Rural Employments, "Making Butter"

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Spread for "Making Butter" from Rural Employments by Mary Belson Elliot, published by William Darton, 1820, pages 37–38. Held at the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, 15h4424.

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Two young women and an older boy work making butter in a farmhouse dairy. This is one of several everyday rural scenes of labor, which this short book intersperses with other children's activates like picking and eating apples. Representations of rural labor and industries are included episodically in books for younger children, sometimes with the technical details of trades or processes that characterize production stories. Books for younger children favor workplaces like the dairy, which are associated with village life and domestic comforts and remained relatively stable despite new technologies or economic forces.

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  • container title
    Mary Belson Elliott, Rural Employments, Or, a Peep into Village Concerns (London: William Darton, 1820).
  • credit
    Courtesy of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida
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    public domain