A page from "The Pictorial Alphabet", McGuffey's Spelling Book. As America's best-selling schoolbook, McGuffey's Readers sold over 60 million readers and spellers from 1870 to 1890. The skills taught were strongly stressed in a semi-literate society.

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A page from "The Pictorial Alphabet", McGuffey's Spelling Book. As America's best-selling schoolbook, McGuffey's Readers sold over 60 million readers and spellers from 1870 to 1890. The skills taught were strongly stressed in a semi-literate society.

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