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Ideals and Adventures (The Negro American Series Book Four)

1938

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Hardcover school book by Emma E. Akin titled Ideals and Adventures. The book has a green cloth cover with a black graphic on the cover and black text. The graphic occupies the upper three quarters of the cover. It shows an open book with different figures coming out of each page. They include a male painter, a woman wearing a shawl, a man poised to throw something, a woman holding an alphabet instruction book, a little girl, and a couple. Underneath the image is the title and author’s name. Handwritten in blue pencil on the front free endpaper is “Dup.” The book has 251 pages.

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Catalog reference: 2012.145.2

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