Abstract
Introduction
Document 1: Excerpts from Bertha von Marenholtz-Bülow, Reminiscences of
Friedrich Froebel, 1877
Document 2: Maria Kraus-Boelte, "The New York Normal Kindergarten," 1881
Document 3: Excerpts from Elizabeth Peabody, Lectures in the Training
School for Kindergartners, 1886
Document 4: Francis W. Parker, "The Kindergarten of Boston," 1889
Document 5: Amalie Hofer, "Women's Sphere not Limited to Four Walls, but
Infinite," 1889
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6: Anna Bryan, "The Letter Killeth," 1890
Document 8A: Letter, Susan Blow to William Torrey Harris, July 9, 1892
Document 8B: Photograph, Susan Blow's kindergarten in St. Louis, date
uncertain.
Document 9: Excerpts from Kate Douglas Wiggin, The Story of Patsy,
1895
Document 10: Luther Whiting Mason, "The Kindergarten in Japan," 1895
Document 11B: "Tick, Tack!" drawing, American edition, 1878
Document 11C: "Kotto Kotto" or "Sound of clock," woodblock print, Japanese
edition, 1895
Document 12: May Henriette Horton, "Kindergartens in Japan," 1897
Document 13A: "The Piano-Forte," drawing, American edition, 1878
Document 13B: "Yubi Piano" or "Finger Piano," woodblock print, Japanese
edition, 1895
Document 13C: "Pat-a-Cake," drawing, American edition, 1878
Document 13D: "Kashi Momi" or "Kneading Sweets," woodblock print, Japanese
edition, 1895
Document 13E: "The Toyman and the Maiden," drawing, American edition, 1878
Document 13F: "Omocha mise to Musume" or "The Toy Store and the Maiden,"
woodblock print, Japanese edition, 1895
Document 13G: "The Child and the Moon," drawing, American edition, 1878
Document 13H: "Osana go to Tsuki" or "The Child and the Moon," woodblock
print, Japanese edition, 1895
Document 14A: Photograph, Presidents of the International Kindergarten
Union, ca. 1930
Document 14B: Lucy Wheelock, "International Kindergarten Union
Announcements," 1897
Document 15: Nina C. Vandewalker, "The Kindergarten in the Chicago School
System," 1897
Document 16: Jenny B. Merrill, "Public Kindergartens of New York City," 1897
Document 17: Marion Keyes, "I am singing of the praises of the Class of
1904," 1904
Document 18: Josephine Silone Yates, "Kindergartens and Mothers' Clubs, as
Related to the Work of the National Association of Colored Women," 1905
Document 19: Excerpts from Nina C. Vandewalker, The Kindergarten in American
Education, 1908
Document 20: Patty Smith Hill, "The Future of the Kindergarten," 1909
Document 21: Excerpts from Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House, 1910
Document 22: G. Stanley Hall, "The Pedagogy of the Kindergarten," 1911
Document 23: John Dewey, "Froebel's Educational Principles," 1915
Document 24: S. E. Weber, The Kindergarten as an Americanizer, 1919
Document 25: Earl Barnes, "How the Kindergarten Makes Americans," 1923
Document 26: Excerpt from Kate Douglas Wiggin, My Garden of Memory: An
Autobiography, 1923
Document 27: Beulah Amidon, "Forty Years in Kindergarten: An Interview with
Patty Smith Hill," 1927
Document 28: Excerpt from Elizabeth Harrison, Sketches along Life's Road,
1930
