The Doings of the alphabet
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: McLoughlin Brothers
Published: 1896
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Children's poetry; Picture books for children; Country life; Juvenile poetry; Race; Ethnicity
Notes: An alphabet in verse. Includes a picture of men of various races and ethnic groups holding letters of the alphabet. This lithographed illustration is found in other McLoughlin titles issued between 1882 and 1889.

Lower cover bears a lithotint depicting two girls and one boy in winter dress. The fine reproductive quality of this lithotint and the chromolithograph on upper cover is characteristic of McLoughlin picture books issued roughly between 1885 and 1899.

Illustrations chromolithographed. One illustration signed by Justin H. Howard.

Title and imprint information from cover.

Date from inscription.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.