School copy book used by Hannah Amelia Lyons
- On View
- Slavery and Freedom Gallery
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- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Slavery and Freedom
- Printed by
- Price, Philip Jr., American
- Used by
- Lyons, Hannah Amelia, American
- Date
- 1830-1836
- Medium
- ink on paper with 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."
- Slavery and Freedom Exhibition
- 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, with inscriptions dating from 1830 to 1836. On the front cover, within a printed box at bottom center is "THE PROPERTY OF" with the signature [Hannah A. Lyons / 1832].
- Place printed
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Documents and Manuscripts
- Type
- workbooks
- 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
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.