Older Stuff

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Status — Leave a comment

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I recently helped my grandparents move out of their house of 60 years. Grandpa was a teacher and I ended up inheriting his textbooks and teaching materials. So I’ve been going through them and here’s what I’ve found.

He kept all his notes from when he went to college in 1950. He also still had his rat cell slides from a dissection. I don’t think it was necessary to keep this stuff for this long, but then again I haven’t lived in the same house for 60 years. I also can’t – as most of my college notes were lost from a move.

Of the text books he had, I’ve sorted them roughly into college years and teaching years. Some weren’t actually his, but were inherited from other family members – the Nature Encyclopedia book from 1927 has my great-great grandfather’s name in it for instance. I’ve included the prices of the books when I could find them, compare them to the current several hundred dollar textbook prices of today!

College textbooks

More College Notes

Page 338 of the Geology textbook by von Engeln and Caster

Various newspaper clippings on how to speak German

Typical German word construction

Backside of newspaper clipping on learning to speak German

rat slides from 1954

College notes

His college text books:

Nature Encyclopedia, 1927, G. Clyde Fisher (Cornwall Press)
Pennsylvania Geology & Mineral Resources, 1931, George H. Ashley (Harrisburg)
The Phylum Chordata, 1939, H.N. Newman (Macmillan Company) $5.00
Manual of Biology, 1941, George Alfred Baitsell (Macmillan Company) $3.50
College Algebra, 1947, M. Richardson (Prentice-Hall)
Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, 1948, Paul R. Rider (Macmillan Company) $1.95
Textbook of Anatomy & Physiology, 1948, Diana Clifford Kimber, Carolyn E. Gray, A.M.R.N. (Macmillan Company)
The Dissection of the Rat, 1949, Edwin C. Starks, Richard D. Cutter (Stanford University Press)
Introduction to Parasitology, 1949, Asa C. Chandler (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
An Illustrated Laboratory Manual of Parasitology, 1950, Raymond M. Cable (Burgess Publishing) $2.50
The Berlitz Self-Teacher German, 1950, Robert Strumpen-Darric, Charles F. Berlitz (Grosset & Dunlap)
Foundations of Biology, 1951, Lorande Loss Woodruff, George Alfred Baitsell (Macmillan Company) $5.50
College Physics, 1952, Robert L. Weber, Marsh W. White, Kenneth V. Manning (McGraw-Hill) $6.50
Geology, 1952, O.D. von Engeln, Kenneth E. Caster (McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.) $7.50
College Physics, 1953, Frederick A. Saunders, Paul Kirkpatrick (Henry Holt and Company) $6.25
The American Nation, 1955, John D. Hicks (The Riverside Press)

teaching_textbooks

He taught junior high school science to 7^th – 9^th grade students for 32 years, designed the science room and dark room for the (then) new junior high school and was the school’s photographer. He retired when schools were making the changes from junior high to middle (6^th-8^th grades).

A textbook before the Apollo missions were done (or apparently finalized)

Presented without context

How grandpa felt about the new changes

Items in the earth and space teaching notebook

Another textbook published before space was “conquered”

Chapter 10 from a chemistry workbook published in 1977

Overhead teaching slides

Teaching notes

Grading slide rule and metric converter

His Teaching books:

Science 1: Observation and Experiment, 1957, Davis, Burnett, Gross (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.)
Science 2: Experiment and Discovery, 1957, Davis, Burnett, Gross (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.)
Science 3: Discovery and Progress, 1957, Davis, Burnett, Gross (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.)
Biology: The Living World, 1958, Francis D. Curtis, John Urban (Ginn and Company)
The Physical World, 1965, Branley, Pella, Urban (Ginn and Company)
Investigating the World of Science, 1966, Obourn, Heiss, Montgomery, Lape (D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.)
Physical Science, 1988, Hurd, Silver, Bacher, McLaughlin (Prentice-Hall)
Life Science: Annotated Teacher’s Edition, 1980, Wright, Fichter, Coble, Hopkins, Rice (Prentice-Hall)
Introductory Physical Science, 1982 and 1987 editions, Haber-Schaim, Abegg, Dodge, Kirksey, Walter (Prentice-Hall)
Life Science: Annotated Teacher’s Edition, 1988, Wright, Coble, Hopkins, Johnson, LaHart (Prentice-Hall)
Astronomy: The Cosmic Journey, 1989, William K. Hartmann (Wadsworth Publishing Company)

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Other books:

Portfolio of Dermochromes, Vol. I and II, 1913, Gerome Kingsbury, M.D., William Gaynor States, M.D. (Rebman Company)
Henley’s 20^th Century book of Formulas, Processes and Trade Secrets, 1935, Prof. T. O’Conor Sloane, A.B., A.M., E.M., Ph.D. (The Norman W. Henley Publishing Company)
The Teacher of Landscape Painting, 1944, D.M. Campana $0.75
The Soldier’s Guide, June 1952 (Department of the Army)
ABC’s of Developing, Printing and Enlarging, 1964, Wayne Floyd (American Photographic Book Publishing Co., Inc.) $0.89
How to Make Good Pictures, 1965, editors of Eastman Kodak Company (The Eastman Kodak Company) $1.00
Kodak Master Darkroom Dataguide, 1966 (The Eastman Kodak Company) $3.95
Photography: A Manual for Shutterbugs, 1965 (copyright, but 1^st printing is Sept. 1970??), Eugene Kohn (Young Readers Press, Inc.) $0.60
Beginner’s Guide to Photography, 1974, Ralph Hattersley (Doubleday & Company, Inc.)

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Strangely packed into these boxes were travel guides and brochures – this kind of stuff is discarded soon after use! I’m sure there’s a historian that would love this but I don’t know what to do about it (except to toss it).

Also among the boxes were unused post cards, plane tickets and vouchers to Hawaii, National Geographic maps, pictures of maps – as in actual film developed pictures he took, used timex watches, a 1931 geographic survey map of Pennsylvania, 61.5” by 39.125” (≈ 5ft by 3 ft), scissors, tongs, personal travel plans from AARP, a 1931 book about dinosaurs from the Sinclair oil company, outdated handouts of the periodic table of the elements and receipts!