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Aims and aids for girls and young women, on the various duties of life, : including physical, intellectual, and moral development; self-culture, improvement, dress, beauty, fashion, employment, education, the home relations, their duties to young men, marriage, womanhood and happiness

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1857..
Call number: 648472
Creator: Weaver, G. S (1818-1908)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of The Longo Family Trust, Lawrence D. and Betty Jeanne Longo, Trustees, 2015. Manuscript inscription to "Mary Elizabeth Walther Chrestinsan by her mother Stella Love Walther, 1934".
Dimensions: 19 cm
Associated people: Longo, Lawrence D.,; Longo, Betty Jeanne,
Associated organization: Fowler & Wells,
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