VERE FOSTER'S COPY BOOKS/ ADOPTED BY/ The Commissioners of National Education in Ireland.
Eleanor Archer
Category
Education objects
Date
1870
Materials
Paper
Measurements
167 mm (height); 212 mm (width)
Place of origin
Stationers' Hall Court
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671779
Summary
A handwriting copybook with a cream paper binding. The title is printed in black ink on the front cover, which is decorated with two roundels containing scenes of children playing, and a border composed of roses, thistles and clover. The name 'Eleanor Archer Class I' is handwritten at the top of the front cover. On the back cover is an advertisement for Vere Fosters drawing book, decorated with a picture of a Kent Sheep and lambs. The book contains lines of handwriting practice in black ink. There are twelve pages.
Provenance
'Derbyshire Museum Service History of Education Collection' - a collection established by Derbyshire Museum Service (through gifts from individuals, Derbyshire schools and purchases) in the 1940s and stored at Sudbury Hall from the early 1970s to 2012. The National Trust managed the collection between 1991 and 2012 when legal ownership was transferred from Derbyshire County Council to the National Trust. Archival records information - "The collection was established as a result of isolated gifts in the 1940's, and the 'savings' of certain school records (now passed to County Records) during wartime paper salvage." "During the 1950s it was L.E.A. practice to hold an Easter Course for teachers, and the County (Derbyshire) Museum arranged a special exhibition for teach course. As by the mid 1950s quite a collection had already accumulated, it was decided to produce an exhibition on the history of education with special reference to Derbyshire. Consequently, further material was purchased, from which items were selected. The exhibition was subsequently shown at a number of centres, and after disbandment, additions continued to be made with the aim of eventually producing a reconstructed classroom as a base for research. The Derby Bishop Lonsdale College of Education has frequently made use of the collection in various ways."
Marks and inscriptions
At the top of the front cover: 'Eleanor Archer'
Makers and roles
Eleanor Archer, author Whittaker and Co., engraver and publisher Simpkin, Marshall and Co., engraver and publisher Marcus Ward and Co , engraver and publisher