Student penmanship and exercises workbooks, 1810s-1879
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Bound booklets, certificates, and a fragment, used by students or teachers to practice penmanship or other topics. Items include: Ladies' Angular Hand blue booklet, undated; Geographical Exercises workbook for Ribston Hall (student Annie Jones), Sept. 1867; stitched booklet with penmanship and artwork by Ruth Satterly, 1800s; Penmanship and writing book, 1879; Penmanship book (student Elizabeth Louisa Christopher), 1830; Betsey Rich's Book, including penmanship and awards for spelling, Charleston, 1813; Lucy Towne copybook with sonnets and poems, Bedford, Mass., 1810s; fragment on School Penmanship by Margaret T. Lewis, 1820 June 12; an Epitaph on Mrs Mason by Naomi S Crooker, Bridgewater Academy, approximately 1800s.
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