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Scissors
1920-1930



Credits:
Aurora Historical Society

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Dressmaker's gauge
1915



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Aurora Historical Society

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'Witch' Needle Threader
1950
Germany


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Aurora Historical Society

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Other indoor leisure activities included letter writing and reading books from their extensive library located in the study.

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Ink Well
Circa 1890-1900



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Aurora Historical Society

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Robert Michael Hillary's journal
1928
The Brown Brothers Limited Manufacturing Stationers, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


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Aurora Historical Society

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Children's Literature

The selection of books in the collection that were owned by Hillary children is representative of a change in children's literature that took place in the 19th century. From texts that were didactic and instructional, books now became those which respected a child's imagination and valued the idea of 'childhood'.

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Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth
1900
Macmillan and Co. Limited, London, England


Credits:
Aurora Historical Society

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A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
1902
Henry Altemus Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Credits:
Aurora Historical Society