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[Page from The New England Primer Improved, 1773, letters T through Z, illus.] – Antique Wall Art

[Page from The New England Primer Improved, 1773, letters T through Z, illus.] — historic print
[Page from The New England Primer Improved, 1773, letters T through Z, illus.]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Page from The New England Primer Improved, 1773, letters T through Z, illus.] comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Page from The New England Primer Improved, 1773, letters T through Z, illus.]

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Only the last seven letters of the alphabet appear on this leaf, T through Z, each set with a rhyme and a small illustration. The leaf comes from a 1773 edition of *The New England Primer Improved*, a schoolbook that generations of colonial and early American children learned to read from. Its alphabet verses blended letter sounds with moral and religious lessons, and the woodcut pictures helped young readers connect a letter with an image. Printed editions of the primer circulated in New England for more than a century, so this page reflects both a long-standing teaching tradition and the printing trade of its day.

Medium1 print.
Notes1773
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,145 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127373

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