Alphabet Flash Cards using Hotch Potch characters. Colonial Williamsburg. Bowles

Description

How did children in the eighteenth century learn their alphabet? Maybe they used flash cards like these, published by Carington Bowles in 1782.
These are described as "jovial Hotch Potch characters contorting themselves into letters".
This deck was created by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in 1995.
It is a complete set, and some quick pictures were taken to provide an idea of what these amusing cards and captions are like.
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