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     Education is just a small representation of the approximately 2000 textbooks and other educational materials in the Thomas Murray Collection from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  Some of the more visually interesting examples have been provided below, showing that textbooks do not always have to be educational.


History of the British Empire.  William Francis Collier.  Toronto: Canada Publishing Company, 1876.

Drawing - Warkworth Castle.  Margaret E. Robinson. 1889.
 


Lovell's History of the Dominion of Canada.  Montreal: Lovell, 1876.

Abrégé de l'Histoire du Canada.  F. X. Garneau.  Quebec: Presses d'Augustin Cote, 1873.

Public School Arithmetic.  Toronto: Canada Pub. Co., [1887?].

Elementary English Composition.  Frederick Henry Sykes.  Toronto: Copp, Clark Company Limited, 1902.

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