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Book House

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via AoSHQ Sunday Morning Book Thread; Check out the photo of the mirrored library, as well.

There’s a 12 volume collection of books for children with My Book House as part of the title:


Olive Beaupré Miller, ed. The Book House for Children, Chicago. 1937. 

They are beautiful books.

Images from Archive.org where you can borrow the books for 14 days.

This is interesting– and disconcerting. Usually books of this age are fully searchable and one can click through every page. (Screen shots are how I get a lot of the images I post when I talk about a crappy old book.) But all of My Book House volumes have “Limited Book Preview.” One cannot get beyond the table on contents in any of them. I have no idea why.

But I can speculate.

“Different times,” said Mr. Big Food when I read that to him.

Preserving Western Culture– all of it— one crappy old book at a time.

2 Responses

  1. This is interesting. I wonder if some of the books are “politically incorrect” and that is why no preview? I was absolutely horrified to reread the Bobbsy Twins books and see how racist they were. I absolutely devoured the books growing up and had no clue. My mom was a teacher and her best friend was also a teacher–a black woman. They are in their 80’s and still friends. And what would one make of the Uncle Remus Tales? A different time/era for sure.

    1. I suspect that’s exactly the reason there’s no preview. And it’s a shame. There is so much good stuff in these books, and it– along with the snippet of lines deemed by some goodie two shoes who hasn’t a clue about American history and culture– isn’t available. Next thing you know, the book itself will disappear. The thing is, at the time they weren’t racist. One of the lovely things about the history of western culture is how society (generally speaking) tended to get better over time. 10 year olds used to work and now they don’t, etc. How does one learn this if the past is erased?

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