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<I>Working with the Hands</I>
National Museum of African American History and Culture

<I>Working with the Hands</I>

Booker T. Washington, American, 1856 - 1915 · May 1904

ink on paper
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National Museum of African American History and Culture

A hardcover first edition of Working with the Hands, written by Booker T. Washington and illustrated by Frances Benjamin Johnston. The front cover is burgundy with gold silt lettering on the cover and spine. The title on the cover is centered at the top, reading [WORKING WITH HANDS / BOOKER T. WASHINGTON]. On the spine, the title is at the top, [WORKING / WITH THE HANDS / BOOKER T. / WASHINGTON] and the publisher is at the bottom, [DOUBLEDAY / PAGE & CO.]

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