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Author:

Schwartz, Alvin, 1927-

Title:

When I grew up long ago : family living, going to school, games and parties, cures and deaths, a comet, a war, falling in love, and other things I remember : older people talk about the days when they were young / collected and edited by Alvin Schwartz ; drawings by Harold Berson.

Publisher:

Lippincott,

Copyright Date:

c1978

Description:

224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

United States--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
United States--Juvenile literature.--1865-1918--Sources--Juvenile literature.
United States--Juvenile literature.--20th century--Sources--Juvenile literature.
United States--Sources.--1865-1918--Sources.
United States--Sources.--20th century--Sources.

Other Authors:

Berson, Harold.

Notes:

Includes index. Bibliography: p. 218-220.

Summary:

Brief statements from people whose childhoods were in the period 1890-1914 on such areas of their past lives as food, social life, music, holidays, and health present glimpses of life in the United States at that time.

ISBN:

9780397317264
0397317263

LCCN:

78008719

Locations:

STPC124 -- Allison Public Library (Allison)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

YSPD232 -- Camanche Public Library (Camanche)

FCPB384 -- Dike Public Library (Dike)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

KEPC896 -- Keosauqua Public Library (Keosauqua)

DAPG173 -- Mason City Public Library (Mason City)

XYPC787 -- Eckels Memorial Library (Oakland)

RFPC397 -- Stuart Public Library (Stuart)