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Gifts (The Negro American Series Book Two)

1938

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, 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.

Hardcover reader textbook from the Negro American Series by Emma E. Akin. The book has a red cloth cover with a black graphic illustration and black text. Standing next to the printed title and author text is the silhouetted figure of a conductor holding a baton. In the background is another figure seated at a piano with six additional figures standing in front of an arched window. The interior has 184 pages with black text printed on off white paper and includes illustrations and black-and-white photographs throughout. The front endpapers have two stamps noting the book once belonged to the Cullman County School Library in Cullman County Alabama.

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Catalog reference: 2012.145.1

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