Silver Burdett Company collection
Collection
0155-SCPA
The Silver Burdett Company collection contains materials dating between 1890 and 1978 with the bulk of the materials dating between 1920 and 1930. The collection consists of company publications, price lists, catalogs, various published, educational volumes, and performance programs relating to the company's publications.
There are no restricted files in this collection.
Materials from this collection must be used in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library's Irving and Margery Morgan Lowens Special Collections Room, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday. Please make an appointment with the curator: Tel: 301.405.9220, Email: scpa@umd.edu
2.00 Linear Feet
The Silver Burdett Company collection contains materials dating between 1890 and 1978 with the bulk of the materials falling between 1920 and 1930. The collection consists of company publications, such as price lists, catalogs, and various published, educational pamphlets, workbooks, and textbooks. Also included are the yearly graduation programs from the American Institute of Normal Methods dating from 1890 to 1951. Various programs from performances related to the American Institute of Normal Methods constitute much of the rest of the collection.
Silver Burdett is an American primary education textbook publishing imprint owned by Pearson Education, which is a division of media conglomerate Pearson PLC. Silver Burdett was first formed as a company in 1888 when Frank W. Burdett purchased a controlling interest in the textbook publishing company, Silver andamp; Company. In 1962, Silver Burdett was acquired by Time, Inc., and it became the distributor of Time-Life Books to schools and libraries. In 1965 Silver Burdett became the first division of the General Learning Corporation, a collaboration between Time, Inc. and General Electric. Simon andamp; Schuster purchased Silver Burdett in 1986, and merged it with Ginn andamp; Company, a leading elementary school and high school textbook publisher - which formed the imprint Silver Burdett Ginn. In 1998, Pearson PLC acquired Simon andamp; Schuster's educational businesses, which included Silver Burdett Ginn, from Sandamp;S parent Viacom and created Pearson Education.
This collection is arranged as a single series; original order remains.
The Silver Burdett Company began donating materials for this collection in May 1992. Accruals followed resulting in the total collection.
Part of the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library