Rare Books
Harper's family library
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The best for family reading" Harper's magazine
Visual Materials
Image of an advertisement for Harper's periodicals featuring two young women, a seated young man, and an older man sitting in a chair outside on a patio together reading various issues of Harper's; the advertisement is for Harper's Magazine, Harper's Weekly, Harper's Bazar, and Harper's Round Table.
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Horse Library-Rohman - Warner Family
Manuscripts
mssLasker manuscripts and mssHM 68495-68513
Harper's Writing Books: Symmetrical Penmanship with Marginal Drawing Lessons, for Schools and Families
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One penmanship book entitled Harper's Writing Books: Symmetrical Penmanship with Marginal Drawing Lessons, for Schools and Families, published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1868. The subtitle reads: School and Family Series: Writing and Drawing, In Ten Numbers, Number 5. This penmanship practice book is 24 pages in length. Across the top of each page are the letters, phrases or sentences which are to be copied in the lined spaces below. Along the outer vertical margin of each page is a shaded block of figures and drawing exercises to be copied. On the front cover, the title surrounds several images and vignettes of people writing and drawing. The centered vignette shows three students seated at a table, writing. Instructional text, including specific directions for Book 5, are printed on the inside of the front cover, and continue on to the inside of the back cover. The back cover also features instructions for using and copying the additional exercises found in the margins of the book. None of the exercises have been completed.
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