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| Elinor Whitney Field | Bertha Mahony Miller | ||
| Horn Book Magazine founders Read about Bertha Mahony Miller and Elinor Whitney Field |
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| Anne Carroll Moore | Alice Jordan | ||
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Early Horn Book advisors Read about the beginning of The Horn Book |
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| Bertha Mahony Miller Read about Bertha Mahony Miller | |||
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| Bertha and William’s wedding (1932) | Earliest known photo of Bertha (1924 passport) | ||
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| Bertha waiting for the train from Ashburnham to Boston | Bertha in Florida | ||
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| Bertha with her granddaughter Nancy and a friend | Bertha and William with their grandnephew, Arnold Manthorne | ||
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| Award for merit in the realm of books, presented by the Women's National Book Association to Bertha Mahony Miller in 1955 |
Regina Medal for Continued Distinguished Contribution to Children's Literature presented by the Catholic Library Association to Bertha Mahony Miller in 1967 |
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| The Bookshop for Boys and Girls (1916-1934) Read about the Bookshop |
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| Exterior view of the Bookshop, located on Boylston Street, Boston |
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| Interior of the Bookshop in its first location on 267 Boylston Street |
Customers browse inside the Bookshop on 267 Boylston Street |
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| The Bookshop first opened on October 9, 1916 |
Children's balcony level of enlarged Bookshop, after its 1921 relocation to 270 Boylston Street |
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| "...an atmosphere of coziness, of repose, and of appreciation — appreciation of books, of arrangements and of the visitor's mood — pervaded the place." (quote from The Spirited Life: Bertha Mahony Miller and Children's Books) |
The Bookshop's stamp | ||
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| Greenaway House (dollhouse) in 1924, a long-standing attraction in the Bookshop from the late 1920s onwards and home to the Bookshop's famous resident dolls, Alice-Heidi and Wendy |
A card featuring Alice-Heidi and Wendy – the reverse side is printed with information about the dolls and a rhyming announcement for The Spring Book Festival, May 2-7, 1938 at the Bookshop. |
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The Book Caravan (1920-1921) Read about the Book Caravan View more Book Caravan photos |
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| The Caravan was outfitted to Bertha's specifications by Charles Hodgkins. This painting is probably his work. |
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| At some locations business was brisk. |
At other times, there were fewer customers. |
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| The Caravan makes a city stop. | Before arriving at one of their selling destinations, the Caravan drivers stopped to clean the car. |
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Read more facsimilies and transcriptions of selected pages from the Caravan diary. | ||
| Log kept by the two Caravan workers, Ruth Drake and Pauline Langley, during the summer of 1921 |
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| Bookshop Publicity (1929) Read the article  |
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| June 1929 article about Bertha Mahony and the Bookshop in The Atlantic Monthly |
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| The Hunt Breakfast (1926-?) Read all of the selected Hunt Breakfast clippings and transcriptions |
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| The Hunt Breakfast first appeared in The Horn Book Magazine's November 1926 issue and was the precursor to the current Impromptu section. |
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| A notice about a famous poet's house, January 1937 Hunt Breakfast |
A request from an anonymous reader, July 1940 Hunt Breakfast |
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| Correspondence from former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, September 1940 Hunt Breakfast |
A Magazine order for a twelve-year-old future librarian, March 1941 Hunt Breakfast |
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| Correspondence from Beatrix Potter, May 1942 Hunt Breakfast |
Robert McCloskey's mistake, September 1947 Hunt Breakfast |
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The Three Owls' Notebook (1936-1960) Read Moore's Three Owls' Notebook column in the Magazine's December 1952 issue |
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| For over two decades, Anne Carol Moore, the first children's librarian in the United States, wrote a Horn Book Magazine column called The Three Owls' Notebook |
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| Book Caravan Publicity (1921) View full-size images of selected Book Caravan newspaper clippings  |
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| September 1921 notice about the Book Caravan in the Patriot newspaper |
September 1921 notice about the Book Caravan in the Monitor newspaper |
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| August 1921 article about the Book Caravan in The Union newspaper |
Newspaper article about the Book Caravan, source unknown |
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Read about Beatrix Potter and Bertha Mahony Miller and their friendship |
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| Verse and art by Beatrix Potter sent to Bertha Mahony Miller |
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Read about Leo Politi and the Horn Book | ||
| Envelope from Leo Politi sent to Bertha Mahony Miller in 1947 |
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| Thank-you note from Marcia Brown sent to Bertha Mahony Miller (undated) |
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| Drawing by L. Leslie Brook given to Bertha Mahony Miller in 1936 | |||
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| Read Lee Kingman's reminiscence about winning the Bookshop prize Nine-year-old Lee Kingman grew up to be a writer, a children’s book editor at Houghton Mifflin, and Bertha Mahony Miller’s successor as the editor of several volumes published by the Horn Book, Inc. |
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The Horn Book League (1949-1972) | ||
| Horn Book League submission rejection note |
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| Read Johanna Hurwitz's reminiscence about the Horn Book League |  |
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| Johanna Hurwitz's (née Johanna Frank) Horn Book League membership card |
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Read about horn books | ||
| Horn book replica | |||
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