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Chapters Archives – Page 3 of 3 – Vintage American Ways

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Chapters Archives – Vintage American Ways

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These historical resources will give educators, history buffs, and all Americans access to the system of values which began shaping our country in its infancy. The Youth’s Companion, a weekly newspaper, was the second most-circulated publication in the US at the turn of the century. Published between 1827-1929, it has been credited with being a […]

The New Frontier Archives – Vintage American Ways

Propaganda about Super-Women (that remarkable woman with ideal qualities) has been around for over 200 years, because here’s the 1914 tale of Granny Rhoda. She could do anything from shearing a sheep, preparing the wool, weaving the cloth and making clothing to protecting her children from bears and multi-tasking while rocking her baby in the […]

The Gerta Rinker Collection

The Gerta Rinker Collection contains the majority of our vintage historical sources. Gerta Rinker was born in 1864 in a rural area near the foothills of the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains. Her father Silas D. Kalb was such a strong believer in education that he started the first public school in his farm springhouse. Gerta […]