Three Billy Goats No. 523

Name/Title

Three Billy Goats No. 523

Entry/Object ID

63.23.13

Description

Three Billy Goats Book. Material: paper. Size: 5 1/2" x 7 1/2". Description: paper, textile "Linenett" nursery rhyme book, "Three Billy Goats" with colored illustrations, published by the Samuel Gabriel Sons & Co., which was founded in 1907, selling paper novelties and publishing children's books. The company was bou+-ght by American Colortype in the 1930s.

Context

These cloth story books were kept by the donor's Gigeay grandparents in a bookcase on their front porch at 300 5th Street S. E. They belonged to the donor's uncles, Jim and Bob Gigeay. The donor and her sisters played library with them using the ink pad and stamper their grandfather had used when he was a conductor in the Chicago & Northwestern (C & NW) Railroad passenger service; hence the reason for all of the date stamps on the book.

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Book, Three Billy Goats

Book Details

Publisher

Samuel Gabriel Sons & Co.

Date Published

1939

Create Date

January 11, 2024

Update Date

September 19, 2024