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Aaron

Description: Biography of Aaron, first High Priest of Israel. Written for children, with an emphasis on submission to God's will. Bound in illustrated wrappers.
Date: 1853/1857
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

All the world's on stilts

Description: Moralizing story, where the narrator, after seeing a "lubberly boy" on stilts, reflects on people that set themselves above others and make spectacles of themselves.
Date: 1827/1853
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Appendix in "Outlines of Lessons in Botany"]

Description: Photographs of "Outlines of Lessons in Botany: For the use of Teachers, or Mothers Studying with their Children" held by UNT Special Collections as part of the Weaver Juvenile Collection. It is the first of two volumes to teach children about plants and their uses. The book is open to the appendix and is resting on a plastic book cradle with weighted strings holding the pages down.
Date: October 3, 2014
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[book title] UNTA_AR0790-000-024

Description: Early edition of Heidi by Johanna Spyri. The front cover has a full page, full color illustration of Heidi on a mountain path. She is wearing a dirndl and carrying a bouquet of flowers in on hand while petting a goat with the other. On her other side is another goat wearing a bell around its neck. Further back is a boy in a red hat with a walking stick sitting under a tree. Next to him are two more goats and across from him is one more. Surrounding the path are rocks, grass, flowers, and more t… more
Date: 1934
Creator: Spyri, Johanna
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["The boy refused," Heidi leaf]

Description: Heidi leaf illustration by Maud Fuller Petersham and Miska Petersham for Johanna Spyri's Heidi. Three leaves of plates originally bound with the volume. Illustrated t.-p. and lining-papers in colors.
Date: 1932
Creator: Petersham, Maud Fuller, 1890-1971; Petersham, Miska, 1888-1960 & Spyri, Johanna, 1827-1901
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Carved wooden clock]

Description: Image of a wooden clock, stained a dark brown and carved to look like a bird house with leaves on each side and a bird at the top. The face of the clock is black with white tick marks and white circles for the numbers. The place where number six would be is instead replaced with a hole to the inside. At the bottom of the clock face is "Germany", presumably where it was made.
Date: 18XX
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping: To Address Librarians]

Description: Newspaper clipping with two articles, found in a 1924 edition of Heidi. One article is an announcement of Mrs. Weaver's upcoming lecture for the librarians of the Dallas Public Schools; the other is an account of a meeting of the Garden Club held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Weaver. Seperated from volume, the newspaper clipping is shelved in Object Files, Rare Book and Texana Collections.
Date: 1935
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Frame with pressed edelweiss]

Description: Image of a frame with pressed edelweiss. The frame is an oval shape painted royal blue with gold gilded flourishes and outer rim. On the inner rim of the frame are raised gilded dots. Inside the frame are three pressed edelweiss flowers which have stems that have been discolored with time. At the top is a label for ownership. Mrs. N. H. Dole is likely Helen B. Dole who was one of the translators of the novel "Heidi" by Johanna Spyri from German to English. On the paper backing is illegible, fad… more
Date: [1857..1944]
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["He gave an angry push," Heidi leaf]

Description: Heidi leaf illustration by Maud Fuller Petersham and Miska Petersham for Johanna Spyri's Heidi. Three leaves of plates originally bound with the volume. Illustrated t.-p. and lining-papers in colors.
Date: 1932
Creator: Petersham, Maud Fuller, 1890-1971; Petersham, Miska, 1888-1960 & Spyri, Johanna, 1827-1901
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Give us this day our daily bread.

Description: His mother unable to provide for himself and his siblings, six year old Little Johnny prays on the way to school. On arriving home, he finds food has been left for the family. Not an angel, but an earthly agent of God heard his prayer and provided for the family.
Date: [1827..1853]
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Going apprentice.

Description: Words of wisdom from an old German schoolmaster to a young boy about to go learn a trade, and how being good will help him succeed.
Date: [1827..1853]
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

The grocery ruined him.

Description: Little Robert would not heed the advice of his Sunday school teacher and avoid the men at the grocery store who kept trying to get him to drink rum. By the age of 13, Robert becomes a drunkard.
Date: [1827..1853]
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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