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The Prairie Schoolhouse

Door John Martin Campbell

Categorie
Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer
#329713-AD23
Titel
The Prairie Schoolhouse
Auteur
Campbell, John Martin
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
University of New Mexico Press
Jaar van uitgave
1996
ISBN10
0826316603
ISBN13
9780826316608
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, oblong, circa 21x26cm, illustrations.
Samenvatting
The prairie schoolhouse was a product of the Western Homestead Era, those years beginning in the late nineteenth century when the federally owned short grass prairies and sagebrush country were opened to farming. In beautiful, straightforward photographs, John Martin Campbell has documented what remains of the schoolhouses of that era. Once there were thousands across the prairies; now few remain, and most of them are in advanced states of disrepair.
As the author notes in his informative text, the farmers who came to stake a claim on the prairies - regardless of where they came from or how much they knew about farming - all wanted their children to be educated. In regions of abundant homesteads, one-room schools were built every two to four miles, usually by the farmers themselves. They
... (Lees verder)generally hired one teacher to teach grades one through eight.
The drying out of the prairies, culminating in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, drove farmers from the land and ended the Homestead Era. The prairie schoolhouses were abandoned. This affectionate but unsentimental look at a singularly American institution preserves it just in time, before it vanishes forever.
Pagina's
150
Conditie
Nieuw
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