About Gutman Library Special Collections
Spanning two centuries, the Monroe C. Gutman Library Special Collections (GLSC) offers rich and varied resources for studying the history of schooling and learning in the United States.
As part of Gutman Library's mission to support learning, research, and teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the GLSC's mission is to:
- Foster research and investigation into the history of the interdisciplinary field of education
- Encourage discovery, critical thinking, and intellectual exchange among a broad spectrum of users and partners
- Collect, preserve, and make accessible materials related to the history of schooling, teaching, and curriculum in the United States
Morse School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, circa 1957.
Jeanne Chall
Changing Channels, a book from the Action for Children's Television collection.
Open air school in Springfield, Massachusetts, January 1912
The Family Guide to Children's Television, part of our Action for Children's Television collection
Page seven from James H. Fassett’s "The First Beacon Reader"
Title page from "The Freedman’s Spelling-Book" (1866)
Cover page of the book Learning To Read: The Great Debate by Jeanne Chall.
Cover of the book, Manual of American Citizenship edited by Donald Farquharson Stewart, Mary Inez O'Donnell and Frederick Sherman De Galan
Map of the grounds of the Academy of Mount Saint Vincent, the first institution to offer higher learning for women in New York.
Scroll painting featured in our exhibit, From Crayons to Calligraphy: An Exhibition of Japanese Student Artwork, 1949-1951
Frontispiece from Redfield's Zoological Science.
Cover of Carolyn Sherwin Bailey's What to do for Uncle Sam: A First Book of Citizenship.
Title page image of the Office of Indian Affairs pamphlet, Some Things That Girls Should Know How To Do, 1911.
The frontispiece from Josiah Freeman Bumstead’s "Third Reader."
Page seven from the book, Fun with Dick and Jane.
