Book/Printed Material Memoirs of Mary D. Bradford; autobiographical and historical reminiscences of education in Wisconsin, through progressive service from rural school teaching to city superintendent; illustrated with photographs.

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Title

  • Memoirs of Mary D. Bradford; autobiographical and historical reminiscences of education in Wisconsin, through progressive service from rural school teaching to city superintendent; illustrated with photographs.

Summary

  • Born in the farming community of Paris, Kenosha County, in 1856, Mary Davison Bradford was forced by her father's ill health to begin teaching at the age of sixteen, before she had finished high school, and she continued to work actively as an educator until 1922. Bradford describes how she taught in small rural schools, in the expanding Kenosha system, and at centers of educational experimentation such as Central State Teachers College at Stevens Point and the Stout Training School at Menomonie. Eventually appointed Superintendent of Schools in Kenosha, Bradford instituted kindergarten, vocational training programs, breakfast programs for needy children, and politically independent procurement and hiring processes, and advocated courses in citizenship and health education. Bradford's autobiography chronicles the development of Wisconsin's public school system in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wisconsin had a strong commitment to primary, secondary, and higher public education in this era, and Bradford's work reflects at the grassroots level many of the pedagogic reforms then sweeping the country.

Names

  • Bradford, Mary Davison, 1856-1943.

Created / Published

  • [Evansville, Wis., The Antes Press, 1932]

Headings

  • -  Education--Wisconsin--History

Notes

  • -  "All of this book except the last three chapters and the appendix appeared serially in 'The Wisconsin magazine of history'."--Foreword.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Medium

  • ix, p., 2 l., 542 p. front., plates, ports. 24 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LA2317.B57 A3

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 33004718

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Bradford, Mary Davison. Memoirs of Mary D. Bradford; autobiographical and historical reminiscences of education in Wisconsin, through progressive service from rural school teaching to city superintendent; illustrated with photographs. [Evansville, Wis., The Antes Press, 1932] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/33004718/.

APA citation style:

Bradford, M. D. (1932) Memoirs of Mary D. Bradford; autobiographical and historical reminiscences of education in Wisconsin, through progressive service from rural school teaching to city superintendent; illustrated with photographs. [Evansville, Wis., The Antes Press] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/33004718/.

MLA citation style:

Bradford, Mary Davison. Memoirs of Mary D. Bradford; autobiographical and historical reminiscences of education in Wisconsin, through progressive service from rural school teaching to city superintendent; illustrated with photographs. [Evansville, Wis., The Antes Press, 1932] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/33004718/>.