School-Room Echoes (1892) – Hamlin E. Cogswell – Antique Public School Songbook – Theory Lessons, Patriotic & Devotional Songs

A  late-19th century American school music manual designed for Teachers’ Institutes and Public Schools, School-Room Echoes by Hamlin E. Cogswell (1892) reflects the educational and moral priorities of its era.

Published by The John Church Co. (Cincinnati, Chicago, and New York), this volume contains theory lessons, devotional and patriotic songs, instruction in keys and chromatic scale etc.
   

This offers insight into late-19th century when music instruction was closely tied to moral formation and civic identity.

Selections include An Evening Prayer, For Love’s Sweet Sake, The Merry Farmer Boy, List to the Convent Bells, and The Laugh of a Child.
 

Original printed wraps with cloth spine light surface rubbing, binding tight, interior clean with age toning. 

Condition: Very good for age. 

Size: 5 3/4” x 7 3/4”

An example of late 19th-century American classroom music culture.