"The Conspirators" (YC; 6 July 1865)
"Willie Lincoln," by Emily J. Bugbee (LC; July 1865)
chapter 11, Wool-Gathering, by "Gail Hamilton" [Abigail Dodge] (1867)
"The Two Burials," by Julia Pratt Ballard (MM; Nov 1867)

NANCY HANKS LINCOLN (mother of Abraham Lincoln)

"The Two Burials," by Julia Pratt Ballard (MM; Nov 1867)

WILLIE LINCOLN (son of Abraham Lincoln)

"Willie Lincoln," by Emily J. Bugbee (LC; July 1865)

JENNY LIND (singer)

"'Peter Parley'--As Known to His Daughter," by Emily Goodrich Smith

GEORGE LUNT (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

JAMES MADISON (president)

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

JOHN C. MCCALL (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

JAMES MCHENRY (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

ISAAC MCLELLAN (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

GRENVILLE MELLEN (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

JOSEPH MOODY (minister)

"The Minister's Black Veil," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Token (1836)

CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE (writer)

"A Visit from St. Nicholas," by Clement Clarke Moore (various)
Moore's contributions to The New-York Book of Poetry (1837)
"Clement Clarke Moore and 'A Visit from St. Nicholas,'" by Pat Pflieger (2001)

SAMUEL MORSE (inventor)

"Professor Morse" (Cab; April 1848)

GEORGE P. MORRIS (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

JOHN S. MOSBY (Confederacy)

Eye and Ear Notes, by "Uncle James" (James Redpath) (YC; 1865)

JOHN NEAL (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

MARY A. NEWELL (letter writer)

Mary Newell's letter (1850)

OLD ABE (Union eagle mascot, Company C, 8th Wisconsin)

ADELBERT OLDER (Union soldier & poet)

memorial page for Adelbert Older (Feb 1865), with poetry by Belle P. R. and Adelbert Older

"OLIVER OPTIC" (William T. Adams; writer)

Cover of Oliver Optic's Magazine (1867)
Review of Oliver Optic's Books for Boys (1872)

MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI (philosopher)

"'Peter Parley'--As Known to His Daughter," by Emily Goodrich Smith

JOHN HOWARD PAINE (composer); "HOME SWEET HOME"

"'Peter Parley'--As Known to His Daughter," by Emily Goodrich Smith

WILLIAM PATTERSON (of Easton, PA)

"William, the Negro Boy," by Jane L. Gray (Cab; April 1849)

REVEREND PAUL (African-American minister)

"The Funeral at Sea" (SL; 1836, #8)

JAMES K. PAULDING (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

WILLIAM B. O. PEABODY (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

JAMES G. PERCIVAL (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

ELIZA CAROLINE K. PIATT (penwoman)

Eliza Piatt's copybook (1845)

HENRY PICKERING (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

JOHN PIERPONT (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

POCAHONTAS (ambassador)

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

LEWIS PAINE POWELL/LEWIS PAYNE POWELL/LEWIS POWELL (assassin)

"The Execution" (YC; 20 July 1865)

GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

RAPHAEL (artist)

"How Engravings are Made" (LC; Aug 1866)

BUCHANAN READ

"'Peter Parley'--As Known to His Daughter," by Emily Goodrich Smith

STEPHEN RICKS (d. 1832; of Shelter for Colored Orphans, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

"Stephen to Mary," in The Slave's Friend (#10; 1836)

JAMES OTIS ROCKWELL (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

JOHN ROGERS (artist)

Rogers groups in the Little Corporal (1867)

SAMOSET

PICTURED

Eli Harrison Lee's copybook (1850s?)

HENRY SHELTON SANFORD

"'Peter Parley'--As Known to His Daughter," by Emily Goodrich Smith

LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY (writer)

"'Peter Parley'--As Known to His Daughter," by Emily Goodrich Smith

S. R. SMITH (Ohio poet)

"Stanzas," Buds, Blossoms, and Leaves, by "Eulalie" [Mary Eulalie Fee Shannon] (1854)

CHARLES SPRAGUE (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

HENRY MORTON STANLEY & DAVID LIVINGSTONE (explorers)

editorial (MM; Nov 1872)

JOHN N. STEARNS; JOHN NEWTON STEARNS (editor)

"The Children's 'Robert Merry' and the Late John N. Stearns, by William Hoyt Coleman (1895)

MRS. SURRATT; MARY SURRATT (conspirator in assassination of Abraham Lincoln)

"The Execution" (YC; 20 July 1865)

PEYTON SHORT SYMMES (Ohio lawyer)

"Bard of the West!," in Buds, Blossoms, and Leaves, by "Eulalie" [Mary Eulalie Fee Shannon] (1854)

CHARLES TAYLOR (ex-slave)

"White and Colored Slaves (Harper's Weekly; Jan 30, 1864)
"White Slaves (YC; March 9, 1865)

JAMES D. TAYLOR (gold-miner)

"Lines," in Buds, Blossoms, and Leaves, by "Eulalie" [Mary Eulalie Fee Shannon] (1854)

GEORGE THOMPSON (abolitionist)

"George Thompson" (SL; 1836, #8)

HENRY DAVID THOREAU (philosopher)

"Life in the Woods" (YC; July 19, 1849)

FRANCES TROLLOPE (writer)

Sarah Tuttle's scrapbook (1834-1860s)

SARAH TUTTLE (scrapbook artist)

Sarah Tuttle's scrapbook (1834-1860s)

AUGUSTUS VERHOOF (Polish clergyman)

"The Mother's Lament," in Buds, Blossoms, and Leaves, by "Eulalie" [Mary Eulalie Fee Shannon] (1854)

MINERVA WALDEN (dying child)

"A Little Girl Who was Burned to Death" (YC; Jan 11, 1832)

LEW WALLACE (writer)

Lew Wallace reads Peter Parley (1906)

ROBERT WALSH (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

MARY WALTON (Shelter for Colored Orphans, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

"Stephen to Mary," in The Slave's Friend (#10; 1836)

HENRY WARE, JR. (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

GEORGE WASHINGTON (president); MOUNT VERNON

"Washington" (SL; 1836, #2)
"Washington--A Dialogue" (SL; 1836, #10)
chapter 11, Wool-Gathering, by "Gail Hamilton" [Abigail Dodge] (1867)

DANIEL WEBSTER (politician)

"Daniel Webster as a jurist, an orator, and a statesmen," in "The Literary Gazette," Emaline Wicks & J. V. H. Scoville (1861)
"'Peter Parley'--As Known to His Daughter," by Emily Goodrich Smith

PROSPER M. WETMORE (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

JOHN A. WHIPPLE (astronomer)

"Daguerreotypes of the Moon" (SMate; Jan 1854)

ISAAC WHITE (ex-slave)

"White and Colored Slaves (Harper's Weekly; Jan 30, 1864)
"White Slaves (YC; March 9, 1865)

ROBERT WHITEHEAD (ex-slave)

"White and Colored Slaves (Harper's Weekly; Jan 30, 1864)
"White Slaves (YC; March 9, 1865)

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

N. P. WILLIS; NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS (writer)

"'Peter Parley'--As Known to His Daughter," by Emily Goodrich Smith

SATIRIZED

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)
Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio (2nd series), by Sarah Payson Willis
Ruth Hall, by "Fanny Fern" (1854)

FRANCIS C. WOODWORTH (editor)

"Uncle Frank in Kansas," by Francis Woodworth (Cab; June 1856)
"The Prairies of Kansas," by Francis Woodworth (Cab; Nov 1856)

SAMUEL WOODWORTH (writer)

Truth, by William J. Snelling (1831 & 1832)

JOHN WOOLMAN (abolitionist)

"John Woolman" (SL; 1836, #10)

LITERARY CHARACTERS; CHARACTERS IN FICTION

"Too Good to Be True: 150 Years of Mary Sue," by Pat Pflieger

PETER PARLEY (storyteller)

Peter Parley's Method of Telling About Geography to Children, by Samuel Goodrich (1831)
Reaction to Felix Summerly's attack on Peter Parley (1844)
"Peter Parley," a reward of merit (1860s)
Review of Oliver Optic's Books for Boys (1872)

REYNARD THE FOX

The Two Doves & the Owl, by Samuel Goodrich (1821)

ST. NICHOLAS; SANTA CLAUS; KRISS-KRINGLE

"A Visit from St. Nicholas," by Clement Clarke Moore (various)
"Introduction," by A. D. W., in The Pearl (1837)
"The Christmas Tree," by Mrs. G., in The Pearl (1837)
"Clement Clarke Moore and 'A Visit from St. Nicholas,'" by Pat Pflieger (2001)

"FELIX SUMMERLY" (writer)

Reaction to Felix Summerly's attack on Peter Parley (1844)

PHILOSOPHY

"Life," in "The Literary Gazette," Emaline Wicks & J. V. H. Scoville (1861)
"The Legacy of the Past," in "The Literary Gazette," Emaline Wicks & J. V. H. Scoville (1861)
"Knitting-Work," by Genie M. Wilde (OYF; March 1872)

PHRENOLOGY; PHRENOLOGIST

"The Young Phrenologist," by John Neal, in The Token (1836)

PLACES

Africa Canada France United States

GEOGRAPHY

Peter Parley's Winter Evening Tales, by Samuel Goodrich (1829; revised)
Peter Parley's Method of Telling About Geography to Children, by Samuel Goodrich (1831)
"The Change of the Seasons" (MM; Nov 1850)

GEOGRAPHY OF NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA

Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America, by John Dunn Hunter (3rd. ed, 1824)
"Pictures of Various Nations (MM; 1844)

GEOGRAPHY OF ASIA

"The Adventures of Gilbert Go-ahead" (MM; 1851-1856)

GEOGRAPHY OF EGYPT

Stories by Jack Mason, the Old Sailor, by Francis Woodworth (1851)

GEOGRAPHY OF SIBERIA

"A Siberian Winter" (Cab; Aug 1851)

AFRICA

EXPLOITATION OF

"The King of Ashantee" (MM; Mar 1850)

ASHANTEE "LEGEND"

"The King of Ashantee" (MM; Mar 1850)

CANADA

Gala Days, by "Gail Hamilton" (1863)

FRANCE

FRENCH REVOLUTION

"Story of Philip Brusque" (MM; 1841-1842)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

history places regionalism government immigrants

SYMBOLS

AMERICAN FLAG; UNITED STATES FLAG; U. S. FLAG

"The Color-Bearer," by John Townsend Trowbridge (OYF; Jan 1865)
"The American Flag," by Mrs. P. A. Hanaford (S&S; July 1865)

LIBERTY BELL

"The Liberty Bell" (SL; 1836, #2)

EVENTS; AMERICAN HISTORY

IN GENERAL

A Timeline of 19th-Century America
Works on American social history
"A Visit to 'Merry's Museum'; or, Social Values in a 19th-Century American Periodical for Children," by Pat Pflieger (1987; 2001)
"Death and the Readers of Robert Merry's Museum," by Pat Pflieger (1994)
"An 'Online Community' of the Nineteenth Century," by Pat Pflieger (2001)

CALIFORNIA GOLD-RUSH

"Adventures of Billy Bump" (MM; 1848-1850)
"The Gold Comet," in Buds, Blossoms, and Leaves, by "Eulalie" [Mary Eulalie Fee Shannon] (1854)

FIRES

CHICAGO FIRE

"Declamation--Relief for Chicago," by Edward Everett Hale (MM; Nov 1871)
Editorial (MM; Nov 1871)
"Routed But Not Conquered" (LC; Dec 1871)
Thomas Nast pictures the Little Corporal (LC; Dec 1871)
"More About the Fire" (LC; Dec 1871)
"What Ben and the Twins Did for Chicago," by Sara Conant (Dec 1871)
letters in The Little Corporal about the Chicago Fire (LC)
"A Picture Story of the Chicago Fire" (Jan 1872)
"'Relics of the Fire'" (LC; March 1872)
"The Year After the Fire" (Nov 1872)

MANISTEE FIRE (MICHIGAN)

letters in The Little Corporal about the Chicago Fire (LC)

NEW YORK CITY FIRE (1835)

"Gleanings and Recollections: The New York Fire," by Eliza Leslie (PP; Jan 1838)

PESHTIGO FIRE (WISCONSIN)

letters in The Little Corporal about the Chicago Fire (LC)

WARS

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

"Gertrude of Wyoming," by Thomas Campbell (1809)
"Heroism" (YC; 12 Oct 1831)
"A Story of the Revolution" (MM; Aug 1844)
Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)
"Signers of the Declaration of Independence," by Ralph Wilson (Mar 1859)

BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

WAR OF 1812

"The Brothers," by Lydia H. Sigourney, in The Pearl (1837)
"My Own Life & Adventures," by "Robert Merry" (MM; 1841-1842)

U. S. WAR WITH SEMINOLE

"The War in Florida" (MM; Feb 1842)

CIVIL WAR; SECESSION

"Uncle Frank in Kansas," by Francis Woodworth (Cab; June 1856)
"The Prairies of Kansas," by Francis Woodworth (Cab; Nov 1856)
advertisement for The New York Tribune (MM; Oct 1857)
"The Literary Gazette," Emaline Wicks & J. V. H. Scoville (1861)
"The Union" (S&S; Jan 1861)
"The Stars and Stripes," by John A. Andrews (S&S; July 1861)
"Hail, Columbia!" (S&S; Aug 1861)
"How a Man Feels When He is Shot" (YC; Oct 3, 1861)
"The Knitters" (YC; Dec 26, 1861)
"Puss in the Mass. 27th," in Animals in the Civil War (YC; 1861, 1865)
"Renny's Uniform" (MM; 1862)
Gala Days, by "Gail Hamilton" (1863)
"Our Heroic Dead" (S&S; Feb 1863)
editorial from "The Teacher's Desk" (S&S; Feb 1863)
"Dreaming and Doing," by Mrs. N. McConaughy (MM; Dec 1863)
Eye and Ear Notes, by "Uncle James" (James Redpath) (YC; 1865)
"The Volunteer's Thanksgiving," by Lucy Larcom (OYF; Jan 1865)
"The Color-Bearer," by John Townsend Trowbridge (OYF; Jan 1865)
"Our Exchanged Prisoners" (YC; Jan 5, 1865)
"The Capture of Savannah" (YC; Jan 5, 1865
"Adventures of a 'Merry' Boy" (MM; Feb 1865)
memorial page for Adelbert Older (Feb 1865), with poetry by Belle P. R. and Adelbert Older
"The Veteran's Farewell," by "Blue-Eyed Lora" (MM; Feb 1865)
"The Inauguration of President Lincoln" (YC; March 9, 1865)
"'Faithful Nellie,'" by F. P. C., in Animals in the Civil War (YC; 1861, 1865)
"Rules to Observe When You Take a Gun in Your Hand," in Science & technology notes (YC; 1865)
"Turn About, Fair Play," by Augusta Moore (YC; April 13, 1865)
"The Great National Tragedy" (YC; 27 April 1865)
"Booth and Bad Literature" (YC; 11 May 1865)
"The Conspirators" (YC; 6 July 1865)
"The Execution" (YC; 20 July 1865)
editorial comment on July 4, 1865 (MM; July 1865)
two poems for July 4, 1865) (MM; July 1865)
"Victory at Last," by C. C. (MM; July 1865)
"July 4, 1865," by "Lulie" (S&S; July 1865)
editorial from "The Teacher's Desk" (S&S; July 1865)
"A Soldier To-night is Our Guest" (YC; Aug 10, 1865)
"Frightened into Seeing," in Science & technology notes (YC; 1865)

BATTLES; BATTLEFIELDS:

LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, TENNESSEE

chapter 8, Wool-Gathering, by "Gail Hamilton" [Abigail Dodge] (1867)

GUERILLA ACTIVITY, OHIO RIVER

chapter 7, Wool-Gathering, by "Gail Hamilton" [Abigail Dodge] (1867)

LIBBY PRISON

Eye and Ear Notes, by "Uncle James" (James Redpath) (YC; 1865)

MASSACHUSETTS, CIVIL WAR REGIMENT

"Puss in the Mass. 27th," in Animals in the Civil War (YC; 1861, 1865)

NORTHWEST SANITARY FAIR

WISCONSIN, CIVIL WAR REGIMENT

RECONSTRUCTION

chapter 7-10, Wool-Gathering, by "Gail Hamilton" [Abigail Dodge] (1867)

GEOGRAPHY; REGIONS & REGIONALISM

EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER

CANALS

"Yankee Energy" (MM; Sept 1841)

HOUSATONIC RIVER

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

LAKE SUPERIOR

IN LITERATURE

Peter Parley's Story of the Trapper, by Samuel Goodrich (1829)

ALABAMA

Eye and Ear Notes, by "Uncle James" (James Redpath) (YC; 1865)

CONNECTICUT

Recollections of a Lifetime, Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1856)

HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT

"Do Your Duty to Your Brothers and Sisters," by Lydia Sigourney (YMAG; July 7, 1837)
Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

CHARTER OAK

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT; SACHEM'S WOOD

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT; FORT TRUMBULL

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

NORWICH, CONNECTICUT

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

YANTIC RIVER

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

WASHINGTON, DC; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

chapter 11, Wool-Gathering, by "Gail Hamilton" [Abigail Dodge] (1867)

AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHURCH

chapter 11, Wool-Gathering, by "Gail Hamilton" [Abigail Dodge] (1867)

GEORGIA

"The Capture of Savannah" (YC; Jan 5, 1865
Eye and Ear Notes, by "Uncle James" (James Redpath) (YC; 1865)

ILLINOIS

chapter 7, Wool-Gathering, by "Gail Hamilton" [Abigail Dodge] (1867)

CHICAGO

chapter 1, Wool-Gathering, by "Gail Hamilton" [Abigail Dodge] (1867)

WESTERN ENGRAVING CO., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

"How Engravings are Made" (LC; Aug 1866)

LOUISIANA

Eye and Ear Notes, by "Uncle James" (James Redpath) (YC; 1865)

MASSACHUSETTS

NEWPORT TOWER

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

"The Little Wood-Cutter" (PP; April 13, 1833)
"Walks About Boston: The Indians" (PP; Jan 1836)
"Adventures of Billy Bump" (MM; 1848-1850)
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Selling Lucky, by Jacob Abbott (1860)
"Young Italy in Boston," by "Stella" (MM; Jan 1870)

BUNKER-HILL MONUMENT

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS; WASHINGTON ELM

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

NEW YORK

"Dirk Heldriver" (MM; 1844)

GENESO; GREAT OAK OF GENESEO

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

MONTAUK POINT

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

NIAGARA FALLS; NIAGARA RIVER

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)
"Niagara River," in Eliza Piatt's copybook (1845)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

joke (PP; June 1836)
"Gleanings and Recollections: The New York Fire," by Eliza Leslie (PP; Jan 1838)
Diary of a Little Girl in Old New York, by Catherine Elizabeth Havens (1849-1950; published 1920)
advertisement for Tuttle's Emporium (Cab; Jan 1854)
"Uncle Hiram's Pilgrimage," by William C. Cutter (M; 1857-1860)
"The Cold Snap of January 10th," by William Hoyt Coleman (MM; Mar 1859)
"What a Bore!," by Helen C. Weeks (YC; Feb 2, 1871)

BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM

"Uncle Hiram's Pilgrimage," by William C. Cutter (M; 1857-1860)

CRYSTAL PALACE

"The Crystal Palace," in Buds, Blossoms, and Leaves, by "Eulalie" [Mary Eulalie Fee Shannon] (1854)

DEPARTMENT STORE; TUTTLE'S DEPARTMENT STORE

advertisement for Tuttle's Emporium (Cab; Jan 1854)

STATEN ISLAND

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

UTICA, NEW YORK; TRENTON FALLS

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

OHIO

CINCINNATI, OHIO

"The Aurora Borealis," by "Francis" (YMAG; April 14, 1837)

COLUMBUS, OHIO

"Interview of the Blind with the Deaf and Dumb" (YMAG; April 14, 1837)

PENNSYLVANIA

GETTYSBURG; BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

chapter 11, Wool-Gathering, by "Gail Hamilton" [Abigail Dodge] (1867)

WYOMING VALLEY

"Gertrude of Wyoming," by Thomas Campbell (1809)
Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

NAZARETH, PENNSYLVANIA; BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA

Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844)

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

"Mob in Philadelphia" (SL; 1839, #38)
The Behaviour Book, by Eliza Leslie (1853)

RHODE ISLAND

PROVIDENCE

marriages & deaths in Providence, Rhode Island (JG; 1827-1828)

SOUTH CAROLINA

Eye and Ear Notes, by "Uncle James" (James Redpath) (YC; 1865)

TENNESSEE

Eye and Ear Notes, by "Uncle James" (James Redpath) (YC; 1865)
chapter 7-10, Wool-Gathering, by "Gail Hamilton" [Abigail Dodge] (1867)

CHATTANOOGA

chapter 8, Wool-Gathering,