Rural Employments, "Felling Timber"

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Spread for “Felling Timber” from Rural Employments by Mary Belson Elliot, published by William Darton, 1820, pages 7–8. Held at the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, 15h4424.

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Two men chop down large trees in a forest using axes. 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 characteristic of production stories.

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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