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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gutenberg Earliest European...
...Earliest exhibit is St. Thomas Acquinas's "Summa de Articulis Fidei", printed at Mainz about 1460 and attributed to Gutenberg, and along with it are several well-preserved Florentine and Venetian volumes...
...specimen, one of the earliest examples of printing in the world and the only exhibit of its kind in America, is a Chinese prayer scroll, recovered from the famous Red Pagoda in Hangchow after nearly ten centuries of burial...
...England Primer, one of the earliest and most popular U. S. readers. Most of it was in verse, illustrated by quaint, sober drawings. Colonial moppets were taught the letter O thus...
Nathaniel Eaton, a Cambridge alumnus, was secured as Professor, and some time in the summer of 1638 he moved to Cambridge and received the first Freshmen. The site of this earliest college building, now covered by Massachusetts Avenue, is in front of the west end of Wigglesworth Hall. Its foundations were uncovered when the Cambridge subway was excavated, and their corners are marked in the street paving by two L-shaped rows of red brick. Behind the house, in the former cow-yard, which as early as 1638 was called the College Yard, Professor Eaton set out apple trees...