Finding aid for the Eugenia F. Phelps paper cutting, paper weaving, and card sewing albums 6113

Sue Luftschein
USC Libraries Special Collections
2016 April
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu


Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Eugenia F. Phelps paper cutting, paper weaving, and card sewing albums
creator: Phelps, Eugenia F.
Identifier/Call Number: 6113
Physical Description: 1.46 Linear Feet 1 box
Date (inclusive): circa 1915
Abstract: Three accordion-fold albums, each demonstrating one of the "gifts" (educational forms of play) devised by kindergarten originator Friedrich Wilhelm Frobel. Each album bears the name of Eugenia T. Phelps (b. 1894), a kindergarten teacher in the New York City public school system, as well as the stamp of J.W. Schermerhorn & Co., a publisher of children's educational materials and early promotor of Frobel's methods.
Container: 1

Biographical / Historical

Eugenia F. Phelps waas a kindergarten teacher in Staten Island, New York. As evidenced by the Schermerhorn stamp in these albums, Phelps was a practitioner of the Frobel method of education, and the founder of the kindergarten. Frobel encouraged young women to undertake serious study to become kindergarten teachers, and many traveled from the United States to Germany to study his methods. He advocated the concept of educational "gifts" and many of his followers They created albums like these as they practiced different gifts.

Content Description

Three accordion-fold albums, each demonstrating one of the "gifts" (educational forms of play) devised by kindergarten originator Friedrich Wilhelm Frobel. 120 leaves in total, on which are mounted more than 200 examples of paper cutting, paper weaving, and card sewing techniques and patterns. Each album bears the name of Eugenia T. Phelps (b. 1894), a kindergarten teacher in the New York City public school system, as well as the stamp of J.W. Schermerhorn & Co., a publisher of children's educational materials and early promotor of Frobel's methods. (Bookseller's description)

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Preferred Citation

[Box/folder no. or item name], Eugenia F. Phelps paper cutting, paper weaving, and card sewing albums, Collection no. 6113, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased from Walkabout Books, April 13, 2016.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Education -- United States -- Archival resources
Kindergarten -- New York (N.Y.) -- Archival resources
Kindergarten teachers -- New York (N.Y.) -- Archival resources
Educational toys
Phelps, Eugenia F.
Phelps, Eugenia F. -- Archives
Fröbel, Friedrich, 1782-1852 -- Archives