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    School copy book used by Hannah Amelia Lyons

    Printed by
    Price, Philip Jr., American
    Used by
    Lyons, Hannah Amelia, American
    Date
    1830-1836
    On View
    Concourse 3, C3 053
    Exhibition
    Slavery and Freedom
    Medium
    ink on paper, string
    Dimensions
    H x W: 13 x 8 in. (33 x 20.3 cm)
    Caption
    Hannah A. Lions’s School Copy Book, 1831
    Attending school in Philadelphia, Hannah Lions copied down her math, history, and poetry lessons in this notebook. Her family saved this book as "proof that there were some educated [black] people way back when."
    Source: Nancy Bercaw, Curator, Slavery and Freedom
    Description
    A school copy book printed by Philip Price in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and used by Hannah Amelia Lyons. The book has paper covers bound on the proper left side. A length of knotted pink string extends from the top edge of the binding, serving as a bookmark. Several engravings are printed on the front and back covers. On the front cover is a portrait of John Adams entitled "Late President of the United States," above an allegorical scene and space for the owner to sign the book, followed by the printer's name. The back cover has an image of an eagle flying over open waters between two ships and clasping a banner reading "SHIPPED" in its beak. Below the eagle is a floral sprig on the left and a grouping of masonic symbols on the right, with a thin scrollwork border below them. Below the border is a shield with an eagle inside it holding a banner reading "E Pluribus Unum". Below the shield are two separate allegorical scenes. The interior pages contain various school exercises including mathematics and poetry.
    Place printed
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
    Classification
    Documents and Published Materials
    Slavery and Freedom Objects
    Type
    workbooks
    Topic
    Caricature and cartoons
    Children
    Education
    Free communities of color
    U.S. History, 1815-1861
    Credit Line
    Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Hope Evans Boyd
    Object number
    2012.124.2
    Restrictions & Rights
    No Known Copyright Restrictions
    Usage
    CC0
    GUID
    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd59de47c7b-7578-47eb-99eb-960f8ab39d57