feastingonroadkill: For all your child rearing needs. Probably on Australia’s new national curriculum. After all what Australia is crying out for is more uniformity. Fine Books Magazine: John Spargo’s Socialist Readings for Children was one of a number of works written by members of the Socialist Party of America. Published in New York in 1909 for The Woman’s National Progressive League, the book was intended for use in Socialist Sunday schools across the country. Illustrated by Edward Scholl, one of whose contributions features on the decorative cloth cover seen here. Unfortunately, the copy offered at this California saleroom was faded to the spine and cracked at the front hinge, but it sold for $180. The fact that it bore the bookplate of the U.S. railroad baron E.H. Harriman–father of politician and diplomat William Averell Harriman–may have helped.

feastingonroadkill:

For all your child rearing needs.

Probably on Australia’s new national curriculum. After all what Australia is crying out for is more uniformity.

Fine Books Magazine:

John Spargo’s Socialist Readings for Children was one of a number of works written by members of the Socialist Party of America. Published in New York in 1909 for The Woman’s National Progressive League, the book was intended for use in Socialist Sunday schools across the country.

Illustrated by Edward Scholl, one of whose contributions features on the decorative cloth cover seen here. Unfortunately, the copy offered at this California saleroom was faded to the spine and cracked at the front hinge, but it sold for $180. The fact that it bore the bookplate of the U.S. railroad baron E.H. Harriman–father of politician and diplomat William Averell Harriman–may have helped.