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Original acrostics : on some of the states and presidents of the United States, and various other subjects, religious, political and personal : illustrated with fifty engravings / by Robert Blackwell.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blackwell, Robert, active 1861, author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Acrostics--Juvenile poetry.
- Acrostics.
- Presidents--Juvenile poetry.
- Presidents.
- Generals--Juvenile poetry.
- Generals.
- Explorers--Juvenile poetry.
- Explorers.
- Christian life--Juvenile poetry.
- Christian life.
- Children--Conduct of life--Juvenile poetry.
- Children.
- Conduct of life--Juvenile poetry.
- Conduct of life.
- Children's poetry.
- History.
- Children--Conduct of life.
- United States--History--Juvenile poetry.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--Juvenile literature.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (108 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : [publisher not identified], 1871.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This collection of acrostics teaches children about states, American Presidents (through James Buchanan), prominent generals, explorers and other notable figures and events in American history. Moral lessons appear on several pages in various forms.
- Notes:
- "Published for the author."
- Includes index.
- Illustrations engraved by Treadwell.
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- OCLC:
- 159934591
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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