<I>Steps to Good English</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1935
name: label: Written by
content: Inez Margaret Ahles
label: Written by
content: Mary Lawlor
label: Published by
content: Iroquois Publishing Company, Inc., American
label: Subject of
content: Rock Rest Tourist Home, American, 1948 - 1976
label: Owned by
content: Clayton Sinclair, American
label: Owned by
content: Hazel Sinclair, American
notes: label: Description
content: 2011.52.1a: Steps to Good English by Inez M. Ahles and Mary Lawlor. The seventh-grade level textbook/workbook is a brown, softcover book with a fabric tape spine. The front cover features a small graphic of a globe, an open book, and a feathered quill and inkwell inside a black rectangular box. Above is the title of the book in black and light-colored text that reads [STEPS TO GOOD / ENGLISH / Inez M. Ahles / and / Mary Lawler]. Below the graphic, are stepped green boxes resembling book spines with black text that reads [TESTS / SPELLING / LIBRARY INSTRUCTION / APPLIED GRAMMAR / WRITTEN EXPRESSION / VOCABULARY BUILDING / POETRY APPRECIATION / READING GOOD BOOKS / SILENT READING]. Text inside the black box in bottom right quadrant reads [TEXT / AND / WORKBOOK / Seventh Grade]. At the bottom is the publisher’s information in black text that reads [IROQUOIS ? PUBLISHING ? COMPANY]. The back cover of the book has a small box with black text that reads [JUST PUBLISHED / This Book is Presented / to your School System / FOR EXAMINATION / by the Teachers and Super- / visors of English in the / Seventh Grade]. The interior pages are white with black-and-white photographs and fillable exercises. The book is divided into two parts, both with thirteen units covering topics such as reading, parts of speech, composition, writing, reading, speaking, grammar, spelling, and common errors. Also included are drills and a fillable sheet for [Books I Have Read This Year]. The book is two-hole punched through each page and both covers. The interior pages are also perforated near the spine. The book has 248 pages and is in mostly unused condition. Pages 80-81 have been partially severed along the perforation line but are still joined at the top. There are four, fully, detached pages: 11-12 (2011.52.1b), 13-14 (2011.52.1c), 15-16 (2011.52.1d), and 17-18 (2011.52.1e).
label: Description
content: 2011.52.1b: Detached pages 11-12 from Steps to Good English by Inez M. Ahles and Mary Lawlor. The pages are printed on a single sheet of white paper with black text and lines. The pages are from [UNIT TWO, RECOGNIZING AND USING SENTENCES]. Printed at the top is an explanation of what is a sentence and provides several examples below. At the bottom of the page are fillable lines for [Name], [Class], and [Date]. Towards the bottom of page 11 and continuing on the top of page 12 is exercise I which includes 15 groups of words next to fillable lines. Each line has been filled in with pencil text with [NS] or [S]. Below exercise I on page 12 are exercises II-IV. These exercises are blank. The page is two-hole punched.
label: Description
content: 2011.52.1c: Detached pages 13-14 from Steps to Good English by Inez M. Ahles and Mary Lawlor. The pages are printed on a single sheet of white paper with black text and lines. The pages are from Unit Two: [COMPLETE SUBJECT AND COMPLETE PREDICATE]. At the top of page 13 is an explanation of what is a subject and a predicate and then provides several examples highlighting both below. Some of the words have been underlined and double underlined with pencil marks. At the bottom of the page are fillable lines for [Name], [Class], and [Date]. On page 14 are exercises I-III. With the exception of underline marks on question 1 of exercise I, the page is blank. The page is two-hole punched.
label: Description
content: 2011.52.1d: Detached pages 15-16 from Steps to Good English by Inez M. Ahles and Mary Lawlor. The pages are printed on a single sheet of white paper with black text and lines. The pages are from Unit Two: [SIMPLE SUBJECT AND SIMPLE PREDICATE]. At the top of page 15 is an explanation of simple subjects and simple predicates followed by exercises I and II. At the bottom of the page are fillable lines for [Name], [Class], and [Date]. Page 16 features [A TEST IN RECOGNIZING DIFFERENT PARTS OF A SENTENCE]. The test includes 24 sentences with fillable lines next to them for the test taker to record the simple subject and simple predicate. The page is two-hole punched.
label: Description
content: 2011.52.1e: Detached pages 17-18 from Steps to Good English by Inez M. Ahles and Mary Lawlor. The pages are printed on a single sheet of white paper with black text and lines. The pages are from Unit Two: [KINDS OF SENTENCES]. At the top of page 17 is an explanation of the four types of sentences: declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory. At the bottom of the page are fillable lines for [Name], [Class], and [Date]. On page 18 are exercises I-III, which are all blank. Printed at the bottom of the page is printed text that reads [For additional drill, see page 227.]. The page is two-hole punched.
place: label: Place collected
content: Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America
label: Place printed
content: Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Black Enterprise
label: Topic
content: Black interiors
label: Topic
content: Children
label: Topic
content: Education
label: Topic
content: Segregation
label: Topic
content: Travel
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: The Rock Rest Tourist Home Collection
label: Classification
content: Books and Published Materials
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2011.12.52.1a-e
objectType: label: Type
content: textbooks
label: Type
content: paperbacks
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper (fiber product) with tape on cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (2011.12.52.1a): 10 1/2 × 8 3/16 × 1/2 in. (26.7 × 20.8 × 1.3 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (2011.12.52.1b): 10 1/2 × 8 3/16 × 1/16 in. (26.7 × 20.8 × 0.1 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (2011.12.52.1c): 10 1/2 × 8 3/16 × 1/16 in. (26.7 × 20.8 × 0.1 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (2011.12.52.1d): 10 1/2 × 8 3/16 × 1/16 in. (26.7 × 20.8 × 0.1 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (2011.12.52.1e): 10 1/2 × 8 3/16 × 1/16 in. (26.7 × 20.8 × 0.1 cm)