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Steps to Good English

1935

Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

2011.52.1a: Steps to Good English by Inez M. Ahles and Mary Lawlor. The seventh-grade level textbook/workbook is a brown, softcover book with a fabric tape spine. The front cover features a small graphic of a globe, an open book, and a feathered quill and inkwell inside a black rectangular box. Above is the title of the book in black and light-colored text that reads [STEPS TO GOOD / ENGLISH / Inez M. Ahles / and / Mary Lawler]. Below the graphic, are stepped green boxes resembling book spines with black text that reads [TESTS / SPELLING / LIBRARY INSTRUCTION / APPLIED GRAMMAR / WRITTEN EXPRESSION / VOCABULARY BUILDING / POETRY APPRECIATION / READING GOOD BOOKS / SILENT READING]. Text inside the black box in bottom right quadrant reads [TEXT / AND / WORKBOOK / Seventh Grade]. At the bottom is the publisher’s information in black text that reads [IROQUOIS ? PUBLISHING ? COMPANY].

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Catalog reference: 2011.12.52.1a-e

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