"People Who Work for Us", by Mae McCrory, is "Little Wonder Book No 214. It is a nifty photo-essay about how people in the community work for the family. The book was published in 1939, issued by the Charles E. Merrill Company.

It's a sweet little book,and the photographs are excellent, capturing, as they do, the reality of all the people in day to day living that work for the family. The photographs depict a family with a mother, father and two children Jean and Buddy as they go through their day to day routines and work on building a new house for their family. The workers that are portrayed are Many People Help to Build the House, The Movers, The Playhouse Builders, The School Policeman, The Safety Game, The Firemen, The Baker, The Grocer, The Milkman, The Postman, Newspaper Carrier, Men Clean the Streets, Other Workers, People Who Help us Travel.

SERIES : Little Wonder book (No 214)

TITLE : People Who Work for Us

AUTHOR : Mae McCrory (Editor of "My Weekly Reader")

IMPRINT : Charles E. Merrill (Affiliated with American Education Press)

PLACE : Columbus, Ohio

DATE : (1939)

EDITION : First

STATUS : OP — Out of Print

Photo - Illustrated Paperback; contains numerous black-and-white photographs; 32 pages photo-pictorial, stapled wraps printed in black and red. Text and photographs are printed within simple ornamental borders printed in red.

CONDITION ... This is a previously owned book which remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted:

EXTERIOR — Mild surface rub; slight bumps to corner tips; creasing to corners; spine fold is rubbed. Displays nicely.

BINDING — The book is not as tight as when issued, but no leaves are detached or loose, the staples holding firmly.

INTERIOR — Softly bumped top corner tips throughout, top left hand corner of pages have wavy effect from apparent water damage, photos and text are clean and unmarked. Some off smell to the pages upon opening. There is a name tag affixed on the back inside cover Rosalyn C. Bauerle Route 1 Dewitt, Michigan

Dimensions:

5 1/4" x 8 1/4"