Testimonial on Behalf of Miss Marsha Shearer's Moral Character and Ability to Teach Common School, Harrisburg, PA, 1854 antique cake tin one sword bared and rifles

one sword bared and rifles slung over shoulders

What sold me on this one is the full page hand-written note on the inside back cover

out of time and place

and I love how the "men" at the end of the line angle up and down in alternation

and definitely like he or she would like not to be disturbed

Testimonial on Behalf of Miss Marsha Shearer's Moral Character and Ability to Teach Common School, Harrisburg, PA, 1854 antique cake tin one sword bared and riflesI was happy to find this manuscript letter, written in Harrisburg (then Harrisburgh) PA in 1854 on behalf of a Miss Marsha Shearer, attesting to her (most important) moral character, learning, and ability to instruct, such that she be granted a one year teaching appointment at the town's common school. Lead by Horace Mann, it was in the 1830s that the Common School movement took hold, advocating for (and leading to) the widespread creation of tax