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Lesson 13 Document 5

TITLE:  The two paths--What will the girl become
CALL NUMBER:  Illus. in HQ31 .G44 [General Collections]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsca-02926 (scan from b&w copy photo in Publishing Office)
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SUMMARY:  Image of an African American girl of seven years old, flanked by two columns of illustrations showing on left: the girl reading bad literature, flirting, drinking with men, and as an outcast, and on right: the girl studying, in church, as a mother, and as a grandmother.
MEDIUM:  1 photomechanical print : halftone.
CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [1903]
NOTES: Illus. in: Golden thoughts on chastity and procreation / John William Gibson. Toronto, Ont., Naperville, Ill. : J. L. Nichols & co., [1903], between pp. 58 and 59.

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