AMERICAN STUDIES WEB MUSEUM:
The Culture of Childhood in 19th-Century America
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About This Site
The Web Museum is an ongoing digitization project created and maintained by students at Middlebury College. Its purpose is to preserve and highlight selected manuscripts and archival materials in the College’s Special Collections and at the Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont.
This year's website focuses on shifting conceptions of childhood and adolescence, and on the religious, educational, familial, and recreational institutions and practices that shaped those conceptions.
Special thanks to Andrew Wentink, Curator of Special Collections for guiding our choice of materials this January.
Thanks also to Danielle Rougeau, Assistant Curator of Special Collections, and to Orson Kingsley and Mary Epright at the Henry Sheldon Museum. Finally, thanks to Mack Roark for his technical support throughout the term.
For further information, please contact Holly Allen, Assistant Professor of American Studies at hallen.middlebury.edu.