My grandfather’s textbooks

This is the continuation of a mini-section on the site featuring, and making jokes about, the illustrations in some of my grandfather’s old tomes.

Aubra Books

This isn’t really a glimpse into what an elementary student in rural Alabama learned in the 1940s, but just a good excuse to show reprints of watercolors. Here are the next two pages from a text on science. You can see the beginning of that book here. Go here to see selections from his literature book.

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