- Little workers
- Collections:
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- Language:
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- English
- Call number:
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- Eng 19Q 26977
- Extent:
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- [2], 8, 8, 8, 8 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
- Format:
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- Book
- Type:
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- Printed boards
- Publishers' advertisements
- Juvenile literature
- Juvenile fiction
- Description:
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- Separate verse and prose story-portraits of little girl workers (the little cook, the little housemaid, the little nurse, etc.), moral stories, and practical information related to the trades (cf. McLoughlin Bros.' similarly-titled 1886 work, which includes little boy-workers as well).
- Illustrations: 4 plates depicting select child-workers, and smaller outline drawings of them and hosehold objects throughout the text (cf. the illustrations in the McLoughlin ed., depicting somewhat older--and more "Americanized"?--children).
- Publisher:
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- London ; Edinburgh ; New York : T. Nelson and Sons (Paternoster Row), 1884.
- Subject:
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- Occupations—Juvenile literature
- Girls—Juvenile fiction
- Children's stories, English
- Children's poetry, English
- Printed boards
- Publishers' advertisements—19th century
- Title sort:
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- Little workers.
- Contents:
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- The little cook -- Bread-making -- The Kettle and its friends -- Going to market -- The little housemaid -- Washing day -- Helping mother -- The grocer's shop -- The little nurse -- The little dressmaker -- The little table maid -- Dolly's doctor -- The doll's party.
- Created:
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- 1884-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Date:
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- 1884
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/hm50tz65f
- Location:
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- CTSN Eng 19Q 26977
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Range label:
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- Logical
- Contributor:
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- Thomas Nelson & Sons
- Binding note:
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- Light blue decorated paper bds., with title outlined against maroon background and chromolithographed illustration (of the Little Nurse) on upper cover and publisher's advertisements in maroon on lower; blue cloth spine strip.