Digitized selections from the collection avaliable on the University of Florida Digital Collections webpage at: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/UFDC.aspx?c=juv.

A collection of 19th century children's fiction and nonfiction on education and upbringing, family and gender roles, civic values, racial, religious, and moral attitudes, literary style and format, and the arts of illustration and book design. The majority of monograph titles date from 1850 to 1869.

A selection of these books have also been digitized and are part of the Children's Literature Collection of the Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM) Project of the State University System Digital Library of Florida and are available online at http://palmm.fcla.edu/juv/

The original microfilming was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of a grant "Preservation and access for American and British Children's Literature 1850-1869."