Phoenician 1921
by Phoenix Union High School
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- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Phoenix: Phoenix Union High School, 1921. Quarto. 196 pages. The growing student body now is involved not only in far more sporting events but producing plays. Page 88ff show the Department for Colored children where a class of thirty-four African American children are taught separately with three seniors graduating. James Benton signed under his photograph. There are several other autographs throughout. He is listed as member of the Latin club and playing basketball but this was probably restrict to other African Americans in his rather small class. The Arizona Republican of May 21, 1921 proudly noted there were three "colored" graduating whereas the highest number in previous years was one. Bound in brown pictorial wraps with yapped edges, lettered and decorated in gilt, short tears or small chips to edges.
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025218
- Title
- Phoenician 1921
- Author
- Phoenix Union High School
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Phoenix Union High School
- Place of Publication
- Phoenix
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- School Autographs Children Black History Phoenix Arizona
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arizona; Black History;
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Scottsdale, Arizona
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Pictorial Wraps
- Pictorial wraps are color illustrated covers for paperback books. Preceding mass-market paperbacks, this format brought popular...