History Kids Summer: A Day At The Printers - Illustrating Life In The 1830s

HOWELL – History Kids Club is an interactive program that invites children and young adults, ages 5 to 12, into the Historic Village at Allaire to experience history first hand.

Club members learn all about what it meant to live and work in an industrial village like the Howell Iron works in the 1830s by participating in hands-on activities.

August is History Kids Month! Join the corps of junior historians every Friday afternoon for an adventure into the past. This year, History Kids Month has joined forces with New Jersey’s Summer Reading Program to explore a fun and fabulous theme – books!

Every weekend we’ll learn a new and exciting skill required to create your own book using 19th-century materials and techniques. Follow along with our program from start to finish and by the end of the month you’ll have created and filled your own book from scratch!

A Day at the Printers: Illustrating Life in the 1830s

Have you ever looked very closely at an illustration made in the 19th century? If not, it’s time to get out your magnifying glass and get started! How did printers reproduce the same pages and the pictures hundreds to thousands of times?

In the 1830s, folks relied on printers to create books, pamphlets, flyers, and other important documents with pictures in them that folks could interpret – even if they couldn’t read.

During this session of History Kids Month the junior historians will be learning all about how folks developed and reproduced pictures in the early American era!

After stopping in at the Row Home to inspect prints in a household and visiting our archival collections in the Village Library, we’ll try our hand at creating our own prints using the same techniques that folks did in the 1830s! By the end of this session, you’ll have three quarters of an entire book!

Adults will have their own fun as they join attendees in our activities. Auspicious inks for sharp eyes, runs on August 18 from 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Tickets cost $10 per child and are non-refundable. Space is limited and Takehome Kits are not available during History Kids Month, so be sure to book your place now! Tickets can be purchased at eventbrite.com/o/the-historic-village-atallaire-13446907031.