Rewards of Merit
Folder: Ephemera
Reward of Merit for Correct Deportment
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"Reward of Merit for Correct Deportment. To Martha E. D. Logan. From Mary E. Miller."
Cyanotype Woman with May 1908 Calendar
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Handwritten note on the other side of this calendar: "Ida Massimore. For faithful attendance at Sunday School. From your teacher, Mrs. E. W. Gregory."
Mrs. Gregory is wearing a cross necklace in the blue-tinted cyanotype photo on this calendar, which she used as an attendance reward for her Sunday school students.
Bank of Merit, 20 Shares of Stock
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A nineteenth-century reward of merit.
Bank of Merit
20 Shares of Stock to the Holder
God offers reward, my Teacher does the same--they both encourage me. I tried, and success crowned my efforts.
Harry Lightcap, Pupil. Benjamin Rich, Teacher.
20. XX.
Diligence Ticket
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A reward of merit dating to the early nineteenth century. According to Patricia Fenn and Alfred P. Malpa's book about Rewards of Merit (1994), pp. 205-6, Henry Dodd and James Stevenson, Jr., were in business together as printers in Salem, New York, from 1814 to 1831.
The "Betsy Bradley" listed on this Diligence Ticket may be the same "Elizabeth Bradley" who received a Reward of Merit for a Good Scholar, 1826 .
Diligence Ticket
To Betsy Bradley for diligence in study, is this certificate given.
E. Durham, Ins.
Dodd & Stevenson, Printers, Salem.
Reward of Merit for a Good Scholar, 1826
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An early nineteenth-century reward of merit .
The "Elizabeth Bradley" who received this reward of merit may be the same "Betsy Bradley" listed on a Diligence Ticket from the same time period.
Reward of Merit
This certifies that Elizabeth Bradl[ey] is a good scholar and merits much praise from her instructor Albert Caswell, Caldwell, March 18, 1826.
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