BOOK

Description: "STORY OF COCK ROBIN". LARGE PRINT, ILLUSTRATED 8 PAGES. FRAYED EDGES, DOG EARED. HAS BEEN FOLDED. "MCLOUGHLIN BROS. INC. NEW YORK 1893".

History: DONOR HAD AS A CHILD, B. 1921 *UPDATE* IN 2010 NICOLE HEMBROFF TALKED WITH THE DONOR, DORIS SCHEIBNER, WITH REGARD TO HER DONATIONS. SEE BELOW. SCHEIBNER DID NOT REMEMBER HOW THE BOOK CAME INTO HER HOUSEHOLD. SHE READ THE BOOK IN SEDGEWICK, AB WHEN SHE WAS AROUND PRESCHOOL AGE. SHE, “IMAGINES THE BOOK WOULD HAVE BEEN WELL LOOKED AFTER TO LAST AS LONG AS IT DID.” THE BOOK WOULD HAVE BELONGED TO HER OLDER BROTHER BEFORE IT BECAME HERS. “IT WAS VERY WELL KEPT CONSIDERING SIX KIDS USED IT.” DORIS’ MOTHER READ THE BOOK TO ALL OF THE KIDS. THE BOOK WAS SPECIAL BECAUSE IT WAS ONE OF THE ONLY ONES THEY HAD. AFTER THE KIDS GREW OUT OF THE BOOK IT WAS PUT ASIDE. LATER, WHEN SCHEIBNER WAS MARRIED, SHE INHERITED THE BOOK FROM HER MOTHER. SHE READ THE BOOK TO HER KIDS, “BUT BY THEN BOOKS WERE A LOT MORE PLENTIFUL SO IT WASN'T AS SPECIAL.” THE BOOK WAS PUT INTO STORAGE WHEN SCHEIBNER’S CHILDREN GREW OUT OF IT. SHE SAID, “I WAS AFRAID THAT THE GRANDCHILDREN WOULD RIP IT APART. I THOUGHT IT WAS TOO VALUABLE FOR THAT.” SHE WANTED IT PRESERVED IF POSSIBLE SO SHE DONATED IT TO THE GALT. SEE P19880059010 FOR FAMILY HISTORY.