New GALILEO database: Children's Literature and Culture

The new GALILEO database, Children’s Literature and Culture, contains more than 8,600 digitized items produced for, about, and in some cases, by children and youth in the decades between the 1810s and the 1920s, a key period in the history of juvenile culture.

The focus is primarily on American literature and culture, especially items published by McLoughlin Bros., but selected titles from European publishers are also included. The collection spans a range of genres of literature for children, from early forms of devotional and instructional primers through illustrated rhymes, tales, stories, novels, and picture books.