Composition and Rhetoric For Schools was designed for the use of secondary school students. Its comprehensive, detailed lessons are divided into five sections: Part 1 is intended to provide for a year of classwork in basic composition; Parts II, III and IV are designed for a second year of training in rhetoric (e.g., usage, diction); while Part V can be used for additional, in-depth exercises. An inside back cover page contains an ad for other books published in the Lake English Classics series. Tucked inside the text are two completed homework assignments by owner Alma Warren, which were written in January 1904. There is also an inscription from previous owner and sister Nellie Warren dated April 9, 1902, on the inside front cover page, the translation of the word "father" in 12 languages, a signature Martha Moses at school, Marysville, Kans", and a drawing of a bird. The text is 466 pages in length.
Co-author Robert Herrick (1863-1938) was a professor of English and Rhetoric at the University of Chicago from its inception until he resigned in 1923. During his tenure at Chicago, Herrick produced thirteen novels (e.g., The Common Lot – 1904; Chimes – 1926), spending lengthy periods of time in Europe and in Asia while he wrote. “Part of a rising generation of American realists, Herrick's works dramatized contemporary social questions. His novels and plays were often thinly disguised autobiographical accounts of life in Chicago and elsewhere. If Herrick was a controversial man, it was not only because he criticized important Chicagoans, but also because he drew attention to the evils of industrialism and to the darker side of human life. …William James, among others, praised Herrick for his frank view of modern society.” (The University of Chicago Library)
Co-author Lindsay Todd Damon (1871-1940) was an instructor of English at the University of Chicago from 1897-1901. He later became professor of English at Brown University and succeeded to head of the English Department in 1927.
Scott, Foresman and Company was founded in 1896 in Chicago by Erastus Howard Scott, Hugh A. Foresman, and his brother, William Coates Foresman. It was a leading publisher of educational textbooks in all subject areas for the elementary grades. Scott, Foresman developed the characters of "Dick" and "Jane" who made their debut in the Elson-Gray Readers in 1930 and continued in a subsequent series of beginning readers. The Dick and Jane series of primers monopolized the market for nearly four decades and reached the height of their popularity in the 1950s. In the 1965 edition, the last of the Dick and Jane series, Scott, Foresman introduced the first African American family as characters in a first-grade reader.
In 1986, Time, Inc. bought Scott, Foresman and subsequently sold it to HarperCollins, a subsidiary of News Corporation. In 1996, News Corp sold the brand to Pearson and the new name of Pearson Scott Foresman was adopted.
Dame Curtsey’s Book of Games for Children is a “how-to” collection of indoor and outdoor games for children aged 3 – 15. It was designed as a guide for teachers and parents for use in a variety of occasions, from classroom to birthday parties.
Ellye Howell Glover (1868-1933) was an editor of children’s books designed for upper middle class families in the early 20th Century. These guides were meant to impart proper etiquette, entertaining, and cookery skills to the “aspiring classes”. Titles in the series include "Dame Curtsey's" Book of Games for Children and "Dame Curtsey's" Book of Etiquette.
A.C. McClurg & Co. was one of oldest and largest book stores/publishing houses in the United States. It traces its origins to Chicago’s oldest book and stationery store which was founded in 1844. Alexander Caldwell McClurg (1834-1901) went to work for the company, then known as S. C. Griggs, in 1859. McClurg resumed working for Griggs after returning from the Civil War with the rank of General. When the store was completely destroyed in the great Chicago Fire of 1871, Griggs decided to sell his share of the company to E. L. Jansen, A. C. McClurg and F. B. Smith.
Jansen, McClurg & Co. was established in 1872. By 1880, McClurg’s ranked as one of the country’s largest book distributors and publishers. In 1886, the company changed its name to A.C. McClurg & Co. When the firm’s premises were destroyed by fire in 1899, General McClurg decided to reorganize as a corporation with shares sold to employees. In 1914, the firm began publishing the Tarzan of the Apes series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. In 1923, A. C. McClurg chose to focus its entire efforts on its wholesale business and sold its bookstore to Brentano’s. The remainder of the company was liquidated in 1962.
This FC2 female condom was manufactured by the Female Health Company of Chicago, Illinois around 2010. The FC2 is the second generation of the female condom that is made of synthetic nitrile and is designed to improve affordability. The FC2 offers a female-controlled method of prophylaxis and contraception that protects against HIV/AIDS. The condom is contained in a white paper package. The front bears a pink stylized female gender symbol with the blue text “The FC2 Female Condom is indicated for preventing pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).” The package’s reverse features instructions for use.
Alice’s Alphabet is a richly illustrated booklet designed to instruct young readers in the alphabet. Each letter is followed by a rhyming stanza of about five lines. The references are made primarily to animals and children’s names. The animals and children described in each stanza are portrayed in detailed, colored illustrations. The front and back covers feature illustrations of children learning their ABCs through the use of building blocks and/or a reader. Both the cover and pages are made of heavy stock, linen-quality paper.
Author Fannie E. Ostrander was prolific author and editor of children’s story books. She graduated from Wisconsin State Normal School and also studied under private tutors. In addition to teaching in public schools, Ostrander contributed verse and prose to magazines. In 1899, Ostrander went to work as an editor and writer for Chicago publishing house W.B. Conkey. Ostrander died in May 1921 in New Haven, Connecticut.
The W. B. Conkey Company was formed in Chicago in 1877. It later built a plant in 1897 at 617 Conkey Street, Hammond, Indiana. At the time, it was one of the most modern, largest, and best equipped printing plants in the world. Conkey won the coveted commission to print the Official Directory of the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893. The firm also published the very first Sears Roebuck catalog in 1898. After the original owner and president died in 1923, his son Henry P. Conkey took over controlling interest of the company. Numerous types of catalogs and books were printed at the plant, including textbooks, biographies, encyclopedias, fiction, and Bibles. The publishing house was sold to Rand McNally in 1949.
This two-sided, ten-inch wooden slide rule is coated with yellowed plastic and has metal endpieces. A glass indicator is cracked on both sides and has metal and black plastic edges marked: DIETZGEN. On one side, the base has L, LL1, DF, D, LL3, and LL2 scales, with CF, CIF, LCI, and C scales on the slide. The top of the base is marked in red: DIETZGEN MANIPHASE MULTIPLEX VECTOR TYPE LOG-LOG RULE CAT. NO. 1735.
On the other side, the base has LL0, LL00, A, D, Th, Sh2, and Sh1 scales, with B, T, ST, and S scales on the slide. The top of the base is marked: EUGENE DIETZGEN CO. PATS. 2,170,144 2,285,722 MADE IN U.S.A. 108821. The top edge of the rule is marked in script: Dom Petrone. The bottom edge is marked: DP.
An orange leather case is marked on the flap: K+E. The front of the case is marked: P. Inside the flap is marked: GWU (/) Gerald (/) PETRONE (/) U of Md (/) Easton MD (/) MIT (/) PETRONE, RA. Lines 1–3, 4–5, and 6–7 are each in different inks and handwriting.
The Eugene Dietzgen Company of Chicago offered model 1735 from 1941 to 1952. "Maniphase" refers to an arrangement of scales in which the company added K and CI scales to Mannheim rules; the word is printed on several slide rules sold by the Eugene Dietzgen Company. This rule is similar to 1986.0790.01, but it has hyperbolic tangent and sine scales on the back of the base instead of DI and K scales.
Three U.S. Naval Academy professors applied for the patents mentioned on this slide rule in 1937 and 1938. These patents dealt with arranging and coloring scales so that problems could be solved in the fewest steps; they were also cited on Keuffel & Esser slide rule models 4080 and 4801. (See 1992.0437.01, 2007.0181.01, MA.318482, MA.334387, 1990.0687.01, and 1986.0790.03.)
According to the donor, the rule was purchased by his uncle, Rocco Anthony Petrone (1926–2006), while he was studying for a master's degree in mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950 and 1951. After graduation he developed rockets for the U.S. Army. From 1966 to 1975, Petrone held various leadership positions at NASA, including director of the Apollo program (1969–1973).
Petrone passed the slide rule on to his brother, Dominic J. Petrone, who earned a BS in electrical engineering from Union College in 1950. Dominic gave the rule to his son, Gerald Petrone, who studied engineering at George Washington University in 1969 and subsequently at the University of Maryland at College Park. Gerald broke the indicator and acquired the replacement now on the instrument. He then passed the instrument to his brother, donor David Petrone, who studied electrical engineering at UMCP from 1971 to 1974. At some point, the original case was also replaced with a case from Keuffel & Esser. Several of the Petrones who used the slide rule marked it or the case with their name or initials.
References: Bruce Babcock, "Dietzgen Catalog Matrix," Journal of the Oughtred Society 5, no. 2 (1996), http://sliderulemuseum.com/Manuals/Dietzgen_CatalogMatrix_BruceBabcock1996_chart.jpg; William K. Robinson, "Slide Rules with Hyperbolic Functions," Journal of the Oughtred Society 14, no. 1 (2005): 55–62; Robert Otnes, "Dietzgen Patents, Runners, and Log Log Scales," Journal of the Oughtred Society 5, no. 2 (1996): 45–48; Lyman M. Kells, Willis F. Kern, and James R. Bland, "Slide Rule" (U.S. Patent 2,170,144 issued August 22, 1939), and "Slide Rule" (U.S. Patent 2,285,722 issued June 9, 1942); accession file; "Candidates for Union College Degrees," Evening Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y. (June 8, 1950), 5.
Around 1900 many American educators advocated the use of objects in teaching mathematics and the sciences. R. O. Evans Company of Chicago published this set of twenty chromolithographed charts. They were designed to apply the object method “to the entire subject of practical arithmetic.” The title chart shows a man in classical garb holding a diagram of the Pythagorean theorem and a pair of dividers, expounding to a child. Other instruments displayed include a pencil, a drawing pen, a magnetic compass, several geometric models, a globe, a telescope, two set squares, an hourglass, and one of Evans’s charts.
Charts include extensive commentary for teachers. There are sheets entitled Counting and Writing Numbers, Reviews and Colors, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division,. Other charts discuss Fractions, Weights and Measures, the Metric System, and Mensuration (one chart considers the measurement of flat surfaces, another one 3-dimensional solids). There also are charts on Business Methods (3 charts), Lumber and Timber Measure,Surveying, Percentage, Commercial and Legal Forms, and Book Keeping. A variety of objects are shown.
The paper, cloth-backed charts are held together at the top by a piece of fabric that is tacked to a wooden backing. This backing slides into an oak case decorated with machine-made molding and panels. A mark on the case reads: This is the (/) Property of (/) F. C. Adams (/) Hillsboro N. H. (/) May 28 - 1902 (/) Loaned to (/) Miss L. Hany (?) (/) Teacher School Dist. No. 17. F.C. Adams is probably Freeman C. Adams (1845-1913) of Hillsborough and Manchester, N.H. This suggests that this particular example of Evans’ Arithmetical Study was used by a woman who taught at a school in New Hampshire.
This printed, typed, and hand-written document is the Chicago Music Publishing Company's royalty agreement for the song "Walking Blues" by composers Gertrude "Ma" Rainey and Lovie Austin. The document was signed by the composers and witnessed and signed by the A&R (Artists and Repertoire) representative, J. Mayo Williams, on December 12, 1923. As per the agreement, Rainey and Austin would receive “two cents for each printed pianoforte copy of the said work sold by the PUBLISHER in the United States and Canada only,” as well as “a sum equal to one-fourth of any and all royalties that the PUBLISHER shall actually receive from the use of said musical composition for mechanical reproduction less ten per cent (10%) for cost of collection in the form of all player rolls, records, discs, or other mechanical reproduction of the musical composition.”
Gertrude"Ma" Rainey (born Gertrude Pridgett, 1886-1939) was a pioneering African American blues singer and entertainer, who became known as "The Mother of the Blues." Early in her career, Rainey was popular on the theatrical circuit known as TOBA (Theater Owners Booking Association). Between 1923 and 1928, she made more than 100 recordings for her record label, Paramount. Rainey continued to tour and record up to her retirement in 1935.