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Primary source collection documenting children's literature and print culture. Includes titles from European publishers and some written in French or German but focuses primarily on American literature and culture.
Additional Information:
Includes more than 8,600 digitized items produced for, about and, in some cases, by children and youth in the decades between the 1810s and the 1920s, a period in the history of juvenile culture regarded as the first ‘golden age’ of children’s literature. Spans a range of genres of literature for children, from early forms of devotional and instructional primers through illustrated rhymes, tales, stories, novels, and picture books.
Coverage: 1810-1920
Vendor: Adam Matthew
Producer: American Antiquarian Society
Interlibrary Loan Type: Secure Electronic Transmission Permitted
Simultaneous User Limit: Unlimited simultaneous users