Diana Korzenik Collection of Art Education Ephemera and Books: Finding Aid
ephKAEE
Finding aid prepared by Diann Benti and Charla DelaCuadra.
The Huntington Library
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Finding aid last updated on April 5, 2022, by Maggie Hughes.
Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Diana Korzenik collection of art education ephemera and books
Creator:
Korzenik, Diana, 1941-
Identifier/Call Number: ephKAEE
Physical Description:
134.1 Linear Feet
(approximately 700 items in 112 boxes)
Date (inclusive): Approximately 1780-1982
Date (bulk): 1850-1940
Abstract: A collection of art education materials
representing the evolution of art education in America, compiled by Massachusetts professor
Diana Korzenik, and composed of instructional materials (e.g. art instruction manuals, art
reproductions, drawing books, drawing cards, painting books, penmanship books, etc.),
objects (e.g. boxed painting sets, drawing slates, models, drawing desks, colored pencils,
crayons, paint, etc.) and non-instructional materials (e.g. promotional materials,
scrapbooks, coursework by Korzenik's students, catalogs, etc.)
Language of Material: English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Diana Korzenik collection of art education ephemera and books,
The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Diana Korzenik, 1997. Box 15, Envelope 9-10, transferred from Huntington Art
Reference Library, May 2000. Box 31, Envelope 18, purchased from Mike Kaplan, October
2000.
Custodial History
The collection was assembled by Diana Korzenik over a period of nearly three decades. With
the exception of the Mabel Spofford archive, which she purchased as a whole, Korzenik
pursued each item individually with the aim of assembling frequently overlooked and
misunderstood material. Korzenik utilized many items from the collection in her professional
activities, including teaching and writing.
Processing Information
In 1999/2000, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funded a grant to catalog,
digitize, and preserve the Diana Korzenik Collection.
This collection was organized into ephemera and book collections.
Biographical / Historical
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Diana Korzenik (born 1941) attended Vassar College and then
transferred to Oberlin College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history.
After studying art history at Columbia University, she taught in Harlem for five years
before entering the Harvard Graduate School of Education to study under Rudolf Arnheim. In
1972 Korzenik received her EdD from Harvard, and began teaching at the Massachusetts College
of Art in Boston shortly thereafter. In Boston she began the flea market visits that started
her collection of art education books and ephemera. She went on to serve as professor and
chairperson of the Art Education Department at Massachusetts College of Art for many years,
as well as course instructor at Harvard University. Publications include
Drawn to
Art: A Nineteenth-Century American Dream
(1985),
Art Making and
Education
(with Maurice Brown, 1993),
Objects of American Art Education:
Highlights from the Diana Korzenik Collection
(2004), and "The Myth of the Self
Taught" in
Grandma Moses : American Modern (2016), as well as several other
books and articles.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains approximately 700 pieces of ephemera that along with more than 500
separately cataloged books form the Diana Korzenik Collection of Art Education representing
the evolution of art education in the United States from mainly 1800 to 1950. An archive
reflecting specific techniques and values employed in the education of children and budding
artists of all ages during this period, the collection was compiled by Massachusetts
professor Diana Korzenik, and the ephemera includes 178 pamphlets, 40 serial titles, 277
coloring and drawing books, and over 200 artifacts such as wooden and metallic paint boxes,
tracing slates, stencil kits, geometric wooden blocks, chromolithographed scenes for
copying, sketchbooks, crayons, and posable wooden mannequins. In addition to actual
artifacts used by students, the collection also includes theoretical and instructional books
aimed at art educators, policymakers, and parents. Many of the items demonstrate more
traditional ways in which art has been taught in schools and homes, including the copying,
tracing and stenciling of prepared images, the composing of original images, and the
filling-in of outlined pre-defined images.
The ephemera is subdivided by series:
- Series I: Instruction materials consisting of materials clearly used for didactic
purposes, such as painting or penmanship books.
- Series II: Non-instructional materials such as student drawings, commercial catalogs,
and material chiefly collected by Mabel Spofford, an art supervisor for Gloucester,
Massachusetts, public schools in the mid-twentieth century. The wide variety of art
education ephemera amassed by Spofford includes art educators' meeting notes, bulletins,
summer school announcements, sample art projects, and other items reflective of her
professional interests.
- Series III: Objects consisting of three-dimensional artifacts that would have been
used for art-making purposes including raw material such as paint and pencils, and devices
such as drawing slates.
Among the oldest items in the collection is a Thomas Reeves and Sons watercolor paint set
(Box 75, Set 05) dating from 1781. The collection spans over 200 years, with the most recent
item being a copy of Some Events in the Life of Walter Smith (Box 22 Evelope 26) from
1982.
Related materials in the Huntington Library
- More than 500 books in the Diana Korzenik Collection of Art Education have been
cataloged separated and can be retrieved by doing a title search for "Diana Korzenik
collection of art education ephemera and books" in the
Huntington
Library Online Catalog
-
Diana Korzenik Collection of Research Cards
- Huntington Library Louis Prang Collection
-
Jay T. Last Collection of Education Prints and Ephemera
-
Jay T. Last Collection of Printing and Publishing: Louis Prang
Archive
Related materials in other institutions
- American Antiquarian Society: Diana Korzenik Drawn to Art archive (prints, drawings,
and paintings)
- New Hampshire Historical Society: Diana Korzenik Drawn to Art book production
documents (research notes, manuscript drafts, photographs and interviews)
- Massachusetts College of Art Library Archives: Diana Korzenik Drawn to Art Fruitlands
Museums exhibition documents and objects
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in the following 3 series:
- Series I. Instructional Materials
- Subseries A. Art Instruction Books
- Subseries B. Art Reproductions
- Subseries C. Cards
- Subseries D. Charts/Posters
- Subseries E. Correspondence Courses
- Subseries F. Drawing Books
- Subseries G. Drawing Cards
- Subseries H. Flyers and Magazine Excerpts
- Subseries I. Miscellaneous Pamphlets and Books
- Subseries J. Miscellaneous Periodicals
- Subseries K. Painting and Coloring Books
- Subseries L. Pattern Books
- Subseries M. Penmanship Books
- Subseries M. Prints
- Subseries N. Puppetry
- Subseries O. Tracing Books
- Series II. Non-Instructional Materials
- Subseries A. Catalogs
- Subseries B. Mabel Spofford: Artwork and Notes
- Subseries C: Non-Art Related: Miscellaneous
- Subseries D. Promotional: Art Supplies
- Subseries E. Promotional: Institutes, schools, courses, etc.
- Subseries F. Promotional: Instructional books, textbooks, and magazines
- Subseries G. Promotional: Pictures
- Subseries H. Ralph M. Pearson materials
- Subseries I: Rewards of Merit and Certificates
- Subseries J. Scrapbooks
- Subseries K. Student Drawings and Paintings
- Subseries L. Graduate Student Papers from various courses taught by Diana
Korzenik
- Series III. Objects
- Subseries A. Boxed Painting Sets
- Subseries B. Boxed Sewing Cards Sets
- Subseries C. Boxed Stencil Sets
- Subseries D. Boxed Weaving Sets
- Subseries E. Chalk
- Subseries F. Charcoal
- Subseries G. Clay
- Subseries H. Colored Paper
- Subseries I. Colored Pencils
- Subseries J. Crayons
- Subseries K. Decals
- Subseries L. Drawing Desks
- Subseries M. Drawing Slates
- Subseries N. Dyes
- Subseries O. Erasers
- Subseries P. Ink
- Subseries Q. Models: Paper
- Subseries R. Models: Plaster
- Subseries S. Models: Wood
- Subseries T. Object Cards
- Subseries U. Paints
- Subseries V. Pegs and Peg Boards
- Subseries W. Pencil Boxes
- Subseries X. Pencils
- Subseries Y. Tools
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Art -- Study and teaching.
Art -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 19th
century
Art -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 20th
century
Art -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals.
Art teachers -- Massachusetts -- Archives
Artists' materials.
Artists' tools.
Crayons.
Copying -- Study and teaching.
Copying -- Technique.
Decorative arts -- Technique.
Decorative arts -- Study and teaching.
Drawing -- Study and teaching.
Drawing -- Technique.
Painting -- Study and teaching.
Painting -- Technique.
Penmanship -- Study and teaching.
Penmanship -- Technique.
Stencil work -- Technique.
Teaching -- Aids and devices.
Weaving -- Technique.
Artists' materials
Boxes (containers)
Catalogs
Cards
Chalk
Charcoal
Clay
Colored pencils
Copybooks
Crayons
Decals
Drawings
Engravings
Gameboards (board game elements)
Lay figures
Paint
Paintings
Pamphlets
Pattern books
Pegs
Pencils
Picture books
Pigment
Plaster
Prints
Rewards of merit
Scrapbooks
Slate
Solids (geometric)
Stencils (images)
Stencils (tools)
Student drawings
Study models
Tools
Tracings
Trade cards
Watercolors
Weaving
Wood blocks
Korzenik, Diana, 1941- -- Art
collections.
Korzenik, Diana, 1941- -- Private
collections.
Pearson, Ralph M.,
1883-1958
Smith, Walter,
1836-1886
Spofford, Mabel --
Archives
Chautauqua Institution.
Korzenik, Diana, 1941- former owner.
Spofford, Mabel, artist.
Spofford, Mabel, former owner.
Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879, artist.
Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot),
1805-1877, artist.
Bartholomew, William N. (William Newton),
1822-1898, artist.
Bartholomew, William N. (William Newton),
1822-1898 Bartholomew's drawing book.
Bartholomew, William N. (William Newton),
1822-1898 Bartholomew's national system of industrial drawing.
Bethune, George W. (George Washington), 1805-1862
Prospects of art in the United States.
Bush, Elmer Ellsworth, editor. Industrial and
applied art books.
Campana, D. M. (Domenic Mathews), 1871- Teacher
of oil painting and tapestry.
Coe, Benjamin H. (Benjamin Hutchins), 1799-1883,
artist.
Coe, E. M. (Emily M.), artist.
Croasdale, Elizabeth. Easy drawing lessons for
blackboard or slate.
Cross, Anson K. (Anson Kent), 1862-1944,
designer.
Farley, D. H. (Dickerson H.), 1846- Normal review
system of writing.
French, Thomas Ewing, 1871-1944 Lessons in
lettering.
Harn, O. C. (Orlando Clinton), 1871-1955 Dutch
Boy in story land.
Harn, O. C. (Orlando Clinton), 1871-1955 Dutch
Boy's jingle paint book.
Harn, O. C. (Orlando Clinton), 1871-1955 Dutch
Boy's lead party.
Herric, Pru, artist. Flowers, a paint
book.
Hildreth, Ellen Stephens. Clay modeling in the
school room.
Hodgman, Carolyn S., artist.
Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.), publisher. Hull-House
year book, forty-second year.
Jacobs, Harry Wallingford, 1885- Drawing teacher
: a Little folder of teaching projects for the art teacher.
Johnson, Walter R. (Walter Rogers), 1794-1852
Lecture on the importance of linear drawing, and on the methods of teaching the art in
common schools and other seminaries.
Kemble, Marion. Introductory lessons in drawing
and painting in water-colors.
Kerr, Rose Netzorg, 1892-1974 Design in dark and
light.
Knudsen, Carl Wilhelm, 1818-1894 Knudsen's method
of drawing instruction for schools.
Lemos, Pedro J.
Morgan, Lucius B. Grammar school drawing cards,
of elementary design.
Munsell, A. H. (Albert Henry), 1858-1918 Munsell
color system.
Nutting, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1803?-1887,
artist.
Palmer, A. N. (Austin Norman), 1859-1927 Advanced
edition of the Palmer method of business writing.
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894
Identification of the artisan and artist: the proper object of American
education.
Pearson, Ralph M., 1883-1958
Price, Charles Matlack.
Purcell, Edward B.
Riker, John C., publisher.
Sarg, Tony, 1882-1942, artist.
Schuster, Sigismond, 1807- artist. Systematic
drawing cards for schools
Seiss, Joseph A. (Joseph Augustus), 1823-1904
Arts of design.
Shaw, Ruth Faison, 1887-1969, artist.
Smith, Walter, 1836-1886, artist.
Smith, Walter, 1836-1886
Thompson, Langdon S. (Langdon Shook), 1838- Some
reasons why drawing should be taught in our common schools.
Welby, Edward. Welby's book of alphabets : for
ornamental penmen, professional letterers, and students, with practical directions for
lettering, illuminating, etc ...
Wetherbee, F. I. (Frank Irving), 1869-
Wise, Marjorie. On the technique of manuscript
writing.
Wright, Wynna, artist.
A.S. Barnes & Co. Barnes' national system of
penmanship.
American Crayon Company, publisher.
Atkinson, Mentzer & Company,
publisher.
Binney & Smith Co., publisher.
C.I. Hood & Co. (Lowell, Mass.), publisher.
Hood's sarsaparilla painting book.
Charles E. Graham & Co.,
publisher.
Chautauqua Institution.
D. Appleton and Company, publisher.
D. Lothrop & Company, publisher.
Eberhard Faber Pencil Company,
manufacturer.
F.W. Devoe & C.T. Raynolds Company,
manufacturer.
Faber-Castell (Firm), manufacturer.
George Rowney and Co., publisher.
Ginn and Company, manufacturer.
Grout & Putnam, publisher. Grammar School
Drawing Cards of Elementary Design.
Harper & Brothers, publisher. Harper's
writing books : symmetrical penmanship with marginal drawing lessons for schools and
families.
Ivison & Phinney, publisher. Systematic
Drawing Cards for Schools, with Instructions.
Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co,
publisher.
J.L. Hammett Co., manufacturer.
J.W. Schermerhorn & Co.,
manufacturer.
James R. Osgood and Company,
publisher.
Joseph Dixon Crucible Company,
manufacturer.
Koh-i-noor Hardtmuth AG, manufacturer.
L. Prang & Co., publisher.
Little, Brown and Company, publisher. Finger
Painting: A Perfect Medium for Self Expression.
M.A. Donohue & Co., publisher.
McLoughlin Bros., publisher.
Milton Bradley & Co.,
manufacturer.
Milton Bradley & Co., publisher.
National Lead Company, publisher.
P.P. Caproni & Brother,
manufacturer.
Perry Pictures Company, publisher.
Prang Company, publisher.
Prang Educational Company, publisher.
Raphael Tuck & Sons, publisher.
Saalfield Pub. Co., publisher.
Saml. Gabriel Sons & Company,
publisher.
Stecher Litho. Co., publisher.
Transogram Company, manufacturer.
Wadsworth, Howland & Co.,
manufacturer.
Weber Costello Company, manufacturer.
Whitman Publishing Company, publisher.
William Dixon, Inc., publisher.
Winsor & Newton, manufacturer.
Series I. Instructional Materials
Subseries A. Art Instruction Books.
1875-1947
Box 22, Envelope 02
Industrial Drawing in Public Schools: A Course of Three Lectures Addressed
to the Principals and Teachers of the Primary, Grammar, and High Schools of the City
of Boston.
1875
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 54-page pamphlet by Walter Smith, published by L. Prang and Company, Boston.
This book is divided into 3 sections by school levels. Each section addresses issues
relevant to the teaching of drawing and industrial drawing in the schools. A few
white-on-black reproductions of drawing cards from the Smith system are included in
the book.
Box 8, Envelope 01
Clay Modeling in the School Room.
1892
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 76-page art instruction book by Ellen Stephens Hildreth, published by Milton
Bradley & Co., Springfield, Massachusetts. The book is an instructional guide
for teachers, meant for use in kindergarten and primary school classrooms. It
provides general instructions for clay modeling, and features simple to more complex
creations using solid forms of clay. The book is divided into seven series: sphere,
oblate spheroid, prolate speroid, ovoid, cone, cylinder and cube.
Box 4, Envelope 15
Illustrative Blackboard Sketching.
1894
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 53-page drawing instruction book by W. Bertha Hintz, published by E.L. Kellogg
& Co., New York. This book is comprised of 10 lessons, with text and
black-and-white illustrations, that address various shapes and views that teachers
should master in order to be most effective using the blackboard for visual
purposes.
Box 4, Envelope 14
Art & Decoration in Crepe & Tissue Paper.
Approximately 1895
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 88-page instructional book/catalog published by Dennison Mfg. Co., Boston,
Massachusetts. This instructional catalog contains illustrated and textual
instructions for creating lampshades, candle shades, flowers, doll dresses, picture
frames and dinner napkins, as well as supplies needed for each project, with prices.
Also included are tissue paper samples, with the company's full range of colors
(mounted to page 3), and a listing of the company's colored crepe paper in stock.
The illustrated front cover features a lamp with an elaborate lampshade made from
crepe paper.
Box 4, Envelope 16
How to Use Plasticine as a Home Amusement.
1908
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 68-page booklet compiled and published by the Embossing Company, Albany, New
York. This pamphlet is divided into four sections: Suggestions for Beginners; The
'Designer' Box; The 'Add-a-Bit Game'; and The 'Builder' Box. Each section provides
visual and textual instructions for building and creating arts and crafts scenes,
objects, etc. with Harbutt's Plasticine. Some suggested projects include animals,
people, diorama scenes, houses, and other buildings.
Box 13, Envelope 01
Home Sphere of Child Life.
1913
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 96-page instruction book published by Lewis E. Myers & Company, Chautauqua
Park, Valparaiso, Indiana, designed for use in the home with the Chautauqua
Combination Drawing Board and Writing Desk. The cover title is "Child Life." Some of
the activities include drawing, clay modeling, paper cutting, stenciling and
weaving; many of the activities are seasonal.
Box 13, Envelope 02
The Home Teacher: Explaining by word and illustration the source pictures
of vocations comprised in the Chautauqua Industrial Art Desk.
1913
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 126-page instructional book about the Chautauqua Desk published by Lewis E.
Myers & Company, Chautauqua Park, Valparaiso, Indiana. Included are
testimonials, a brief history of the company, and a wide variety of projects,
activities and skills that can be acquired using the Chautauqua desk. Some of these
include: writing shorthand; bookkeeping for business; industrial drawing, and
portrait and landscape drawing.
Box 8, Envelope 04-11
Industrial Art Text Books: A graded course in art in its relation to
industry, Parts 1-8.
1915-1917
Online items
Scope and Contents
Eight-part set of books by Bonnie E. Snow and Hugo B. Froehlich, published by The
Prang Company, New York, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta and Dallas, copyright 1915-1917.
Each part is approximately 72 pages in length, and range from relatively simple
crafts and projects to considerably more complex projects. "Mabel Spofford"
handwritten on covers.
Box 7, Envelope 02
Art in Dress with Notes on Home Decoration [second edition].
1917
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 46-page instructional book by Lydia Bolmar and Kathleen McNutt, published by
Manual Arts Press, Peoria, Illinois, addressing issues such as basic principles of
design and arrangement, dress and its relation to the wearer, color, and home
decoration. "Mabel Spofford" handwritten on cover. Laid in is the February 1916
issue (single sheet, double sided) of
The Applied Arts Bulletin.
Box 42, Envelope 18
Sketching Methods.
1917
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 52-page book by W.C. Sweeney, published by the Government Printing Office,
Washington, [D.C]. Intended for military purposes, some of the topics addressed are:
classification of sketches, scales, horizontal detail, vertical detail, notes for
field work, outpost sketch, road sketch and reconnaissance sketches. There are a few
line-drawing illustrations. "Edited at The Army War College, October, 1917" is
printed on the front cover.
Box 3, Envelope 01-08
Industrial and Applied Art Books.
Approximately 1920
Online items
Scope and Contents
Eight approximately 48-page art instruction books (numbered 1st-8th) edited by
Elmer E. Bush and Florence Reid Bush and published by Atkinson Mentzer &
Company, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Dallas. All are primarily illustrated, with
some accompanying text for the exercises and activities. Some volumes marked "Mabel
Spofford" on the cover.
Box 7, Envelope 03
Chip Carving.
1922
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 46-page art instruction book by Harris W. Moore, published by Manual Arts
Press, Peoria, Illinois. This book is primarily instructional with visual examples
of chip carving projects, and text. Some of the projects included are: a toothpick
holder, a checker board, a pipe rack, a picture frame and a waste basket.
Box 4, Envelope 13
How to make Crepe Paper Flowers.
1922
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 32-page booklet published by Dennison Manufacturing Co., Framingham,
Massachusetts. This instructional pamphlet provides both general and specific
instructions for making numerous kinds of flowers from crepe paper. Laid in are
several folded paper pattern sheets for use with the instructional pamphlet. "Mabel
Spofford" handwritten on cover.
Box 5, Envelope 01-04
The Etching of Copper and Brass (Lesson 25); The Lamp Shade (Lesson 18);
Designs to Fill Given Spaces (Lesson 7); and Oil Cloth--Its Decoration (Lesson
16).
1924-1925
Online items
Scope and Contents
Four art instruction booklets by Gabriel Andre Petite, published by Fireside
Industries, Inc. The booklets range in length from 8 to 16 pages, and begin with
instructional text followed by 1-4 pages of sample designs.
Box 5, Envelope 13
Human Proportion.
1924
Online items
Scope and Contents
One set of art instruction plates by Eudora Sellner, published by School Arts
Magazine, Worcester, Massachusetts. This set is incomplete; Plates No. 1-2 (of
eight) are lacking. Each plate is labeled "Costume Design 21; Human Proportions" at
the top and contains line drawings pertaining to human body proportions. Each plate
addresses an aspect of proportion and design: Plate No. 3 is titled "Head
Construction"; Plate No. 4 "Human Construction"; Plate No. 5 "Human Construction";
Plate No. 6 "Dress Design"; Plate No. 7 "Heads and Hats"; Plate No. 8 "The Figure in
Action." With embossed initial "S" for Mabel Spofford.
Box 7, Envelope 01
Industrial Art Text Books: A Graded Course in Art in its Relation to
Industry.
1924
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 64-page book by Bonnie E. Snow and Hugo B. Froehlich, published by Laidlaw
Brothers, Chicago and New York. This is a revised edition of Part Six from an eight
part set. The topics addressed in this volume include: color and design; drawing and
design; lettering and design; art in dress; art in the home; and art in
handwork.
Box 7, Envelope 04
Color in Painting.
1926
Online items
Scope and Contents
One portfolio of leaflets by Margaret McAdory and the Munsell Color Co., Inc., and
published by Binney & Smith Company, New York, subtitled "A portfolio of eight
leaflets with notes on the use of color in the paintings which are reproduced in
direct color from the originals." The eight images reproduced are: "The Nativity" by
Luini; "The Lace Maker" by Vermeer; "The Blessing" by Chardin; "Still Life" by
Chardin; "Madame le Brun" by Le Brun; "The Dance of the Nymphs" by Corot; "The
Gleaners" by Millet; and "Nymph Pool" by Monet. The last page of each is an in-depth
color analysis, with charts, of the painting and reference to isolated elements and
the Munsell Color system.
Box 13, Envelope 03
The Home Teacher.
1926
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 126-page book published by Lewis E. Myers & Company, Valparaiso, Indiana.
The subtitle on the title page reads: "Explaining by word and illustration the
source pictures of the Chautauqua Combination Drawing Board and Writing Desk." With
the exception of the first 16 pages, this is an exact duplicate of The Home Teacher,
1913 (see Box 13, envelope 2).
Box 7, Envelope 05-11
Industrial and Applied Art Books.
1926
Online items
Scope and Contents
Seven 48-page books edited by Walter Scott Perry, Florence H. Fitch, Walter
Sargent, and Frederick G. Bonser, and published by Mentzer Bush & Co., New York,
Chicago, and Dallas. Published in eight parts, book No. 2 is lacking from this set.
Each book contains a wide variety of art projects for students ranging from simple
coloring exercises to more sophisticated projects such as printing and book binding.
Some of the projects included within these books are: coloring, lettering, drawing,
weaving, patterns, design, clay work, basketry, sewing, bookbinding and art
appreciation. Covers have embossed "S" for Mabel Spofford.
Box 8, Envelope 03
Practical Drawing, Correlated Art Edition. Book Two.
1930
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Scope and Contents
One 44-page book by Practical Drawing Company of Dallas and Chicago. The subtitle
is: "A series of school art books for the Grades." The drawing, coloring, lettering
exercises, craft projects, and picture studies within this book are aimed at grade
school children. Each exercise or project is accompanied by instructional text. A
few examples of these projects are: toy drawing, classroom decoration making, paper
basket making, story illustration and clay modeling. The last 3 pages are devoted to
picture studies of 4 famous works of art: "Miss Bowles" by Sir Joshua Reynolds,
"Saying Grace" by Jean Baptiste Chardin, "Shoeing the Mare" by Sir Edwin Landseer,
and "Feeding Her Birds" by Jean Francois Millet.
Box 7, Envelope 12-19
Inspirational Art, Books 1-8.
1932
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Scope and Contents
Eight books published by Mentzer Bush & Co., New York, Chicago, Dallas. Each is
approximately 48 pages in length, and can be used independently of one another,
although they do have similar sections, such as: picture study, illustrative
sketching, modeling and sculpture, lettering, decorative design, famous buildings,
and book making.
Box 89, Envelope 09
Finger Painting: A Perfect Medium for Self Expression.
1934
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 232-page book by Ruth Faison Shaw, published by Little, Brown, and Company,
Boston, with an introduction by David Seabury. It concerns finger painting in
general, what the child learns from the technique, and what might be learned about
the child from it. Laid in are a number of receipts and papers.
Box 10, Envelope 17
The Dixon Manual for Metal Artists: Designs, Complete Instructions,
Illustrated Work Sheets.
1937
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 30-leaf art instruction portfolio published by William Dixon Incorporated,
Newark, New Jersey. With project sheets identified for both beginning and advanced
metal workers including: a rectangular box, an ashtray, a candy dish, a candlestick
holder, bookends and jewelry.
Box 10, Envelope 18
The Dixon Manual for Artisans in Wood and Metal: Designs, Instructions,
Operations and Processes.
1939
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 32-page art instruction portfolio published by William Dixon Incorporated,
Newark, New Jersey. As stated in the preface: "This new collection of projects has
been designed to meet the constant demand of teachers and hobbyists for artistic
designs combining wood and metal." Some of the projects included are: an ashtray, a
coaster, a console table and mirror, a table lamp, shelf brackets and a cornice and
radiator grill. All of the project sheets are signed (printed) "Designed by Karl
Ufer."
Laid into this portfolio are 3 additional items: a typed notification of the
opening of the William Dixon School of Metal Arts (New York), dated February 15,
1936, on William Dixon letterhead; a gift catalog from The Metal Crafts Shop in
Providence, RI; and a single issue (Vol. 4, No. 3, March 1936) of the periodical The
Metal Crafts: In and About Metal, published by the Metal Crafts Supply Company in
Providence, RI. Addressed to Mabel Spofford.
Box 5, Envelope 05
Soldier Handicrafts.
1942
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One 186-page manual published by the Government Printing Office (War Department),
Washington (War Department Technical Manual TM28-325). The 27 chapters provide
instructions, both visual and textual, for a wide variety of handicrafts, including:
woodworking, metal work, block printing, drawing and illustration, clay modeling,
painting and photography. This book is intended for use by military personnel in the
special services program; it includes basic principles of methods and procedures for
full scale, small group or individual handicraft operations. Also included is a
13-page select bibliography, providing additional references for further study of
each of the handicrafts covered in the manual.
Box 2, Envelope 01-12
New Art Education.
1944, 1945, 1947
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Nine books published by Prang Company Publishers, "A Division of The American
Crayon Company, Sandusky, Ohio", copyright 1944, 1945 and 1947. These books contain
ideas, instructions and projects for a wide variety of arts and crafts projects for
schoolchildren. The books are numbered 1-9 and laid into each is a second book, an
accompanying teacher guide, entitled "Teachers Reference and Course of Study,"
published in 1947 (with one book intended for the teacher and one for the student.)
Accompanying these nine sets are three teacher reference guides titled "Teachers
Reference and Course of Study." Laid into Book I are two typescript letters on
Stover School Art Service (of Birmingham, Michigan) letterhead advertising art
projects and supplies. One letter is dated Jan. 18, 1933, the other Sept. 24, 1935.
Within each letter are a few sample art projects for examination. "Mabel Spofford"
written on items.
Box 89, Envelope 08
Finger-Painting and How I Do It.
1947
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One 47-page instructional book by Ruth Faison Shaw, published by Art for All, Inc.,
New York. The book includes a short history on Shaw's finger-painting methods, basic
techniques, and several black-and-white illustrations of Shaw and her work.
Illustrated instructions and directions are given for creating images of landscapes,
animals, floral pictures, and designs.
Subseries B. Art Reproductions.
Approximately 1882-1950
Box 19
Fac-Similes of Examples in Delineation.
Approximately 1882
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One boxed set of 16 art reproductions (and one duplicate) selected from the
Masters, for the use of students in Drawing, Moses King, Publisher, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, with an accompanying pamphlet. The images were selected and described
by Charles H. Moore, "Instructor in Drawing and Principals of Design in Harvard
University", with plates by the Forbes Company of Boston and include reproductions
of Durer, Holbein, Da Vinci, Ruskin, Turner and Rout.
Box 26, Envelope 01-58
[Horace K. Turner Co. art reproductions].
Approximately 1906
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One set of 58 black-and-white art reproductions (with many duplicate images) of
paintings, murals and photographs, published by the Horace K. Turner Company,
Boston, and labeled "Turner Picture Study Prints." Some of the cards bear a
copyright date of 1906. Among the images included are: a photograph entitled
"Amalfi"; Choosing the Caskets" by Ferdinand Barth; "Washington Crossing the
Delaware" by Emmanual Lautze; "Delphic Sybil" by M. Buonarroti, and "Spirit of '76"
by Archibald M. Willard.
Box 26, Envelope 60-80
[University Prints art reproductions].
[Not before 1915]
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One set of 20 black-and-white art reproductions of paintings and murals, published
by University Prints, Newton, Massachusetts. Some of the reproductions included are:
"Picture writing" by Alexander; "The Printing Press" by Alexander; "Oak Tree" by
Dupre; and "Alice" by Chase.
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Box 83, Envelope 07-08
Two envelopes of "proof sheets" of photographed examples of student art
work.
Approximately 1919-1921
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Two envelopes of art reproductions ("proof sheets") of photographed examples of
student art work. The "proof sheets" were mailed from James Parton Haney to Mabel
Spofford. Included are images of signs, magazine covers, posters, advertisements,
book covers, textiles and other items. Many of the individual art examples are
signed by their creators, and most are dated between 1919 and 1921.
Box 5, Envelope 14
The Seaside in Art.
1922
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One set of art reproductions by Pedro J. Lemos, published by The School Arts
Magazine, The Davis Press, Worcester, Massachusetts. A portfolio of 16 numbered
plates of various images of the ocean, ships, fish, shells, etc. comprise the set,
which is accompanied by an 8-page introduction by Pedro J. Lemos. Plates embossed
with letter "S" (Mabel Spofford).
Box 23, Envelope 1-50
[Art Extension Society art reproductions].
[Not before 1924]
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One set of 50 cards of art reproductions (including many duplicates) from Art
Extension Society. Each of these cards are from the "Artext Junior" series. All of
the cards are color, reproductions of works of art (primarily paintings) by artists
from the United States and Europe. Some of the paintings (and artists) within this
set are: "Galahad the Deliverer" by Edwin A. Abbey; "The Merchant Gisze" by Holbein;
"Men Are Square" by Gerrit A. Beneker; "Dancing in a Ring" by Thoma; and "Consuelo"
by Zuloaga.
Box 23, Envelope 57-181
[Brown-Robertson Co. art reproductions].
Approximately 1924
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One incomplete set of 124 color art reproductions (including many duplicates) of
paintings and murals, published by Brown-Robertson Co., Inc., New York. Some of the
paintings represented in this set include: "Up the Hudson" by Bellows; "Paris
Boulevarde" by Renoir; "Infanta Maria Theresa" by Velasquez; "Mona Lisa" by Da
Vinci; "The Blue Boy" by Gainsborough; "Jane Seymour" by Holbein, and "Mother of the
Artist" by Whistler. This set of art reproductions belonged to Mabel Spofford.
Box 23, Envelope 51-55
[George P. Brown & Co. art reproductions].
Approximately 1925?
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Five black-and-white art reproductions by the George P. Brown & Co., Beverly,
Massachusetts. This set of reproductions belongs to the "Brown's Pictures" series.
Titles consist of: "Pilgrims Going to Church" by Boughton; "Signing the Declaration
of Independence" by Trumbull; "Return of the Mayflower" [credit not given]; "Martha
Washington" [credit not given]; and "John Alden and Priscilla" [credit not
given].
Box 24, Envelope 01-32
[F.A. Owen Pictures art reproductions].
Approximately 1925?
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One incomplete set of 28 color art reproductions published by the F.A. Owen
Publishing Co., Dansville, New York, as well as 4 pieces of ephemera, of which two
are printed and two are ms. items. Some of the images included are "The Grand Canal"
by Turner; "Autumn" by Mauve; "Madonna of the Chair" by Raphael; "Pilgrims Going to
Worship" by Boughton, and "The Blue Boy" by Gainsborough.
Box 24, Envelope 34-38
[Mentzer Bush & Co. art reproductions].
Approximately 1925?
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One incomplete set of color art reproductions from the "Great Masterpieces,
Juniors" series published by Mentzer Bush & Co., Chicago and New York,
representing 3 different paintings: "The Primitive Sculptor" by Couse; "Don Carlos
on Horseback" by Velasquez, and "Galahad the Deliverer" by Abbey.
Box 5, Envelope 16
Artist's Scrap Book.
1929
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One portfolio of art reproductions with 104 numbered plates, arranged by Pedro J.
Lemos and published by The School Arts Magazine, Davis Press, Worcester,
Massachusetts. Each of the plates contain numerous images of artworks by a variety
of artists, in categories including: Hillside Houses, Decorative Trees, Fantastic
Figures, Busy Women, Feminine Activities, Colonial People, Figure Groups, Children
of the Eighties, Foreign Lands, Birds, Animals, and Flowers. "Mabel Spofford"
handwritten on some plates.
Box 5, Envelope 15
Ships in Decoration.
1929
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One set of art reproductions by Pedro J. Lemos, published by The School Arts
Magazine, Davis Press, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1929. This is a portfolio of 15
numbered plates of art reproductions of ships. Various methods of art are
represented and include: stencils, batik, pen and ink drawing, tiles and
patterns.
Box 24, Envelope 39-42
[Meriden Gravure Company art reproductions].
Approximately 1935
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Four black-and-white art reproduction postcards, printed by the Meriden Gravure
Company, Meriden, Connecticut. Consists of "Portrait of his Father"; "Lady with a
Gold Chain"; "Self Portrait", and "A Lady and Gentleman in Black", all by Rembrandt
van Rijn. "Printed by the Heliotype Corp., Boston" is printed on the verso of "Self
Portrait".
Box 91
Miscellaneous boxed collections of art reproductions.
Approximately 1920-1950
Box 91, Item 01
One boxed collection of reproductions of photographs of sculpture, circa
75 pieces.
Approximately 1930-1940
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One boxed collection of reproductions of photographs of sculpture, ca. 75 pieces,
ranging in date from approximately 1930 to 1940. The sculptures represented range
in date from B.C. era to the 20th century. Included are reproductions from The
University Prints of Boston and Perry Pictures; others are newspaper clippings and
cutouts from magazines or catalogs.
Box 91, Item 02
One boxed collection of photographic reproductions of an architectural
nature.
Approximately 1935-1950
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One boxed collection of photographic reproductions of an architectural nature,
ca. 200 pieces, ranging in date from approximately 1935 to 1950. The collection
contains images of family dwellings, churches, government buildings, architectural
details, stone structures (e.g. Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids, the Sphinx),
and structures from Antiquity, including early Greek and Roman periods. The
collection is comprised primarily of Perry Pictures, University Prints, Brown's
Pictures, and postcards. There are an additional few original black and white
photographs of front doors to several different houses. This collection was
assembled by Mabel Spofford; there are handwritten notes on some items.
Box 91, Item 03
One boxed collection of art reproductions, circa 135 pieces.
Approximately 1920-1950
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One boxed collection of art reproductions, ca. 135 pieces, ranging in date from
approximately 1920-1950. A significant portion of the represented paintings are
American. The collection is comprised primarily of reproductions from Perry
Pictures, The University Prints and Brown's Famous Pictures series of
reproductions. A few postcards and newspaper clippings are also included in the
group. This collection was created by Mabel Spofford.
Box 91, Item 04
One collection of reproductions of paintings, circa 250
pieces.
Approximately 1930-1940
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One collection of reproductions of paintings, ca. 250 pieces, ranging in date
from approximately 1930-1940. Most of the reproductions are part of the Artext
Junior series, published by the Art Extension Society. The reproductions cover a
wide variety of subjects, painters, and time periods. This collection is housed in
a paperboard box which bears a mailing label addressed to Mabel Spofford. Also
included are a few printed flyers and handwritten notes.
Subseries C. Cards.
1880-1908
Box 17, Envelope 10
Tilton's Outline Design Cards, for Studies and Decorative Purposes, 12th
Series.
1880
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One set of painting cards and instructional booklet printed by S.W. Tilton &
Co. Boston. Each card has a simple printed flower and the flower name and the
booklet gives detailed instructions on painting the cards.
Box 4, Envelope 17
Play Lessons in Modeling Harbutt's Plasticine.
1908
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One set of 13 cards published by the Embossing Company, Albany, New York. Twelve of
the cards are color images of objects, primarily birds and animals, made with
Harbutt's Plasticine, and intended to be used as models.
Subseries D. Charts/Posters.
1882-1931
Box 29
The Complete School Charts.
1882
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One set of wall charts entitled The Complete School Charts, published by Ivison,
Blakeman, Taylor and Company, New York and Chicago. The set is comprised of 17
double-sided leaves attached at one end to a hanging wooden dowel. The contents of
the set are outlined on the first sheet and are as follows: "Introductory charts
I-II; Phonics III-IV; Penmanship V-VIII; Drawing IX-X; Arithmetic XI-XVI; Geography
XVII-XXV; United States History XXVI-XXVIII; U.S. Civil Government XXIX-XXXII."
Box 28
Set of art appreciation posters created by the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston.
1926
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"One set of 55 art appreciation posters created by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The set contains 23 different posters (as well as duplicates) housed in 5 large
envelopes.
- Env. 1: English Decorative Arts; European Decorative Arts; Massachusetts
Silver of the 17th and 18th Centuries; European Furniture and Interior
Architecture; Objects in the Museum of Fine Arts- English History; American
Furniture and Interior Architecture 1675-1800.
- Env. 2: Appreciation of Art. Grade IX. Aegean and Archaic Greek. Sheet VI.
1926; Appreciation of Art. Greek. Sheet VII; Appreciation of Art. Grade IX. Roman.
Sheet VIII. 1926 (2 copies); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Greek and Roman Art (13
copies)
- Env. 3: Appreciation of Art. Architecture. Sheet II. (7 copies)
- Env. 4: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Egyptian Art (7 copies); [Untitled poster
of Egyptian Art]
- Env. 5: Appreciation of Art. Lettering. Sheet I (2 copies); Appreciation of
Art. Prehistoric. Sheet II (2 copies); Appreciation of Art. Grade IX. Early
Christian and Byzantine. Sheet IX. 1926; Appreciation of Art. Renaissance. Sheet
XIII; Appreciation of Art. Romanesque. Sheet XI. (2 copies); Appreciation of Art.
Grade IX. Gothic. Sheet XII. 1926 (2 copies); Appreciation of Art. Grade IX.
Colonial. Sheet XVI. 1926; Appreciation of Art. Grade IX. Indian-Chinese-Japanese.
Sheet V. 1926; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Art of the Ancient Near East;
Appreciation of Art. Grade IX. Assyrian. Sheet IV. 1926."
Box 47, Envelope 14
Time Chart in Early European History (to 1714).
1931
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One chart by Jennie B. Pope and Robert G. Albion, published by Ginn and Company,
including historical events from c.3000-2000 B.C. to 1714. Some included regions
are: the Aegean world, Eastern Fertile Crescent; Nile Valley; Greece; Rome; Italy;
France; England; Spain and Portugal; Northern Europe and Near and East Africa.
Subseries E. Correspondence Courses.
1914-approximately 1930
Box 10, Envelope 15
[Plates to accompany] Landon Course of Cartooning.
1914-1919
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One set of 27 plates to accompany The Landon Course of Cartooning coursebooks,
published by C.N. Landon, Cleveland, Ohio, copyright 1914-1919. Each lesson is
comprised of several plates: Lesson No. 1, "Lines", plates 1-4; "The Head", plates
1-4; "Expression", plates 1-3; "The Hand," plates 1-2; "The Foot", 1 plate; "Comic
Figures", plates 1-3; "Action", plates 1-4; "Women", plates 1-4 and "Shading",
plates 1-3. Also with this set of plates are 11 sheets of drawing paper which
contain original artwork, presumably based on the models given in the plates.
Box 10, Envelope 04-14
The Landon Course of Cartooning.
Approximately 1920-1930
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Eleven art instruction booklets published by The Landon School, Cleveland, Ohio, as
a correspondence course series in drawing cartoons. Each of the eleven separate
lessons consists of ca. 10 pages of textual instruction, with references to
illustrated plates to use as guidelines. With lesson titles on each volume: Pen and
Ink Lines; The Head; Expression; Hands & Feet; Comic Figures; Action; Women;
Shading; Shadows; Division Four; Shadows; Kids; and Perspective. Lessons 10-12, also
contains an envelope from The Landon School, addressed to Mabel Spofford and
postmarked March 5, 1928, which contains 2 sheets of Spofford's original artwork,
with comments from a Landon instructor.
Subseries F. Drawing Books.
1844-1950
Box 31, Envelope 18
New Progressive Drawing Book, Containing Lithographic Sketches, and
Drawings of Landscape Scenery: Designed for Self Instruction.
1844
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One drawing book by C. P. Huestis, New York, comprised of 12 unnumbered plates of
lithograph images of landscapes and scenes.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Mike Kaplan, October 2000.
Box 30, Envelope 08
The Youth's New Drawing Book, Containing Progressive Information on
Sketching and Drawing Landscape Scenery, &c. Designed for Self Instruction, or
the Use of Teachers.
1844
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One 24-page drawing book, published by C.P. Huestis, New York, containing 11
woodcut illustrations. The focus of this book is on teaching the student to make a
"correct drawing"; the lessons instruct on perspective, proportion, outline and
form. Some of the illustrations include: a large house, a cow, and several views.
"Vincent L. Dill, Stereotyper" is printed on the verso of the title page.
Box 31, Envelope 12
Child's First Book. Drawing Series. Self Instructor, No. 1.
1846
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One 22-page drawing book by Josiah Holbrook, published by H.H. Hawley & Co.,
Utica, New York, and J.H. Mather & Co., Hartford, of instructional text, a
preface, and images for copying. The images are divided up into labeled categories:
"Geometry; Containing Vessels; Household Utensils; Cutting Instruments; Tools;
Articles of Dress, &c.; Agricultural Implements; House, Boat, &c.; Animals;
Human Figures; Primary Solids; Diagonals of Squares; Mensuration; Circumscribed
& Inscribed Figures; Regular Solids; and Geography."
Box 30, Envelope 09
The New Progressive Drawing Book, containing Lithographic Sketches, and
Drawings of Landscape Scenery, Designed for Self Instruction.
1847
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One 24-page drawing book, published by C.P. Huestis, New York, containing
lithograph images only (no text), with several different images per page, some of
which are landscapes and seascapes.
Box 4, Envelope 05
The Columbian Drawing Book, Designed for Schools and Private
Instruction.
1849
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One art instruction book by William B. Shattuck, No. 2, published by Bradley &
Anthony, Cincinnati. Additional publishers listed on the title page are: New York,
Cady & Burgess; Boston: James Monroe & Co. The book consists of 6 pages of
text, followed by 8 black-and-white lithographs, printed by Otto Oncken, Cincinnati
[Ohio]. The images are primarily of houses, the first two are schematic in
nature.
Box 32, Envelope 20
École de Dessin, No 272.
Approximately 1850
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One French drawing book, publisher unidentified, comprised of 12 lithograph plates
of 6 different paired images, one in outline form and one in completed form with
shading, texture, etc. One plate is printed with the lithographer's name at the
bottom: "Lith. de Becquet fres."
Box 31, Envelope 17
The Little Draughtsman.
Approximately 1850
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One drawing book, published by J. Scholz, Mayence (Mainz?), comprised of 8 leaves
of illustrations; some contain an image in outline form against a grid and another
next to it without the grid and 2 spaces for copying; on other pages the image is
printed once and space for copying is left next to or below the image. Some of the
images included are an elephant, fruit, and a woman carrying a basket.
Box 12, Envelope 01-02
Bartholomew's Drawing Book, No. 2 and No. 3.
1855
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"Two drawing books by William N. Bartholomew, published by Shepard, Clark &
Brown, Boston (No. 2) and by Cyrus G. Cooke, Boston (No. 3), with numbered
half-sheets on which there is an image to be copied, interleaved with blank whole
sheets for copying and completing each of the exercises. The majority of exercises
within both books are buildings, such as houses, sheds, and barns. Both books 2 and
3 have been completed, and both contain additional original artwork.
Box 12, Envelope 03-05
Bartholomew's Drawing Book, New Series, Nos. 1, 2, 5.
1867-1870
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Three drawing books, Nos. 1, 2 and 5, by William N. Bartholomew, published by
Woolworth, Ainsworth & Co., New York, copyright 1867, 1869, and 1870
respectively. Each book contains 12 half-sheet numbered exercises interleaved with
full-page blank leaves for copying and additional original artwork. Book 1 begins
with exercises in drawing horizontal and vertical lines, and continues with using
those lines in various combinations and patterns to draw simple designs and
decorative forms. All of the exercises have been completed.
Box 30, Envelope 05
Self-Instructing Drawing Lessons, for the Little Folks.
1868
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One 42-page drawing book, by John D. F. Brooks, Boston, containing numerous
line-drawings. Each drawing features a step-by-step number guide for creating a
finished drawing. The subjects of these drawings include: a horse, boats, garden
tools and equipment, body parts and small scenes. The inside of the front cover
contains textual instructions, and the inside of the back cover features other
(completed) images.
Box 4, Envelope 01
Vere Foster's Complete Course of Drawing: Landscape.
Approximately 1868
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One 72-page drawing book, published by Blackie & Son, Limited, London, Glasgow
and Dublin; and F.W. Devoe & Co., New York (New Edition). This drawing book
provides visual and textual instruction for landscape drawing and the illustrations
within this drawing book include both outline and complete views of English and
Welsh landscapes, homes, bridges, and other natural views. The first 8 pages,
presumably written by Wimperis and Needham, contain instructional text. The black
and white lithographs are signed primarily by J. Needham and F. (Frederick)
Jones.
Box 4, Envelope 02-04
Vere Foster's Drawing Copy Book: Nos. M1, I2 and Q3.
Approximately 1868
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Three 16-page drawing books, Nos. M1, I2 and Q3, by E. Duncan, John Callow, and
George Whitaker, published by Blackie & Son, London, Dublin, Edinburgh, and
Glasgow, each containing black-and-white illustrations with blank pages for
copying.
- Env. 02: Book M1, part of the Marine series (in 4 parts), is titled "Boats,
Foregrounds, and Nautical Bits" and includes views of nautical implements and
boats of various kinds, signed by both Callow and Whitaker.
- Env. 03: Book I2, part of the Ornamental Forms series (in 4 parts), is titled
"Freehand Ornament, Classic and Renaissance" and includes Italian, Greek, Roman
and English floral decorative ornaments.
- Env. 04: Book Q3, part of the Human Figure series (in 4 parts), is titled
"Rustic Figures" with images of hands, feet, and whole-body figures.
Box 31, Envelope 06
Philips' Drawing Copy Book, Design & Drawn by a Practical Teacher, No.
3.
Approximately 1870?
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One drawing book, published by George Philip & Son, London, comprised of 8
lithographed plates, each containing an image (buildings, such as houses and
churches) and space for copying. Most of the interior plates are signed by different
artists including Greet; Coalport; Birmingham; Troubridge; Bridnorth[?]; and
Douglas.
Box 15, Envelope 05-08
William Hermes' United States Systematic Drawing Schools (German
Edition).
Approximately 1870
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Four drawing books, published by Max Jacoby & Zeller, New York, consisting of
Nos. 8[?]1, 203, 410 and 413. Each of the four books contain a series of lithograph
plates intended for copying. At the bottom of each plate is the statement "Lith.
Druck u. Verlag v. Wilh. Hermes in Berlin."
- Env. 05: Part 8[?]1: 3 plates of portraits, labeled as belonging to Part
337
- Env. 06: Part 203: 6 plates of portraits
- Env. 07: Part 410: 6 plates of flowers and fruits
- Env. 08: Part 413: 5 plates of buildings and architectural sketches
Box 15, Envelope 09-10
William Hermes' United States Drawing-School, No. 144 and No.
197.
Approximately 1870
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Two drawing books, Nos. 144 and 197, by William Hermes and published by Janentzky
& Co., Philadelphia. Each book contains 6 numbered plates of lithograph
portraits. The portraits in No. 144 are of women and appear to be Middle Eastern and
North African. At the bottom of each plate in No. 144 is the statement "Lith. Druck
u. Verlag v. Wilh. Hermes in Berlin." The plates in No. 197 are of Caucasian women
and children. No. 197 contains two additional plates laid in at the end: numbered
222.5 and 331.5.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred from Huntington Art Reference Library, May 2000.
Box 32, Envelope 15
Zeichen-Vorlagen für Schulen und zum Selbstunterricht, Heft 34.
Approximately 1870
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One drawing book, published by Storch & Kramer, Berlin, Germany, comprised of 8
lithograph numbered plates in pairs, the first being an outline of a human head
against a graph, and the following image is the completed drawing. There are four
different faces represented in the 8 plates.
Box 30, Envelope 01
Erasable (School) Drawing and Writing Tablet, No. 2.
1871
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One drawing book printed by American Tablet Manuf. Co., Boston, Massachusetts,
containing six pages of heavy paper board. The first four pages consist of two sets
of printed images and blank areas. The last two pages of the tablet feature
penmanship examples and blank areas below. The student was supposed to "[d]raw in
the blank spaces with a soft lead pencil, and erase with a damp woolen cloth."
However, the majority of the printed images have been traced over rather than
copied.
Box 5, Envelope 06
Spencerian Drawing-Book, No. 2.
1871
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One drawing book by Henry Hitchings, published by Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor &
Co., New York and Chicago, containing 24 lessons, two per a single half sheet, and
accompanied by a full-size plain sheet for copying. In this particular booklet, each
lesson leaf is bound in backwards, so that Lesson II appears first, and Lesson I is
on the verso, and the booklet continues in that manner. The lessons progress from
simple to more complex images; Lesson I is of simple boxes; later lessons include
various pieces of furniture, columns and buckets. Each of the lessons has been
completed in pencil.
Box 22, Envelope 03
A Course of Free-Hand, Model, and Object Drawing: Designed for Primary,
Grammar, and High Schools.
1872
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One 16-page booklet by Walter Smith, published by Noyes, Holmes, and Company,
Boston. At the bottom of the cover is printed, "J.W.C. Gilman, Agent." This booklet
appears to be a publisher's advertisement for the Smith drawing system and its
products, including drawing slates, drawing-cards and drawing books.
Box 10, Envelope 02
How to Draw: The Right and The Wrong Way.
1872
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One art instruction book, by A.S. Avery and published by The University Publishing
Co., New York and Baltimore, comprised of 14 individual lessons, each of which
consists of an illustrated (lithograph) plate and a numbered half-page of textual
guidelines and instruction. Also on the title page: "Illustrated with over one
hundred figures. Adapted for use in public and private schools, and prepared
expressly for all persons who do not know how to draw, but would like to learn."
This book is The lessons are progressively complex; for example, Lesson 1 is devoted
to drawing straight lines; Lesson 4 is for shading "to give more boldness to the
figures..."; Lesson 7 is a continuation of learning curved lines, and Lesson 14 is
to draw a scene in which an old castle is the focal point.
Box 22, Envelope 4
The Teachers' Companion to the American Drawing-Slates: No. 1. Free-Hand
Drawing, Elementary and Advanced.
1872
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One 52-page booklet by Walter Smith, published by Noyes, Holmes, and Company,
Boston, and printed by H.O. Houghton and Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts. This
booklet features white-on-black drawing card reproductions as illustrations and is
divided into two sections: Free-hand Drawing, parts 1 and 2.
Box 12, Envelope 06-09
Bartholomew's Drawing Book, Revised Edition, Nos. 4, 5, 7, 8.
1872-1873
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"Four drawing books by William N. Bartholomew, published by Woolworth, Ainsworth
& Co., New York and Chicago, between 1872 and 1873. Each book contains six
numbered exercises of increasing difficulty, which are made up of lithograph
illustrations, varying amounts of instructional text, and a blank facing page for
copying. The images in Book 4 are primarily outlines of flowers, vases and
candlesticks; books 7 and 8 contain complex scenes of buildings and landscapes,
which involve shading, perspective and texture. Each of the four books has been
completed by previous owners.
Box 4, Envelope 08-09
Krüsi's Drawing: Analytic Series.
1873
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Two art instruction books, Nos. 5 and 6, published by D. Appleton & Company,
New York. Each consists of lithographs, with blank facing pages for copying.
- Env. 08: Book No. 5: 20 pages with 10 sets of illustrations including images
of animals, including birds, dogs, horses and rabbits. All of the images have been
copied by a previous owner, and there are several additional original sketches, as
well as letters done in calligraphy style in midnight blue ink.
- Env. 09: Book No. 6: 24 pages with 12 sets of illustrations primarily of the
human figure and some of its parts, including hands, feet, and faces. Only three
of the images have been copied
.
Box 31, Envelope 03
The Black Lead Pencil Drawing Book, No. 3, Series 1.
Approximately 1873
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One drawing book, by H. Worsley and published by Dean & Son, London, comprised
of four lithograph plates, numbered 9-12. Each of the four lithographs within this
book are views of houses, with surrounding landscape.
Box 22, Envelope 01
Teachers' Manual for Free-Hand Drawing in Primary Schools.
1873
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One 104-page book by Walter Smith, published by James R. Osgood & Company,
Boston. Also on the title page: "Intended to accompany the American Drawing-Cards,
by the same author." This book includes 5 chapters: "Chapter 1, Centre, Points, and
Straight Lines; Chapter 2, Straight-Line Figures; Chapter 3, Simple Curves; Chapter
4, Compound Curves- the Ellipse and Oval; Chapter 5, Compound Curves- Reversed
Curves- The Ogee- Abstract Curves." Each of the lessons refer to, and illustrate,
the Smith drawing cards intended to accompany the book.
Box 22, Envelope 05-12
American Text Books of Art Education: Free-Hand Drawing, Numbers
One-Six.
1873-1875
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Eight drawing books by Walter Smith, published by James R. Osgood & Company,
Boston (Nos. 1, 2, and 6) and also by L. Prang & Company, Boston (Nos. 3-5). In
this particular set there are duplicates of Nos. 2 and 6. These books range in
length from 14 to 20 pages and contain numbered exercises consisting of explanatory
text, an image, and space for copying. The exercises progress in complexity within
each book and within the series. Some of the books have been completed by
students.
Box 11, Envelope 14-15
Bartholomew's National System of Industrial Drawing, Free Hand, No. 3 and
No. 4.
1874
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Two 16-page drawing books by William N. Bartholomew, published by Potter, Ainsworth
& Company, New York and Chicago. The books contain unnumbered exercises which
range from one to three per page and focus on outline drawing. Some of the exercises
include: drinking goblets, a call bell, a candlestick holder and floral and leafy
designs and patterns. All of the exercises have been completed by a previous
owner.
Box 12, Envelope 13
Drawing in Public Schools by the use of The Smith Books Condemned ... The
Merits of the Bartholomew Books Presented.
1874
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One 56-page booklet published by Woolworth, Ainsworth & Co., New York and
Chicago. This book contains an additional 24-page addendum: "Osgood's Circular,
misrepresenting Mr. Bartholomew and his books, answered." The primary booklet is a
point-by-point rebuttal of the Smith drawing system, illustrated with "bad" examples
of drawing used by the Smith system, and "good" examples as found in the Bartholomew
system.
Box 4, Envelope 12
Educational and Industrial Drawing: Primary Freehand Series, No.
1.
1874
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One drawing book by Langdon S. Thompson, published by D.C. Heath & Co., Boston,
Chicago and New York, comprised of 24 lessons and 2 additional lessons, without
textual instruction. Wrapped around the pages of text (so that they appear to be the
first and last pages) are three horizontal half sheets in yellow, red, and blue.
Each of the lessons allows space for copying and practicing; only the first three
lessons have been filled in.
Box 22, Envelope 13-14
American Text Books of Art Education: Geometrical Drawing, Numbers One and
Two.
1875
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Two 20-page drawing books by Walter Smith, published by L. Prang & Co., Boston,
containing numbered problems and exercises. Each exercise consists of instructional
text, a lithograph illustration, and space for copying. The exercises increase in
difficulty and complexity through the course of each book, and within the series.
The exercises in No. 2 have been completed, in pencil.
Box 22, Envelope 15-16
American Text Books of Art Education: Intermediate Course, Numbers One and
Three.
1875
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Two 20-page drawing books by Walter Smith, published by L. Prang & Company,
Boston, with numbered exercises. Each exercise consists of very brief instructional
text, an image, and space for copying. In Book One, many of the exercises focus on
patterns, shapes and designs made from lines and shapes. Book Three focuses more on
replication of forms, such as vases, drinking glasses and solids. Some of the
exercises in the books have been completed by previous owners.
Box 22, Envelope 17-18
American Text Books of Art Education: Model and Object Drawing, Number One
and Number Two.
1875
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Two 20-page drawing books by Walter Smith, published by L. Prang & Company,
Boston, containing numbered exercises. There are two copies of Number One; one is
issued separately, the other bound together with Number Two. Each exercise is
comprised of instructional text, a lithograph image for copying, and space for
copying. The books have not been completed by previous owners. Some of the objects
and models pictured in the books include: fruit and vegetables, drinking vessels of
various kinds, seashells, chairs and geometrical solid forms.
Box 31, Envelope 07
An Easy Course of Landscape Drawing Lessons, No. 1.
Approximately 1875?
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One drawing book by H. A. Harper, published by George Rowney and Company, London,
comprised of 4 lithograph plates of houses in outline style, numbered 1-4; . each
plate is signed "H.A.H."
Box 31, Envelope 13
École de Dessin, Petit Cours Élémentaire et Progressif.
Approximately 1875?
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One French drawing book, published by Henry & Yves, Paris. "No. 555" is stamped
in red ink on the bottom of the front cover. The interior images are each signed
"Henry," and they include two men on a stone wall picking fruit, and a sailor
leaning against a cannon.
Box 31, Envelope 01
Elementary Drawing Book; A Series of Easy Progressive Lessons for Young
Beginners, New and Improved Edition, No. VIII.
Approximately 1875?
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One drawing book, by George Childs and published by David Bogue, London, comprised
of four lithograph plates, numbered 25-28. Each of the four plates contains two
separate views per leaf, side by side. Some of the views include human figures.
There are no textual instructions, and there is no space provided for copying.
Box 31, Envelope 16
Lithographie Joseph Scholz. Teichenschule. Modeles de Dessin.
Teekenschool.
Approximately 1875?
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One drawing book with lithography by Joseph Scholz, published in Mainz, Germany,
comprised of 12 unnumbered lithograph plates for copying. Most of the images are of
rural settings, and include pieces of farming equipment and structures. There is an
original pencil drawing on the interior and exterior back covers, and some additions
to the third image.
Box 31, Envelope 08-10
Weigall's Drawing Book of Animals, Nos. 2, 5 and 6.
Approximately 1875?
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Three drawing books, published by George Rowney and Company, London?. Each book is
comprised of four lithograph plates; the plates in book No. 2 are numbered 5-8;
those in book No. 5 are numbered 17-20, and those in book No. 6 are numbered 21-24.
Images in No. 2 include a bear and a bull; in No. 5 a kangaroo and a goat; in No. 6
a lion and a deer. A sheet of paper containing original artwork is laid in to each
of the three books.
Box 5, Envelope 08
System of Industrial Art Drawing: Ornamentation.
1876
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One drawing book, published by J.M. Stoddart & Co., Philadelphia. Also printed
on the front cover is: "Issued in sets from the Philadelphia School of Design for
Women, by E. Croasdale, Principal, Second Series, Number Three." This book contains
7 plates (plate VIII is wanting) of Egyptian design and motif. Each plate is faced
by a blank page intended for copying.
Box 1, Envelope 01
Andrews' Slate Drawing Book: Containing all the pictures on Andrews
Noiseless Drawing Slates, for Schools and Families (Fourth Edition).
1878
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One 38-page drawing book, revised by Prof. Duncan McGregor, drawings by A.F.
Brooks, and published by A.H. Andrews & Co., Chicago, including 29 illustrated
pages, proceeding from simple to more complex.
Box 4, Envelope 11
Krüsi's Drawing: Synthetic Series, New series, No. 2.
1878
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One 16-page drawing book published by D. Appleton & Co., New York, containing
geometric designs, which emphasize the practice of lines and shapes. On each page
are the illustrations and space intended for copying. Laid inside the book are three
sheets of paper, two of which are blank. The third contains several original
illustrations.
Box 5, Envelope 07
White's School Series of Industrial Drawing, Free Hand.
1878
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One 16-page drawing book, by H.P. Smith, published by Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor
& Co., New York and Chicago. "Engravings by John Karst" appears on the lower
right-hand corner of the front cover. This book consists of 15 lessons (lesson 15 is
wanting), with each lesson accompanied by blank space or partial-model for copying.
Images include vases, plants and flowers, Egyptian and Greek ornaments and designs,
and pattern designs. Some of the images have been copied in pencil by a previous
owner.
Box 22, Envelope 19-24
American Text-Books of Art Education, Revised Edition, Nos.
3-11.
1879
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Six 20-page drawing books by Walter Smith, published by L. Prang & Co., Boston.
The issues included in this group are Nos. 3, 5, 6, 7, 11 and a duplicate of No. 11.
Each book contains numbered exercises, and each exercise consists of brief
instructional text, a lithograph image, and space for copying. The exercises
increase in difficulty as they progress through each book, and also throughout the
series. Some of the books have been completed by previous owners.
Box 6, Envelope 01-06
American Text-Books of Art Education, Revised Edition, Nos. 5, 7, 9, 10,
14.
1879
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Six 20-page drawing books (Nos. 5, 7-two copies, 9, 10, 14), published by L. Prang
& Co., Boston, containing numbered lessons, each with instructional text,
lithograph illustrations, and space for copying. The exercises range from simple
shapes and angles (in Book No. 5) to more complex images, such as scenes and views
which include projection and perspective (in Book 14). Book No. 5 appears to focus
on the creation of shapes and patterns based on geometric forms; Book 7 focuses on
tracing and transferring; Book 9 focuses on rectangular forms and historic styles in
design; Book 10 emphasizes simple shapes and angles, ornamental designs and borders;
and Book 14 focuses on projection and perspective. Book 14 is lacking the first 2
leaves, therefore the first 4 exercises are missing. Some of the images have been
copied by previous owners, and some of the books contain sheets with original
artwork laid in.
Box 30, Envelope 15
Art in the Nursery.
1879
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One 61-image drawing book, published by D. Lothrop & Company, Boston,
Massachusetts, of which 24 are images in white on black with a wood border,
mimicking images drawn on slates with chalk. The other 37 images are children at
play, or anthropomorphised animals at play, with amusing captions. Many of the
images are signed by the artists, including J.G. Francis, Palmer Cox, and "Koz".
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Box 30, Env. 16 contains a slightly different, smaller edition of this book.
Box 30, Envelope 16
Art in the Nursery.
1879
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One 29-image drawing book, published for D. Lothrop & Company, Boston, by John
Wilson & Son/University Press. Twelve of the images are done in white on black
with a wood border--mimicking images drawn on slates with chalk. These images were
intended for the children to copy onto their own slates. The other 17 images are
children at play, or anthropomorphised animals at play, with amusing captions. Many
of the images are signed by the artists, including J G Francis, Palmer Cox, and
"Koz". The first comical image has been traced onto the tissue paper insert with
pencil. Sheets of tissue paper have been inserted between the images.
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Box 30, Env. 15 contains a slightly different, larger edition of this book.
Box 4, Envelope 10
Krüsi's Drawing: Perspective Series, No. 12.
1879
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One 24-page art instruction book published by D. Appleton & Co., New York,
copyright 1874 and 1879. This book contains 12 black-and-white images, with space
provided next to each image for copying. These images include flowers, plants, vases
and a landscape scene. None of the images have been copied.
Box 31, Envelope 14
A New Series of First Class Drawing Copies.
Approximately 1880?
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One drawing book, published by J. Cooke & Sons, London, comprised of 9
lithograph leaves of floral images intended for copying. One leaf has the printed
text: "B. Dondorf in Frankfurt a M. No. 137."
Box 31, Envelope 15
A New Series of First Class Drawing Copies.
Approximately 1880?
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One drawing book, published by J. Cooke & Sons, London, comprised of 7
lithograph plates intended for copying, chiefly with two paired images per page, one
complete with shading and texture, and the other in outline.
Box 1, Envelope 02-05
Barnes' Popular Drawing Series.
1881
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Four drawing book, Nos. 5 (2 copies), 6, and 8, published by A.S. Barnes and
Company, New York and Chicago.
- Env. 2: No. 5: plates no. 33-40 (double-sided looseleaf plates)
- Env. 3: No. 5: plates no. 33-40 (bound copy, single sided plates)
- Env. 4: No. 6: plates no. 41-48
- Env. 5: No. 8: plates no. 57-64
Box 11, Envelope 01-04
Bartholomew's National System of Industrial Drawing, Free Hand-Tracing, New
Edition, Nos. 1, 1, 2, 3.
1881
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Four 12-page drawing books by William N. Bartholomew, published by 3 different
publishers: Potter, Knight, Ainsworth & Co. of New York, Boston and Chicago
(Book 1, first copy); the American Book Company of New York, Cincinnati and Chicago
(Book 1, second copy); and the A.S. Barnes & Co. of New York and Chicago (Books
2-3). These tracing books are intended for use by "children just beginning to draw"
and contain 24-29 numbered exercises, without text, of images and drawing exercises
to be traced or completed. Each lesson builds upon the skills learned in previous
lessons. Many of these exercises are shapes and forms, later used to create
decorative patterns and designs. Images of simple buildings are also included.
Box 11, Envelope 05-11
Bartholomew's National System of Industrial Drawing, Free Hand, New
Edition, Nos. 6, 10, 11, 12, 13.
1881-1882
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Seven 16-page drawing books by William N. Bartholomew, published in 1881-1882, by
three different publishers: Potter, Ainsworth & Co. of Boston, New York and
Chicago (Nos. 6 [first copy], 11, and 12); American Book Company of New York,
Cincinnati and Chicago (Nos. 6 [second copy], 10, and 13); and A.S. Barnes & Co.
of New York and Chicago (No. 12). The books contain 14-30 numbered exercises
progressing from simple two-dimensional copying and tracing (book no. 6) to
significantly more complex, 3-dimensional copying and replication of the provided
images (book no. 13). Only the first copy of book no. 6 (env. 5) has been completed
by a previous owner.
Box 30, Envelope 17
High Art for Little People.
1882
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One drawing/tracing book, published by D. Lothrop & Company, Boston, with 31
images--12 are slate pictures for children to copy, 15 are outlined images that the
child could fill in, the remainder are comical drawings. Some of the images have
been filled in using watercolors. All of the images have titles and depict scenes
from the farm or anthropomorphic animals.
Box 11, Envelope 12-13
Bartholomew's National System of Industrial Drawing, Mechanical, New
Editions, No. 14 and No. 15.
1883
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Two 16-page drawing books by William N. Bartholomew, published by American Book
Company, New York, Cincinnati and Chicago. The books contain numbered problems and
exercises, chiefly focused on angles and lines for developing precision and
accuracy. A sampling of some of the exercises covered are: the quatrefoil, division
of lines into equal and proportional parts, construction of ornamental forms- design
(all from book 14) and tangent lines and circles, circles inscribed and
circumscribed, drawing of joints between stones in the elliptical arch and
construction of plans for a building. Each of the problems and exercises are
comprised of primarily instructional text with a small image for copying or use as a
guide, and ample space in which to work.
Box 11, Envelope 16
Bartholomew's National System of Industrial Drawing, Sketching from
Objects, New Edition, No. 16.
1883
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One 20-page drawing book by William N. Bartholomew, published by Potter, Ainsworth
& Co., Boston, New York and Chicago, with 46 lithograph illustrations and
unnumbered drawing exercises. The first part of the book is devoted to explanations
of principles and rules relating to linear perspective; the remainder is a series of
exercises which progress in difficulty. Some of the exercises include: boxes and
cubes, a house, a chair, a bucket, and a scene of a house on the side of a road. The
final two pages are a continuation of the notes and principles found at the
beginning of the book. None of the exercises within have been completed.
Box 11, Envelope 18
Bartholomew's National System of Industrial Drawing, Linear Perspective,
New Edition, No. 18.
Approximately 1883
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One 32-page drawing book by William N. Bartholomew, published by American Book
Company, New York, Cincinnati and Chicago, containing 133 lithograph illustrations.
The first 4 pages include general remarks and directions for drawing perpendicular
and parallel lines; the remaining pages contain numbered problems and unnumbered
exercises, comprised of instructional text, illustrations, and space for drawing.
None of the exercises have been completed.
Box 41, Envelope 11
Prang's Outline Pictures with Directions for Coloring, Series 1,
Children.
1888
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One folder of images for painting published by L. Prang & Co., Boston. Within
the folder are 9 outline images for coloring; each is titled with the subject,
generally characters from fairy tales. Also within the folder are three printed
sheets: one contains coloring instructions, one is an informational piece about the
set, and the third is a manufacturer's advertisement for Prang's Christmas
Cards.
Box 6, Envelope 07-09
American Text-Books of Art Education, Clark Edition, No. 5, No. 8 and No.
9.
1882-1886
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Three 20-page drawing books (Nos. 5, 8, and 9), published by L. Prang & Co.,
Boston, containing numbered exercises of lithograph illustrations, which emphasize
line and form (Book No. 5); construction and representation (Book No. 8); and
construction, representation and Roman decoration (Book No. 9). Most of the
exercises in each of the 3 books have been copied by a previous owner.
Box 11, Envelope 17
Bartholomew's National System of Industrial Drawing, Light, Shade &
Shadow, New Edition, No. 17.
1884
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One 20-page drawing book by William N. Bartholomew, published by Potter, Ainsworth
& Co., Boston, New York and Chicago, illustrated with 39 lithograph
illustrations. The drawing exercises include: a treescape, a bucket, ornamental
designs in relief, floral designs, and various outdoor scenes. Each exercise, one
per page, is comprised of textual instruction, an image or images, and ample space
for drawing. None of the exercises have been completed.
Box 32, Envelope 16
[Drawing book].
Approximately 1885?
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One drawing book: publisher and author unknown, possibly from a Bartholomew series.
This drawing book is comprised of 11 lithograph leaves of images intended for
copying. The leaves are numbered 1-12; leaf 11 is lacking. Each leaf contains one or
more images, with space below for tracing or copying. Some of the images include
church arches, pots and kettles, vases and water glasses. The covers are
lacking.
Box 9, Envelope 01-02
Prang's Shorter Course in Form Study and Drawing, No. 2 & No.
3.
1888
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Two 32-page drawing books by John S. Clark, Mary Dana Hicks, and Walter S. Perry,
published by Prang Educational Company, Boston, New York and Chicago. Each begins
with three drill exercises, and continues with 13 numbered exercises which emphasize
freehand copying of lithographed forms and objects. Most of the exercises have been
copied.
Box 9, Envelope 03-14
Prang's Complete Course in Form Study and Drawing, Nos. 1-2,
4-10.
1889
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Twelve 24-page drawing books by John S. Clark, Mary Dana Hicks, and Walter S.
Perry, published by Prang Educational Company, Boston, New York and Chicago. Book
No. 3 is lacking, and there are duplicate copies of Nos. 2, 4 and 5, although the
previous owners (students) differ for each. All twelve books contain drill exercises
on the first 2 pages and numbered exercises on the remainder. The exercises in the
earlier books emphasize correct use of lines, both curved and straight, through
copying of sample (lithographed) images. The exercises in some of the later books
are significantly more complex and focus more on perspective, representation and
light and shade. Some of the exercises include: leaves, fruit, decorative designs,
plants, geometric shapes and forms, architectural details, buildings and scenes.
Most of the books have been at least partially, if not wholly, completed by previous
owners.
Box 43, Envelope 12
Instruction in Drawing in Primary and Intermediate Schools in Europe and
America: A Critical Review of the Prang Course in Form-Study and
Drawing.
Approximately 1890
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One 36-page unillustrated pamphlet by Arnold Dodel, with an introduction by Louis
Prang, dated March 1, 1890, published by The Prang Educational Company, Boston.
"University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge" is printed on the verso of the
title page.
Box 30, Envelope 06
Freehand Drawing of Ornament. A Collection of Drawing Copies Reproduced
from Original Photographs, Selected and Arranged.
Approximately 1890
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One drawing book, by Robert Bunting and published by C. Arthur Pearson Limited,
London. "Pearson's School Series" is printed above the title and "Miller, Son and
Compy., Limited, Printers, Finsbury Circus Buildings, London, E.C." is printed on
the inside back cover. This book contains 22 numbered, photographed images of floral
and decorative ornaments (originals in stone), on perforated paper, preceded by 2
unnumbered pages that give "Suggestions for freehand drawing from the cast of
photographs." Each of the numbered images is protected by a guardsheet (none of the
sheets have been removed). Laid in between ornaments 10 and 11 is a single sheet of
"Standard Tracing Cloth."
Box 1, Envelope 06-07
White's New Course in Art Instruction For Elementary Schools.
1892
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Two drawing books (5th year and 7th year), published by American Book Company, New
York, Cincinnati, Chicago.
- Env. 06: 5th year: 32 pages including copying pages, some of which have been
filled in with pencil drawings and one page with paper cutout pattern pasted
in.
- Env. 07: 7th year: 36 pages, with all blank copying pages.
Box 9, Envelope 15-16
Prang's Complete Course in Form Study and Drawing, Western Edition, No. 2
and No. 6.
1893
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Two 20-page drawing books by John S. Clark, Mary Dana Hicks and Walter S. Perry,
published by The Prang Educational Company, Boston, New York and Chicago. Each book
contains numbered exercises that consisting of an image for copying, brief
instructional text, and space for copying. Some of the exercises in both of these
include: a pattern for a square prism, an envelope, decorative designs, a pattern
for a square prism, a bowl of fruit and flowers. Both books have additional colored
paper cutouts of some exercises either laid or mounted in; and both have been
completed by previous owners.
Box 9, Envelope 17
The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, No. 9, Seventh Year, First
Half.
1898
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One 16-page drawing book by John S. Clark, Mary Dana Hicks, and Walter S. Perry,
published by The Prang Educational Company, Boston, New York and Chicago. This book
contains a wide variety of lithograph and photograph illustrations intended for
study and copying. Some of the drawings, paintings, and images included in this
volume are: "The First Step" by Millet; images of various trees; Shakespeare's
house; Roman ornament and decoration and various Roman buildings. All of the
exercises have been completed either in pencil or in pen and ink. Two additional
original pieces of artwork have been mounted in: one is a pencil sketch of a basket
of apples, the other is a pencil and watercolor work of a basket of fruit.
Box 9, Envelope 18
The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, Eastern
Edition.
1899
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One 40-page drawing book published by The Prang Educational Company, Boston, New
York and Chicago, primarily containing testimonials about the Prang drawing
system.
Box 32, Envelope 08
Little Darlings' Drawing Book.
Approximately 1900
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One 16-page drawing book (part of the "Father Tuck's Little Artists' Series," No.
3625) published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., London, containing outline images,
and tracing paper overlays. The images depict children at play, or are scenes from
children's stories with some signed by "M Bowley" or "Edith Taylor." Seven of the
outline images have been filled in using colored pencils or crayons; others have
been traced.
Box 5, Envelope 11-12
Krone's Paragon Series of Drawing Books: Nos. 2 and 9.
1905
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Two drawing books, Nos. 2 and 9, revised, published by Krone Bros., New York. Book
No. 2 is 16 pages in length, and is a series of line exercises, progressing from
simple, single lines to combinations of lines to construct images such as flowers,
patterns and shapes. Book No. 9 consists of 8 leaves, each with an image on the
upper half of the page and space below for copying. These images include a rabbit, a
pig, a horse and a deer. Each of the 8 leaves is protected by a tissue guardsheet.
All of the exercises in both books have been copied in pencil by a previous
owner.
Box 3, Envelope 09-20
Applied Arts Drawing Books.
1908
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Twelve drawing books, edited by Wilhelmina Seegmiller, published by Atkinson
Mentzer & Grover, New York, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, and Dallas, comprised of
instruction books of approximately 32 pages containing black and white
illustrations, color plates, and instructional text. The 12 volumes are labeled:
Fourth Year, Spring; Fourth Year, Autumn and Winter; Fifth Year, Autumn and Winter
(2 copies); Sixth Year, Autumn and Winter (2 copies); Seventh Year, Autumn and
Winter (3 copies); Eighth Year, Autumn and Winter (3 copies).)
Box 41, Envelope 10
Old Glory Painting and Drawing Book.
1917
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One 24-page drawing/painting book published by Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron,
Ohio, New York and Chicago. This book is comprised of lithograph images for coloring
and their color prototypes, with some pages leave space for copying the image. Most
of the images have been colored, and a few have been copied.
Box 4, Envelope 06-07
Freehand Drawing.
1924, 1925
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Two art instruction books, Books 1 and 2, by Frances Beem and Dorothy Gordon,
published by Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with instruction in
illustration and lettering and primarily black-and-white images. The first book is
intended for instructional use for first year high school students and emphasizes
lessons in perspective. The second book is designed for second year high school
drawing students, with more complex images, and lessons on drawing in ink and figure
drawing.
Box 8, Envelope 02
Practical Drawing, Art Education Edition. Book 5.
1925
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One drawing book by the Practical Drawing Company of Chicago and Dallas, containing
both black and white and color illustrations, some of which are meant to be copied
in the space provided (the facing page); others are studies in color, image,
composition or proportion. The contents of this drawing book include a mixture
drawing lessons, craft projects and picture studies of both old and modern
paintings, posters, and illustrations. Instructions to students for further creative
work accompany many of the illustrations and images.
Box 10, Envelope 19-20
Circles & Squares: Books One and Two.
1930, 1931
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Two drawing instruction books, by Marguerite Marquart and Jean T. Mitchell,
published by World Book Company, Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York, each with numerous
exercises, lessons, and picture studes, illustrated with lithograph line drawings.
These two books are designed to be used consecutively. Book One "is intended to help
[the] ten- and eleven-year olds with their first difficulties in drawing
three-dimensional forms, to aid the older students in 'thinking through' their
problems in graphic representation." Book Two "is extended to squares and to true
perspective for rectangular objects and their interrelation in groups." Book One is
78 pages in length; Book Two has 80 pages. "Mabel Spofford" is written in ms. on the
front cover of each book.
Box 32, Envelope 07
Fun-Time Drawing.
1937
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One 14-page drawing book by George Carlson, published by The Platt & Munk Co.,
Inc., of either step-by-step drawing instructions for line drawing or colored and
uncolored images for coloring, copying, or tracing. Some of the illustrations in the
book have been colored in with crayon.
Box 32, Envelope 06
Drawing Horses.
1944
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One 64-page drawing book, by Victor Perard, published by Pitman Publishing
Corporation, New York and Chicago, providing step-by-step instructions for drawing
horses and similar animals, such as mules and donkeys. All of the images are in
black and white, and most pages contain at least some instructional text. Laid
inside the front cover are two newspaper clippings, dated 1951 and 1947
respectively.
Box 10, Envelope 03
Learn to Draw with Jon Gnagy: America's television art
instructor.
1950
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One 64-page drawing instruction book with black-and-white illustrations published
by A. Brown in New York, 1950, comprised of progressive drawing lessons. It begins
with warm-up exercises which include lines, shapes, and forms, as well as brief
lessons in shading, shadowing and texture. Also included are lessons in composition,
perspective and realistic representation. The middle section of the book is
comprised of 7 6-page exercises, and the remainder is devoted to learning to draw
the human figure and faces. The longer lessons include a still life of vegetables
and fruit; a woman and child on a dock at a riverbank and a steam engine approaching
a train station, among others. [The first 2 pages are missing and the publication
information have been supplied by OCLC].
Promotional drawing books.
Approximately 1860-approximately 1917
Box 32, Envelope 02
Easy Pictures for Slate Drawing.
Approximately 1860
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One 10-page promotional drawing book advertising several products: Lyon's
Magnetic Insect Powder; Mexican Mustang Liniment; Hagan's Magnolia Balm;
Plantation Bitters and Lyon's Kathairon, published by Lyon Manufacturing Co., New
York. This accordian-folded leaflet contains 5 advertisements (four of which with
woodcut illustrations) and four "pages" of white-on-black illustrations, made to
look like slate drawings, chiefly of domestic and farm animals.
Box 31, Envelope 05
Easy Drawing for Little Ones.
Approximately 1885?
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One 8-page promotional drawing book advertising Fleischmann's yeast (No. 16),
published by Fleischmann Co., New York. The booklet contains an illustrated
"story" of a little girl who makes bread using Fleischmann's yeast, with leaves of
tracing paper bound between the images. Some of the images have been traced.
Box 31, Envelope 02
"Satin Gloss" Drawing Book, for Little Folks.
Approximately 1885?
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One 8-page promotional drawing book advertising Satin Gloss soap, published by
David S. Brown & Co., New York, and comprised of 8 different lithograph
advertising images, each with a sheet of tracing paper bound in. Each of the
images has been copied onto tracing paper.
Box 31, Envelope 04
Tiny Tots Drawing Book.
Approximately 1885
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One 8-page promotional drawing book published by Emerson Piano Co., Boston,
Massachusetts. This booklet contains several images including a horse, a pony,
chickens, birds and rabbits on each page with leaves of tracing paper bound in
between each leaf. Some of the images have been traced.
Box 32, Envelope 05
Packer's Prize Drawing Book, No. 1.
1886
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One promotional drawing book advertising Packer's Tar Soap, Knapp's Throat Cure,
and Packer's Cutaneous Charm, published by Packer Mfg. Co., New York, a patent
medicine manufacturer. It contains advertising images, slogans, affidavits and
favorable product testimonies. Only one of the images has been copied.
Box 30, Envelope 04
Young Folks' Drawing Book.
Approximately 1886
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One 16-page promotional drawing book promoting Nichol's Bark & Iron,
published by Billings, Clapp & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1886. It
contains manufacturer's advertisements, testimonials (dated 1884-1886), and
illustrations for copying. Each of the illustrations are printed against a
numbered and lettered grid; a blank grid is printed on the facing page for
copying. None of the illustrations within the booklet have been copied.
Box 30, Envelope 13
Children's Drawing Book.
Approximately 1890?
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One 8-page promotional drawing book, published by The Coats Thread Co., American
Works, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, containing 5 images, on grids, for copying onto
separate grids.
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do not generally match.
Box 30, Envelope 14
[Children's Drawing Book].
Approximately 1890?
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One 10-page promotional drawing book published by Coats Thread Co., American
Works, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Each page contains a numbered and lettered grid;
there are 5 different images for copying. Lacking cover.
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do not generally match.
Box 30, Envelope 03
Slate Drawings for the Young Folks.
Approximately 1891
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One 16-page promotional drawing book advertising Belding Bros. & Co.'s silk
thread and products, published by Belding Bros. & Co., Boston, Massachusetts.
Each page contains several white-on-black illustrations, designed to represent
chalk drawings on a drawing slate.
Box 32, Envelope 10
Schaeffer Piano Drawing Book.
Approximately 1895?
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One 12-page promotional drawing book advertising Schaeffer pianos, published by
Schaeffer Piano Mfg. Co., Chicago. Each unnumbered page contains one or more
drawings and is covered by a sheet of tracing paper. Some of the illustrations
within the book are advertisements themselves: such as images of "Style 30" and
"Style 40" of the pianos, and an image of the Schaeffer Mfg. Co. warehouse. Other
images include an "American Indian Chief"; "Capitol Washington", and "A Street
Group in the Philippine Islands." None of the images have been traced.
Box 30, Envelope 12
Drawing Book.
1897
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One 12-page promotional drawing book advertising Chase & Sanborn coffee,
published by Chase & Sanborn, Boston, Massachusetts, and comprised of
lithograph images for copying, space for copying the pictures, and instructional
and promotional text. One of the images for copying is a coffee plant. None of the
images have been copied.
Box 30, Envelope 07
Hood's Drawing Book, with Designs and Suggestions from an Artist of Long
and Varied Experience.
1898
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One 24-page promotional drawing book advertising Hood's "Family Medicines",
published by C.I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Massachusetts, 1898. The book contains
various drawing exercises, starting with simple forms and progresses to complex
scenes. Preliminary exercises are on grids to aid the student in copying images;
other exercises encourage independent efforts copying an image. Five of the images
in the book have been copied into separate, loose papers, which have been inserted
in the book. A few of the drawings relate to medical goods made by C.I. Hood &
Co., such as the image of "Hood's Medicated Soap."
Box 32, Envelope 14
Little Miss Lacqueret's Drawing Book for Children.
Approximately 1900
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One 8-page promotional drawing book for Lacqueret household lacquer, published by
Standard Varnish Works, containing illustrations and rhyming texts. Each of the
pages is also covered by a sheet of tracing paper. Some of the images have been
traced.
Box 32, Envelope 11
The Singer Drawing Book for Young Artists.
1900
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One 8-page promotional drawing book of illustrations advertising the Singer
sewing machine, published by Singer Sewing Machine Co. Each page has its own sheet
of tracing paper.
Box 32, Envelope 12
The Singer Drawing Book for Young Artists.
Approximately 1900
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One 8-page promotional drawing book of illustrations advertising the Singer
sewing machine, published by Singer Sewing Machine Co. Each page has its own sheet
of tracing paper; none of the images have been traced. Some of the illustrations
for tracing are promotional; the first image is of a sewing machine. The other
illustrations are of children and animals.
Box 30, Envelope 10
The Calumet Prize Drawing Book, No. 1.
Approximately 1902
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One 6-leaf promotional drawing book advertising Calumet Baking Powder, published
by Calumet Baking Powder Company, Chicago, containing black and white lithograph
illustrations, each covered by a leaf of tracing paper. Some of the illustrations
for copying are: a rhinoceros, a train, tulips and a can of Calumet Baking Powder.
"M. Umbdenstock & Co." (presumably the lithographer) is printed at the bottom
of the inside of the back cover.
Box 32, Envelope 13
Our Country Drawing Book.
1903
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One 16-page promotional drawing book of outline images advertising Richelieu
brand of canned foods by Alfred G. Bauer (Bauer Series No.1), published by Sprauge
Warner & Company, Chicago. It was originally published with tracing paper
inserts; only one remains. The images include maps of the United States,
individual cities, the U.S. Caribbean and Pacific possessions, as well as
Nicaragua, Panama (and the proposed canal routes through both countries) and
Venezuela. None of the images have been filled in; one of the maps has been traced
in pencil.
Box 32, Envelope 21
Child's Drawing Book.
Approximately 1910
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One promotional drawing book for the Vose Piano Company, published by Vose &
Sons Piano Co., Boston, 8 images in outline, along with tracing paper overlays,
and advertisements and images for the company's pianos. None of the images have
been filled in; the first image has been partially traced in pencil.
Box 32, Envelope 01
Drawing Book of Butterflies.
Approximately 1910
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One promotional drawing book advertising Mrs. Dinsmore's Cough and Croup Balsam,
published by (compliments of) L.M. Brock & Co., Lynn, Massachusetts. It
contains 8 pages of black-and-white images of butterflies, with tracing paper in
front of each page, for copying. Some of the images have been traced onto the
tracing paper, and some of the traced and original images have been colored in
with crayons.
Box 31, Envelope 11
The Great Bear Drawing Book.
Approximately 1910?
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One 8-page promotional drawing book advertising Great Bear Spring bottled water,
published by Great Bear Spring Co., Foulton, New York, and containing advertising
images and text, in addition to leaves of tracing paper for copying the images. On
each of the 8 pages is an image, with rhyming promotional text below each image.
For example, beneath the final image of a horse-drawn cart the text reads: "This
is The Famous Water wagon, You've heard of it before; Just drop a line or 'phone
us And you'll see it at your door." None of the images have been copied.
Box 32, Envelope 03
Pretty Picture Drawing Book.
Approximately 1910
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One promotional drawing book advertising Besse, Bryant & Co., Clothiers,
Hatters, Furnishers of Worcester, Massachusetts, published by M. F. Tobin,
Publishers, New York, ca. 1910. The booklet is comprised of 6 leaves of lithograph
illustrations of images of children playing outdoors and with toys. There are
leaves of tracing paper bound in between each image; some of the images have been
traced onto the tracing paper.
Box 30, Envelope 02
Slate Drawings, Useful & Instructive.
Approximately 1910
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One 12-page promotional booklet advertising Balding Bros. silk thread published
by Belding Bros. & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, with white-on-black
illustrations designed to look like chalk drawings on slates. The inside of the
front cover promotes Belding Bros. & Co.'s Drawing Book.
Box 32, Envelope 22
The Story of Kiddie L. and Kiddie B.
Approximately 1910
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One 15-page promotional drawing book for Lion Brand Condensed Milk, published by
Wisconsin Condensed Milk Co., New York, containing 4 lithograph and
chromolithograph images for tracing and coloring, interspersed with advertising
and promotional text. Also included is a price list of china and kitchenware for
sale. Only one of the images has been traced onto the accompanying tracing
paper.
Box 30, Envelope 11
Columbus Drawing Book for the Kiddies.
Approximately 1917
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One promotional drawing book advertising Columbus Oleomargarine, published by
Capital City Dairy Co., Columbus, Ohio. The booklet describes on the front inside
cover and first page how to enter the contest (full instructions are given on pp.
10 & 11). The last page and back cover have recipes "in which Margarine has
been Thoroughly Tested." There are 12 images in the book: six in color and six in
outline to be filled in. None of the images have been filled in.
Subseries G. Drawing Cards.
1847-approximately 1911
Box 15, Envelope 01
Abbott's Common School Drawing Cards: Landscapes. Set 1.
1847
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One set of 40 numbered drawing cards (complete with one extra card 1) entitled
Abbott's Common School Drawing Cards, by Jacob and John S.C. Abbott, designed by
B.H. Coe and printed by Robert B. Collins, New York. A notice "To the Teacher" on
the verso of the box insert explains how to teach drawing in school, and below this,
"Reasons for Introducing Drawing into Common Schools" are listed. Each card has an
image on one side and instructions on the verso.
Box 16, Envelope 05
Initiatory Drawing Cards, Part I.
1848
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One set of 17 drawing cards (16 are numbered, with card 10 missing) by B.F.
Nutting, printed by M. J. Whipple, Boston, Massachusetts, with an 8-page
instructional booklet. One card is unnumbered and appears to have been added at a
later time.
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Box 16, Envelope 06
Initiatory Drawing Cards, Part I.
1848
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One set of 18 numbered drawing cards by B.F. Nutting, printed by M. J. Whipple,
Boston, Massachusetts, with an 8-page instructional booklet.
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Box 16, Envelope 05 contains the same set (incomplete).
Box 16, Envelope 04
Initiatory Drawing Cards, Part VI.
1850
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One set of 16 numbered drawing cards (cards 17 and 18 are lacking) by B. F.
Nutting, printed by John Jewett & Co., Boston, Massachusetts.
Box 16, Envelope 09
Augsburg's Action Drawing: Set II. The Deer.
Approximately 1850
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One set of 14 numbered drawing cards, printed by the Educational Publishing Co.,
Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1850. The 14 cards contain simple white outlines on black
backgrounds of a deer in various poses. This set was designed to "aid in the
teaching of Action Drawing ... in connection with the chapter on Action Drawing in
Book I of Augsburg's Drawing."
Box 17, Envelope 06
[Drawing cards].
Approximately 1850?
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One set of 48 untitled numbered drawing cards (consisting of numbers 5-32, 66,and
68-76). The designs, largely geometric, are progressively more complex as the
numbers go higher. Many of the cards have been copied in pencil, next to the
original printed design.
Box 17, Envelope 01
New York Artists' Classmanual No. 6, Coloured, Consisting of Twelve
Landscapes.
Approximately 1850?
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One set of 12 drawing cards (numbered 13-24) with chromolithograph images of nature
scenes (such as waterfalls and lakes) by Ed. Purcell, published by J.C. Riker, 129
Fulton St. [New York]. These images are printed on paper, rather than a heavier card
stock as might be expected of a drawing card.
Box 16, Envelope 03
The Pioneer Drawing Cards.
1856
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One set of 21 numbered drawing cards from a set of 24 (cards 12, 19, and 21 are
lacking) by B.F. Nutting, printed by Higgins and Bradley, Boston, Massachusetts. D.
T. Smith is listed as the engraver; the wrapper also includes the name Brown,
Taggard & Chase. The cards were intended to help draw an image through copying
steps that built the image in layers.
Box 16, Envelope 07-08
Systematic Drawing Cards for Schools, with Instructions: In Two
Parts
1857
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Two sets of drawing cards by Sigismond Schuster, published by Ivison & Phinney,
with 39 cards of increasing complexity from simple forms to complex landscapes. The
landscapes are scenes from Hoboken, New Jersey. Env. 07 contains the first part in a
green-patterned wrapper labeled "Drawing Cards for Schools & Families,"
subtitled "Part I. Nos. 1 to 24" (with card 24 missing). Env. 08 contains 16 cards
numbered between 25 and 47 (with cards 36, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, and 46 missing).
Box 15, Envelope 04
Coe's New Drawing Lessons, No. IV, Drawing for Schools: A Method by which
all the M[emb]ers of a Large Class are taught to Draw at [once] with Neatness,
Uniformity, and Accuracy.
1858
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One set of 47 drawing cards depicting landscapes and simple architectural outlines,
by Benjamin H. Coe, printed by D. Appleton & Co., New York. The cards are
grouped as No. 1. Perpendicular and Horizontal Lines; No. 2. Oblique and Curved
Lines; No. 3. Curved Lines and Introduction to Landscape; and No. 4. Studies in
Landscape. It is likely that the cards are an amalgam of several different sets.
Box 12, Envelope 10
Bartholomew's Progressive Drawing Cards, in five numbers, No.
1.
1860
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One set of 11 numbered drawing cards by W. N. Bartholomew, published by Cyrus G.
Cooke, Boston, with one-sided lithograph images (card 1 is lacking). The cards are
intended for use with a drawing slate. The images are identical to a portion of
those found in Bartholomew's Drawing Books and include fences, houses, buildings and
barns.
Box 15, Envelope 03
Coe's New Drawing Cards for Schools, No. 5.
Approximately 1860-1880
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One set of 17 drawing cards depicting landscapes, architecture and animals, printed
by D. Appleton & Co., New York, ca. 1860-1880. Each of the cards have a "No. 6"
in the upper left hand corner.
Box 16, Envelope 02
Knudsen's Method of Drawing Instruction For Schools.
1862
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One set of 43 numbered drawing cards (card 1-39 and 54-57) and 15-page
instructional booklet, published by C.W. Knudsen, New York. Minor corrections have
been made to the text in the margins (see tp, p.13). How the cards are connected to
the booklet is unclear.
Box 17, Envelope 04
Slate Pictures.
1863
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Five booklets of bound drawing cards published by L. Prang & Co., Boston (of
which three are copyright 1863). These are entitled "Slate Pictures: Drawing School
for Beginners," numbered 2 (2 copies), 4, and 6. The fifth booklet is entitled
"Slate Pictures for the useful selfemployment [sic] of young children" and is
numbered "II." While the first three booklets were clearly published by Prang, the
fourth has no date and no manufacturer, and may be a European import. The images in
the booklets, all are white on a black background, simulating drawing on slate with
chalk, and depict a variety of items and scenes including tools, weapons,
landscapes, people, and animals. There are numerous pencil markings on the
booklets.
Box 16, Envelope 01
Knudsen's Method of Drawing Instruction For Schools: Third Year's Drawing
Instruction, Containing Forty Progressive Patterns For Practical
Shading.
1864
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One envelope of 38 numbered drawing cards (card 40 is lacking) and 12-page
instructional booklet, published by C.W. Knudsen, New York, 1864. The booklet is
subtitled: "to be used by the ordinary teacher twice a week" and provides a lesson
plan for use of the cards, describing how each card should be used.
Box 17, Envelope 03
The Student's Drawing Cards.
[ca. 1870?]
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One set of 18 French unnumbered drawing cards, primarily of landscape scenes and
buildings, printed by J. Monrocq. [Monroque] of Paris, sold by G.T. James of New
York.
Box 22, Envelope 25
American Drawing-Cards, First Series.
1873
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One set of 7 drawing cards by Walter Smith, published by James R. Osgood &
Company, Boston, with 14 numbered lessons, each with white-on-black lithograph
illustrations. Also included is a set of directions: "Rules for the Guidance of
Pupils using the American Drawing Cards." The lessons progress from simple
horizontal, vertical and parallel lines to moulding and interlacing forms.
Box 12, Envelope 11
Bartholomew's Primary School Drawing Cards, No. 1.
1874
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One set of 10 drawing cards published by Woolworth, Ainsworth & Co., New York
and Chicago, with double-sided lithograph cards, principally containing line drawing
lessons on each side, totaling 20 lessons. These drawing cards were designed to be
used in conjunction with a drawing slate.
Box 16, Envelope 10
Grammar School Drawing Cards of Elementary Design.
1875
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One set of 3 doubled-sided drawing cards (identified as "Second Series") prepared
by Lucius B. Morgan, a drawing teacher in Worcester, Massachusetts, and published by
Grout & Putman, Worcester, Massachusetts. The six images on the cards contain
simple leaf and flower designs which are then incorporated into more complex
designs. For example, there is one image labeled "The Ivy" which show the simple ivy
leaf and then the same leaf used in a repeating border and a fan design.
Box 17, Envelope 02
Easy Drawing Lessons for Blackboard or Slate.
1879
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One set of 36 numbered drawing cards by E. Croasdale, principal of the Philadelphia
School of Design for Women, printed by J.M. Stoddart & Co., Philadelphia. Each
card contains white images against a black background of increasing complexity,
intended for copying.
Box 17, Envelope 07
[Drawing cards].
Approximately 1890-1915?
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One set of nine drawing cards with color lithograph images, untitled, some
unnumbered. Some of the images included are: fruit and vegetables, an American flag
with 13 stars, geometric patterns and designs, 3-dimensional shapes, farming tools,
and insects.
Box 15, Envelope 02
Brown's School Series—The Young Designer Drawing Cards: 24 different
designs for crayon work, suitable for Infants and Standard 1.
Approximately 1900-1905
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One set of 24 double-sided numbered drawing cards (card 13 is lacking),
manufactured by A. Brown & Sons, Ltd., London, Hull and York. Each of the
drawing cards are printed on both sides; the chromolithography of the front side of
each was meant to imitate the look of a crayon drawing, and the back side of each is
printed in outline for coloring.
Box 17, Envelope 05
The Good Zoo Drawing Cards.
Approximately 1911
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One set of drawing cards by Bess B. Cleaveland, published by School Arts Publishing
Company, Boston, comprised of 10 cards within a printed envelope. The cards are
numbered and labeled: Card 1. Chickens; Card 2. Hens; Card 3. Ducklings; Card 4.
Wolves; Card 5. Mice; Card 6. Cats; Card 8. Dogs; Card 9. Pigeons; Card 10. Rabbits.
Each card contains numerous views of each subject and a few lines of text. With
envelope addressed to Mabel Spofford.
Subseries H. Flyers and Magazine Excerpts.
Approximately 1920-1940?
Box 18, Envelope 06-11
The Eldorado Page, Sketching with "the master drawing pencil".
Approximately 1920-1940?
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6 promotional advertisements for Dixon pencils published by Joseph Dixon Crucible
Co., Jersey City, New Jersey, which feature aspects of pencil-drawing technique.
Sheet No. 1: "Area Technique"; No. 2: "A Discussion of the Center of the Sketch";
No. 3: "Notation of Procedure"; No. 4: "Exercises"; No. 5: "How to Sketch Evergreen
Foliage"; and No. 6: "The White Door." All of the illustrations and instructional
text are by Ernest W. Watson, an instructor at the Pratt Institute. The six pages
were originally published in various issues of an unnamed magazine.
Box 18, Envelope 12-16
[Eldorado Pencil advertising flyers with Earl Horter artwork].
Approximately 1924
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Five advertising flyers displaying copies of original art work by Earl Horter,
created with Eldorado Pencils, published by Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City,
New Jersey. The sketches are titled as follows: "Doorway to Doge's Palace";
"Interior, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia"; "Bridge over the Delaware
River..."; "Street Scene, Grasse, France"; "Mont St. Michel, France".
Box 18, Envelope 17
[Higgins Company and American Crayon Company project instruction
sheets].
Approximately 1925
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Two sets of project instruction sheets, one published by the Higgins (Company), and
the other by the American Crayon Company of Sandusky, Ohio, from Mabel Spofford's
personal collection.
The first set is comprised of a black and white reproduction of a photograph of a
collage and five one-sided sheets of textual instructions entitled:
- Paper Decorating With Higgins American Drawing Inks (2 p.)
- Materials for Higgins Museum Exhibit (2 p.)
- Higgins Vegetable Glue (1 p.)
The second set of sheets is a collection of single-sided "Problem and Idea Sheets,"
with some illustrations, consisting of:
- No. 41: The Right Way of Making a Drawing (3 p.)
- No. 43 The Right Technique for Water Colors and Tempera (2 p.)
- No. 46 How to Obtain a Good Color Scheme (2 p.)
- No. 52 How to Put 'Punch' in Your Art Work (2 p.)
- No. 128 Making Jungle Animals (1 p.)
These sets came .
Subseries I. Miscellaneous Pamphlets and Books
Box 42, Envelope 02
The Identification of the Artisan and Artist: the Proper Object of American
Education. Illustrated by a lecture of Cardinal Wiseman, on the relation of the arts
of design with the arts of production
1869
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One unbound 48-page pamphlet by Elizabeth P. Peabody, published(?) by Adams &
Co., Boston. The subtitle reads "addressed to American workingmen and educators,
with an essay on Froebel's reform of primary education."
Box 42, Envelope 03
Lettering, A Syllabus for Teaching.
1937
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One 16-page pamphlet by Matlack Price, published by Art Education, Inc., New York,
New York, illustrated with black and white illustrations and lettering samples.
"Mabel Spofford" is written in ms. at the top of the front cover.
Box 42, Envelope 04
Lettering, Its History, Principles & Practice.
1937
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One 32-page instructional book by Matlack Price, ["Basic Alphabets and many other
illustrations were drawn by Otto Munzinger] published by Art Education, Inc., New
York, New York. Some of the items discussed are letter spacing, serifs, italics, and
different fonts "in action." "Mabel Spofford" is written in ms. at the top of the
front cover.
Box 42, Envelope 07
A Quarter Century of Public School Art: Have We Made Good?
Approximately 1935
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One 15-page pamphlet by C. Valentine Kirby, distributed by Binney & Smith Co.,
New York, outlining recent progress made in art education in the United States.
Box 42, Envelope 10
The Teacher of Oil Painting and Tapestry, 5th ed.
Approximately 1930
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One 128-page book by D. M. Campana, published by D. M. Campana Art Co., Chicago.
This book is 128 numbered pages in length, and is illustrated with black and white
images. The book is divided into chapters, and addresses issues such as canvases,
brushes, color mixing, composition, drawing and painting specific subjects such as
animals or fruit. A 3-page index is followed by 3 final pages listing other
publications by D.M. Campana.
Box 42, Envelope 11
Report of the Committee on Elementary School Art.
1926
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One 32-page unillustrated pamphlet published by the Federated Council on Art
Education. The first 7 pages include a list of related associations, a president's
preface, a table of contents and an introduction. Several of the sections were
written by named individuals, rather than the Council as a whole. There are ms.
notes and annotations throughout. "Mabel Spofford, her book" is written in ms., in
ink, on the bottom of the front cover.
Box 42, Envelope 12
Syllabus of a Course of Illustrated Lectures on Historic Art: Historic
Ornament and Sculpture, Series of 1899.
Approximately 1898
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One 36-page pamphlet by James Frederick Hopkins, published by Geo. H. Ellis,
Boston, Massachusetts. Text includes a course schedule, listing of some "General
works on the history of art," descriptions, with illustrations, of each of the
topics and sections addressed in the course, as well as "A selected list of books in
the Boston Public Library recommended for reading in connection with the
lectures."
Box 42, Envelope 13
Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 3-1879: The Value
of Common School Education to Common Labor.
1879
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One 38-page unillustrated pamphlet by Edward Jarvis, published by the Government
Printing Office, Washington. The overall theme of the book concerns the value of
education to common laborers, with descriptions of the tasks and work conditions of
various types of common labor.
Box 42, Envelope 14
Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 5-1879: American
Education as Described by the French Commission to the International Exhibition of
1876.
1879
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One 38-page unillustrated pamphlet by Ferdinand Buisson, published by the
Government Printing Office, Washington. This pamphlet summarizes the 702-page report
of a commission of French school officials and teachers who, in 1876, were sent to
the United States to study educational methods in connection with the Centennial
Exhibition of that year.
Box 42, Envelope 15
Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 2-1881: The
Relation of Education to Industry and Technical Training in American
Schools.
1881
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One 22-page unillustrated pamphlet by Emerson Elbridge White, published by the
Government Printing Office, Washington, divided into two sections: Technical
Training in American Schools and The Relation of Education to Industry.
Box 42, Envelope 16
Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 4-1882: Industrial
Art in Schools.
1882
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One 38-page unillustrated pamphlet by Charles G. Leland, published by the
Government Printing Office, Washington, divided into three sections: Introduction;
Practical Teaching; and General Observations.
Box 42, Envelope 17
Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 6-1882: Technical
Instruction in France.
1882
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One 64-page unillustrated pamphlet by Bernhard Samuelson, published by the
Government Printing Office, Washington.
Box 42, Envelope 20
Fifteen Easy Methods of Applied Decoration.
Approximately 1935
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One 4-page instructional pamphlet by Pedro J. Lemos, "Director of Museum of Fine
Arts, Standford University, California." This leaflet outlines various methods of
decoration in a variety of media. It was designed to accompany a set of pattern
sheets (unnamed); the 15 methods of decoration outlined are for use with the pattern
sheets. The methods outlined in the pamphlet are: decorative charcoal tonal work;
cut paper panels; paper batik decoration; waxless batik decoration; Javanese batik
decoration; linoleum block print decoration; Crayonex textile decoration;
Tempera-Tex fabric decoration; parchment paper decoration; stained glass effect
decoration; carved wood decoration; applique embroidered cloth decoration; Reliefo
or Gesso decoration; painted color cement tile; and carved cement tile.
Box 43, Envelope 01
A Lecture On The Importance of Linear Drawing, and On The Methods of
Teaching The Art in Common Schools and Other Seminaries.
1831
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One unbound, unillustrated 20-page pamphlet by Walter R. Johnson, published by
Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, Boston, Massachusetts, containing a copy of a
lecture "delivered in the Representatives' Hall, Boston, August 23, 1830, before the
American Institute of Instruction." "Franklin Institute, Presented by the author
April 1831" is written in ms., in ink, at the top of the front cover.
Box 43, Envelope 02
Chinese Shadow Plays.
Approximately 1935
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One 19-page typescript book by Pauline Benton, "Developed as a China Study Unit by
the Red Gate Players," and published by Industrial Arts Cooperative Service, New
York. The book provides an historical background and how-to instructions for
creating Chinese shadow plays, which utilize transparent, animated parchment figures
behind a brightly lighted screen. Included are two pages of illustrations of
traditional costumes; a list of materials needed; sections on production, staging,
scenery, costumes and music; and a bibliography. Laid into the book are three
ephemeral pieces about the Red Gate Players. "Mabel Spofford" is written in ms. in
the center of the front cover.
Box 43, Envelope 03
The Arts of Design: Especially as Related to Female Education. An Address:
deliberated in the Hall of the Maryland Institute, at the commencement of the Female
Department of the School of Design, November 25th, 1856.
1857
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One unbound unillustrated 28-page pamphlet by J. A. Seiss, published by John Murphy
& Co., Baltimore, Maryland. The speaker encouraged women to enter the sphere of
industrial arts and argued that "the 'Mechanic Arts' would improve both women's lot
and the nation's economy."
Box 43, Envelope 04
Colored Crayons in Your School.
Approximately 1930
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One 16-page pamphlet by Fred Hamilton Daniels, published by Joseph Dixon Crucible
Co., Jersey City, New Jersey, discussing the use of color in the classroom, the
importance of color in learning about art, and how to create art. The booklet is
illustrated with 6 color reproductions of images using colored pencils and crayons;
much of the text discusses each of the images. "The Sparrell Print, Boston" is
printed at the bottom inside the back cover.
Box 43, Envelope 06
Some Reasons Why Drawing Should be Taught in Our Common Schools: A paper:
Read at the Meeting of the Ohio Teachers' Association, at Put-in-Bay, July 4, 1877;
and also at the Annual Meeting of the National Education Association, at Louisville,
KY, Aug. 16, 1877.
1877
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One 24-page unillustrated pamphlet by Langdon S. Thompson, published by the author,
La Fayette, Indiana.
Box 43, Envelope 08
Industrial Art: For All of the Children of All the People.
Approximately 1920
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One 8-page pamphlet by Elizabeth V. Colburn -- a reprint of "Monograph from The
National School Digest", Minneapolis, Minnesota. This 8-page pamphlet has the
appearance of a newsletter, and is illustrated with black and white reproductions of
artwork. The text discusses the use of color theory within the public schools, and
is divided into grade-level sections: "Grade 1. The Primary Colors"; Grades 2-3. The
Binary Colors"; "Grade 4. Tints"; "Grade 5. Shades"; "Grades 6, 7 and 8.
Complimentary and Analogous Harmonies."
Box 43, Envelope 10
Industrial and Decorative Art in Public Schools: Read at a meeting of the
Association, October 21st, 1880.
1880
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One 18-page unillustrated pamphlet by Charles G. Leland, published by Philadelphia
Social Science Association. Leland suggests the ways in which the young should be
educated so that they can do something to support themselves. Industrial and
decorative art, he argues, not only produces a tangible product, it trains the mind.
On the inside of the front cover is a "list of the papers read before the
Association" between 1871 and 1880.
Box 43, Envelope 11
Art in the United States of America.
1884
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One 16-page pamphlet by Edward A. Rand, published by Phillips & Hunt, New York,
and by Walden & Stowe, Cincinnati, illustrated with engravings. This pamphlet is
Number 61 in the Home College Series. The back cover is a publisher's advertisement
for 100 titles in the Home College Series.
Box 43, Envelope 13
Art Education Alert: Aids America to Meet Wartime Needs.
1942
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One 48-page booklet published by the Pratt Institute, New York, containing black
and white illustrations. The insides of the front and back covers are illustrated
with a black and white visual representation of the wartime program for art. The
book is organized according to age level-appropriate activities: "Introduction, A
Plan for Art Education; The Elementary School Level; The Junior High Level; The
Senior High Level; The Adult Education Level; The Supplement; Art in the War Today;
Materials, Sources." "Mabel Spofford" is written in ms. at the top of the front
cover.
Box 43, Envelope 14
Art and Materials for the Schools: Activities to Aid the War and the
Peace.
1943
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One 112-page book by Sibyl Browne, published by Progressive Education Association,
New York and printed by the Reliable Press, Inc., New York, N.Y, containing black
and white illustrations, and bibliographical references."P.E.A. Service Center
Booklet 2" is printed at the bottom of the front cover. The book is divided into 13
primary topics: "Materials and Design; Art and Aviation Education; Map Making;
Pictorial Charts; Informative Exhibits; Puppetry; Posters, Handbills, and Booklets;
Dyeing, Painting, and Printing with Natural Materials; Weaving and Rug Making;
Pottery and Modeling; Carving Wood, Plaster and Stone; Using Light and Materials for
Photograms; Exploring Plastics." Laid in is an instructional sheet published by
Educational Materials, Inc. for hand loom weaving. "Mabel Spofford, 1944, $1.25" is
written in ms. on the front cover.
Box 44, Envelope 01
The Massachusetts Teacher ... Extra: Fifteenth Annual Report of the
Secretary of the Board of Education.
1852
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One 24-page unillustrated pamphlet by Barnas Sears, published by Samuel Coolidge,
Boston. In it Sears highlights "errors and mistakes [which are] highly injurious" to
effective instruction and presents "appropriate remedies" and other suggestions. The
two titled sections of the report are "The Primary School" and "The Grammar School."
The report ends with a general summary of statistics "relating to the Public Schools
of the Commonwealth."
Box 44, Envelope 02
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farmers Bulletin No 1219: Floors and Floor
Coverings.
1928
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One 30-page informational pamphlet prepared by the Bureau of Home Economics and
published by the United States Department of Agriculture. It is organized into two
primary categories: floors and floor coverings, with subdivisions of several types
of each; installation, repair and maintenance are discussed.
Box 44, Envelope 04
The Munsell Color System: Children's Studies in Measured
Colors.
1907
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One 14-page pamphlet by Albert H. Munsell, published by Wadsworth, Howland &
Co., Boston, Massachusetts, comprised of 3 color plates and 8 pages of text. The
text describes the use of color on each of the three plates: "Plate I. The color
sphere, with measured scales of hue, value and chroma; Plate II. Color studies with
tuned crayons in the lower grades; Plate III. Color Studies with tunes watercolors
in the upper grades."
Box 44, Envelope 05
Munsell Color System.
1910
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One 22-page pamphlet containing a reprint of the article "A Measured Training of
the Color Sense" by Albert H. Munsell, which appeared in
Education
(February, 1909) published by Wadsworth, Howland & Co., Boston,
Massachusetts.
Box 44, Envelope 06
Art in Industry: From the Seventeenth Annual report of the Massachusetts
Bureau of Statistics of Labor, pp. 331-394.
1886
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One pamphlet by Carroll D. Wright, published by Wright & Potter Printing Co.,
Boston. This offprint contains three illustrations and several charts. It is
organized into the following sections: Introduction; Art as a Profession; Applied
Art; Educational Facilities, and Conclusions Drawn from the Schedules.
Box 83, Envelope 03
The Stranger: A Modern Miracle Play.
1915
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One 16-page pamphlet by James Parton Haney, "Director of Art in the High Schools of
New York City. Reprinted from the February 1915 Issue of Good Furniture, Published
by the Dean Hicks Company, Grand Rapids, Mich[igan]." The pamphlet consists of an
introduction and the text of the play.
Box 83, Envelope 04
The Art Schools Our Country Needs.
1919
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One 12-page pamphlet/reprint entitled by James Parton Haney, "Director of Art in
High Schools, New York City," reprinted from
The New York Times,
December 22, 1918.
Box 83, Envelope 05
A Practical Philosophy of Art Supervision.
Approximately 1919
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One 16-page pamphlet by James Parton Haney, "Director of Art in High Schools, New
York City", reprinted from
Industrial-Arts Magazine, April, 1919. The
pamphlet outlines the 20 goals of "What the Department Seeks to Do Thru
Supervision." "M. Spofford" is written in ms., in ink, at the top of the front
cover.
Box 88, Envelope 06-08
Design Workshop.
1935
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Two 4-page issues of Design Workshop, No. 1 and Bulletin 2, by Ralph M. Pearson,
published by Ralph M. Pearson, New York. Bulletin 2 is dated October 1935.
Accompanying these is an envelope from the Ralph M. Pearson Design Workshop
addressed to Mabel Spofford.
Box 44, Envelope 07
The Prospects of Art in the United States: An Address before the Artists'
Fund Society of Philadelphia, at the Opening of Their Exhibition, May,
1840.
1840
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One 46-page unillustrated pamphlet "Printed for the Artists' Fund Society, By John
C. Clark", Philadelphia. The cover title reads: "Rev. Dr. Bethune's Address.
Artists' Fund Society of Philadelphia. 1840."
Subseries J. Miscellaneous Periodicals
Box 105
The American Magazine of Art and
The
Craftsman.
1903, 1919
Scope and Contents
Single issues of:
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The American Magazine of Art (N.Y., Washington, D.C. and
Chicago: The American Federation of Art): v. 10, no. 7, May 1919 (2 copies)
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The Craftsman (Syracuse, N.Y.: United Crafts): v. 5, no. 1,
Oct. 1903.
Box 106
Art in America and
Arts &
Decoration.
1919-1921, 1944
Scope and Contents
Issues of:
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Art in America: an illustrated quarterly magazine (Springfield,
MA: edited by Jean Lipman): Volume 32, no. 4, October 1944
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Arts & Decoration New York: Hewitt Publishing Corporation
(imprint varies): Volume 10, no. 4, February 1919; Volume 10, no. 5, March 1919;
Volume 10, no. 6, April 1919; Volume 11, nos. 1-6, May-October 1919; Volume 12,
nos. 1-5, November 1919-March 1920; Volume 13, no. 2, July 1920; Volume 13, no. 3,
August 1920; Volume 15, no. 2, June 1921
Box 103
The Drawing Teacher: A Little Folder of Teaching Projects for the Art
Teacher.
1926-1947
Scope and Contents
71 whole and partial issues of the monthly (bi-monthly from 1937-1947) periodical
The Drawing Teacher edited by Harry W. Jacobs and published by
Binney and Smith Co., New York. Each issue is devoted to two specific art projects
for use in schools. Types of projects included are: civic art posters, maps, block
printing, dioramas, clay sculpting and modeling, paper construction, holiday
decorations, painting, drawing, poster-making, lettering, calendars and paper
cutting. Each complete, 4-page, issue contains two separate but related art
projects; one for the primary grades, the other for high school students;
advertisements for Binney and Smith products, and a fourth section entitled
"Intimate Comments in the Field of Art". This last section contains notes from the
editor, book reviews, and news from within the field. This collection of issues is a
mixture of complete and incomplete (i.e. half) issues. "M. Spofford" is written in
manuscript on some of them.
Box 107
Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine.
1864
Scope and Contents
One issue of
Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine (Philadelphia: Louis
A. Godey): v. 68, March 1864.
Box 113
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
1865-1866
Scope and Contents
One bound volume containing
Harper's New Monthly Magazine (New York:
Harper & Brothers Publisher): Volume 32, December 1865-May 1866.
Box 108
The International Studio.
1911-1912, 1927
Scope and Contents
Eight issues of
The International Studio (New York: John Lane
Company): Volume 44, no. 173, July 1911; Volume 44, no. 174, August 1911; Volume 45,
nos. 178-180, December 1911-February 1912; Volume 46, nos. 180 and 181, March and
April 1912; Volume 86, no. 358, March 1927.
Box 5, Envelope 09
John Martin's Book, A Magazine for Little Children.
1913
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One issue of an illustrated magazine published by John Martin's House, Inc., New
York: Volume 1, Number 4, March 1913. 96 (unnumbered) pages in length, the magazine
includes stories, poems, rhymes, recipes, drawing and coloring work, songs, and
activities, among others.
Box 109
Peterson's Magazine.
1865
Scope and Contents
Peterson's Magazine (Philadelphia): v. 47, 1865. See also Box 110
(v. 48, 1865 cont.)
Box 110
Peterson's Magazine.
1865
Scope and Contents
Peterson's Magazine (Philadelphia): v. 48, 1865. (See also Box 109,
v.47, 1865)
Box 111
The New-England Magazine.
1833
Scope and Contents
One bound volume of
The New-England Magazine (Boston: Printed and
Published by J.T. & E. Buckingham): v. 4, Jan.-June, 1833.
Box 112
The Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion.
1842
Scope and Contents
One bound volume with issues of
The Boston Miscellany of Literature and
Fashion
(Boston: Bradbury, Soden & Co., Edited by Nathan Hale, Jr.) v.
1, Jan.-July 1842.
Subseries K. Painting and Coloring Books
M.A. Donohue & Co. books.
Box 37, Envelope 04
Home Painting Gallery.
1908
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One painting book, by F.I. Wetherbee, published by M.A. Donohue & Co.,
Chicago, comprised of chromolithograph images, black and white images for
coloring, and blank pages for drawing. The images and exercises within this book
range from very simple (drawing straight lines) to more complex coloring and
shading. Many of the lithograph images have been colored in.
Related Materials
All of the images in this book are the same as those in Box 37, Env. 05.
Box 37, Envelope 05
Juvenile Painting Gallery.
1908
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Scope and Contents
One painting book by F. I. Wetherbee, published by M.A. Donohue & Co.,
Chicago, comprised of chromolithographic plates and black-and-white outline
drawings for coloring, with descriptive, instructive and playful text accompanies
each image. The lessons progress from fundamental to more complex, and include
lessons on form, perspective, shape, proportion and shading.
Related Materials
All of the images in this book are the same as those in Box 37, Env. 04.
Box 41, Envelope 06
The Young Artist's Painting and Drawing Book.
Approximately 1915
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One 44-page drawing/painting book by F. I. Wetherbee, published by M. A. Donohue
& Co., Chicago, comprised of chromolithograph and outline illustrations for
painting. Most, but not all, of the images appear in pairs, one colored and the
other in outline form, for coloring. Some of the illustrations have been
colored.
Charles E. Graham & Co. books.
Box 36, Envelope 03
Little Folks' Painting and Drawing.
Approximately 1900
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One painting and drawing book (series title is 0701--Paint Book Series),
published by Charles E. Graham & Co., New York, containing twelve images, some
printed in outline, others color printed to show color schemes. Most of the
outlined images have been filled in with wax crayon.
Box 36, Envelope 04
Big Animal Paint Book.
1916
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Scope and Contents
One 44-page painting book, published by Charles E. Graham & Co., New York,
containing both black-and-white and color images of wild and domestic animals
including tigers, cows, goats, geese, squirrels, fox and lions. Some of the images
have been colored in, and some of the blank pages contain original artwork.
Box 36, Envelope 02
Kiddie Paint Book.
Approximately 1918
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One painting book published by Charles E. Graham & Co., New York (series
title: "0901 Kute Paint Book Series"). Front cover image of a young boy in a World
War I army uniform. The book has 9 unique images, most in outline--only three were
printed in color--chiefly depicting anthropomorphised and comical animals. One of
the images, a squirrel driving a car, has been filled in using watercolors.
Box 37, Envelope 09
Box of Pictures to Paint.
1892
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Scope and Contents
One boxed portfolio of painting sheets, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York.
This set is comprised of 4 chromolithograph and 5 outline (black and white)
plates, housed inside a wood and paperboard box. Some plates are duplicates (one
in color and the other in outline, for coloring), and others are a lone color
plate or images in outline form. All of the outline plates have been colored in
with watercolor. "Archie F. Jones" is stamped, in blue ink, at the top of this
mounted sheet.
Box 38, Envelope 01
Palette Painting Book.
1892
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One painting book, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, of 22 images: eleven
in color and eleven corresponding images in outline to be colored by the student.
The images depict various scenes of people, children, animals, and nursery rhyme
characters with tag lines at the bottom. None of the images have been filled
in.
Box 38, Envelope 02
The Child's Palette: A Painting Book, Book No. 1.
1897
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One watercolor painting book, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, with 24
images, eight in color and sixteen in outline, depicting children and animals with
tag lines at the bottom. The book is designed so that the student could study a
colored image and then practice on an "outline" (uncolored) image. A second
uncolored image is also provided "giving opportunity for a second trial on the
same design." None of the images have been filled in.
Box 38, Envelope 03
Pictorial Painting Book.
1898
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One 16-page painting book, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, comprised of
chromolithograph plates and black-and-white images for coloring. Each of the
interior leaves is illustrated; poetic text accompanies each image. All of the
black and white images have been colored in with either crayon or watercolor.
Box 38, Envelope 04
Art Studies for Little People: Landscapes.
1902
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One 8-leaf painting book, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, of
chromolithograph plates: half in full color and half in dull green and black
tones, intended for coloring by the student. The title page reads: "Object
Painting Book." The images in the book are accompanied by rhymes and poems. None
of the images have been colored in.
Box 38, Envelope 05
Flower Studies: A Painting Book.
1902
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Scope and Contents
One painting book, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, with six color
images, including the cover and title page. The title page is entitled "Object
Painting Book." None of the outlined images have been filled in.
Box 38, Envelope 06
Landscape Painting Book.
1902
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One 8-page painting book, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, of images,
half of which are printed in color, the other half in outline, to be filled in
using the complementary color image as a guide. All of the outlined images have
been filled in with watercolors. The title page is entitled "Object Painting
Book."
Box 38, Envelope 07
The Easy Painting Book.
1904
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One painting book, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, with six color images
mainly of children at play, including the cover and title page. Four colored
images are matched by four identical images printed only in outline, which have
not been filled in. The inside front cover features six colored circles intended
as a guide for coloring and, as explained in the instructions, they are the actual
pigments to be used (with water) to apply color within the book itself. "No. 83"
is printed on the back cover.
Box 38, Envelope 08
The Easy Painting Book.
1904
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One painting book, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, with six color
images, including the cover and title page. Four colored images are matched by
four identical images printed only in outline. The inside front cover features six
colored circles intended as a guide for coloring and, as explained in the
instructions, they are the actual pigments to be used (with water) to apply color
within the book itself. These colors appear to have been used and many of the
outlined images have been filled in using watercolor. "No. 84" is printed on the
back cover.
Box 41, Envelope 08
Little Folks' Painting and Drawing Book.
Approximately 1905
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One 32-page drawing/painting book, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, with
chromolithograph and black-and-white lithograph illustrations of animals in
outline form for coloring; some have been colored. "0701, McLoughlin Bros. N.Y."
is printed in the lower left-hand corner of cover.
Box 41, Envelope 07
Drawing and Painting Book.
Approximately 1910
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One 24-page drawing/painting book published by McLoughlin Bros., Springfield,
Massachusetts, containing illustrations of people, buildings, and animals for
coloring. Some of the illustrations are in pairs, with one printed in color and
the other in outline form for coloring. Some of the images have been colored with
crayon or watercolor.
Box 32, Envelope 04
First Steps in Art.
Approximately 1910?
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Scope and Contents
One 24-page drawing/coloring book published by McLoughlin Bros., Springfield,
Massachusetts, containing drawing "problems" with instructions as well as images
and scenes for coloring. The intent of the book is stated at the bottom of the
title page: "In this book there are twelve simple problems in drawing for a child
from five to twelve years of age; also there are thirteen interesting color pages
to be painted or crayoned in five primary colors, yellow, red, blue, green and
purple."
Box 37, Envelope 07
Spring Blossoms Painting Book.
Approximately 1910
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Scope and Contents
One painting book, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, comprised of 4
chromolithograph plates and 4 black and white copies of those plates, intended for
coloring; some of the images have been colored in with watercolor.
Box 37, Envelope 08
The Little Folks Painting Book.
Approximately 1910
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One painting book by Kate Greenaway, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York,
comprised of 15 plates of black-and-white images of children meant for coloring;
many of these have been colored in. Each page contains four labeled images.
Box 38, Envelope 09
Home Painting Book.
Approximately 1930
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Scope and Contents
One painting book, published by McLoughlin Bros., Springfield, Massachusetts,
comprised of a series of double illustrations with one image printed in color, and
the other in outline form to be painted. Some of the images within the book
include scenes of playing children, animals, flowers and food. Few of the images
have been filled in. "2044" printed on cover.
Box 37, Envelope 06
Marine and Landscape Studies: A Painting Book.
Undated
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Scope and Contents
One 12-page painting book, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, with color
images and corresponding black-and-white outlines; the latter have all been filled
in with colored pencil or crayon using the complementary color image as a
guide.
Saalfield Publishing Company books.
Box 40, Envelope 01
Animals to Paint.
1910
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One painting book, published by the Saalfield Publishing Co., Akron, Ohio,
consisting of twenty-four outline images of various animals, six with identical
color images meant to guide the student in the use of color. Most of the images
have been filled in with crayon rather then watercolor.
Box 40, Envelope 02
Birds to Paint.
1910
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One painting book, published by the Saalfield Publishing Co., Akron, Ohio, with
thirty images of various birds are included, six with identical color images meant
to guide the student in the use of color. Most of the images have been filled in
with crayon rather than watercolor.
Box 40, Envelope 03
Objects to Paint.
1910
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Scope and Contents
One painting book, published by the Saalfield Publishing Co., Akron, Ohio, with
thirty images of various objects and scenes, such as a ball or a train of cars or
national flags; six have identical color images meant to guide the student in the
use of color. Most of the images have been filled in with crayon rather than
watercolor.
Box 40, Envelope 04
Color Magic.
1929
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Scope and Contents
One 44-page painting book, published by Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron,
Ohio, (no. 207), comprised of both color and black-and-white illustrations. Many
of the illustrations have been colored in with crayon.
Box 32, Envelope 09
A Boatload of Pictures to Color.
1938
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Scope and Contents
One 48-page large novelty coloring book illustrated by Corrine and Bill Bailey,
published by The Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron, Ohio, and New York. Includes
illustrations of things, people, equipment and sights associated with cruises and
ships and a storyline written as if the reader was a passenger on a cruise ship.
Many of the illustrations have been colored in with crayon.
Box 40, Envelope 06
Betty's Painting Book.
1917
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One 12-page painting book, published by Stecher Lith. Co., Rochester, New York,
(no. 38) of chromolithograph and outline illustrations, the latter meant for
painting. Each page contains a child or pair of children from different countries;
some pages contain just an outline image, others contain both a chromolithograph
image and an outline image. Each is accompanied by a brief rhyme; for example:
"This English mite is shy tho bright, And always kind to pets you'll find." None
of the images have been colored.
Box 40, Envelope 07
Soldiers of Many Nations Painting Book.
1917
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One painting book with verses by Carolyn S. Hodgman, No. 8, published by Stecher
Litho. Co., of Rochester, New York, containing 13 pages of printed images, with
six printed in color and the rest in outline. All of the images are of troops from
Allied or neutral countries involved in World War I: Sweden, the United States,
Great Britain, Russia, Romania, Italy, France, Belgium, Canada and Greece. Only
one of the outlined images has been filled in with wax crayon.
Box 40, Envelope 08
The Soldier Painting Book.
1917
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One painting book, with pictures by W.F. Stacher, verses by Carolyn S. Hodgman,
No. 43, and published by Stecher Lith. Co., Rochester, New York, comprised of 12
pages of chromolithograph and outline drawings of soldiers and medals of honor
from various countries. The front cover is a chromolithograph image of a United
States marine and army soldier. Each page of the painting book contains an image
or images of military men from various countries and their medals of honor. Some
of the images have been colored with watercolor or crayon.
Raphael Tuck & Sons books.
Approximately 1910
Box 41, Envelope 12
The New Painting Book for Boys and Girls.
Approximately 1910
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One painting book, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, London, comprised of a
single, long sheet of chromolithograph images of children playing and
corresponding outline images for coloring. The single sheet is mounted to the
inside front cover only, and is accordian-folded to create 8 pages of images. The
chromolithograph sample images are along the top row, and the outline images are
beneath them, forming the bottom row.
Box 41, Envelope 13
The New Painting Book for Boys and Girls.
Approximately 1910
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One painting book, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, London, comprised of a
single, long sheet of chromolithograph images of children playing and
corresponding outline images for coloring. The single sheet is mounted on the
inside front cover only, and is accordian-folded to create 8 pages of images. The
chromolithograph sample images are along the top row, and the outline images are
beneath them, forming the bottom row.
Box 38, Envelope 17
Father Tuck's Butterfly Painting Book.
Approximately 1910
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One 12-page painting book (part of "Father Tuck's Little Artists' Series"),
published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., with butterfly and moth images, some in
outline, some in color, on perforated pages. Many of the outline images have been
painted in using watercolor.
Box 38, Envelope 18
Our Pets' Portraits Painting Book.
Approximately 1910
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One 24-page painting book (part of "Father Tuck's Little Artists' Series," no.
3629), published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Co., Ltd., New York, London and Paris,
composed of color and matching outline images for coloring. Most of the images
have been colored in.
Box 38, Envelope 21
The Wild Animal ABC Painting Book.
Approximately 1895
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One 20-page painting book, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., London,
Paris, and New York, and printed in Bavaria, containing images tied to
corresponding letters and text. (For example, "B is for Beaver who builds a mud
home.") The majority of the images in the book are in outline form, although some
are printed with a matching color image to help guide the student in the use of
color. Some of the images have been painted in with watercolor.
Box 38, Envelope 22
Father Tuck's "Fairy Folk" Painting Book.
Approximately 1907
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One painting book (part of Father Tuck's Patent "Paintbox" Series, no. 2571),
published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., of London, with nine color images from
various folk tales and children's stories, including Little Red Riding Hood,
Cinderella, and Robinson Crusoe. There are remnants of six watercolors on paper
backings at the top of the front cover. The owner of the book used the blank pages
meant for copying for unrelated pencil and watercolor work.
Whitman Publishing Company books.
1932-1938
Box 41, Envelope 04
The Easy to Paint Book.
1932
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One 48-page painting book, by Helen Schwarz and published by Whitman Publishing
Company, Racine, Wisconsin, of colored and black and white illustrations for
painting. Throughout the book, illustrations appear as pairs of colored and
uncolored images. Many have been filled in with watercolor.
Box 41, Envelope 03
Flowers, A Paint Book.
Approximately 1935
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One 32-page painting book, illustrated by Pru Herric, published by Whitman
Publishing Company, Racine, Wisconsin, of outline drawings of flowers. Each of the
pages for coloring features a single type of flower that is identified by its
common name; color suggestions are below the name of the flower. Some of the
images have been colored in with chalk.
Box 41, Envelope 05
The Lone Ranger Paint Book.
1938
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One 32-page painting book (No. 621), illustrated by Ted Horn and published by
Whitman Publishing Company, Racine, Wisconsin, comprised of labeled outline
illustrations with captions, such as: "The Lone Ranger and Silver"; "Tonto Senses
Danger"; and "The Sheriff Surveys the Scene". Some of the images have been colored
with crayon.
Books by unidentified publishers.
Box 41, Envelope 02
Le Petit Coloriste.
Approximately 1876
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One painting book, publisher unidentified, comprised of 16 titled plates in eight
sets of pairs of colored and uncolored images. Each of the uncolored images has
been colored with watercolor. An inscription, in ms., dated 1876, is written on
the front pastedown. A red and white binder's(?) label is affixed to the rear
pastedown: "Aux 2 Blassons, Gravure, Papeterie de luxe, Kilchenmann, Cannes."
Box 32, Envelope 18
Picture Joys for Girls and Boys to Laugh at to Colour & Draw with
Pleasant Verses of Life and Fun for Everyone.
Approximately 1879
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One 28-page coloring book, publisher unidentified, containing illustrations and
rhymes for children. Several of the images have been colored in.
Box 41, Envelope 01
Exercises in Coloring. VI.
Approximately 1885?
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One painting book, publisher unidentified, comprised of 12 plates of etchings in
six pairs of colored and uncolored images.
Box 32, Envelope 17
Nouveaux Modeles de Coloris pouvant etre executes avec des crayons de
couleur ou des crayons pastel.
Approximately 1890?
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One coloring book, publisher unidentified, with cover title: Les Petits Peintres,
[No.] 11. This book is comprised of 4 chromolithograph plates of images, each with
a corresponding black-and-white lithograph plate intended for coloring. The first
image has been colored in with watercolor paint.
Box 32, Envelope 19
The Pleasant Hour Drawing Book, for Instructive Sketching and Coloring
Purposes.
Approximately 1900
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One drawing booklet, publisher unidentified, containing 12 etchings in two rows
of 6 different images; some have been colored in with crayons. A company(?) logo
of a bird in flight within a circle, with the initials "N.T.Y." is on the
cover.
Books by miscellaneous publishers.
Box 36, Envelope 05
Outline Pictures for Little Paint Brushes: With Stories Giving Hints for
Coloring, by the Editors of Babyland.
1881
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One painting book published by D. Lothrop & Co., Boston, with figures drawn
by George F. Barnes. Twelve of the fourteen images in the book are accompanied by
stories which hint at which colors to use and where. All of the images have been
filled in using watercolor. Includes one freehand image at the back of the book of
a young lady sitting on a fence rail.
Box 10, Envelope 01
Introductory Lessons in Drawing and Painting in Water-Colors.
1882
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One 66-page art instruction book by Marion Kemble, published by S.W. Tilton &
Company, Boston, comprised of sections, illustrated with line drawings, including
"Perspective," "Water colors," and "Directions for coloring" (with 7 full-page
illustrations). The book has an additional 13 unnumbered pages of testimonials and
advertisements at the end.
Box 36, Envelope 08
The Easel Painting Book: With Pictures that Children can "easily"
paint.
Approximately 1890
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One 20-page painting book, published by Ernest Nister, London, and distributed in
the United States by E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, containing various images
tied to nursery rhymes and verses. Most of the images are in outline form,
although there are some printed in color as a guide to the student. The first page
contains some brief instructions in verse, including the lines: "If you take my
advice what is proper to do, / Don't paint the skies red, or the moon blue." None
of the images have been filled in.
Box 37, Envelope 02
The Artistic Painting Book.
Approximately
1900-1910?
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One 69-page painting book, published by International Art Publishing Co., Ltd.,
London and New York, of images, both in outline and a few complementary color
image formats (though the majority of the images have no complementary color
image). The majority of the images have been filled in, using watercolor wax
crayon (or colored pencil), and chalk. Many of the outlines are very light and
some were traced over in pencil prior to being filled in.
Box 40, Envelope 09
Painting Plays for Rainy Days, and Easy Drawing Lessons.
1902
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One 200-page painting book by J. H. Willard, published by Thompson & Thomas,
Chicago. The illustrations are a combination of chromolithographs and outline
images for painting and include scenes of children at play, patterns, designs,
fruits and vegetables, animals, and buildings. Some of the pictures are
accompanied by rhymes or instructional text. Images progress in complexity from
drawing straight lines to patterns and design and also include lessons in
perspective and proportion. Many of the images have been colored with watercolor
.
Box 40, Envelope 10
Painting Pastimes for Young Artists.
1905
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One painting book with drawings by Edith O'Donnell and verses by Gerard Chapman
and others, published by Thompson & Thomas, Chicago, 1905. This book is
approximately 200 unnumbered pages in length. containing a combination of
chromolithograph, lithograph, and outline illustrations for coloring, with some of
the illustrations accompanied by rhymes and verses, others by instructional text.
Included are lessons in color, shape, perspective, proportion and shading. Some of
the images have been colored in with watercolor or crayon.
Box 37, Envelope 01
Ideal Paint-Box-Book, with Easy Drawing Lessons for Young
Painters.
Approximately 1907
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One painting book, published by the Ideal Book Builders, Publishers, Chicago,
Illinois, containing watercolors, a small palette, and paintbrush (all of which
folds into a box on the inside front cover) and pages of both chromolithograph and
lithograph images for coloring comprise the rest of the book. Text in the form of
rhymes and poetry accompany most images. Within the body of illustrations, there
are several containing racial slurs. Many of the lithograph images have been
colored in with the paints provided.
Box 37, Envelope 03
Little People's Pictures Painting Book: Father Tuck's Little Artist
Series.
Approximately 1910
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One 24-page painting book, published by Kaufmann & Strauss Co., New York,
comprised of lithograph images for painting and tracing and chromolithograph
plates as samples.
Box 40, Envelope 05A,
05B
Pretty Pets Painting Books. Six Kinds, All Different.
Approximately 1910
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One incomplete set of 22-page painting books (Nos. 1, 4, and 6 only) published by
Saml. Grabriel Sons & Company, New York. Each of the books contains a
combination of outline images for coloring or painting and their color prototypes.
All of the images for coloring are of children, and some of the images are
repeated within each book. Most of the images in each of the three booklets have
been colored, in crayon or in watercolor. The booklets are each in a protective
envelope, but were originally housed in paperboard box.
Accompanying these three books are three additional 10-page painting books from
a separate series, published by Saml. Gabriel Sons and Company entitled
Kindergarten Drawing Book, Nos. 3, 4 and 5. Each of these books
contains black and white outline images printed over graph paper, for copying and
coloring. Each of these books has been used, to some extent.
Box 38, Envelope 15
Young America Painting Book: for Young People with Easy Drawing
Lessons.
1913
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One painting book, published by Platt & Nourse Co., New York, composed of
color illustrations and corresponding outline illustrations meant for coloring.
Images include scenes of children at play, toys, animals and flowers. Many of the
images have been colored in with crayons.
Box 38, Envelope 16
The Hiawatha Painting Book.
1913
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One watercolor painting book, published by the Prang Company, containing twelve
painted images on perforated pages that depict scenes and illustrate the story of
Hiawatha. On the first blank pages Christmas tags and a calendar have been copied
in watercolor. A short religious poem and the name "Herman W. Lane, Hampton, N.H."
have been written in ms., in pencil.
Box 39
The Mother Goose Parade: A Combination of Painting Book and Scissors Play
for Children's Hand Made Nursery Borders.
1914
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One painting book, by Anita de Campi, published by The Reilly & Britton Co.,
Chicago. This activity book is comprised of black-and-white illustrations designed
to be colored and cut out, each accompanied by a Mother Goose rhyme. Some of the
images have been colored.
Box 36, Envelope 06
Fun and Frolic Painting Book.
Approximately 1915
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One 24-page painting book, published by De Wolfe, Fiske & Co., Boston,
comprised of a combination of 4 chromolithograph illustrations and several
black-and-white lithograph illustrations for coloring. The interior images are
scenes from various fairy tales: the Three Little Bears, Miss Muffet, Little Red
Riding Hood and the Three Little Kittens. Some of the lithograph images have been
traced in pencil.
Box 36, Envelope 07
Something Pretty to Paint.
Approximately 1915
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One painting book, published by Ernest Nister, London and E.P. Dutton & Co.,
New York, comprised of 10 plates of perforated cards, with some chromolithograph
samples and some black-and-white lithographs of the images in outline form
intended for coloring and sending. Images largely consist of floral images and
Biblical verse. "Printed in Bavaria, 399" is printed at the bottom of the front
cover and of the title page.
Box 36, Envelope 09
Happy Moments Crayon and Painting Book.
1926
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One 47-page painting book, published by Goldsmith Publishing Co., Cleveland,
Ohio, (Series 646), of images including animals, flowers, children, circus scenes,
and Mother Goose. Some of which have been color printed to demonstrate color
schemes. Some images have been colored in using wax crayon, and at least one has
been painted.
Box 41, Envelope 09
Objects to Color or Paint.
1955
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One 12-page painting and drawing book (No. 068 B), published by Platt & Munk
Co., comprised of color and outline images, including a clock, a bed, socks, a
dress and a television. None of the images have been colored.
Promotional Painting Books.
1894-1925
Box 36, Envelope 01
Hood's Sarsaparilla Painting Book.
1894
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One 36-page painting book, published by C.I. Hood & Co., of Lowell,
Massachusetts, of images, chiefly in outline form for painting, with colored
images to serve as a guide for student in the appropriate use of color. The book
advertises Hood's Sarsaparilla, a patent medicine, and the company itself. There
are images of children playing, of Hood's Factory and Hood's Farm, and even of
Merry Maiden, the prize cow from Hood's Farm. The majority of the outline images
have been filled in using watercolors.
Box 38, Envelope 14
The Adventures of Ceresota.
1912
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One promotional painting book ("Serial No. 143"), published by Northwestern
Consolidated Milling Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota, producers of Ceresota Flour.
There are 24 images in the book, 12 in color and 12 in outline to be filled in by
using the complementary color image. Each outline image could be cut out of the
book, though none of the images have been in removed from this particular
copy.
Box 38, Envelope 10
Dutch Boy Lessons in Painting.
Approximately 1910
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One 14-page promotional painting book for Dutch Boy white lead paint, published
by National Lead Company, New York and Boston, comprised of 8 pages of outline
illustrations for painting, and 3 leaves of watercolor paints (6 colors to a page)
for use in painting the illustrations. Below each image are a few lines of
promotional text. None of the images have been colored in, and the paints have not
been used.
Box 38, Envelope 11
The Dutch Boy's Jingle Paint Book.
1921
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One promotional painting book and manufacturer's advertisement by O.C. Harn,
published by National Lead Company. The book contains twenty images, with nine
color images and nine identical outline images to be filled in using the
complementary color image at its side as a guide. In the center of the book are
squares of watercolor with overlays of tissue paper. Some of the images have been
filled in using these watercolors, others have been filled in with both watercolor
and wax crayon. On the bottom edge of the back inside cover, stamped in purple
ink, are the numbers "96448 ORD 1178 21."
Box 38, Envelope 12
The Dutch Boy's Lead Party.
1923
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One promotional painting book by O.C. Harn, published by National Lead Company.
The first page shows the Dutch Boy talking to the lead soldier, followed by 14
images--7 in color and 7 in outline--of items that use lead, including a light
bulb (lead glass), shoes and baseballs (lead in the rubber), and a bullet
(entirely made of lead). Each outlined image was to be filled in using the
complementary color image at its side as a guide. Some of the images have been
filled in using watercolor. There are four perforated tabs at the end of the
book--probably where the "Color Harmony in the Home" booklet, mentioned on the
front cover, would have been included before its removal for use by adults.
Box 38, Envelope 13
The Dutch Boy in Story Land.
1925
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One promotional painting book by O.C. Harn, published by National Lead Company,
with 14 images, 7 in color and 7 in outline to be filled in using the
complementary color image as a guide. Some of the images have been filled in using
watercolor. There are four perforated tabs at the end of the book--probably where
the "Decorative and Protective Painting" booklet, mentioned on the front cover,
would have been included before its removal for use by adults.
Subseries L. Pattern Books.
Approximately 1898-1937
Box 45, Envelope 03
[Japanese pattern book].
Approximately 1898
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One Japanese-language pattern book of approximately 150 pages containing Japanese
symbols, patterns and words. According to Diana Korzenik, "Owned and Given
Compliments of Arthur W. Dow" is written in Japanese on the pink paper label affixed
to the front cover.
Box 45, Envelope 04
[Japanese pattern book].
Approximately 1898
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One Japanese-language pattern book containing approximately 200 pages with nature
scenes, including those of waterfalls, birds, flowers and trees. "Compliments of
Arthur W. Dow, 1898", is written, in ms., in ink, at the top of the first page.
Box 45, Envelope 01-02
Album Mondiale di Disegni per Ricami.
Approximately 1920
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Two Italian pattern books:
- Env. 1:
Album Mondiale di Disegni per Ricami (Serie N. 51), a
pattern book for embroidery and lace designs
- Env. 2: Incomplete book, lacking front cover and some pages, with 34 pages of
patterns labeled "Tavola" I-XV. Printed text in the upper left-hand corner of each
page: "Riservati tutti i Diritti."
Box 45, Envelope 06
Decorative Initials.
Approximately 1920
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One set of 13 sheets of decorative initials published by Davis Press, Worcester,
Massachusetts, which appear to consist of sheets from two or three different sets.
The sheets are unnumbered and unlabeled and are housed within a paper envelope
entitled: "Decorative Initials: Made by the Davis Press for Use in Schools." "M.
Spofford" is written in ms. on the verso of one of the leaves.
Box 45, Envelope 05
Bucilla Blue Book of Initials and Monograms, Volume 30.
1921
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One pattern book published by Bernhard Ulmann Co. Inc. This pattern book is
comprised of 12 leaves of initial and monogram patterns, all for the letter "C."
Box 4, Envelope 19
Design in Dark and Light: Folio No. 2: "Birds."
1929
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One pattern book by Rose Netzorg Kerr, published by the Fairbairn Art Company, New
York, New York. This folio consists of 16 numbered and titled plates with black and
white images of birds such as sparrows, geese and peacocks. The emphasis of these
images is on patterns, motif design and use of space. "Mabel Spofford" is written in
ms. at the top of each of the plates.
Box 10, Envelope 16
Designs for Piercing, Chasing and Etching.
1937
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One pattern book published by William Dixon Incorporated, Newark, New Jersey. This
book is a loose-leaf portfolio of 31 numbered plates, containing "more than two
hundred motifs" with series entitled: Ornaments, Animals, Birds, Designs, Borders
and Initials.
Subseries M. Penmanship Books.
1868-1928
Box 21, Envelope 05
Harper's Writing Books: Symmetrical Penmanship with Marginal Drawing
Lessons, for Schools and Families.
1868
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One 24-page penmanship book published by Harper & Brothers, New York,
identified as "School and Family Series: Writing and Drawing, In Ten Numbers, Number
5." With copying exercises for letters, phrases or sentences, figures, and drawings.
None of the exercises have been completed.
Box 21, Envelope 07
Payson, Dunton & Scribner's National System of Penmanship, Tracing and
Short Course, No. 2.
1875
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One 24-page penmanship book by G.H. Shattuck and A.S. Manson, published by Potter,
Ainsworth & Company, New York and Chicago. The book's 24 lessons contain
letters, letter combinations, words and numbers for copying. All of the exercises
and lessons have been completed in ink.
Box 21, Envelope 08
Payson, Dunton & Scribner's National System of Penmanship in 12
Numbers, Revised and Improved, No. 7.
1875
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One 24-page penmanship book by G.H. Shattuck and A.S. Manson, published by Potter,
Ainsworth & Company, New York, 1875. This contains 24 exercises, all of a
business nature. At the top of each page is the sample, and below it is space for
copying. Some of the exercises include "Order", "Promissory Note", "Ledger Account"
and "Bill of Exchange." Most of the exercises have been completed, in ink. Laid into
this book is a 4-page pamphlet entitled "Little Pilgrim Lesson Paper, prepared by
Mrs. W.F. Crafts, April 20, 1884".
Box 21, Envelope 04
Welby's Book of Alphabets, for Ornamental Penmen, Professional Letterers,
and Students, with Practical Directions for Lettering, Illuminating,
etc.
1880
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One 34-page penmanship book by Edward Welby, published by Hall & Whiting,
Boston, Massachusetts, containing sample alphabets in a variety of plain and
decorative fonts. The sample fonts are identified as: Roman, Italic, Roman, Italic,
Egyptian, Engrossing, Engrossing, Old English, Old English, German Text, German
Text, Old English Ornamented, German Text Ornamented, Italic Ornamented, Roman
Ornamented, Roman Ornamented, Ornamental, Gothic Initials, Church Text, French,
Celtic. The last unidentified alphabet is a wonderfully whimsical array of human
figures, some with objects, formed to create letters. This book has not been written
in.
Box 21, Envelope 11
Real Pen Work: Self Instructor in Penmanship.
Approximately 1884
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One fragment of a penmanship book published by Knowles & Maxim, consisting of
the binding only; the interior pages are missing. The publication information is
taken from a bibliographic record in OCLC.
Box 21, Envelope 02
Barnes' National System of Penmanship.
1886
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One 24-page penmanship book, published by A.S. Barnes & Co., New York and
Chicago, containing 24 exercises. Across the top of each page are sample words and
numbers for copying. The remainder of each page is eleven lined sections for student
copying. All of the lessons have been completed, in ink, by a previous owner.
Box 21, Envelope 09
The Normal Review System of Writing--Tracing Course, No. 1.
1889
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One 24-page penmanship book by D. H. Farley and W. B. Gunnison, published by
Silver, Burdett & Co., Boston, New York and Chicago, containing 22 different
exercises for copying and tracing. None of the exercises have been completed.
Box 21, Envelope 10
The Normal Review System of Writing, Regular Course, No. 4 1/2.
1891
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One 24-page penmanship book by D. H. Farley and W. B. Gunnison, published by
Silver, Burdett & Co., Boston, New York and Chicago, containing 23 copying
exercises. The writing samples themselves are didactic. Some examples are: "The
Executive power is vested in the President, who holds office for four years. His
salary is $50,000 per annum."; "The privilege of the writ of 'Habeas Corpus' cannot
be suspended unless when the public safety may require it." None of the lessons have
been completed.
Box 91, Envelope Set 05
The ABC of Lettering for Public Schools.
1908
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One envelope of 19 instruction sheets on lettering (of alphabets, numbers, and
phrases), with the majority appearing to be components of The ABC of Lettering for
Public Schools by Schuyler Bull, of Rochester, New York. Additional sheets are
included also, but these appear to have come from other sources. Accompanying these
sheets is an envelope addressed to Miss Mabel Spofford.
Box 21, Envelope 06
Lessons in Lettering: A Series of Practice Books With Text, Examples and
Exercises, Book 2 Inclined Single Stroke.
1924
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One 40-page penmanship book by Thomas E. French and William D. Turnbull, published
by McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York and London, comprised of 20 lessons on
numbered sheets related to "Inclined Single Stroke Commercial Gothic." The top
inside front cover reads: "Second edition, fifth impression." Several publisher's
advertisements for drawing books and vocational books are laid in to this lettering
book. None of the exercises have been completed.
Box 21, Envelope 03
On The Technique of Manuscript Writing.
1924
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One 78-page penmanship book teaching "English Manuscript Writing," published by
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta and San Francisco and
identified as part of a "Series on Childhood Education, edited by Patty Smith Hill."
Includes pages of instructions, lessons, examples and exercises. None of the lessons
have been filled in. Laid in at the front is a publisher's promotional flyer.
Box 21, Envelope 01
Advance Edition of the Palmer Method of Business Writing.
1928
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One 96-page penmanship book, published by The A. N. Palmer Company, New York,
Chicago, Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Portland, Oregon, containing 113 penmanship and
writing drills. The book is divided into three Lessons: 1 "Correct Positions for
Classroom Writing"; Lesson 2 "Physical Training in Penmanship Practice" (which is
comprised of the 133 drills); and Lesson 3 "Applied Writing" in which sample forms,
letters and ledgers are given.
Subseries M. Prints.
Approximately 1780?-1931
Box 46, Envelope 26
[Engravings of portraits].
Approximately 1780?
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One bound set of engravings, untitled and unsigned, comprised of eight leaves of
original engravings. The images are all portraits, some are single figures and
others are multiple faces. The plates include a nude woman, and the engraved "label"
reads "From the Venus de Medicis" (plate 1); three rows of male, female, and child
heads (plate 2); a bearded man, side view (plate 3); a hooded man, gazing upward
(plate 4); a woman dressed in a fur-trimmed cloak wearing a double strand of pearls
looking down (plate 5); two images of the same side view portrait of a woman (plate
6); a double three-quarters view portrait of a young woman (plate 7); and a
full-frontal double-portrait of a young man with curly hair (plate 8). Some of the
plates are signed "Anib. Carracche."
Box 46, Envelope 06-25
[Engravings chiefly of Biblical figures].
Approximately 1810
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One set of 20 plates made from steel engravings; the plates have been disbound from
an unnamed book source. Most, if not all, of the images are of Biblical figures,
such as Jesus, Mary, John and Peter, as well as one plate of geometric and simple
head and shoulder drawings.
Box 17, Envelope 08-09
[Sixteen loose prints].
Approximately 1865
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Sixteen loose prints (Env. 8) and binding that may have held them (Env. 9), with
the name in ms. of "Louise V. Palmer," who probably collected and used the images
for personal use. The images do not appear to have come from one source. Most of the
cards depict ruined castles or chateaux and nature scenes.
Box 46, Envelope 01-05
Cours De Figure Par Mr. N. Maurin.
1869, 1870
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Five anatomical studies printed by Lemercier, Benard et Ce. of Paris, France
depicting ears, faces, feet, and hands. All five engravings are entitled Cours De
Figure Par Mr. N. Maurin. Three are subtitled "Methode Tirpenne"; two are subtitled
"Etudes d'apres nature, Methode Tirpenne".
Box 42, Envelope 19
Our Washington as the Artist sees It: 20 sketches of impressive beauty in
the national capital, series No. 1.
1931
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One portfolio of 15 unbound images, by J. B. Himmelheber, published by Grafico,
Washington, D.C., comprised of images of buildings and monuments in Washington, D.C.
The set of plates are laid into a brown paper portfolio that is illustrated with an
image of George Washington. Some of the images included in the set are: the Capitol
Building, the Washington Monument, Columbus Memorial Fountain, The White House, The
National Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, and the Library of Congress. A
description is printed on the verso of each plate.
Subseries N. Puppetry
Approximately 1928-1940
Box 90, Envelope 01-11
Eleven envelopes of materials relating to or about puppetry and
marionette
Approximately 1928-1940
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A collection of 11 envelopes of materials relating to or about puppetry and
marionettes, ranging in date from 1928 to 1940, all collected or authored by Mabel
Spofford. There are approximately 60 pieces within this box.
- Env. 1: 2 newspaper clippings about a marionette performance, ca. 1930.
- Env. 2: 4 flyers from the New England Puppetry Institute, dated 1938.
- Env. 3: 2 flyers about marionettes and puppetry.
- Env. 4: 2 informational flyers regarding performances by the Fuller Studios
(North Quincy, Massachusetts) and The Forrest Marionettes (Fitchburg,
Massachusetts), ca. 1940.
- Env. 5: 5 flyers, notices and newsletters from the Kingsland Marionettes of
New York; some of the flyers are notices of their summer workshops in Brandon,
Vermont. These items range in date from 1937 to 1940.
- Env. 6: 2 leaves (an article) removed from a 1937 issue of Look magazine about
marionettes.
- Env. 7: 3 pieces. The first is an article from a magazine entitled
""Marionettes in the Home"" by Howard L. White. The second is 2 typescript pages
of notes; the third is a color image, removed from a magazine, of 5 male
faces.
- Env. 8: 6 pieces, which include typescript pages about stage plays and
lighting of stage plays, a marionette performance invitation, a publisher's
advertisement, and a program for the Twelfth Annual Conference of Supervisors and
Teachers of Art at the Massachusetts School of Art, February 1935.
- Env. 9: 4 typescript pages and 1 envelope from the New England Puppetry
Institute, sponsored by the Curry School of Expression.
- Env. 10: approximately 30 pieces of manuscript notes and newspaper clippings
and printed items, including drawings and plans of puppets, all relating to
various puppetry shows and performances.
- Env. 11: a 1933 24-page exhibition catalog entitled Exhibition of Puppets and
Marionettes with a note on Puppetry in America, by Paul McPharlin, held in Chicago
from July-September 1933.
Box 42, Envelope 05
Puppetry: An Educational Adventure.
1934
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One 24-page book by Virginia Murphy, published by Art Education Press, Inc., New
York. The front cover, a red and yellow image of two marionettes, was designed and
signed by Venizelos Kanellis. Included in the book are instructions for making
marionettes, stage setting, stage construction and play selection and
performance.
Subseries O. Tracing Books.
1898-1972
McLoughlin Bros. books.
1898-approximately 1928
Box 33, Envelope 02
Drawing and Tracing Book.
1898
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One joint drawing and tracing book, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York,
comprised of 8 lithograph plates of images of domestic and farm animals for both
copying and tracing, with 8 leaves of tracing paper bound in front of each plate.
The title page reads: "Amusement for Little Children. Drawing and Tracing
Book."
Box 33, Envelope 03
Drawing and Tracing Book: Boats and Houses.
1898
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One joint drawing and tracing book (no. 81), published by McLoughlin Bros., New
York, comprised of 8 lithograph plates of images for tracing and drawing, with 8
leaves of tracing paper bound in. None of the images have been traced or copied.
Cover image of a boy and girl in a rowboat.
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Contains the same images as Box 33, Envelope 04, but with different cover.
Box 33, Envelope 04
Drawing and Tracing Book: Boats and Houses.
1898
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One joint drawing and tracing book, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York,
comprised of 8 lithograph plates of images for drawing and tracing, with
interleaved tracing paper bound in. Cover image of a little girl in glasses,
seated at a table, painting in a coloring book. These images have been traced in
pencil and colored in with crayons.
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Contains the same images as Box 33, Envelope 03, but with different cover.
Box 33, Envelope 05
Drawing and Tracing Book: Children at Play.
1898
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One joint drawing and tracing book (identified as series "No. 81"), published by
McLoughlin Bros., New York, comprised of 8 plates of lithograph images. There are
no sheets of tracing paper in this volume. Cover image of a young child, wearing a
white cap and a white dress, holding a wooden spoon. The illustrations inside have
been painted in with watercolors.
Box 33, Envelope 06
Drawing and Tracing Book: Funny Animals.
1898
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One joint drawing and tracing book (identified as series "No. 81"), published by
McLoughlin Bros., New York, copyright 1898. The cover title is: Drawing and
Tracing Book: Funny Animals &c. This book is comprised of 8 leaves of
lithograph plates. The sheets of tracing paper appear to have been removed. Cover
image of a robin, wearing a vest and jacket and tipping his hat. The images for
tracing and coloring are whimsical in nature; there are pictures of cats reading
and swinging on swings, dancing frogs and a seated pig smoking a pipe. Some of the
images have been colored in with watercolor paints.
Box 33, Envelope 07
Drawing and Tracing Book: Simple Objects.
1898
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One joint drawing and tracing book (identified as series "No. 81"), published by
McLoughlin Bros., New York, comprised of 8 leaves of lithograph images, including
various fruits, flowers, and household objects, for coloring and tracing. The
sheets of tracing paper have been cut out. Cover image of a little girl in a pink
and white dress who is carrying a large pail and several cooking utensils. All of
the images have been colored in with watercolor paints.
Box 33, Envelope 08
Great Big Drawing and Tracing Book.
Approximately 1928
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One joint drawing and tracing book (identified as series no. "510"), published by
McLoughlin Bros., Springfield, Massachusetts, comprised of 8 leaves of
illustrations for tracing, copying and coloring, and 8 leaves of tracing paper.
Cover image of a boy drawing and a girl at play. The illustrations are grouped by
category, and each leaf is labeled: "Little Folks Friends (toys); Feathered
Friends; Four Footed Friends; Fruits and [has been cut out]; The Farmer and the
Goose (signed by Rhoda Chase); Towser and the Snow Man (also signed by Rhoda
Chase); and Mothers Sewing Circle." Many of the images have been traced and
colored in.
Books by miscellaneous publishers.
Approximately 1900-1910
Box 33, Envelope 01
The Favorite Drawing and Tracing Book.
Approximately 1900
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One tracing book ("0201 Tracing Book Series"), published by Graham & Matlack,
New York, comprised of 8 unnumbered plates of black-and-white images for tracing,
each accompanied by a sheet of tracing paper. The illustrations are whimsical in
nature; they feature animals dressed in clothing, often doing silly things like
riding snails. All of the leaves of tracing paper have been used to some
extent.
Box 30, Envelope 19
Tracing Book, Pencil Pictures.
Approximately 1900
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One tracing book (identified as "0202--Junior Drawing Series"), published by
Charles E. Graham & Co., New York, The book is comprised of 8 leaves of images
for tracing, and 8 leaves of tracing paper, bound in front of each image. The
images are of animals and include a pheasant, cats, a tiger, horses and a cow.
Some of the images have been traced onto the paper provided.
Box 5, Envelope 10
National Portraits.
1905
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One tracing book, published by Kaufmann & Strauss Co, with 8 connect-the-dot
images of famous men, with instructions below and a riddle. Portraits include
George Washington, Columbus, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Edison. None of the
dotted images have been connected.
Box 30, Envelope 18
Heinz Kindergarten Book, No. 5: Pictures to Trace, Jingles to
Learn.
Approximately 1910
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One 16-page tracing book/manufacturer's advertisement published by H.J. Heinz
Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, containing illustrations for copying, accompanied
by a short jingle or rhyme that advertises Heinz products. Each page is covered by
a sheet of tracing paper. Some of the tracing sheets have been used.
Kopeefun Magic Copy Paper.
1940-1972
Box 30, Envelope 20
Kopeefun Magic Copy Paper Kit.
1940
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One 24-page tracing book manufactured by the Embree Manufacturing Company,
Elizabeth, New Jersey. The book contains images and partial images for copying by
rubbing. The kit includes several sheets of "magic paper" for transferring images.
The first few pages of this book contain directions and suggestions for use, and
the remaining leaves contain elements of cartoons and images. For example, there
is a leaf of hairstyles, another of hats, another of mouths, etc. These can be
combined to create a wide variety of images.
Box 30, Envelope 22
Kopeefun Magic Copy Paper Kit.
Approximately 1940
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One tracing/transferring kit manufactured by the Eastern Distribution Corp.,
Malden, Massachusetts. The kit is sealed and has never been used, but appears to
be comprised of a booklet of images for copying and transferring, and a set of
"magic" paper.
Box 30, Envelope 21
Kopeefun Magic Copy Paper.
1972
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One package of transferring paper, manufactured by the Eastern Distributing
Corp., Malden, Massachusetts, in a sealed package of transfer paper.
Series II. Non-Instructional Materials
Subseries A. Catalogs.
1900-1952
Box 27, Envelope 02
Illustrated Catalogue Exhibition of the R. Hall McCormick Collection of
Paintings: Chiefly of the English School, under the auspices of the Boston Art
Students Association, Copley Hall, Boston, Massachusetts.
1900
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One 38-page exhibition catalog printed by Geo. H. Ellis, Boston, including 5 black
and white plates with reproductions of paintings.
Box 25, Envelope 01
Catalogue of the Perry Pictures.
1908
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One 32-page catalog published by Perry Pictures Company, Boston and Malden,
Massachusetts, contains primarily black and white illustrations of art reproductions
for sale. Laid in are several order forms and additional price sheets, as well as a
mailing envelope for ordering. Accompanying this catalogue is a mailing envelope
addressed, in ms., to "Miss Mabel Spofford, 8 Cherry Street, Danvers, Mass."
Box 27, Envelope 05
Illustrated Catalogue, National Academy of Design, Ninety-Third Annual
Exhibition 1918: Open March 13th to April 21st, 10 am to 6 pm and 8 to 10 pm,
Sundays 1:30 to 6 P.M.
1918
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One 50-page unillustrated exhibition catalog, published by the National Academy of
Design, New York, with 14 pages of advertisements on either side of the main portion
of the catalog.
Box 27, Envelope 03
Retrospective Exhibition of American Art, 1689-1921, under the direction of
Mrs. Albert Sterner Inaugurating the Junior Art Patrons of America: May 7 to 21,
1921 Fine Arts Building, 215 West Fifty-Seventh Street.
1921
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One 64-page catalog containing a listing of the items in the exhibit, and several
pages of illustrations. The first 4 and last 24 pages contain a variety of
advertisements: Devoe Artists' Materials, various art galleries, and framers, for
example. There are many ms. annotations, in pencil, on the pages throughout
commenting on the exhibit items. The front cover bears a reproduction of a woodcut
by Rockwell Kent.
Box 27, Envelope 04
Exhibition of Water Colors by American & European Artists, February
26--April 14, 1929, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1929
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One 12-page exhibition catalog, published by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts, listing the painting and artists in the exhibit. A color reproduction
of Van Gogh's "Child's Head" is above the title on the front cover; no other
illustrations are included. There are pencil ms. annotations throughout.
Box 43, Envelope 07
Creative Expression in Design.
1927
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One 32-page pamphlet/catalog published by Milton Bradley Company, Springfield,
Massachusetts, illustrated with color reproductions of artwork, and includes two
additional unnumbered plates of sample illustrations on colored paper. Roughly the
first half of the booklet is informational and instructional, emphasizing creativity
in design, especially in relation to poster design; the second half serves as an
illustrated catalog of a wide variety of artist's materials, including crayons,
brushes, paper and paints.
Box 27, Envelope 06
Catalog of the Sixteenth Annual Exhibition, First part July Third to July
29th 1936.
1936
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One 4-page art show catalog, published by Rockport Art Association, Rockport,
Massachusetts, divided into three categories: Oils and Watercolors; Etchings,
Drawings and Designs with listings of works, artists, and prices.
Box 27, Envelope 01
The Guild of Boston Artists: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings,
Pastels, Drawings, Miniatures, Water Colors, Prints, Sculpture, October 27th to
November 29th, 1942 at the The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts.
1942
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One 24-page catalog with plate and white reproductions of some of the exhibited
items, as well ms. annotations throughout including some comments. Printed at the
top of the title page is "1914 [-] 1942".
Box 27, Envelope 07
30th Anniversary Rockport Art Association Exhibition Catalog, First Part,
1950.
1950
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One 68-page exhibition catalog, published by Rockport Art Association, Rockport,
Massachusetts, containing a listing of the items in the exhibition and
black-and-white reproductions of some of the items exhibited.
Box 27, Envelope 08
32nd Annual Exhibition Catalog, First Part, 1952.
1952
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One 64-page exhibition catalog, published by Rockport Art Association, Rockport,
Massachusetts, containing a list of the exhibited items and black-and-white
reproductions of some of the items exhibited.
Subseries B. Mabel Spofford: Artwork and Notes.
Approximately 1940?-approximately 1948
Box 85, Envelope 01-38
[Technical drawings, designs, etc.].
Approximately 1940?
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An assembled set of 38 individual pieces consisting of technical/mathematical
drawings, designs, and a few clippings either drawn or assembled by Mabel Spofford.
Most of the items are technical drawings in pencil. There are several particularly
attractive designs and planning layouts probably drawn by Spofford that are
additionally colored with watercolor.
Box 88, Envelope 01-05
[Miscellaneous artwork].
Approximately 1947
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5 miscellaneous pieces of original artwork (probably) by Mabel Spofford, including
a pencil-on-tracing paper illustration of a view of the globe, with American Red
Cross flags protruding from various countries and the phrase "Your Red Cross It's
For You Are You For It?"
Box 89, Envelope 01-07
[Finger paintings].
Approximately 1948
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7 finger paintings, of various sizes. Two of the images are framed in construction
paper and labeled on the back "1948-49, Spofford." While the artwork was included
among Mabel Spofford's papers, the actual creator of the finger paintings is
unknown.
Subseries C. Non-Art Related: Miscellaneous.
Approximately 1885-1982
Box 47, Envelope 04
Please Consider This: An Invitation From Jacob Trump & Bro.
Approximately 1885
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One 4-page manufacturer's leaflet advertising furs and cloaks, manufactured by
Beifield Chicago Co.
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Box 42, Envelope 09
An Open Letter to the Friends of Free Schools and American Liberties: From
the Committee of One Hundred.
1888
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One 16-page pamphlet from the Committee of One Hundred Series (No. 1, October,
1888), published by Committee of One Hundred, Boston. This pamphlet appears to be an
attack on the Catholic Church and the papacy in defense of public schools.
Box 34, Envelope 12
Making Your Gift Worth While.
1922
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One flyer issued by the Boston Sculpture Company, Melrose, Massachusetts, dated May
1922. This 4-page illustrated brochure advertises American historical sculptures
manufactured by the company and encourages students to purchase sculptures as class
gifts for their high schools. Availability, prices, and ordering directions are
provided. "The Davis Press, Worcester" is printed in the lower right-hand corner of
the last page.
Box 83, Envelope 06
New Year Greetings: James Parton Haney.
May 1923
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One unillustrated volume published as a memorial publication in honor of James
Parton Haney, with a biographical sketch and appreciations, published by The School
Art League of New York City. Two clippings are laid in the volume.
Box 47, Envelope 01
Mr. Conde Nast Announces that for a brief period it will be possible to
obtain Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden at special prices.
1923
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One flyer advertising various magazines illustrated with sketch drawings,
caricatures, and photo reproductions.
Box 47, Envelope 07-08
[United States Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.].
Approximately 1925?
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T Two clippings from unidentified publications with photographs of the Capitol
Building in Washington, D.C. One is titled "At the Gateway of Washington"; the other
"The Glory of the National Capitol at Night." The first image is copyright Harris
and Ewing, Washington, D.C.; the second is copyright Ernest L. Crandall.
Box 83, Envelope 01
[Evaluation of Frances Little Miller].
June 27, 1927
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One printed evaluation of Frances Little Miller completed in full by Louise L.
Powell, issued by the Massachusetts School of Art, Boston, Massachusetts. The
evaluation form is divided into 5 sections: Mental Qualities, Habits, Social
Relations, Personal Characteristics, and Talent.
Box 47, Envelope 16
[J. L. Hammett Company letters to Mabel Spofford].
1930
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Two typescript letters from the school supply company J. L. Hammett Company to
Mabel Spofford, dated November 3, and November 6, 1930, regarding an order of
notebook covers.
Box 47, Envelope 09-12
[Four newspaper clippings of quotations from George Washington and Abraham
Lincoln].
Approximately 1930-1940?
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Four newspaper clippings of quotations from George Washington and Abraham
Lincoln.
- Env. 09: clipping with quotations and reproduction of photograph of aerial
view of Lincoln and Washington Monuments.
- Env. 10-11: two clippings of poems about Abraham Lincoln from the
Washington Post.
- Env. 12: clipping with 9-line quotation from the Gettysburg address.
Box 47, Envelope 13
Lincoln Memorial.
Approximately 1930-1940?
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One black-and-white postcard image of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.,
mounted on cardstock.
Box 47, Envelope 02-03
[Two clippings about the American Legion Parade float made in Rockport,
Massachusetts].
1933
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Two newspaper clippings from the Gloucester Daily Times concerning a float made in
Rockport, Massachusetts, for the American Legion Parade in Chicago, dated September
21, 1933, and October 4, 1933.
Box 47, Envelope 06
[United States Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.].
Approximately 1935?
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One clipping from an unidentified magazine with a reproduction of a drawing of the
Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
Box 27, Envelope 10
Washington, City of Magnificent Expanses, A Paradise of Parks.
Approximately 1935
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One flyer published by the Greater National Capital Committee, Washington, D.C.,
describing the existing open spaces of Washington D.C. and plans for further
development. The verso provides information about upcoming events. There are some
ms. annotations in the margins.
Box 27, Envelope 09
The Aesthetic Factor in Education : Harvard Teachers Association
Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting.
1937
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One 4-page annual meeting program, dated Saturday, March 20, 1937, published by the
Harvard Teachers Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The interior 2 pages are
heavily annotated with ms. notes and comments, perhaps by Mabel Spofford.
Box 47, Envelope 17
[Form letter from the director of The American Federation of Arts to Mabel
Spofford].
March 7, 1941
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One typescript form letter from Thomas C. Parker, director of The American
Federation of Arts in Washington, D.C., addressed to Spofford, urging membership in
The American Federation of Arts and to attend its upcoming 32nd Annual
Convention.
Box 47, Envelope 05
Application for Admission to the Boston University Summer Session in
Physical Education at Sargent Camp, Peterborough, N.H.
1948
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Consists of an application for Admission to the Boston University Summer Session in
Physical Education at Sargent Camp, Peterborough, N.H., and a room reservation form.
Neither form has been completed.
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Box 27, Envelope 16
[Letter from Nancy J. Kelleher to "The Art Teacher"].
May 23, 1949
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One typescript form letter, presumably sent to Mabel Spofford, that briefly
summarizes results of a previous survey issued to Massachusetts art teachers. It is
presumed that the author of the letter is associated with an unnamed
association.
Box 47, Envelope 15
[Tabernacle Church of Salem, Massachusetts, program].
July 13, 1958
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One 4-page "Order of Worship" service program for the Tabernacle Church of Salem,
Massachusetts.
Box 22, Envelope 26
Some Events in the Life of Walter Smith.
1982
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One 14-page pamphlet by Nora C.C. Sheath, printed by Chesham Church Printing. This
booklet, a biography of Walter Smith by his granddaughter, contains no illustrations
or bibliographical references.
Box 45, Envelope 07
[Manuscript notes by Diana Korzenik].
Undated
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Five scraps of manuscript notes, written by Diana Korzenik. Accompanying these five
notes is a photocopy of page 13 from Arthur Dow's
Composition.
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Subseries D. Promotional materials: Art supplies.
1850-approximately 1940
Box 48, Envelope 01-10
[Miscellaneous ephemera related to artists' materials and
businesses].
1850-1884
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A collection of 11 pieces of miscellaneous ephemera relating to the commercial
promotion of artists' materials and businesses. Included are bills of sale (Envs.
06-10), an advertising envelope, and various other business advertisements. The
companies represented within this group are: George H. Leck; Walter Adriance;
Rennous, Kleinle & Co.; George E. Davenport; William Minifie & Son; J.W.
Sargent; Frost & Adams; Noyes & Blakeslee, and M.J. Whipple & Co. These
items bear dates ranging between 1850 and 1884.
Box 12, Envelope 12
History of Public Instruction in Drawing in the United States.
Approximately 1875
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One 34-page pamphlet published by Woolworth, Ainsworth & Co., New York, Boston
and Chicago, which is, in effect, a publisher's advertisement for the Bartholomew
System of Drawing. The text recounts William Bartholomew's work introducing drawing
instruction into the American public schools, supplemented with extracts from
legislation and reports and testimonials.
Box 35, Envelope 11
[Envelope of Wadsworth, Howland & Co., Inc.].
Approximately 1885?
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One empty envelope for art supply dealer Wadsworth, Howland & Co., Boston,
Massachusetts, with several patches of red watercolor paint and a few lines of pen
ink are on the back.
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Box 48, Envelope 11-101
[91 tradecards and advertisements chiefly related to art
making].
Approximately 1870-1920
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A collection of 91 chromolithograph trade cards and advertisements, most relating
to art making. Some of the cards bear copyright dates from the 1880s.
Box 35, Envelope 21
Industrial Art Materials.
Approximately 1892
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One price list for items such as pencils, paper, wood blocks, colored drawing
papers, and the publisher's art books, published by Atkinson, Mentzer & Company,
Chicago and New York. This item was laid into Illustrated Catalogue of Wadsworth,
Howland & Co., 1892.
Box 43, Envelope 05
Dixon's Pencils and Colored Crayons for School Purposes.
Approximately 1911
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One 24-page promotional booklet published by the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company,
Jersey City, New Jersey, illustrated with color and black-and-white reproductions of
colored pencil drawings and sketches. The body of the pamphlet is divided into
several titled sections: "Drawing as Part of An Education"; "Drawing in Black";
"Drawing in Color"; and "Economy in Crayons." Interspersed throughout are
advertisements for Dixon's pencils. Many of the illustrations are signed by Rachel
Weston.
Box 34, Envelope 01
A Word Concerning the Care of Plaster Casts for School
Decoration.
1922
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One advertisement for the plaster-cast care service of Edward P. Garbati, 100
Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
Box 35, Envelope 15
[D.M. Campana Art Co. order sheet].
1924
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One blank order sheet for the D.M. Campana Art Co., Chicago.
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Box 4, Envelope 18
The Practical Use of "Drawlet" Drawing and Lettering Pens.
Approximately 1925
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One 16-page promotional booklet advertising Drawlet pens, published by Esterbrook
Pen Mfg. Co., Camden, New Jersey. Included are images of the 17 different nibs
available, practical instructions, and numerous examples of advertisements,
illustrations and lettering samples created using the Drawlet pens. The inside of
the front cover shows "Three Prize Winning Drawings submitted at I.A.D.M.
Convention- St. Louis-1925."
Box 35, Envelope 10
W.A. Hall Dealer in Fancy Leathers for Arts and Crafts.
Approximately 1930-1940?
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One 4-page brochure/price list advertising leather cutting tools and goods,
illustrated with images of leather modelling tools and instruments. Ms. writing at
the bottom of the first page includes company names and addresses.
Box 35, Envelope 28
'Crayograph': The Original Pressed Crayon.
1931
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One 8-page manufacturer's advertisement promoting Prang Crayograph crayons,
published by The American Crayon Company, Sandusky, Ohio, containing suggestions for
various craft projects using the crayons.
Box 1, Envelope 08
Things to Make with "Milo" Plastic Modeling Material.
1931
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One 11-page promotional pamphlet advertising Milo modeling clay, published by the
American Crayon Company, Sandusky, Ohio, with ideas for use of the clay and
advertisements.
Box 1, Envelope 09
"Crayonexing": The Crafts and Classroom Medium.
1933
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One 11-page promotional pamphlet advertising Crayonex crayons, published by
American Crayon Company, Sandusky, Ohio, with ideas and suggestions for using the
crayons on paper, fabric, and wood, with advertisements.
Box 34, Envelope 06
Art Craft Clays by AMACO.
Approximately 1935
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One 8-page promotional booklet and price list for AMACO clays and products
including AMACO clay flour and moist clay; Permoplast modeling clay; Marblex; and
Mexican Pottery Clay, published by American Art Clay Company, Indianapolis,
Indiana.
Box 35, Envelope 27
Crayola Homecraft Projects.
Approximately 1935
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 12-page manufacturer's advertisement for Crayola crayons, published by Binney
& Smith Co., New York, describing nine craft projects to promote the use of
Crayola colored crayons. The projects are described and illustrated.
Box 35, Envelope 14
[Fabik Home Outfit for Batik Workers].
Approximately 1935
Online items
Scope and Contents
One partial manufacturer's advertisement for the Fabik Home Outfit for Batik
Workers, a home batik-making kit, ca. 1935. This advertisement is illustrated with a
photograph image of the kit and two sample designs of batik patterns. It appears to
be two-thirds of the whole (the last third of the advertisement is missing). This
item was laid into an Industrial Arts Cooperative Service catalog, (HEH RB# 603445).
The dimensions provided are for this advertisement, unfolded.
Related Materials
Box 35, Envelope 01-02
[O-P Craft Co. flyers].
Approximately 1935
Online items
Scope and Contents
Two advertisement flyers from the O-P Craft Co., Inc., of Sandusky, Ohio:. a 4-page
reprint from
Everyday Art Magazine entitled "The Growing Popularity
of Home and School Crafts" by Earle F. Opie (Env. 01). The flyer is illustrated with
both completed and incomplete projects (e.g. examples of crayonexing, carving) and a
6-page illustrated flyer/catalog of O-P Craft products and supplies entitled "O-P
Craft Articles for Hand Decoration: Projects of Beauty for Home, Gift, or Profit."
Some of the items offered for sale are O-P Craft color charts, Crayonex crayons,
paint-by-number fabric designs, Prang tempera paints and craft mats.
Box 35, Envelope 03
[O-P Craft Co. flyers].
Approximately 1935
Online items
Scope and Contents
Three advertisements from the O-P Craft Co., Sandusky, Ohio: a flyer entitled "O-P
Craft Articles for Hand Decoration"; a flyer entitled "Ideas-Helps: O-P Craft for
Designing-Decorating," illustrates craft projects; and a leaflet entitled "New: O-P
Craft Glass Holders." Promoted items among the advertisements include bracelets,
rings, boxes, glass holders, napkin holders, wooden bowls and plates, boxes, and
craft mats
Box 35, Envelope 18
Modern Color Magic in Dress and Home Decoration.
1937
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 32-page pamphlet advertising Diamond Tints & Dyes, by Mae Martin and
published by Wells and Richardson Company, Incorporated, Burlington, Vermont. It is
illustrated with color images of the wide variety of uses for the dyes and tints,
including clothes, curtains, upholstery, towels, lingerie, etc. Both an order form
and a letter from the company addressed to Mabel Spofford are laid in the
pamphlet.
Box 35, Envelope 04
[O-P Craft Co. promotional letter and order form].
Approximately 1940
Online items
Scope and Contents
A promotional letter addressed to Mabel Spofford and a blank order form, from the
O-P Craft Co., Sandusky, Ohio.
Related Materials
Subseries E. Promotional materials: Institutes, schools, courses,
etc.
1906-1949
Box 34, Envelope 18
Class in Drawing and Painting From Nature; Composition and
Design.
1906
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 4-page brochure for a summer class taught by A.G. Randall, Commonwealth School
of Art and Industry, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.
Box 42, Envelope 01
The Commonwealth Art Colony at Boothbay Harbor, Maine.
1913
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 20-page pamphlet providing an overview of the Commonwealth Art Colony and
detailing the courses and programs offered. "Snow & Farnam Co., Printers" is
printed on the bottom of the back cover.
Box 34, Envelope 08
A Golden Summer: The Applied Arts Summer School, Chicago.
1917
Online items
Scope and Contents
One flyer advertising the 1917 Applied Arts summer school held in the Francis W.
Parker School, Chicago, Illinois.
Box 35, Envelope 20
Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins- Founder and Pioneer of Noted Art School.
Approximately 1929
Online items
Scope and Contents
One magazine reprint from
American Business Magazine, (October
1927). The article, written by G. Zeth Brooks, describes the founding and history of
the New York School of Applied Design for Women in New York City. Accompanied by two
blank application forms and a salary statement for recent graduates of the
school.
Box 35, Envelope 12
The Art of Seeing: Woodbury Course in Observation, Summer
School.
1930
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 4-page brochure for summer art courses in Boston, Mass., and Ogunquit, Maine,
published by Woodbury Training School, Brookline, Massachusetts.
Box 34, Envelope 14
Arts and Crafts at the Chautauqua Summer Schools.
1930
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 8-page brochure for the 1930 Chautauqua summer schools, published by Chautauqua
Institution, Chautauqua, New York, advertising arts and crafts classes in three
broad categories: Art Education, Industrial Arts, and Practical Craft Courses. With
mailing envelope addressed to Mabel Spofford.
Box 34, Envelope 15
Chautauqua Summer Schools, Fifty-Seventh Season, 1930, July 7-August
15.
1930
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 8-page brochure for the 1930 Chautauqua summer schools, published by Chautauqua
Institution, Chautauqua, New York, providing a complete outline of courses offered.
This pamphlet is identified on p. 2 as: "The Chautauqua Quarterly. Vo. XXX, No. 2,
Supplement to preliminary edition, April, 1930."
Box 34, Envelope 02
Cornell Summer School of Art.
1930
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 6-page informational brochure for an art summer school directed by Grace
Cornell and Charles F. Cornell, South Bristol, Maine. This brochure is accompanied
by a mailing envelope addressed to "Mis[s] Mabel Spofford, Winchester Arms,
Gloucester, Mass.
Box 34, Envelope 17
Chautauqua Lake, A Beautiful Summer Resort.
Approximately 1930
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 8-page promotional brochure for summer vacations at Chautauqua Institute
published by the Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York. Laid in is a single
sheet of "Supplementary Courses to be given in the Art Education Department,
Chautauqua Summer Schools, in 1930."
Box 27, Envelope 17
Hull-House Year Book, Forty-Second Year.
Approximately 1931
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 72-page yearbook published by Hull-House, Chicago, Illinois. The yearbook
briefly outlines the history, purpose and works of the Hull House, and provides a
detailed, illustrated listing of the clubs, courses and activities of the previous
year, including information about the Hull House Art School, Hull House Studio,
children's art classes, art exhibits and pottery classes. With numerous ms.
annotations and marks throughout the book.
Box 27, Envelope 11
[Boston University Art Department invitations].
1933
Online items
Scope and Contents
Two invitations, addressed to Mabel Spofford, issued by the Boston University Art
Department, one is for an art exhibition to be held May 29th to June 2 [1933]; the
other for a demonstration "in the process of etching" to be held January 23
[1934?]."
Box 34, Envelope 04
Art in Every Day Life.
Approximately 1933
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 8-page brochure for a lecture by artist Gerrit A. Beneker, Truro,
Massachusetts, featuring reproductions of 4 of his works, "The Alabama Kid"; "Men
are Square"; "A Constructive Radical" and a Victory Liberty Loan poster, in addition
to a photograph of Beneker himself.
Box 27, Envelope 15
[Ephemera from Museum of Fine Arts, Boston].
1934
Online items
Scope and Contents
One group of 4 pieces of ephemera (with 2 duplicates) issued by the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, relating to courses and lectures on the teaching of ancient art: a
schedule of lantern slide talks for 1934-1935 (2 copies); an "Outline for Teachers'
Course in Ancient Art" schedule for 1934-1935; a lecture reservation form (2
copies); and an informational sheet about use of the museum's lantern slides.
Box 34, Envelope 11
Boothbay Studios Summer School of Art: The Courses and Lectures for
1935.
1935
Online items
Scope and Contents
One half of a flyer (fragment) from the Booth Bay Studios Summer School of Art,
1935.
Box 27, Envelope 13
The Rankin Studios, Summer 1935, School of Applied Arts.
1935
Online items
Scope and Contents
One single sheet, presumably detached from an informational brochure, for the 1935
summer art courses at the Rankin Studios, New Hartford, Connecticut.
Box 35, Envelope 29
[Stover School Art Service letters].
1935
Online items
Scope and Contents
Two promotional letters, dated September 1935 and October 1935, respectively, which
advertise the Stover School Art Service, Birmingham, Michigan. Both are addressed to
Miss Mabel Spofford, signed by Frances L. Stover. These form letters (4 unnumbered,
typescript pages each) advertise pre-planned and pre-organized art projects made
available for art teachers by the Service. A sample project, probably completed by
Mabel Spofford, is laid into each letter.
Box 34, Envelope 07
The Applied Arts Summer School, Chicago, Illinois.
Approximately 1935
Online items
Scope and Contents
One promotional card for the Applied Arts Summer School, Chicago, Illinois. "Ms.
Spofford" is written in ms., in pencil, at the top of the card.
Box 34, Envelope 13
Class in Etching.
Approximately 1935
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 4-page brochure for an etching class offered by Mr. John Buckley through Boston
University Art Department, published by the Boston University, School of Education,
Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1935. The illustration of the first page is a
reproduction of Buckely's painting entitled "Holiday-Rockport".
Box 27, Envelope 14
[2 envelopes of the Museum of Fine Arts, Division of Instruction, Boston,
Mass].
Approximately 1935
Online items
Scope and Contents
Two envelopes with "Museum of Fine Arts, Division of Instruction, Boston, Mass."
printed on them. There are no other markings or dates.
Box 104, Folder 01-03
[WPA Art Project posters].
Approximately 1938-1940
Online items
Scope and Contents
3 posters, 2 promoting art classes for children and 1 promoting an exhibition of
art by children.
- Folder 01: Exhibition of Art by Children, E.T., WPA Art Project, Chicago,
Illinois, c. 1938, 14 x 22 in.
- Folder 02: Art Classes for Children, REK, WPA Art Project, Chicago, Illinois,
c. 1938, 14 x 22 in.
- Folder 03: Art Classes for Children, Anonymous, WPA Art Project, Chicago,
Illinois, 1940, 14 x 22 in.
Box 34, Envelope 10
A Meadow Lark's View of the Berkshire Summer School of Art at Monterey,
Mass.
Approximately 1940
Online items
Scope and Contents
One single-sheet flyer for the Berkshire Summer School of Art, published by the
Berkshire Summer School of Art, containing informational text about courses,
methods, and faculty, an illustrated map of the campus, and three photograph
illustrations. Accompanying this advertisement is a single leaf, labeled pp. 23-24
that has been removed from a book or brochure for the school.
Box 34, Envelope 03
The Browne Art Class.
1941
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 8-page informational brochure advertising a summer art class taught by George
Elmer Browne, N.A., Provincetown, Massachusetts. Text accompanied by several
black-and-white illustrations, most of which are reproductions of works by George
Elmer Browne.
Box 34, Envelope 19
New England Art Museums, Summer 1947.
1947
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 14-page booklet published by the Council of Directors of New England Art
Museums, containing a directory of the art museums in Connecticut, Maine,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Box 34, Envelope 16
The Chautauquan (Vol. 13, No. 200, Summer Schools
Number).
January 1948
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 4-page issue of the
The Chautauquan newspaper, published by
Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York, including a full-page, illustrated,
listing of summer courses. Addressed to Mabel Spofford.
Box 42, Envelope 08
The Chautauquan (Vol. 13, No. 206).
April 1948
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 40-page issue of the magazine
Chautauquan, Vol. 13, No. 206,
Illustrated Edition, April 1948, published by Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua,
New York. This issue contains images of the buildings, grounds, activities and
events at the Institute. With mailing envelope addressed to Mabel Spofford.
Box 35, Envelope 23
Day, Evening, Saturday Morning Information: New England School of
Art.
1948
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 5-page brochure published by the New England School of Art, Boston,
Massachusetts, listing professional placement opportunities, tuition, an academic
calendar for 1948-1949, and selected faculty.
Related Materials
Box 27, Envelope 12
[Lecture Bureau of the Rhode Island School of Design flyer].
1948
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 4-page flyer addressed to Mabel Spofford from the Lecture Bureau of the Rhode
Island School of Design, listing the members of the Lecture Bureau and their
respective talks for the 1948-49 season.
Box 34, Envelope 09
Art Career School.
1949
Online items
Scope and Contents
One flyer advertising summer classes at the Art Career School, New York, New York,
1949. The item is accompanied by an unused mailing envelope with the school's name
printed on it.
Box 35, Envelope 22
[Whitney School of Art School Calendar, 1949-1950].
1949
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 1945-1950 school calendar and one tuition rates sheet for the Whitney School of
Art, 111 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut. The Tuition Rates sheet is
illustrated with a "Map guide to Whitney School Buildings."
Related Materials
Subseries F. Promotional materials: Instructional books, textbooks, and
magazines.
1904-1948
Box 34, Envelope 20
[School Arts Book advertisement].
1904
Online items
Scope and Contents
One brochure for a sample copy of the December 1904 issue of the School Arts Book,
comprised of three sample pages and an order form to be returned to "The Davis
Press, Worcester, Mass."
Box 35, Envelope 30
The Taylor-Holden Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 1.
Approximately 1905
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 4-page bulletin advertising several publications on mechanical drawing,
published by the Taylor-Holden Company, Paper Manufacturers & Publishers,
Springfield, Massachusetts. The advertised books are: Notes for Mechanical Drawing,
Architectural Drawing Plates (reviews of which are dated January 1905), and
Mechanical Drawing Alphabets.
Box 34, Envelope 05
Industrial Art Text Books: a Series of Text Books for Children.
Approximately 1920
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 12-page brochure for a textbook series by Bonnie E. Snow and Hugo B. Froehlich,
published by A.S. Barnes Company, Chicago and New York. It is illustrated with
reproductions of sample text book pages. Each page of the brochure gives a brief
overview of the sections within the series: Color and Design; Costume Design;
Domestic Art; Interior Decoration; Constructive Design; Commercial Design; Object
Drawing and Nature Drawing.
Box 43, Envelope 09
Kindergarten Work in the Home.
Approximately 1920
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 16-page promotional pamphlet advertising Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, by Edith
Marion Cleaver and published by Pepsin Syrup Co., Monticello, Illinois. The back
cover is a color image of a number of crafts that can be made as outlined in the
booklet. Throughout the book, arts and crafts activities are interspersed with
advertisements and recommended uses for the laxative syrup. All illustrations within
the book are in black and white. Some of the activities included are: How to Make
Doll Houses, Cutting and Pasting, Doll Furniture, and Holiday Articles.
Box 83, Envelope 02
[Two publisher's advertisements for
An Introduction to Art
Education
by William G. Whitford].
1929
Online items
Scope and Contents
Two publisher's advertisements for a book entitled
An Introduction to Art
Education
by William G. Whitford, published by D. Appleton and Company,
New York, 1929. Consists of a postcard-size advertisement and a 2-page typescript
publisher's advertisement on "Appleton Book Chat" letterhead.
Box 34, Envelope 26
Courses for Teachers, Summer Session, 1930.
1930
Online items
Scope and Contents
Fragment of a brochure published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, consisting only of the front and back covers; page 2 (with
the beginning of a list of instructors); and page 11 (with general information).
Box 34, Envelope 27
[Chautauqua Summer Schools promotional flyers].
1930
Online items
Scope and Contents
Three promotional items for the Chautauqua Summer Schools consisting of an 8-page
promotional brochure about the institution; an 8-page informational brochure
entitled "Arts and Crafts at the Chautauqua Summer Schools, July 7-August 15, 1930";
and an 8-page complete list of summer school course offerings entitled "Chautauqua
Summer Schools, Fifty-Seventh Season 1930, July 7 - August 15" (identified as: The
Chautauqua Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 2, April 1930). Items in a paper envelope
addressed to Mabel Spofford.
Box 34, Envelope 28
[Pennsylvania State College envelope].
1930
Online items
Scope and Contents
One empty envelope issued by Pennsylvania State College, which once housed the 1930
Bulletin and is labeled "Summer Session Series, 1930" and addressed to "Miss Mabel
Spofford."
Box 34, Envelope 22
A Handbook of Designs and How to Use Them.
Approximately 1930
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 6-page brochure for a book by Gordon de Lemos, published by Educational
Materials, Inc., New York.
Box 34, Envelope 23
Arts and Crafts Instruction and Design Books Series.
Approximately 1930
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 6-page brochure and order form for a book series and set of "individual
instruction sheets," published by Educational Materials, Inc., New York. The
advertised book titles are: "Craftsman's Instruction Handbook"; "A Handbook of
Designs and How to Use Them"; and "Permodello Modeling."
Box 35, Envelope 17
Design (Vol. 34, No. 1).
May 1932
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 12-page publisher's sample of decorative arts magazine
Design,
edited by Felix Payant and published by Keramic Studio Publishing Co., Syracuse, New
York. It contains select pages from previous issues and is smaller than a standard
issue. Laid into this sample issue are three publisher's advertisements for the
magazine.
Box 34, Envelope 21
Design.
1937
Online items
Scope and Contents
One advertisement postcard for a subscription to the magazine
Design, published by the Design Publishing Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Postcard addressed to Mabel Spofford.
Box 35, Envelope 08
The Art of the World.
Approximately 1937
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 4-page brochure promoting the magazine
The London Studio,
published by Studio Publications Incorporated, New York. This 4-page leaflet is a
subscription advertisement for a magazine that "is to-day the world's leading source
of information on matters of contemporary art: dealing with Painting, Drawing,
Engraving and Sculpture: and also with the Useful arts, Architecture, Decoration and
Design in a hundred and one forms...." The last page advertises several additional
titles published by Studio Publications, one of which is Decorative Art 1936. The
Studio Year Book.
Box 35, Envelope 09
[Studio Publications, Inc. publisher advertisements].
Approximately 1937?
Online items
Scope and Contents
Two 4-page publisher's advertisements from Studio Publications, Inc., New York. The
first brochure promotes "Animal Drawing," by John Skeaping, Vol. 10 in the company's
""How To Do It"" series. The second flyer is an advertisement for "Masterpieces of
Figure Painting: Twenty Color Plates," with an introduction by Eric Newton. The
third page of the flyer advertises other works issued by Studio Publications. With
envelope addressed to Mabel Spofford.
Box 34, Envelope 25
Adult Life Enrichment, State University Extension Class: This Changing
World of Ours.
1940
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 6-page brochure for an extension course offered November 1940-January 1941,
published by Massachusetts Department of Education, Division of University
Extension, Boston, Massachusetts.
Box 35, Envelope 19
School and Teachers' Order Form, School Arts Magazine.
Approximately 1940
Online items
Scope and Contents
One publisher's order form issued by the publishers of
School Arts
Magazine,
Worcester, Massachusetts, listing portfolios and books for
sale.
Box 35, Envelope 05
Success in Art: How You Can Achieve It.
Approximately 1940
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 4-page brochure promoting
Professional Art Quarterly magazine by
Ben Duggar, editor, Professional Art Quarterly, 1940.
Box 34, Envelope 24
Official Register of Harvard University, Harvard Summer School: An Unusual
Program for Teachers of Art, Vol. XXXVIII, April 4, 1941, No. 15.
1941
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 8-page brochure advertising a Harvard Summer School art workshop program,
published by Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. With enveloped addressed
to Mabel Spofford.
Box 35, Envelope 26
International Practical Arts Textbooks.
1948
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 6-page publisher's advertisement for textbooks published by the International
Textbook Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania. Accompanying this advertising flyer is a
business reply postcard, an order form for a monograph entitled Art
Education-1948.
Box 35, Envelope 13
Books and Folios to Help You in Your Teaching and Creative
Work.
Approximately 1948
Online items
Scope and Contents
Three items: two envelopes and one single-sheet publisher's advertisement for
titles published by the Davis Press, Publishers, The School Arts Magazine,
Worcester, Massachusetts. With envelope addressed to Mabel Spofford.
Related Materials
Subseries G. Promotional materials: Pictures.
1899-1940
Box 25, Envelope 02-46
[Perry Pictures Company advertising material].
1899-1936
Online items
Scope and Contents
Forty-four envelopes containing promotional and advertising material of the Perry
Pictures Company, published between 1899 and 1936. Materials include: catalogs,
publisher's advertisements, advertising flyers, mailing envelopes, order forms,
price lists, and 14 art reproductions. The 14 black and white art reproductions are
small and include artists: Reynolds, Millet, Bonhuer, Van Dyck, and others.
Box 26, Envelope 59
Announcement: Turner Picture Studies and Picture Study Prints.
Approximately 1910
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 4-page order form published by Horace K. Turner Co., Boston, Massachusetts,
organizing images for sale by school grade, from Grade 1 through "Fourth Year
High."
Related Materials
Box 26, Envelope 81
The University Prints Special 1917 Announcement: A New System of Picture
Study for the Grades.
1917
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 4-page brochure advertising The University Prints' method of teaching art
development to children, published by The University Prints, Newton, Massachusetts.
The interior two pages of this leaflet organize the series of grouped images by
grade level. For example: "List II - Grade I. Animals about the Home; Grade II.
Children of Other Lands; Grade III. Angels; Grade IV. Occupations; Grade V. The
Seasons; Grade VI. Interiors and Furnishings; Grade VII. Interesting Costumes; Grade
VIII. Mural Decorations of the Congressional Library." Titles of ten different art
works are listed within each category.
Box 10, Envelope 21
How You Can Study Original Drawings by America's Great
Cartoonists.
Approximately 1920?
Online items
Scope and Contents
One advertising sheet for a set of six cartoon proofs by family American
cartoonists published by The Reserve Publishing Co., Cleveland, Ohio. The
cartoonists represented are: "Donahey of 'The Cleveland Plain Dealer'; McCutcheon of
'The Chicago Tribune'; Frost in 'Collier's Weekly'; Davenport of 'The New York
Journal'; May of 'The Cleveland Leader'; and Hoban of 'The New York Journal.'"
Box 23, Envelope 56
Brown's Famous Pictures ; Brown's Famous Bible Pictures.
Approximately 1924
Online items
Scope and Contents
Three price lists (including one duplicate) for art reproductions by the George P.
Brown & Co., Beverly, Massachusetts, consisting of "Brown's Famous Pictures for
February, March and April" (single sheet price list) and "Brown's Famous Bible
Pictures" (6-page price list).
Related Materials
Box 35, Envelope 06
[Art Ages advertisement].
[1929]
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 4-page brochure advertising a portfolio of images entitled Art Ages, by Pedro
J. Lemos, published by School Arts Magazine, Worcester, Massachusetts. It describes
the content (plates illustrating the 'ten great art periods of the world') and
possible uses of the portfolio. Item addressed to Mabel Spofford.
Box 35, Envelope 07
[Art Ages advertisement].
[1929]
Online items
Scope and Contents
One advertising postcard for a portfolio of images entitled Art Ages, by Pedro J.
Lemos, published by School Arts Magazine, Worcester, Massachusetts. Item addressed
to Mabel Spofford.
Box 24, Envelope 33
Picture Studies for School Use.
Approximately 1935-1940?
Online items
Scope and Contents
One 6-page price list/advertisement for an "Instructor Picture Study Series"
published ca. 1935-1940 by F.A. Owen Publishing Company, Dansville, New York. It
states that reproductions are available, provides a list of subjects available, and
categorizes some of the images into appropriate grade levels.
Subseries H. Ralph M. Pearson materials.
1929-1946
Box 86
Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop.
1937-1946
Online items
Scope and Contents
A collection of correspondence courses, articles, and bulletins authored and
published by Ralph M. Pearson, Nyack, New York. This collection is roughly divided
into four sections:
- Section 1: a run of 35 articles (dating from 1937-1940) of the column "The
Artist's Point of View" by Ralph M. Pearson, as published in
Forum
Magazine
- Section 2: an incomplete set of 12 issues of a correspondence course entitled
"Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop, Courses by Mail: Course 4 - Critical
Appreciation," Nos. 1-4, 6-9, 11-13, and 15 (Number 15 is dated 1942; the others
are undated
- Section 3: an incomplete set of Design Workshop Bulletin issues by Pearson,
including No. 5 February 1937; No. 6 March 1937; No. 9 [1938]; No. 9 October 1938;
No. 5 March 1939, and No. 6 March 1939
- Section 4: 17 miscellaneous notices, bulletins, publisher's advertisements and
mailings relating to the correspondence courses, dated between March 1939 and
1941.
Most of the miscellaneous mailings are addressed to Mabel Spofford. All of these
items are from her personal collection.
Box 87
[Materials primarily related to Ralph M. Pearson].
1929-1938
Online items
Scope and Contents
A collection of 62 miscellaneous pieces primarily relating to the lectures and
teachings of Ralph M. Pearson. Items consist of:
- 4 typescript pages, in outline form, of undated notes entitled "Case
Conference Problems in Group Guidance" by Richard D. Allen.
- Typescript lecture notes, interspersed with manuscript notes, for a series of
eight numbered University Extension lectures, dated 1929-1938, primarily relating
to modern painting and painters. The first sheet is an assignment sheet for Credit
Students.
- A receipt of payment for Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop and typescript
letter of confirmation for receipt of payment for the workshop, both dated
December 1937 and addressed to Mabel Spofford.
- A 15-page typescript transcript of a radio interview entitled "What is Modern
Art" with Ralph M. Pearson, by Leah Plotkin. The transcript is from WQXR radio
station, Federal Theatre, dated December 28, 1937.
Subseries I. Rewards of Merit and Certificates.
1859-1919
Box 92, Envelope 01-06
Rewards of Merit.
1859-approximately 1890
Online items
Scope and Contents
6 filled-out Reward of Merit cards. These cards were presented to students by their
teachers for performance ( either academic or personal) well done.
- Env. 1: "A Token of Honor to a Diligent Scholar," ca. 1880, with lithograph
image of a group of fruit is printed on the front; this has been colored in with
watercolor paint. A note from Diann Korzenik accompanies the card: "Currier or
Currier and Ives? Very rare."
- Env. 2: "Reward of Merit," ca. 1890, with chromolithograph image of three
rabbits.
- Env. 3: "Reward of Merit," ca. 1890, with chromolithograph image of two
children at play.
- Env. 4: Bank of Industry Will Pay Ten Honors to," copyright 1859, with two
engraved images of cherubs
- Env. 5: "Reward of Merit presented to," ca. 1890 with a chromolithograph
scene
- Env. 6: "Reward of Merit. Presented to," Gibson & Co., Cincinnati,
copyright 1883, with chromolithograph image of a bird perched on a blooming cherry
tree branch.
Box 92, Envelope 07-08
Certificates of Honour.
1914, 1919
Online items
Scope and Contents
Two certificates of honour awarded for a drawing examination, issued by The Royal
Drawing Society. Both cards were awarded to Irene Charlotte Chapman of St. Joseph's
School, Slough. An outline of the subjects of the examination is printed on the
verso of each card.
Subseries J. Scrapbooks.
1857-1906
Box 94, Envelope 01
[Scrapbook].
1857-1860
Online items
Scope and Contents
One bound scrapbook, untitled, compiled by Helen Doble, of approximately 100 pages
in length, and containing cut-out images and scenes created from paper and bits of
material. Some of the pages contain representations of individual rooms with tables,
chairs, and curtains, made from cutout images and collage-like formations. The book
contains both black and white and chromolithograph images, and other black and white
images that have been hand-colored. The scrapbook is bound in a cloth-covered
paperboard binding, which has "Herbarium" printed in gilt letters on the spine. The
front endpaper has "Helen Doble '57" written in ms., in blue ink, on it.
Box 94, Envelope 05
Business Album, Houlton House.
1868 or later
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One scrapbook, compiler unidentified, created from a Boston business directory
entitled Business Album, Houlton House, published 1868. The scrapbook images have
been mounted to each of the 152 pages, covering the text and images of the business
directory. Most of the scrapbook images are in black and white, although there are
also some chromolithograph images included. The images include a wide variety of
subjects: portraits of well-known political, historical and social figures,
political cartoons, fashion, architecture, flora and fauna, and illustrated poems.
The prefatory notice on the last page is dated 1868.
Box 94, Envelope 03
American Kindergarten Book for Designing, Drawing and Painting. Volume
Third- Polygons.
Approximately 1876
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One scrapbook created from a completed drawing exercise book manufactured by Miss
E.M. Coe, not before 1876. The scrapbook is 24 unnumbered pages in length; the
polygon exercises have been drawn and colored in pencil and crayon. Images and
poetry, cut out from magazines and newspapers, as well as several chromolithograph
images, are mounted to the pages. There is ms. writing in ink and pencil throughout.
"John E. Robens, from Cousin Emily" is written in ms., in ink, at the bottom of the
front cover.
Box 94, Envelope 04
[Scrapbook of rooms].
Approximately 1876
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One scrapbook, compiler unidentified, comprised of hand-painted paper cutouts and
decorative pieces of paper on 18 pages, within which two full Victorian rooms are
represented. Each of the two rooms fill 2 pages and contain images of armchairs and
couches, curtains, framed pictures hanging on the walls, a pipe organ, hanging
plants and rugs. Most of the pages within the scrapbook are blank.
Box 94, Envelope 06
[Scrapbook].
Approximately 1885
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One 22-page scrapbook by an unidentified compiler made with paper and images pasted
onto leaves of an instruction book by Walter Smith (the inside back cover with a
publisher's advertisement is the only page not covered). Each page of the scrapbook
is created to resemble a room within a home, such as a parlor, a bedroom, a library,
and a kitchen. All of the rooms feature drapes and curtains made from colored and
textured papers. The images throughout the scrapbook are a combination of black and
white images cut from magazines and newspapers and die-cut chromolithograph images.
Included among them are people, furniture, and flowers.
Custodial History
This scrapbook was purchased by Diana Korzenik in 1908 at the New England Trade
Center.
Box 94, Envelope 07
Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, Eastern Edition.
Approximately 1900
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One scrapbook/collage published by The Prang Educational Company, Boston, comprised
of 40 numbered pages with images cut from newspapers and magazines covering almost
all of the original lithograph images of the original instruction book. Most of the
images are black and white, but there are also many chromolithograph images. The
majority of the scrapbook images are of women. "Cora E. Nash" is stamped, in blue
ink, on the front cover.
Box 94, Envelope 08
House in a Book.
Approximately 1900-1930
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One scrapbook created by Marian B. Healey, and divided roughly into two sections
with images of domestic rooms and objects in both black-and-white and color
chromolithographs. The first section, created when Healey was 10 years old contains
64 pages of images labeled in ms. with titles such as "Piazza", "Parlor", "Library",
"Kitchen", "Pantry", "Store Room", and "Back Yard." The second section contains 78
pages created ca. 1930 with sections for rooms including: Front Yard, Parlor, Living
Rooming, Pantry, and Bedroom. Several magazine clippings from 1924 and 1925 are laid
in at the beginning of this section.
Box 93
Album.
Approximately 1900
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One bound scrapbook, compiler unidentified, with 45 pages of domestic images
mounted to paper; the second half of the album is blank. The scrapbook contains
cutout images of a primarily domestic nature, and are arranged by use. For example,
a kitchen-themed page contains images of cookware, dishes and flatware, stoves and
food storage containers. Another page represents a parlor, and contains images of
furniture, carpets, drapes, and household decorative items. The album contains both
black and white images (possibly taken from magazines and newspapers) and
chromolithograph images. The images themselves appear to be from ca. 1875 to 1895,
but the album seems to have been assembled ca. 1900. Although the majority of the
images are of domestic items and furnishings, there are also images of people,
flowers and outdoor scenes. The album itself is bound in green cloth, and is
embossed with black and gilt floral patterns.
Box 94, Envelope 09
Scrap Book.
Approximately 1905
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One 68-page scrapbook by an unidentified compiler containing black-and-white and
color images from newspapers, magazines, reproductions of paintings, photographs and
other art works. Among the images are landscapes, seascapes, people, animals,
greeting cards and architecture. Many of the images within the scrapbook are dated
between 1900 and 1905. Mounted to the front pastedown is a chromolithograph chart
entitled "Color-Types of the Races of Men, British Association Scale" which labels
10 skin colors and the nationality of men associated with such skin colors.
Box 94, Envelope 02
Abbie Gilbert, Ridgefield Kindergarten.
1905-1906
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One scrapbook of original artwork created by Abbie Gilbert. Written on the front
cover, in ms. is Abbie Gilbert, Ridgefield Kindergarten, 1905-1906. The scrapbook is
36 pages in length and contains 8 examples of colored paper weaving, 8 examples of
yarn sewing (pictures and designs sewn onto paper), and 13 original crayon drawings.
The first page contains an image of Friedrich Froebel, with a ms. label below,
reading: "Friedrich Froebel. Founder of the Kindergarten." The last page contains 3
mounted Perry Pictures images. Accompanying the scrapbook is a postcard image of a
kindergarten. The label on the verso reads "Bennington's experimental kindergarten,
the brainchild of German educator Friedrich Froebel, uses his blocks and ideas of
'directed play' that revolutionized education. 1896."
Subseries K. Student Drawings and Paintings.
1839-approximately 1915 and undated
Box 97, Envelope 38
[Drawing book of mechanical and engineering drawings].
1839
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One 102-page book of original pencil drawings, creator unidentified, with
mechanical and engineering images including drawings and diagrams of things such as
scissors, hook and eye fasteners, mechanical machines, and floor plans. There are
also numerous pages of ms. notes and mathematical equations, as well as a record of
employment as manager of the model department for the "British Association," dated
1839 (pages 5-19).
Box 95, Envelope 07
[Drawings of animals, houses, and rural scenes].
Approximately 1840
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One set of 8 sheets of original charcoal pencil drawings, creator unidentified, of
animal heads and legs; views of a church, houses; farm; a mill next to a stream; and
landscape view including a stone bridge.
Box 97, Envelope 39
[Drawing book of Anna Carpenter].
Approximately 1845
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One 24-page drawing book of original drawings created by Anna Carpenter, containing
both original and (presumably) copied pencil drawings. The first few pages are
exercises of lines and shapes, and the remaining pages include images of trees,
houses, landscapes, and fences. The accompanying note written by Diana Korzenik
reads in part: "Amazing progression in one book."
Box 97, Envelope 40
[Drawing book primarily of houses and animals].
Approximately 1845
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One 16-leaf drawing book of original drawings, by an unidentified creator,
containing original pencil drawings primarily of houses and animals. An accompanying
not from Diana Korzenik reads, in part, "After Coe drawing cards?"
Box 95, Envelope 03
[Drawing book of Frederick Harris].
Approximately 1850
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One 10-page book of 15 original pencil drawings primarily of houses and buildings
created by Frederick Harris of Springfield, Massachusetts. There is also a drawing
of a modern-looking couch. The drawing book was "Sold by M.J. Whipple & Co.,
Importers of Artists' Materials" in Boston.
Box 97, Envelope 41
[Drawing book signed "F.M."].
Approximately 1850
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One 12-leaf drawing book containing original and (presumably) copied pencil
drawings, one of which is signed "F.M." The drawings include images of animals,
people, fruit and flowers, and buildings.
Box 96, Envelope 01
[Drawing book signed "M.H.B."].
1852
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One 10-leaf drawing book of original pencil drawings mostly of landscapes and
buildings created by M.H.B., 1852.
Box 96, Envelope 02
[Drawing book of L.A. Cunningham].
1854-1872
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One 22-leaf drawing book of original and copied pencil drawings created by L.A.
Cunningham. The original drawings include landscape views, views of houses, and
floral arrangements or individual plants. With note from Diana Korzenik that some of
the drawings are copied from various Bartholomew drawing books.
Box 97, Envelope 42-43
[Drawing books of Carrie Cooley and Mattie Cooley].
Approximately 1855
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Two 12-leaf drawing books of original and copied drawings created by Carrie Cooley
(Env. 42), the other by Mattie Cooley (Env. 43), manufactured by John Marsh,
Manufacturing Stationer and Importer, Boston with the title "Drawing Book, For
Copies." They contain pencil drawings copied from other sources.
Box 96, Envelope 03
[Drawing book of Anna Warner].
1870
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One 10-leaf drawing book of original drawings created by Anna Warner in a book
manufactured by Nison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co., New York. The book contains
original pencil drawings, chiefly of building structures and houses; Diana
Korzenik's accompanying note describes them as "formula drawings, with personal
labels; 'our house'; 'our school house'."
Box 95, Envelope 13
[Drawing book of Herbert G. Wilcox].
Approximately 1875
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One 22-page book of original pencil drawings created by Herbert G. Wilcox,
containing 32 images of animals, people and objects. This drawing book was
originally a blank "Pure Gold Foil" booklet manufactured by Hood & Reynolds,
Boston.
Box 95, Envelope 06
[Drawing book of Marie Lloyd].
Approximately 1875?
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One 12-leaf drawing book of original pencil drawings by Marie [?] Lloyd, primarily
of houses and buildings; the accompanying note from Diana Korzenik describes them as
"clumsy."
Box 96, Envelope 04-06
[Drawing book of Oswald Windle].
1876-1892
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Three drawing books of original drawings created by Oswald Windle in drawing books
manufactured by J.W. & Co., London. Each book is approximately 14 leaves in
length, and contains original and copied drawings in pencil, ink, charcoal pencil,
and watercolor. The images include floral, decorative designs, patterns, people, and
animals. A very few images of human faces and houses are also included. Env. 6 also
includes 5 laid-in drawings of scenes with buildings, people, and landscape.
Box 95, Envelope 01
[Drawing book of Charles H. Barnett].
1878 or later
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One 12-page book of 12 original pencil drawings primarily of buildings and houses
by Charles H. Barnett. The drawing book was manufactured with blank pages to be
completed with original drawings. The printed back cover contains seals and text
reading: "Republique Francaise," "Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1878,
Paris," "Mark Twain's Scrap Book," and "Paris Exposition 1878."
Box 96, Envelope 07
[Drawing book of Ella Seaver].
1879
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One 12-leaf drawing book of original drawings created by Ella Seaver containing 14
pencil drawings. The are images of flowers, floral designs, and some vases. An
accompanying note from Diana Korzenik states the images are "after Walter
Smith."
Box 95, Envelope 02
[Drawings by R.T. Fish].
Approximately 1880
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One 8-leaf book of 4 original pencil drawings, composed by R.T. Fish. Images
consist of 2 floral scenes; 1 landscape; and 1 image of a house within a pastoral
setting.
Box 95, Envelope 04
[Drawing book of F.J. Monroe].
Approximately 1880
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One 12-leaf drawing book of original drawings by F.J. Monroe, containing 11
drawings in pencil, some colored pencil, including images of a deer, a tree, a
windmill, castles, and a chicken. The first image is titled "Wild Tiger-lily."
Box 95, Envelope 08
[Drawing book of geometrical designs and animals].
Approximately 1880?
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One 24-page book of pencil original drawings of geometrical designs and animals,
creator unidentified.
Box 96, Envelope 08
[Drawing book of Henry S. Tubbs].
1883
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One 16-page drawing book of original drawings created by Henry S. Tubbs containing
9 pencil drawings, with 6 additional pencil drawings laid in. Most of the leaves in
the book are blank. The drawings on the leaves include a small fairy, houses and
landscapes, and floral designs. The laid-in drawings include a map of Arkansas,
Louisiana and Mississippi; a house; a sailboat, and a whimsical image of a foot,
with piglets for toes, with a "This Little Piggy" rhyme written in ms. alongside
it.
Box 97, Envelope 44
[Drawing book of maps and flowers].
Approximately 1888
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One 20-leaf drawing book of original and copied drawings by an unnamed creator
containing 7 ink and watercolor maps and 3 leaves of pencil sketches of flowers. The
maps are views of: the southeastern United States; the New England States;
Palestine; the Mid-Atlantic States; the Caribbean; Australia, and Italy.
Box 95, Envelope 05
[Drawing book of geometric shapes and designs].
Approximately 1890
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One 14-page drawing book of original pencil drawings of geometric shapes, patterns
and designs by an unidentified creator. Drawings in a "Drawing Tablet: Student's
Series - No. 2221" book manufactured by the Pennsylvania School Supply Co.,
Philadelphia.
Box 95, Envelope 09
[Drawing book of landscapes].
Approximately 1890
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One 8-leaf drawing book of original pencil drawings, creator unidentified,
primarily of landscapes.
Box 97, Envelope 58
[Painting of a shepherd and his dog].
Approximately 1890?
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One original small color painting, untitled and unsigned, of a shepherd and his
dog, painted in a cubist style.
Box 96, Envelope 09
[Drawing book of Henry H. Holt].
1896
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One 12-leaf drawing book of original drawings created by Henry H. Holt of Woodbury,
Vermont, in a book manufactured by the H. Senior Co., New York. The book contains
pencil and crayon drawings of images depicting animals, objects, people, and maps.
Most of the images are numbered with a number that corresponds to the source from
which it was copied (according to an accompanying note from Diana Korzenik), and the
drawings have been numerically graded by the creator's teacher. A ms. letter to
Diana Korzenik, with its envelop and a photocopy is laid in.
Box 96, Envelope 10
[Sketch book of Wynna Wright].
1908
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One 34-leaf drawing book of original drawings by eight-year-old Wynna Wright
containing pencil drawings of women in early 20th century dress.
Related Materials
See also Box 96, Envelope 11.
Box 96, Envelope 11
[Drawing book of Wynna Wright].
1908-1909
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One 38-page drawing book of original drawings, created by eight-year-old Wynna
Wright, containing pencil drawings of women, a few of which have been colored with
watercolor.
Related Materials
See also Box 96, Envelope 10.
Box 97, Envelope 01-37
[Drawing book of E. Frances Botsford].
1915-1916
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One set of 37 pencil and ink drawings copied from didactic sources, created by E.
Frances Botsford. The drawings refer to images from paintings (by Giotto, Rembrandt,
Michaelangelo, and Raphael, for example), and feature architectural details, and
scientific, labeled drawings of insect parts.
Box 97, Envelope 45-57
[Drawings by Emma Barnes].
Approximately 1915
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One set of 13 original drawings created by Emma Barnes. Consists of 6 charcoal
drawings of geometric solids (Env. 45-50); 2 charcoal drawings of a statue face
(Env. 51-52); 1 charcoal drawing of a bowl (Env. 53); 2 colored chalk drawings (Env.
55-56); and a leaf of ms. notes, in pencil (Env. 57).
Box 95, Envelope 10
[Drawing of house in Andover, Mass.].
Undated
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One pencil drawing of a house titled, in ms., "At Andover Mass." On the verso is
written, in ms., "To Eleanor, from Jennie."
Box 95, Envelope 11
[Drawing of Professor S.F.B. Morse by A.N. Chayce].
Undated
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One pencil portrait of a bearded man, titled, in ms., "Professor S.F.B. Morse."
"A.N. Chyace" is written in ms. on the verso.
Box 95, Envelope 12
[Drawing of birds by "Mary"].
Undated
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One original ink drawing on laid paper of four birds; two large and two small.
"Mary." is written on sheet verso in ms.
Subseries L. Graduate Student Papers from various courses taught by Diana
Korzenik.
1973-1995
Box 98
Graduate Student Papers, A-B.
1984-1995
Scope and Contents
One box of 32 graduate student papers from Harvard and Massachusetts College of Art
written by students whose last names begin with the letters A-B. The papers were
written by students of Diana Korzenik, some for a course entitled "Why Skills
Change- The History of Visual Art in American Education." At the front of this box
are two copies of a bibliography compiled by Korzenik entitled "Cumulative
Bibliography of Graduate Research Papers for History of Goals and Methods in Art
Education."
- Abnet, Holly Pochman. "Quilting in the late 19th century: a display of
competency for future mothers and wives." 1995
- Aceves, Consuelo. "Seeing life through young eyes." 1995
- Clemente, Ninive. "On Jacob Lawrence." 1995
- Cossentino, Jackie. "Mining memory: the arts and progressive education in
Baltimore's schools." 1995
- Dorna, Deron J. "Art and Spirituality in the pedagogy of Francis Wayland
Parker." 1995
- Gilette, Dan. "Ware's MIT: empowerment through art education." 1995
- Kim, Young Jae. "Education to bind, education to liberate." 1995 (2
copies)
- Litwin, Robin Gile. "May Alcott- the wind beneath her wings." 1995
- Peckham, Kathleen. "A need to express: the rise of children's art and African
art in Greenwich Village, 1910-20's." 1995
- Tavilla, David. "Instruments of Perspective: the study of art and science in
the pursuit of truth." 1995
- Swosozowski, Kristin M. "Fragile threads of historical manipulation: the Ware
Collection of glass flowers at Harvard University: casting a web of public
support." 1995
- Agam, Raya. "Educational justifications for introducing paper cutting in
schools and art program in the U.S.A." 1984
- Alzamora, Steven. "Aunt Lily Massachusetts College of Art, graduate of 1956."
1993
- Anderson, James M. "Why art was omitted during the establishment of the French
Christian Brothers and one of their schools, LaSalle Academy, in the United
States." n.d.
- Baxter, Edwin Stuart. "Research Paper for Diana Korzenik." n.d.
- Beatte, Margaret. [Untitled, 1992?]
- Bedard, Tina. "Color instruction in late 19th century America." 1987
- Berman, Ann. "Women's secondary education during the Depression years, in
Boston." n.d.
- Berger, Jane A. "Howard Pyle: illustrator/ teacher of illustration."
1988
- Bilal, Zuhairah N. [Untitled]. 1987
- Bilal, Z.N. "History and Goals of Art Education, Supplement to complete the
course"
- Hughes, Margreta A. "The passing of the cherry tree" 1991
- Brown, Maryanne. [Untitled] 198?
- Billipp, Diana Haring. "How did Rudolph Steiner utilize art in the curriculum
of the Waldorf School and what influences convinced him of its vital role in
education?" 1991
- Boemer, Allen J. "Frederick Law Olmsted 1822-1903 the father of landscape
architecture: the park maker" 1990
- Brown, Susan. "Superintendent Alcott, Concord Mass. 1859-1865" 1989
- Bunting, Amy. "Child labor in the Lawrence textile mills during the mid
1800's" 1988
- Burke, Linda S. "Emily Connick Burke, 1889-1978: the history of her art
education" 1991
- Bonito, David. "Historical research on Thompson's Island." 1986
- Butler, Sandra. "Charles Frederick Whitney, Art Educator." 1988
Box 99
Graduate Student Papers, C-J.
1981-1994
Scope and Contents
One box of graduate student papers from Massachusetts College of Art written by
students whose last names begin with the letters C-J. The papers were written by
students of Diana Korzenik, for the course "History of Goals and Methods of Art
Education."
- Calvert, Peter. "Art materials Used in Unitarian Sunday Schools 1880-1910."
1987
- Carey, Carolyn. "My Grandfather, the Carpenter, the Mechanic, the Artist."
1994
- Carter, Thom. "Henry Schaefer-Simmern: Unfolding His Methods and Goals of Art
Education." 1994
- Carvalho, Caitlin. "Fall River Massachusetts, In Search of Art." 1994
- Chisholm, James Ross. "The Apprentice Training Program at Forbes Lithograph
Mfg. Co. During the 1930's." 1993
- Chmielinski, Nancy. "The Formal and Informal Education of John C. Marin."
1993
- Collins, Ralph. "Cambridge Manual Training School." [1986]
- Coleman, Helen. "Rudolph Steiner." [1990?]
- Cox, Charles. "The Picture Study Movement in New England." [198-?]
- Crayton, Wanda L. "Methods of Discipline in the Early Nineteen Hundred,
Elementary Public Schools." 1988
- Curran, Emily. "In the Eye of the Beholder: Benjamin Ives Gilman and the
Establishment of a Museum Docent Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
1906-1912." 1991
- Cutler, Robin W. "A Research Paper" 1990
- Davison, Lesley. "Keeper of the Enchanted Gates: Victor D'Amico and his ideas
in action 1937-1960." 1993
- DeSantis, Karin Kearney. "Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and Art as a Moral
Education." 1990
- Dewaters, Roberta. "American Embroidered Samplers of the Eighteenth Century."
1981
- Dickinson, Kim. "On the Subject of Dress reform: Who is the Authority on the
Definition of Beauty?" 1989
- Donabedian, David. [Untitled, 198-?]
- Downes, Judith. "The Science of Beauty: Planning for the New Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston 1902-1909." [198-?]
- Dunn, Linda S. "Irwin D. Hoffman: Printmaker." 1991
- Swinell, Richard D. "Blind Contour Drawing: The Experience of Learning."
[198-?]
- Eccher, Mary Ellen. [Untitled] 1987
- Elwell, Ann. "Munsell Color Educational Plans." 1991
- Everett, Julie. "Modernism: The Evolution of a Design Trend." 1987
- Flores, Jennifer. "Mary Dana Hicks." 1993
- Foss, Linda. [Zuni] n.d.
- Gabriel, Brian. "Rudolf Steiner and Waldorf Education." [198-?]
- Green, Maureen. "What Were the Influences responsible for the Bauhaus Forms?"
1982
- Gurner, Glen. "Sloyd and the North Bennet St. School." 1990
- Guthrie, Carole. "How Did Gallery 291 / Alfred Stieglitz Bring Modern Art (A
New Visual Aesthetic) to New York?" 1989
- Harold, Jane. "Arthur Wesley Dow c. 1857-1922" [1990?]
- Hayes, Roberta Lynn. "Elma Lewis and the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts."
1991
- Hill, Catherine. "A Lasting Gift: Henry Turner Bailey and the Arts and Crafts
School at Chautauqua Institution." 1987
- Jaquith, Diane. "The role of School Arts Magazine in the Development of School
Programs at Art Museums During the Editorial Term of Henry Turner Bailey,
1901-1917." 1990
- Jarvis, Susan. "Cross-Cultural Influences in Quilts Made by White and Slave
Women During the Civil War." 1993
- Jeas, James. "1886-1903 Arioch Wentworth's Citadel." 1988 (2 copies)
- Jobin, Cynthia. "Denman Ross Considered." 1988
Box 100
Graduate Student Papers, K-P.
1973-1994
Scope and Contents
One box of graduate student papers from Massachusetts College of Art written by
students whose last names begin with the letters K-P. The papers were written by
students of Diana Korzenik, for the course "History of Goals and Methods of Art
Education."
- Kachoogian, Laura. [Untitled] 1991
- Khan, Shabnam. "Art Education in Pakistan: Misconceptions and Viabilities."
1991
- Kim, Yongjou. "The South End House Hooked Rug Industry." 1990
- Kline, Joanna. "Amish Art Education." [198-?] (2 copies)
- Kohler, Karen. "John Dewey." 1990
- Kornhauser, Naomi. "William Morris Hunt as Artist-Teacher." 1980
- Krause, Deborah. [Untitled, about women ceramicists] 1988
- Kupferman, Heidi. "How Did Alice Stanwood Willoughby Learn the Skills Needed
to Build the Wichita Diorama?" 1993
- Kupiec, Yael. "The Stelton School: Progressive Anarchist Ideas About Art and
Expression." 1993
- Landry, Adrienne. "What Gave Rise to the Masters of Fine Art Degree in Studio
Art and What Where Its Goals?" 1985
- Langhammer, Lisa. "A Consideration of Educational Influences on N.C. Wyeth."
1990
- Larkin, Catherine. "The Shift in Curriculum Development in Art Education From
1880-1915." [198-?]
- Lee, Diane D. "Art Education for Enrichment and Vocation at the Women's
Educational and Industrial Union, 1878 to 1900." 1986
- Lincoln, Jennifer Lolly. "The Battle of Gettysburg Cyclorama: How It was Used,
by Whom, and Why." 1990
- Louis, Linda L. [Untitled] [198-?]
- Lucia, Michelle. "The Education of Georgia O'Keeffe." 1988 (2 copies)
- Maclaren, Elizabeth. "The Saturday Evening Girls 1908-1942: Who Were the
Mentors and Leaders and Their Influence on This Group of Immigrant Women Who
Became the Paul Revere Pottery?" 1993
- Marsh, Kathleen. "H. Gilman Williams, the John Hay Whitney Foundation, and
Medina, New York: a Short Study in Community Education." 1990
- Maruiwa, Yoshiko. "Kakuzo Okakura in Boston." 1994
- Mavromichalis, Manuella. "What Kinds of Objects Might a Young Boy See, What
Might He Hear, Whilst Growing Up, That Might Encourage Him To Join the Greek
Orthodox Priesthood?" 1993
- Maxwell, Helen. "George Bridgman: Life Drawing Instructor at the Art Students
League of New York." 1994
- Mead, William. "John Dewey: Theorist & Albert Barnes: Educator."
1991
- Melamed, Linda. "Settling on the Settlement: The role of the Arts in the Early
Settlement Movement: A Model for Community Arts Programs." 1985
- Mezger, Susan Loebl. "Overview of Education in the 1850's, the Views of Amos
Bronson Alcott as reported by Elizabeth Peabody, with Particular Interest in Art
Educational Practices." 1973
- Mietla, Allan. "Kimon Nicolaides and the Natural Way to Draw." 1988
- Miller, Robin. "Franz Cizek: A Conflict of Theory." 1980
- Montagano, Ann. "The International School Art Program." 1991
- Moore, Allen. "Arthur Wesley Dow." [198-?]
- Ober, Carol. "Theater Arts at the Henry Street Settlement 1910-1920."
[1992]
- O'Flaherty, Deidre. "Charles H. Woodbury: Summer Art Classes in Ogunquit,
Maine." 1988
- O'Hare, Jacquelyn Doyle. "Sister Vincent de Paul Curran, S.N.L." 1988
- Pantos, Kirk. "How My Grandmother, Kyriaky, Became a Weaver." 1993
- Parrott, Jodi L. "How the Jewelry Industry Affected Education in Attleboro."
1993
- Pearsall, Laurie. "'Making Something Out of Nothing'" The Art Education of
Dorothy Labbe from 1943-1959" 1994
- Pinkham, Judith. "Writing in the Nineteenth Century." 1987
- Prifti, David. "Stickley's Dilemma." [198-?]
Box 101
Graduate Student Papers, R-T.
1978-1994
Scope and Contents
One box of graduate student papers from Massachusetts College of Art written by
students whose last names begin with the letters R-T. The papers were written by
students of Diana Korzenik, for the course "History of Goals and Methods of Art
Education."
- Rae, Steven. "The Beginning of the Ceramics Department at Mass Art." 1993 (2
copies)
- Reed, Mardi. "Dahlov Ipcar- Creative Growth: Child and family in Education."
[1991?]
- Remar, Katherine. "Farm Security Administration Photographs as a Contribution
to the American Social Conscience of the 1930's." 1983. (Accompanied by a 1997
program for Katherine Remar's memorial service)
- Richey, Peter. "Bauhaus: The Basic Course Johannes Itten." 1978
- Robbins, Lynne White. "Art in Context: An Examination of the Changing Role of
Art at the Elizabeth Peabody Social Settlement House, 1896-1925." 1987
- Robinson, Susan. "The Chautauqua Movement and Its Involvement in Art
Education." [198-?]
- Rudnick, Elizabeth. "Works Progress Administration / Federal Art Project."
[1988?]
- Ryder, Marcia. "Art World Eyes Forum 49 Program of Abstract Work and
Discussion." 1989
- Sakowitz, Rhoda. "History in a Suitcase." 1988
- Sallen, Amy. [Untitled] 1988
- Sanderson, Jodi Michelle. "Allan Rohan Crite." 1994
- Schilling, Joy. "Isabella Stewart Gardner." 1989
- Schubert, Carl W. "Ruth Dyer Wells: The Woman Behind Old Sturbridge Village."
1993
- Schubert, Nancy S. "Louis Comfort Tiffany's Quest for Beauty: It's Social and
Educational Repercussions." 1993
- Seymour, Nancy. "The Movies, Children and Education: 'From Audience
relationships to Critical and Creative Relationships." 1991
- Sciaretta, Diane. "Art, Americanization, and the Settlement House: A Story of
Il Circolo Italo-Americano Denison House, Boston, 1904-1914." 1991
- Shairs, Christina. [Untitled] 1991
- Sheehy, Anne J. "Louis Prang." 1981
- Sheinfeld, Larry. "Regionalism: A Usable History." 1989
- Shore, Pam. "Kimon Nicolaides: His Development of Teaching Methods and
Definitions of a Drawing Vocabulary." 1991
- Sisitsky, Marjorie. "An Early History of the Worcester Center for Crafts."
1988
- Smith-Cripps, Jean. "May Alcott: Decision to be an Artist." 1985
- Staddier, Jane. "How Did Architectural Education Grow and Develop at the
Boston Architectural Center from 1889 to the Present?" 1990
- Staukup, K. "Whole Space: A Study of the Planned Learning Area in Rudolph
Steiner's Waldorf Schools." 1990
- Stewart, Patricia. "Lithuanain Schools." 1988
- Stifter, Ellen M. "The Eliot School in Retrospect: Meeting Individual and
Community Needs Through Manual Arts." 1990
- Stoddard, Miriam L. W. "Development of Subject Correlation by Pestalozzi for
More-Effective Teaching." 1979
- Stranc, Susan. "Decorative Ironwork: A Brief Historical and Sociological
Sketch." [198-?]
- Sugarman, Nancy. "Lowell Mill Girl and Art - 1830 to 1850." 1987
- Sweeney, Susan. "The Influence of the Oneida Community (1848-1881) in Central
New York, Upon the Artistic Development of Jessie Catherine Kinsley (1858 - 1938.)
1988
- Swickard, Claudine. "Lucy May Stanton, Artist and Teacher." 1994
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Box 102
Graduate Student Papers, T-W.
1980-1994
Scope and Contents
One box of graduate student papers from Massachusetts College of Art written by
students whose last names begin with the letters T-W. These papers were written by
students of Diana Korzenik, for the course "History of Goals and Methods of Art
Education."
- Tabery, Midori. "Textiles: The Art Within Industry." 1987
- Teperow-Levy, Nina. "Horace Mann and the Normal Schools." 1985
- Terrile, Michael J. "What was the 'Curriculum' / Philosophy of Art Education
which Hans Hofmann taught at His School in Provincetown, Massachusetts between
1948 and 1958?" 1991
- Thibodeau, Lillian. "The A.H. Hews Company: Study of An Early Pottery."
1981
- Turner, Donna M. "The Doll: An Historical, Social and Aesthetic Record of Her
Time." 1987.
- Varland, Joel. "The Effects of the Armory Show on Art Education." 1986
- Vaudreuil, Paul. "Why and How Did the Shakers Hand Down Their Craftsmanship?"
1989
- Varoski, Mary Ann. [paper missing]
- Wachtmann, Geraldine. "Art Pottery: How it Affected the Social and Economic
Circumstances of Women Workers, particularly the Women of the Paul Revere Pottery
in Boston." 1987
- Walker, Elizabeth Kelly. "Mass Art 1900-1950, Utilitarian of Aesthetic."
1988
- Warren, Marsha Ann. "How the Making og Samplers Contributed to the Education
of American Women During the Years 1830-1850." [198-?]
- Veneziano, Monica. "Felix A. Gendrot and the Melrose Fine Arts Library."
1980
- Viens, Francis. [Untitled] [198-?]
- West, Rebecca. "Story Hours at the Museum: The Museum of Fine Arts' First
Educational Program for Children." 1990
- West, Judithann. "Were Lithographers in the Nineteenth Century Artists?"
[198-]
- Wigglesworth, Suzanne. "The Work Cure." 1993
- Williams, Sharon. "The Introduction of the Motion Picture Film as an Aid to
Art Education in the Early 1900's." 1988
- Winetrout, Mark. "William G. Whitford: Test and Measurements: A Concerned Look
at a Problematic Necessity." 1994
- Wingerath, Mary Martha Steele. "Mary McMillan and Her Art Education at Smith
College 1912-1916: How Did Her Art Education at Smith Inspire Her to be a
Professional Artist." 1991
- Wixon, Jeffrey. "Joseph Donovan Barrett: Class of 1935 Massachusetts School of
Art." [198-?]
- Weggel, Diane Avery. "A Child's Sampler, South Reading, 1824." 1994
- Wong, S.D. "Danvers and the Shoe Industry." [1991]
- Wong, T.J. "The School of Drawing and Painting: The Museum of Fine Arts' First
Art Education Program for the Training of Professional Artists 1877-1901."
[199-]
- Wrynn, Kathy. "A Successful Supervisor; Nat. L. Berry." 1989
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Series III. Objects
Conditions Governing Access
RESTRICTED. Use digital reproductions in the Huntington Digital Library. Originals
available by special permission only.
Subseries A. Boxed Painting Sets.
Approximately 1781-1966
Box 75, Item 05
[Thomas Reeves and Sons watercolor paint set].
Approximately 1781
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One boxed set of untitled watercolor paints manufactured by Thomas Reeves and Sons
comprised of 12 embossed cakes of watercolor paint. With a printed affidavit
reading: "Society for the Encouragement of Arts, manufacture and Commerce, Adelphi,
May 1781. Gentlemen, I am desired by the Society to return you their thanks for the
obliging present you have been pleased to make to them of Box of Colours prepared by
you for the use of painters in watercolours an art so well adapted to the purpose of
forwarding that [?] of polite arts could not fail of being acceptable to the
society. Thos. Reeves and Son, Colour manufacturer to Her Majesty and His Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales. I am Gentlemen, your most obedient humble servant.
Sam'l Moore, Secretary."
Custodial History
Acquired by Diana Korzenik in Springfield, MA at an Ephemera/Antiques Fair, ca.
1994.
Box 75, Item 03
[George W. Osborne, Superfine American Water Colour paint set].
Approximately 1830
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One boxed set of watercolor paints, untitled, manufactured by "George W. Osborne,
Superfine American Water Colour Manufacturer," Philadelphia, comprised of 18 small,
rectangular cakes of embossed watercolor paint. Also included are two small
paintbrushes made of quills, and a small piece of charcoal with Chinese writing on
it.
Box 75, Item 11
[Boxed set of watercolor paints].
Approximately 1870?
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One untitled boxed set of watercolor paints, manufacturer unknown, comprised of
several small cakes of watercolor paint, one small, round porcelain dish, and two
quill paint brushes. This box is similar to sets 5 and 10 in Box 75.
Box 73, Item 22
Honfleure's Colours.
Approximately 1880?
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One boxed set of paint pigments comprised of 11 large and 3 small glass jars of dry
paint pigments, in a variety of colors. Laid into the box is a sheet of printed
directions for mixing the pigments and how to use each of the colors. The three
small glass jars may not be part of the Honfleure set; they appear to have been
manufactured by another company.
Box 75, Item 10
Superfine Painting Colors.
Approximately 1880
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One boxed set of watercolor paints, manufacturer unknown, comprised of 40
rectangular, embossed cakes of watercolor paint, each embossed with a family crest;
two round porcelain dishes; two paint brushes; and two embossed cakes of
charcoal.
Box 75, Item 17
[Winsor & Newton watercolor paint set].
Approximately 1880
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One untitled boxed watercolor paint set, manufactured by Winsor & Newton
Limited, London, England, comprised of 12 rectangular cakes of watercolor paint,
each embossed with an image of a crown or a mythological figure; two porcelain
3-welled dishes; a cut glass dish; a bone brush rest; two small, round dishes; a
wooden stick; one piece of charcoal; and several pieces of chalk.
Box 57, Item 2
Drawing and Painting Exercises After Models for Children.
Approximately 1885
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One boxed painting set manufactured by W. & S. B comprised of 7 sheets of paper
for drawing and painting, a paper palette onto which 6 small round cakes of
watercolor paints are mounted, and 11 cutout stencils made from engravings. Also
included is one stencil of the initials "OEL." The 11 "specimens" include a woman
holding a bowl, a man with an apron full of fruit, and various farm animals. The
seven sheets of paper contain original and traced artwork. One of the cakes of paint
is missing from the palette, and only fragments remain of two others.
Box 75, Item 13
Fine Art Colour Box.
Approximately 1890
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One boxed set of watercolor paints, manufacturer unknown, comprised of 18
rectangular cakes of watercolor paint, each embossed with the image of an eagle; two
large(er) and two small porcelain dishes; and two sticks of charcoal. "Made in
Germany" is printed below the title on the lid image. One of the cakes of paint has
"SEPIE" embossed on it, and two of the cakes of paint are missing.
Box 75, Item 14
Our Children's Favorite Paint Box.
Approximately 1895
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One boxed set of watercolor paints, manufacturer unknown, comprised of 18 cakes of
watercolor paint, each embossed with an image of an eagle; two porcelain dishes; and
two thin sticks of charcoal. One of the images on the lid is labeled
"Chicago-Exhibition 1893." "Made in Germany" is printed on the image as well.
Box 75, Item 15
Pretty Pets Paint Box.
Approximately 1895
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One boxed set of watercolor paints, manufacturer unknown, comprised of 28 cakes of
watercolor paint, each embossed with an artist's palette design; two small porcelain
dishes; one paintbrush; a piece of glass; and a 5-inch paper ruler.
Box 75, Item 16
Water Color School Box.
Approximately 1895
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One boxed set of watercolor paints, manufactured by Wadsworth, Howland & Co.,
Boston, Massachusetts, comprised of 10 small cakes of watercolor paint set, one
quill brush, one wooden stick, and a small stick of charcoal.
Box 75, Item 02
Best Water Colors: Transparent & Indelible Colors: Transparent &
Indelible Colors, for tinting photographs, lantern slides, drawings, school maps,
magazines, photogravures, silk, satin, leather, and pyrography, (or burnt wood)
etc.
Approximately 1900
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One boxed set of watercolor paints manufactured by Favor, Ruhl & Co., New York,
Boston, and Chicago, comprised of 12 small, round cakes of watercolor paint in
wooden tubs.
Box 75, Item 07
Fine Water Colors Warranted.
Approximately 1900?
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One boxed set of watercolor paints, manufacturer unknown, comprised of 18 small,
rectangular cakes of watercolor paint, each embossed with an image of a frog; two
small, round porcelain dishes; and a quill brush.
Box 49
Banner Crayon Outfit.
Approximately 1915
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One boxed coloring set manufactured by Milton Bradley Co., Springfield,
Massachusetts, containing seven blind embossed coloring cards and six colored
crayons.
Box 75, Item 04
Bradley's Water Colors: Master Art Tubes.
Approximately 1915
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One boxed set of paints manufactured by the Milton Bradley Company, Springfield,
Massachusetts; the number "4024" printed below the manufacturer's name. The set is
comprised of three triangular glass dishes, space for 9 tubes of paint and several
paint brushes. This set has been used; only 3 tubes of paint, 4 paint brushes, and a
paint brush fragment are in the box.
Box 51, Item 1
Kindergarten Set.
Approximately 1915
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One boxed painting and drawing set comprised of two blind embossed painting cards
for painting, three stencil cards, four embossed cakes of watercolor paint, a small
pencil, and a metal paint mixing tray with 12 small, rectangular wells. No
manufacturer is named; no manufacture date is given. The two image cards are
unpainted; the three stencil cards have been used.
Box 51, Item 2
[Paint set].
Approximately 1915
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One boxed painting set with 10 small cakes of watercolor paint, two porcelain
mixing dishes, two paintbrushes, a 5-inch wooden ruler, two wooden sticks, 8 sheets
containing original artwork, and 1 additional sheet with sample images for copying.
No manufacturer is listed; no date is given.
Box 55
Cracker Jack Painting and Drawing Book for Crayon and Water Color
Painting.
1917
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One boxed painting set manufactured by Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron, Ohio,
New York and Chicago. The set is comprised of six small cakes of watercolor paint in
wooden tubs, two metal dishes, a paintbrush, a box of 8 (5 are missing) wax crayons,
and a painting and drawing book. Printed on the top lid: "It's an Ullman Coloring
Outfit" and "The Ullman Mfg. Co., N.Y." The book has been colored in, but not
completely; the paints have been used.
Box 75, Item 01
Devoe Water Colors.
Approximately 1920
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One boxed set of watercolor paints manufactured by Devoe & Raynolds Co., New
York and Chicago containing 8 small, rectangular cakes of watercolor paints. There
is also a space for a paintbrush, which is not present.
Box 57, Item 1
Steps to Art.
Approximately 1920?
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One boxed painting set comprised of 8 rectangular cakes of watercolor paint, a
paintbrush, 2 glass jars, a white porcelain mixing tray with three wells, and a
hinged folder inside of which are mounted two 16-leaf books:
Studies
and
Subjects. Studies contains color images to be used as samples,
and Subjects contains the same images, in outline form, for painting. Some of the
images in the Subject book have been painted in with watercolor. Neither a
manufacturer's name, nor a date, are given.
Box 50
Little Wonder Pictures to Color and Draw: Easy Steps for Children in
Coloring and Drawing.
1923
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One boxed drawing set manufactured by the Platt & Munk Co., New York. This set
is comprised of one drawing book of approximately 100 pages in length containing
images for copying and coloring and nine colored crayons, which have been used. The
copyright date on the title page of the drawing book is 1921; the date on the top
lid of the box is 1923. Some of the images within the book have been copied and
colored.
Box 75, Item 08
For A Good Child.
Approximately 1925?
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One boxed set of watercolor paints, manufacturer unknown, comprised of 21 small,
rectangular embossed cakes of watercolor paint, each embossed with an image of a
swan one small; round porcelain dish; a very small quill brush; and two folded
sheets of blotting paper.
Box 75, Item 09
For A Good Child.
Approximately 1925?
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One boxed set of watercolor paints, manufacturer unknown, comprised of 21 small,
rectangular embossed cakes of watercolor paint, each embossed with the image of a
swan; a small, round porcelain dish; a fragment of a quill brush; and one folded
sheet of brown blotting paper.
Box 53
All American Coloring Outfit.
Approximately 1930
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One boxed painting set manufactured by J. Pressman & Co., New York. The set is
comprised of 10 round cakes of watercolor paint, a tin water dish, a paintbrush, and
a 6-page coloring book, entitled "A Trip to Circus Land" with images of circus
acts.
Box 75, Item 12
Wonderful Paint Box for Little Artists.
Approximately 1930
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One boxed set of watercolor paints, manufacturer unknown, comprised of 9 small,
rectangular cakes of watercolor paint, each embossed with an image of a crown; 2
very small stone dishes; a color portrait of a lady; and a piece of glass the same
size.
Box 56
Tom Sawyer Painting Set.
1931
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One boxed painting set manufactured by Standard Solophone Manufacturing Company,
N.Y., in conjunction with Paramount Pictures. This set is comprised of 30 cakes of
watercolor paint, two metal dishes, four small tubes of watercolor paints, 8 colored
wax crayons, 8 outline images for painting, 2 color images (stills) from the movie
Tom Sawyer starring Jackie Coogan, and a 4-page "'Tom Sawyer' Nuart Poster Color
Guide." Four of the eight paint-by-number outline images have been completed. The
watercolor paint inside the box has been lightly used; the crayons have not been
used.
Box 58
The 'Little Artist's' Masterpiece Painting Set: With Quality Paints and
Masterpiece Pictures.
Approximately 1932
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One boxed painting set manufactured by Whitman Publishing Co. comprised of 8 round
cakes of watercolor paint within wooden tubs, two oblong metal dishes, 2 sheets
containing 16 color images entitled "Famous Paintings to Paint and Color," 4
double-sided sheets, each containing 4 images for painting, and a book of 11 color
images entitled "Color Reproductions of Ten Famous Paintings: Including Historical
Sketches of the Artists and the Pictures, Suitable for Framing." Some of the images
included are: "The Blue Boy" by Gainsborough; "The Helping Hand" by Renouf; "The
Sistine Madonna" by Raphael, and "Portrait of George Gisz" by Holbein. One of the
images has been partially painted.
Box 75, Item 06
Donald Duck Paint Box.
1950
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One boxed watercolor paint set manufactured by Transogram, Inc., New York, and Walt
Disney Productions comprised of 12 molded star-shaped cakes of watercolor paints and
one paintbrush, housed within a decorated tin box. With label: "Donald Duck Paint
Set, No. 1422." Text on lid: "A Transogram Gold Medal Craft Set."
Box 54
Craft Master, New Artist, Series 24, NA-2432 or Summer
Quietude.
1958
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One boxed paint-by-numbers painting set manufactured by Palmer Pann Corp., Toledo,
Ohio. The kit includes the original 24 jars of numbered paints, one jar of brush
cleaner, one paint brush, and an 8-page newspaper-like color catalog of other
paint-by-number kits for sale. The two companion "canvasses," entitled "Summer
Quietude," are lacking. Printed on the palette image on the front cover is "genuine
Kenro artist oil paints in easy to open screw-top jars."
Box 52
Craft Master, New Artist Series ... 18, NA-1807, Forest
Creatures.
1966
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One boxed paint-by-number painting set manufactured by Craft Master Corporation.
The kit includes 18 paints; 2 paint brushes; and 2 prepared canvasses, each bearing
an image outlined and numbered to correspond with the paints in the set. The set
does not appear to have been used.
Subseries B. Boxed Sewing Cards Sets.
Approximately 1910-approximately 1915
Box 80, Item 04
First Steps in Sewing.
Approximately 1910
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One boxed set of sewing cards, manufacturer unknown, comprised of 6 sewing cards (5
uncolored) and several lengths of colored thread. The sixth card is printed in
color; it is an image of a woman's high-collared dress. Some of the cards have been
completed.
Box 80, Item 03
Story Sewing Cards.
Approximately 1920
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One boxed set of sewing cards (set number 4222) manufactured by the Milton Bradley
Company, Springfield, Massachusetts, comprised of 10 numbered sewing cards, three
lengths of colored thread wrapped around paper spools, and one sewing needle. The
sewing cards within this set are representative scenes from children's stories, for
example: Jack and Jill, Mother Goose, and Little Bo Peep. Six of the ten cards have
been completed either in part or in full.
Subseries C. Boxed Stencil Sets.
Approximately 1885-approximately 1915
Box 81, Item 01
Machine Cut Stencil Combination.
Approximately 1885
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One boxed metal stencil set, manufacturer unknown, comprised of a stencil brush,
one can of stencil ink, a sponge, a brass alphabet and a set (10) of brass figures
(numbers and a dollar sign). Directions and suggestions for use are printed on the
label: "For marking boxes, barrels, bags and packages for shipment. Printing all
manner of show cards, notices, signs, numbers, prices, etc. Instructive and amusing
for Boys." Accompanying the set is a glass jar containing what appears to be white
paint, and a cardboard stencil of the letter "V"; these items were not part of the
original set. The stencil set has been used. Note: This box is very dirty (due to
the dry ink)--please wash hands after handling this item.
Box 81, Item 02
Colouring and Sketching with Metal Stencils.
Approximately 1890
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One boxed set of metal stencils, manufactured by W & S B., comprised of six tin
stencils, four colored pencils, one Gillette razor blade (only its wrapper remains)
and 5 blank postcards. The stencils were to be used on the postcards; only one
postcard has been drawn upon. The tin stencils include images of a ship, a train, a
windmill and a house.
Box 81, Item 05
For the Kindergarten, For Little Folks, Drawing Made Easy.
Approximately 1890
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One boxed set of paper stencils comprised of 6 large paper stencils, accompanied by
4 illustrations made using the stencils and four additional, smaller paper stencils.
The scenes of the stencils are named on the box lid: "Dutch Wind Mill, German
Village, French Convent, New Navy, Old Navy, Summer Home." The manufacturer's name
is not present, but the set is very similar to sets 3 and 4 (Box 81) made by
McLoughlin Bros., New York.
Box 82, Item 04
Drawing Pictures.
Approximately 1890
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One set of paper stencils, manufactured (presumably) by Parker Brothers, Salem,
Massachusetts, comprised of 5 titled paper stencils, each serving as an
advertisement for 'Sweet Home' Soap, "Made by J.D. Larkin & Co., Buffalo, N.Y."
The stencils are housed within a paper envelope containing 5 drawing pictures:
Thrown Overboard; The Girl & The Goose; The Rat & the Trap; The Elephant;
and The Rooster. The stencils have been used.
Box 82, Item 03
Drawing Teacher.
Approximately 1895
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One boxed set of paper stencils, manufactured by Parker Brothers, Salem,
Massachusetts, comprised of 10 paper stencils, which include images of animals,
people, and buildings. Also included are two printed sheets of paper, one a set of
instructions for the stencils, the other a manufacturer's illustrated advertisement
for several board games.
Box 81, Item 03
Drawing Made Easy for the Kindergarten, Set No. 2.
1897
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One boxed set of paper stencils, manufactured by McLoughlin Bros., New York,
comprised of 23 paper stencils, a pencil fragment, and three small sheets of brown
paper. The number "860" printed on the label. The stencils include images of
animals, people, and landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty and the Golden Gate
Bridge. Contains many of the same stencils as those in Box 81, Set 4.
Box 81, Item 04
Drawing Made Easy for the Kindergarten, Set No. 5.
1897
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One boxed set of paper stencils manufactured by McLoughlin Bros., New York,
comprised of 11 paper stencils accompanied by 5 pencil drawings made with the
stencils. Some of the images represented by the stencils include circus performers,
animals and famous landmarks. Contains many of the same stencils as those in Box 81,
Set 3.
Box 82, Item 02
Drawing Teacher.
Approximately 1910
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One boxed set of paper stencils manufactured by Parker Brothers Incorporated,
Salem, Massachusetts, comprised of 12 paper stencils, featuring flowers, animals,
and people, each with a decorative border. Accompanying the stencils is one
stenciled image, which has been colored. The stencils are housed separately from the
box.
Box 82, Item 01
Animal Stencils: Easy and Simple Designs for First Steps in Drawing in the
Home or School.
Approximately 1915
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One boxed set of paper stencils manufactured by the Milton Bradley Company,
Springfield, Massachusetts, comprised of 17 paper stencils and 12 sheets of brown
and green paper for drawing/tracing the images. Some of the animals represented by
the stencils are: fish, rabbit, cow, horse, turkey, a horse. Some of the stencils
have been used and most of the sheets of paper have been used.
Subseries D. Boxed Weaving Sets.
1880-approximately 1920
Box 18, Envelope 01-05
Books without Words. (Volume First)--Color and Form.
Approximately 1880
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One set of paper weavings created by Emily M. Coe, New York, comprised of 23 paper
weavings in five "books" (each with 4 weavings) plus three loose "pages." The books
are labeled: "No. 1, Primary Colors--Curvilinear"; No. 2, "Secondary
Colors--Rectilinear Solids"; No. 3, "Complimentary Colors and Quadrangles"; No. 4,
"Tertiary Colors--Polygons"; and the fifth (unnumbered), "Mixed
Tertiaries--Triangles". The first part of the title refers to the four paper
weavings, the latter, to the printed images of shapes on the reverse of each
page.
Box 84, Envelope 01-03
[Three portfolios of paper art samples from Germany].
Approximately 1880?
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Three portfolios of samples from Germany which represent various forms of art with
paper: paperweaving, sewing cards and paper-cutting and folding.
- Env. 1: Portfolio titled "Flecht-u.-Ausuäh Schule" [Weaving School] with 24
samples of paper weaving.
- Env. 2: Portfolio titled "Versdur-u.-Buchzeichen Schule" [Stringing and
Bookmarking School] with 23 samples of artwork consisting of 11 completed sewing
cards; 2 yarn tracings; and 10 examples of paper weaving and folding.
- Env. 3: Portfolio titled "Falt-u.-Ausscheide Schule" [Folding and Cutouts
School]" with 20 examples of paper folding and paper cutouts. Much of the paper
folding samples are reminiscent of origami.
The name "Louise Chur" is stamped at the bottom of the front cover of each of the
three portfolios.
Box 59
Paper Weaving for Little Folks: Simple, Instructive, Amusing: To Keep Busy
The Little Hands and Little Head.
Approximately 1920
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One boxed paper weaving set manufactured by the Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company,
New York, comprised of 24 sheets of colored, prepared paper; one printed sheet
showing sample weaving designs; and a metal weaving tool. "No. T 227" and "Printed
in Germany" are printed in the lower right-hand corner of the box lid. This weaving
set has not been used.
Subseries E. Chalk.
Approximately 1900-approximately 1945
Box 67, Item 02
American The 'Old Faithful' Crayons 1044.
Approximately 1900
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One boxed set of fragments of thin chalk, manufactured by the American Crayon Co.,
Sandusky, Ohio and New York, in 25 different colors, all of which are fragments.
Laid in are two sheets containing Italian ms. writing on them.
Box 67, Item 03
The Winner Chalk Crayons, No. 890.
Approximately 1900
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One box of 7 chalk crayons, manufactured by O.N.C. (Our New Crayon).
Box 67, Item 04
Number 25 12 Sticks, Assorted Colored Chalk.
Approximately 1920
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One boxed set of 12 sticks of colored chalk, manufactured by the Southern Crayon
Company, Nashville, Tennessee.
Box 67, Item 01
AMACO Dustless Colored Chalk.
Approximately 1940
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One empty tin box, manufactured by the American Art Clay Company, Indianapolis,
Indiana. Mabel Spofford's 1946 Massachusetts motor vehicle registration card is
tucked inside.
Box 68, Item 13
Complimentary Samples.
Approximately 1940
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One sample box of colored and lead pencils, manufactured by the Eberhard Faber
Pencil Co., New York, consisting of one eraser, three colored pencils, and four
color chalk crayons.
Box 67, Item 05
Alphacolor Chalk Crayons.
Approximately 1945
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One boxed set of colored chalk crayons, manufactured by the Weber Costello Company,
Chicago Heights, Illinois, comprised of 24 sticks of chalk. Laid into the box is a
small printed advertisement for "Other Weber Costello Products: blackboard, erasers,
chalk, maps, globes."
Subseries F. Charcoal.
Approximately 1840
Box 67, Item 06
Fusain Vénitien Extra Dur.
Approximately 1840
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One box of long, thin charcoal crayons manufactured by Maison Berville, Paris.
There are approximately 40 pieces and fragments.
Subseries G. Clay.
Approximately 1900?-approximately 1935
Box 67, Item 09
Sample of "Permodello": the Permanent Modelling Clay.
Approximately 1900?
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One canister of modeling clay manufactured by the Prang Company, New York, Chicago,
Boston.
Box 67, Item 07
Amaco Modeling Clay, Set 10W.
Approximately 1935
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One box of modeling clay, manufactured by the American Art Clay Company,
Indianapolis, Indiana, housed within its mailing carton. The package appears to be
unopened.
Box 67, Item 08
Amaco Modeling Clay, Set 1W.
Approximately 1935
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One boxed set of modeling clay manufactured by the American Art Clay Company,
Indianapolis, Indiana, consisting of 6 bricks of colored clay wrapped in tissue
paper, with a wooden modeling stick.
Subseries H. Colored Paper.
Approximately 1920
Box 44, Envelope 03
Munsell Colored Papers for the Munsell Color System.
Approximately 1920
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One sample set of colored papers, manufactured by Wadsworth, Howland & Co.,
Inc., Boston, Massachusetts.
Subseries I. Colored Pencils.
Approximately 1906-approximately 1940
Box 68, Item 06
Artist's Assortment of Fine Crayons.
Approximately 1906
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One boxed set of color pencils, subtitled: "In 12 Colors, No. 663, Eberhard Faber;
The Lead Used in These Crayons is Carefully Prepared from the Finest Pigments."
Eleven of the original 12 crayon pencils remain--only #6617, Crimson, is
missing.
Box 68, Item 08-09
[Koh-I-Noor Pencil Co. and L. & C. Hardtmuth, Inc. pencil
sets].
Approximately 1930
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Two boxed sets of colored pencils and one metal Universal Holder No. 48 for lead,
manufactured by Koh-I-Noor Pencil Co. and L. & C. Hardtmuth, Inc.,
Czechoslovakia and Bloomsbury, New Jersey, respectively. The larger set contains 11
colored pencils and a "lengthener"; the smaller set contains 4 unused colored
pencils.
Box 68, Item 04
Aquarello: Assortment No. 1163.
Approximately 1935
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One boxed sets of colored pencils manufactured by the Eberhard Faber Pencil
Company. The pencils are wash colors, which were meant to be gone over with a brush
dipped in water. Pencils are missing.
Box 68, Item 02
Eagle Copycolor.
Approximately 1935
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One boxed set of colored pencils, manufactured by Eagle. The set was issued with 12
colored pencils; one is missing from this set.
Box 68, Item 05
Mongol Thin Lead Colored Indelible Pencils, Assortment No. 741.
Approximately 1935
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One boxed sets of colored pencils manufactured by the Eberhard Faber Pencil
Company. The pencils are wash colors, which were meant to be gone over with a brush
dipped in water. Pencils are missing.
Box 68, Item 01
Prang Paper Colored Pencils.
Approximately 1935
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One boxed set of colored pencils manufactured by The American Crayon Co., Sandusky,
Ohio, consisting of 12 colored pencils, with an informational sheet about the
pencils.
Box 68, Item 03
Turquoise Prismacolor.
Approximately 1935
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One boxed set of colored pencils, manufactured by Eagle Pencil Company, New York,
London, Toronto, comprised of three pencils (red, blue and yellow). On the underside
of the paper slipcase is a listing of other colors and sets manufactured by the
company.
Box 68, Item 07
Water Soluble Anadel.
Approximately 1935
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One boxed set of 8 colored pencils manufactured by the Joseph Dixon Crucible
Company, Jersey City, New Jersey.
Box 68, Item 10
Venus Drawing Pencils.
Approximately 1940
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One boxed set of 7 colored pencils manufactured by the American Lead Pencil
Company.
Subseries J. Crayons.
Approximately 1905-1938
Box 69, Item 10-13
[Binney & Smith Co. crayon sets].
Approximately 1905-1920?
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Four boxed sets of colored crayons, each manufactured by Binney & Smith Co.,
New York.
- Set 10: Spectra Pastel Crayon, No. 15 (6 chalk crayons)
- Set 11: 'Boston' Pressed Crayon, No. 2 (8 wax crayons)
- Set 12: 'Reubens' Crayola (18 wax crayons)
- Set 13: Crayola School Crayons, No. 8 (8 wax crayons)
Each of the boxes vary in color, design and size.
Box 70, Item 02
Dixon's Colored Crayons, No. 1535.
Approximately 1910
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One boxed set of 10 colored wax crayons manufactured by Joseph Dixon Crucible Co.,
Jersey City, New Jersey.
Box 71, Item 02-04
Munsell Crayons.
Approximately 1910
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Three boxed sets of color crayons manufactured by Wadsworth, Howland & Co.,
Boston, Massachusetts:
- Set 2: Box unnumbered, labeled "12 colors: five middle colors and five
intermediates, with gray and black."
- Set 3: Box labeled No. 2 containing "five middle colors with gray and black
and the maxima of red, yellow and blue."
- Set 4: Box labeled No. 3 containing "22 colors: five principal hues and five
intermediate hues at middle value and middle chroma, five principal hues and five
intermediate hues at maximum chroma with middle gray and black." Box wrapped in
sealed plastic.
Only Set 4 bears the name of the "Munsell Color Co., New York"; but all three sets
bear the title Munsell Crayons.
Box 70, Item 10-14
[Standard Crayon Mfg. Co. crayon sets].
Approximately 1914
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Five sets of boxed colored crayons manufactured by the Standard Crayon Mfg. Co.,
Danvers, Massachusetts.
- Set 10: Crayel, No. 184. (16 wax crayons in a flip-top box)
- Set 11: Crest Light Artists Crayon. (crayon pieces in a box with a lid labeled
"Mabel Spofford, 8 Cherry Street, On hand 1914")
- Set 12: Crest Light Artist's Crayons, No. 814 (8 wax crayons in a slipcase
box)
- Set 13: The Artco Pastel, No. 8 (8 wax crayons in a box with lid)
- Set 14: The Murillo Art Crayons (8 wax crayons in box with coloring
book)
Box 70, Item 15
The Valesquez Art Crayon: With Art Book for Coloring.
Approximately 1915
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One boxed set of colored crayons consisting of a tray of 16 crayons and small sheet
of printed images depicting children from around the world. None of the crayons
appear to have been used. The images have not been filled in.
Box 71, Item 01
Tony Sarg's Circus Crayons.
Approximately 1920
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One boxed set of colored crayons, manufactured by the TransoGram Company, Inc., New
York, consisting of 12 large wax crayons set within a cardboard cutout holder in the
shape of a circus hippopotamus.
Box 70, Item 05-09
[Prang Company colored crayon sets].
Approximately 1925
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Five sets of boxed colored crayons manufactured by the Prang Company, New York,
Chicago, and Dallas. All are housed in brown and white paperboard boxes.
- Set 5: Prang Pastellex, No. 7 (8 wax crayons)
- Set 6: Prang Crayonex, No. 4 (16 wax crayons)
- Set 7: Prang Crayonex, No. 3 (8 wax crayons with "M.S." for Mabel Spofford
written on set)
- Set 8: The Prang Art Education Crayons, Set No. 2 (8 wax crayons)
- Set 9: Prang Art Education Crayons, No. 2 (8 wax crayons)
Box 70, Item 03
Embeco Crayons, Style A.
Approximately 1930
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One boxed set of 8 colored wax crayons manufactured by the Milton Bradley Co.,
Springfield, Massachusetts. "Mabel Spofford" is written in ms., in pencil, across
the front.
Box 70, Item 04
The Manual Arts Crayon, No. 2.
Approximately 1930
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One boxed set of 8 colored wax crayons manufactured by The Milton Bradley Co.,
Springfield, Massachusetts.
Box 69, Item 14
Garrett's Pressed Crayons, No. 8P.
Approximately 1930
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One boxed set of 8 colored wax crayons manufactured by the Brodhead-Garrett Co.,
Cleveland, Ohio.
Box 69, Item 15
Babb's Special Pressed Crayon, No. 2.
Approximately 1930
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One boxed set of colored crayons manufactured by Edward E. Babb & Co., Boston,
Massachusetts, consisting of 8 colored crayons in a gray slipcase box. "Manufactured
by Binney & Smith Co." is printed on the wrapper of each crayon.
Box 69, Item 01-06
[American Crayon Co. color crayon sets].
Approximately 1935
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Six sets of boxed color crayons, all manufactured by The American Crayon Co.,
Sandusky, Ohio and New York.
- Set 1: Prang Pastello 8
- Set 2: Pastello No. 5A Five Colors
- Set 3: Pastello No. 41
- Set 4: Painting Crayons, No. 341, Water Color Crayons
- Set 5: American: The 'Old Faithful' Crayons, 41
- Set 6: American: The 'Old Faithful' Crayons, 45
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Box 69, Item 07
Prang Crayonex, No. 3.
Approximately 1935
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One boxed set of 8 colored crayons manufactured by the American Crayon Co.,
Sandusky, Ohio and New York.
Box 69, Item 08-09
Crayonex.
Approximately 1938
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Two boxed sets of colored crayons manufactured by the American Crayon Co.,
Sandusky, Ohio and New York. Set 8 is Crayonex No. 323 (24 colors); Set 9 is
Crayonex No. 326 (32 colors).
Box 70, Item 01
The Falcon Best Crayons with Color Book, High Grade 14 Colors, No.
163.
Undated
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One boxed set of crayons with a small coloring book
The Leisure Hour Drawing
Book for Instructive Sketching and Coloring Purposes,
containing 16
printed images to color. 7 intact crayons, with additional fragments including two
from a different manufacturer.
Subseries K. Decals.
Approximately 1918
Box 72, Item 01
Decalomanie Album.
Approximately 1918
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Seven portfolio albums of transferable images, manufactured by Ch. M. & Co.
Each portfolio contains a long, foldout sheet of approximately 46 transferable
images, with an accompanying booklet contain the same set of images.
Subseries L. Drawing Desks.
Approximately 1885, 1895
Box 64, Item 02
Professor Nast's Sketching Rack for Young Artists.
Approximately 1885
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One wooden lap desk, manufactured by C.C. Shepherd, New York, ca. 1885. The
sub-title reads "The most important part of the Education of Children, in Drafting
or Pencil Sketching. THis Rack furnishes a complete outfit for that purpose." The
desk is comprised of a wooden box with a hinged "double" lid and contains 12 sheets
of woodblock images and 3 paper-covered wooden slats containing images for copying.
The wooden slats illustrate penmanship forms and basic geometric shapes. Also
included are 2 sheets of paper containing illustrations copied, in pencil, from two
of the sample woodblock images, and a sheet of used blotting paper.
Box 14
Chautauqua Combination Drawing Board and Writing Desk.
1895
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One wooden folding desk with a paper scroll designed for use in the home,
particularly for home-schooled children. The first lesson on the scroll is the
alphabet.
Subseries M. Drawing Slates.
Approximately 1865-1914
Box 66, Item 01
The Improved, Boston Primary School Slate, No. 2.
Approximately 1865
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One stone drawing slate within a wooden frame manufactured by Joseph Ross, Boston,
Mass. The slate itself is ruled with horizontal white lines, with penmanship and
spelling lessons printed on the front side of the frame and labeled pictures on the
reverse.
Box 60, Item 03
Shepherd's Improved Transparent Slate.
Approximately 1874
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One framed glass drawing slate contained within a wooden frame to form the top of a
box-like apparatus. Within the box is a scroll containing images and words to trace
and copy. Directions for cleaning the glass are mounted to the slate, and "Patented
March 2, 1874" is printed at the bottom. Several letters, written in pencil, are
still evident on the glass slate.
Box 60, Item 03
Shepherd's Improved Transparent Slates, With Rotating Copies.
Approximately 1874
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One glass drawing slate manufactured by C.C. Shepherd, New Jersey, patented March
2, 1874. The glass slate is missing. Remaining is the wooden box frame and the
scroll, which contains images and words for copying.
Box 65
Portable Slate Desk.
Approximately 1877
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One stone drawing slate within a wooden frame patented by C.C. Shepherd in 1877.
Slate has a hollow wedge used to store rectangular slats, which function as drawing
cards with white and black illustrations.
Box 66, Item 02
[Double-sided stone drawing slate].
Approximately 1880
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One double-sided stone drawing slate contained within a wooden frame. Manufacturer
is unidentified.
Box 66, Item 03
[Double-sided stone drawing slate].
Approximately 1880
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One double-sided stone drawing slate, with white lines and a grid pattern,
contained within a wooden frame. Manufacturer is unidentified.
Box 63, Item 02
Transparent Slate.
Approximately 1885
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One glass drawing slate contained within a wooden frame accompanied by 11 engraved
images for copying. Some of the images include an umbrella, people dancing, an
American flag, and two men smoking Virginia tobacco from long pipes. The slate
manufacturer is unidentified.
Box 63, Item 03
[Glass drawing slate].
Approximately 1885
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One glass drawing slate within a wooden frame, accompanied by 6 leaves of
double-sided woodcut images for use with the slate. The slate manufacturer is
unidentified.
Box 63, Item 01
[Glass drawing slate].
Approximately 1890
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One glass drawing slate, accompanied by 2 sheets of paper (1 is a fragment) of
images for copying. The slate manufacturer is unidentified.
Box 60, Item 04
The Cross Transparent Drawing Slate.
Approximately 1893
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One glass drawing slate within a wooden frame manufactured by Ginn & Company,
Boston, New York and Chicago, ca. 1893.
Box 61
[Glass drawing slate].
Approximately 1895
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One glass drawing slate within a wooden frame, accompanied by 5 sheets of
chromolithograph and outline images for copying onto the slate; two rows of metal
wells (presumably for watercolor paint) are mounted into the top and bottom sides of
the frame; each row contains 6 small, rectangular wells.
Box 62
[Glass drawing slate].
Approximately 1900
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One glass drawing slate contained within a wooden easel, accompanied by 2 sheets of
paper, one of which contains outline images for copying. Above the slate is a
built-in abacus with blue and black beads. Between the slate and the abacus are 6
round wells, perhaps to hold paints. Along the sides of the slate are long, thin,
vertical wells for paintbrushes.
Box 63, Item 04
[Glass drawing slate].
Approximately 1900
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One glass drawing slate within a wooden frame, accompanied by 6 leaves of outline
images for copying. The slate manufacturer is unidentified.
Box 64, Item 01
[Glass drawing slate].
Approximately 1900
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One glass drawing slate contained within a wooden frame, and accompanied by 4
sheets of images for copying. Printed in the lower left-hand corner of the other
sheets are the words "Natl. School Slate Co." The slate manufacturer is
unidentified.
Box 60, Item 05
[Glass drawing slate].
Approximately 1910
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One glass drawing slate within a wooden frame with decorative paper border.
Included are two sheets of images, one in color and one in outline, for use with the
slate.
Box 60, Item 06
[Glass drawing slate].
Approximately 1910
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One glass drawing slate within a decorative wooden frame with paper border.
Accompanying the slate are two sheets of images, one in color (patterns) and one in
outline images, to be used with the drawing slate. The slate glass bears the
pencil-drawn images of an elephant, cherries, and a flower.
Box 64, Item 03
Crayola-Picture-Tracer.
Approximately 1911
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One boxed tracing set, manufactured by E.I.H. Co., comprised of one metal drawing
and tracing "tablet", 11 chromolithograph cards for tracing, and a roll of tracing
paper mounted into the metal tablet, as well as 9 additional images, 7 of which are
a newspaper cartoon series. These items are housed within a cardboard box with a
hinged lid. A sharpener, crayons and one colored card advertised as being included
are missing. On each of the cards is printed "Copyright, 1913, by Binney & Smith
Co., N.Y." Much of the roll of tracing paper is intact; one completed traced and
colored image is within a protective envelope, and another image is "in process" on
the device itself.
Box 60, Item 01
Cross Drawing and Painting Glass for Perfecting Visual Power.
1914
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One framed glass drawing slate contained within a wooden frame with two circular
magnifying glasses, designed and patented by Anson K. Cross, Ashland, Mass.
Accompanied by three grease crayons, designed as either Cross crayons or for use
with the Cross Slate. An intact leveler containing red liquid is at the top of the
slate.
Subseries N. Dyes.
Approximately 1910-approximately 1920
Box 72, Item 02
Prang Stick Printing Dyes: Box No. 1.
Approximately 1910
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One boxed dye set manufactured by The Prang Company, New York, Chicago, Boston,
Atlanta,and Dallas, originally comprised of "3 color caps (12 pads); 1 water cap (4
pads); 6 printing sticks." Five of the printing sticks remain, some of the color
caps have been used, and all four ""tins"" of color, the water caps, and sticks have
been used.
Box 72, Item 03
Prang Stick Printing Dyes, Box 1.
Approximately 1920
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One boxed dye set manufactured by The Prang Company, New York, Chicago, Boston,
originally comprised of "6 sticks, 3 color caps, 9 pads." The 6 sticks and 3 caps
are present.
Box 72, Item 04
Waldcraft Peg Printing Set.
Approximately 1920
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One boxed dye set manufactured by the Waldcraft Company, Indianapolis, Indiana,
comprised of three dye tins and 6 wooden pegs.
Subseries O. Erasers.
Approximately 1925, approximately 1930
Box 68, Item 21
Castell Gum Cleaners: for a quick, clean job.
Approximately 1925
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One box of 18 erasers of varying sizes manufactured by A.W. Faber, Inc., Newark,
New Jersey. Three of the erasers are A.W. Faber Castell Gum Cleaners; the two other
brands present are Vitagum Artists Eraser and RubKleen (made by Eberhard Faber).
Box 68, Item 22
Wonder!: and other Dixon Erasers.
Approximately 1930
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One box of three erasers manufactured by the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company, Jersey
City, New Jersey. The three different types of erasers in the box are: "Dixon Craft
No. 892"; "Dixon Wonder Ink Eraser, No. 1140"; and "Dixon 'Poppy' No. 868."
Subseries P. Ink.
Approximately 1930
Box 73, Item 01
Apex Inks.
Approximately 1930
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Two metal cans of block printing ink, labeled "Apex Cover Mixing White,"
manufactured by Barta-Griffen Company, Worcester and Boston, Massachusetts.
"Spofford" is written in ms., in ink, on the top label of each.
Box 73, Item 02
Speedball Block Printing Ink—Green.
Approximately 1930
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Two boxed tubes of printing ink manufactured by the C. Howard Hunt Pen Company,
Camden, New Jersey. Accompanying these is one tube of Designer Gouache in permanent
white, manufactured by Winsor & Newton Ltd.
Subseries Q. Models: Paper.
1823-1911
Box 76, Item 02
Myrianthea, or Numberless Groups of Changeable Flowers. Superior
Edition.
1823
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One boxed set of paper flowers, manufactured, by John Burgis, of London, comprised
of 61 paper cutout (and watercolored) images of flowers and leaves, flat sticks to
mount the paper cut outs onto, three composition sheets with slots for insertion of
the flowers (to create a paper floral arrangement), and a 22-page instruction
booklet titled
Myrianthea; or, Numberless Groups of Changeable Flowers:
Intended to Teach, by the most ready and easy means, the Art of Composing,
Drawing, and Colouring Groups of Flowers; with Directions to Assist the Student in
Copying from Nature. To which is added, The Method of imitating Bronze Vases,
Shading and Varnishing Gold Ornaments used in Ladies Fancy Works,
&c.&c.&c.
The instructions include color samples that have
been hand painted in watercolor. The kit is housed within an elaborately decorated
paperboard box.
Box 76, Item 05
National Drawing Models.
Approximately 1885-1895
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One boxed drawing model set, manufacturer unknown, comprised of 30 heavy paper
"tablets" in a variety of shapes (circles, triangles, squares, etc.), 12 brass
clips, and 6 wooden rods (one rod is missing).The tablets attach to each other with
brass clips and rods to form representations of solid three dimensional forms. Diana
Korzenik notes that these were the "poor man's" version of the Froebel gift boxes of
cubes and other forms. These paper create-your-own drawing models were commonly used
by the less well-funded public schools.
Note: Items removed from original box and placed in separate envelopes; original
box remains with the set.
Box 76, Item 04
Magic Dots for Little Tots.
Approximately 1910
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One paper dot kit (No. 4482, Set 2), manufactured by the Milton Bradley Company,
Springfield, Massachusetts, comprised of five cardboard cards, a packet of colored
paper dots, and a set of printed instructions. On each of the 5 cards is printed an
image with holes in the card; the images are to be "colored" by placing the colored
dots within the holes which complete the image. The colored paper dots are
removable, and the cards are reusable. Laid into the box is an empty sample box of
cold relief and laxative pills.
Box 76, Item 03
Birds for School and Home: Folio 2, Summer Birds.
1911
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One portfolio of bird images, designed by Maud Adelaide Wright and manufactured by
the Milton Bradley Company, comprised of 7 sheets of bird parts (bodies, wings and
tails) for coloring and cutting out. These are designed to be sewn or pasted
together to form 3-dimensional objects to be hung, as in a mobile.
Subseries R. Models: Plaster.
Approximately 1890
Box 76, Item 06
[Plaster-of-Paris model of a grape leaf].
Approximately 1890
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One plaster-of-Paris model of a grape leaf, mounted on a rectangular base, labeled
"1453" in the lower right hand corner. On the upper left hand corner is a medal
medallion with the embossed words "P.P. Caproni & Bro. - Plastic Arts - Boston,
USA."
Subseries S. Models: Wood.
Approximately 1870-approximately 1920
Scope and Contents
Chiefly wooden models of shapes for drawing, which may also used in counting and
auditory exercises.
Box 77, Item 01
New Forms and Solids for Object Teaching.
Approximately 1870
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One boxed set of wooden drawing models manufactured by J.W. Schermerhorn & Co.,
New York, comprised of 44 forms, including a six-inch ruler, housed within a wooden
box.
Box 77, Item 07
[Geometric wood models].
Approximately 1880
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One set of 6 small, three-dimensional geometric wood models. Three of the forms are
labeled: "Hexagonal Prism," "Hemisphere," and "Triangular Prism." The other models
are a cylinder, a cube, and a pyramid. The top portion of the pyramid can be
removed.
Box 78
[Wooded form set].
Approximately 1880
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One set of untitled wooden forms, manufacturer unknown, comprised of a round
cylinder, a triangular prism, a cone, a solid circle, an open square, and
equilateral cross. Each of these forms is painted white, and each has either a small
wooden peg or a hole for a peg; presumably they were fit into a base or each other.
The top portion of the cone is removable. This set may accompany the set in Box
79.
Box 79
[Six wooden forms].
Approximately 1880
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One set of six untitled wooden forms, manufacturer unknown, comprised of a
rectangular cube (?), a sphere, a square cube, a ring, an open triangle, and a cone.
Each of the forms has either a wooden peg or a peg hole; presumably these forms were
fit into a base or each other. This set may accompany the set in Box 78.
Box 77, Item 03
Bradley's Kindergarten Material, No. 3, Third Gift.
Approximately 1900
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One boxed set of 8 rectangular wooden blocks manufactured by the Milton Bradley
Company, Springfield, Massachusetts, comprised of 8 rectangular blocks.
Box 77, Item 02
Bradley's Kindergarten Material, No. 4, Fourth Gift.
Approximately 1900
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One boxed set of 8 wooden 1-inch cube blocks manufactured by Milton Bradley &
Co., Springfield, Massachusetts, comprised of , housed inside a wooden box with a
sliding lid. A paper label is mounted to the front side of the box; the label bears
the title and manufacturer's name. The cubes were used as models for drawing, and
were also used in counting and auditory exercises.
Box 77, Item 04
Bradley's Kindergarten Material, No. 5, Fifth Gift.
Approximately 1900
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One boxed set of wooden blocks manufactured by the Milton Bradley Company,
Springfield, Massachusetts, comprised of 11 square cubes, 6 large triangle forms
(which, together, form three cubes divided diagonally), and 12 small triangular
forms (which, together, form three cubes divided into quarters diagonally). One
quarter triangle appears to be missing.
Box 77, Item 05
Bradley's Kindergarten Material, No. 6, Sixth Gift.
Approximately 1900
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One boxed set of wooden blocks manufactured by the Milton Bradley Company,
Springfield, Massachusetts, comprised of 17 wide rectangles, 12 square blocks, 6
thin rectangles. Some of the wood blocks appear to be replacements for lost blocks,
others seem to have been used for a painting project. One block has blue paint or
dye on one side, another black.
Box 76, Item 01
[Wooden lay figure].
Approximately 1900?
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One wooden lay figure with carved facial features and fingers and toes, and some
moveable joints: ankles, knees, hips, wrists, elbows, shoulders, waist and neck. The
figure is gender-neutral, and bears no manufacturer's information.
Box 77, Item 08
The Embossing Company's Color Cubes, No. 4.
Approximately 1910-1920
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One boxed set of 16 small cube blocks bearing solid color and two-toned triangular
designs. Only a paper cover fragment and top of the original box is extant.
Box 77, Item 06
Parquetry Blocks.
Approximately 1920
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One boxed set of wooden parquetry tiles manufactured by Milton Bradley & Co.,
of Springfield, Massachusetts, comprised of 150 small wooden, colored blocks in a
variety of shapes and a sheet of printed instructions. The sheet is illustrated with
sample designs, and is labeled "4352 Parquetry Blocks." Mounted to the underside of
the box's bottom lid is a distributor's label, which reads: "G.J. Esselen, Successor
to Mrs. J.C. White, 19 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass."
Subseries T. Object Cards.
Approximately 1888?
Box 20
Oliver and Boyd's Object-Lesson Cards.
Approximately 1888?
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One originally boxed set of 20 instructional cards. A paper label, mounted to the
underside of the lid, reads: "Oliver and Boyd's Object-Lesson Cards on the
Vegetable, Animal and Mineral Kingdoms ... Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. London:
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., Limited." The cards number 1-14 (number 8
is missing) and chiefly include animal and mineral subjects. Each card describes a
raw material's source, and traces its manufacturing process to the finished product
or products, with a woodblock engraving of the subject. Several pieces of realia are
mounted near the image, and a listing of related trades and uses of the item is
below that.
Note: Cards have been removed from original wooden box and rehoused.
Subseries U. Paints.
Approximately 1910?-approximately 1948
Box 73, Item 21
Chinese White: Moist Color.
Approximately 1910?
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One tube of paint manufactured by the F. & A. Co..
Box 73, Item 15
Martini Tempera.
Approximately 1920?
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Five used tubes of tempera paint in colors: zinc white, poster vermilion, hutaf
lavender, sesser green, and ultramarine blue, extra light.
Box 73, Item 19
Prang Tempera Colors.
Approximately 1920
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A collection of approximately 14 tubes and 1 tiny jar of colored paints
manufactured by the Prang Company.
Box 73, Item 16
Bradley's Tonal Tempera Poster & Showcard Colors.
Approximately 1925
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One boxed set of tempera paint manufactured by the Milton Bradley Company,
Springfield, Massachusetts, comprised of eight glass jars of paint, with two
paintbrushes, numbered 12 and 14.
Box 73, Item 18
[Prang Craft-Colors and Waldcraft paints].
Approximately 1925
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One boxed collection of paints containing 5 jars of paint and two small mirrors.
Four of the jars are labeled Prang Craft Colors ("Base Blue A"; "Base Blue B"; "Red
Base"; and "Yellow Base"), manufactured by the Prang Company, New York, and Chicago;
the other jar of paint, labeled "Reseda Green," is from The Waldcraft Co.,
Indianapolis.
Box 73, Item 10
Prang Tempera Colors.
Approximately 1925
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One boxed set of 6 two-inch paint tubes manufactured by the American Crayon Co.,
Sandusky, Ohio and New York, in white, green, blue, yellow, black, and red.
Box 73, Item 04-09
Reliefo.
Approximately 1925
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Six sample jars of relief paint manufactured by the American Crayon Co., Sandusky,
Ohio and New York. Consists of three porcelain jars labeled "Reliefo: A Relief Paint
for Decoration" (colors natural, orange, and blue) and three glass jars labeled
Prang Reliefo (natural, orange, and turquoise blue).
Box 73, Item 17
School Water Colors: Chinese White.
Approximately 1925
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One small metal tube of paint manufactured by Milton Bradley Company, Springfield,
Massachusetts.
Box 73, Item 13
AmazArt Colors.
Approximately 1935
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Three boxes of paint manufactured by Binney & Smith Co., New York. Each box
contains a tube of paint, in colors of green, blue, and vermilion, and printed
directions for use.
Box 73, Item 14
Artista Tempera: Show Card Colors.
Approximately 1935
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One boxed set of 6 jars of tempera paint, manufactured by Binney & Smith Co.,
New York, in green, red, black, yellow, blue, and white. The logo/seal of "Gold
Medal Products" is on the box.
Box 73, Item 03
Prang Dek-All.
Approximately 1935
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One boxed 6-bottle paint set manufactured by the American Crayon Company, Sandusky,
Ohio and New York, with instructions, paintbrush, and two small wooden application
sticks. The subtitle on the box lid reads: "A thermo-setting color for decorating
glass, metal, china, plastic and similar surfaces."
Box 73, Item 11
Artista Tempera.
Approximately 1938
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One trial-size glass jar of black paint manufactured by Binney & Smith Co., New
York.
Box 73, Item 12
Artista Flexola Paint.
Approximately 1948
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One boxed sample set of 4 small tubes of acrylic paints manufactured by Binney
& Smith Co., New York, "makers of Crayola." "Gold Medal Products" and "Samples
to Test" are printed on the lid.
Box 73, Item 20
[Jar of red paint].
Undated
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One jar, unlabeled, of dry, red tempera paint.
Subseries V. Pegs and Peg Boards.
Approximately 1885
Box 80, Item 01
Hammett's Kindergarten Material - No. 475.
Approximately 1885
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One boxed set of wooden pegs, manufactured by the J. L. Hammett Co., Newark, New
Jersey and Cambridge, Mass, consisting of approximately 200 pegs--red, yellow, blue,
orange, green and purple--of the original 1000. The pegs are intended for use with
peg boards, such as Mrs. B. Putnam's Busy Work Tiles, No. 1 (Box 80, Set 2).
Box 80, Item 02
Mrs. B.W. Putnam's Busy Work Tiles, No. 1.
Approximately 1885
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One wooden peg board, manufactured by the Milton Bradley Company, Springfield,
Massachusetts, containing 100 small holes, arranged in 10 even rows of 10 holes
each. The peg board was (presumably) used with small wooden pegs such as Hammett's
Kindergarten Material - No. 475 (Box 80, Set 1).
Subseries W. Pencil Boxes.
Approximately 1850, approximately 1915
Box 68, Item 19
A.W. Faber's Polygrade Lead Pencils [pencil box].
Approximately 1850
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One empty pencil box for A.W. Faber's Polygrade Lead Pencils.
Box 68, Item 20
[A.W. Faber-Castell pencil tin].
Approximately 1915
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One empty pencil tin, manufactured by A.W. Faber-Castell.
Subseries X. Pencils.
Approximately 1890-approximately 1940
Box 68, Item 16
A Present for a Good Child: Best Box of Slate Pencils.
Approximately 1890
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One boxed set of slate pencils, manufacturer unidentified, containing approximately
12 thin pencils, some of which have paper wrappers.
Box 68, Item 12
Shipping Pencils.
Approximately 1890-1915
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One boxed set of lead shipping pencils, manufactured by Clark Indelible Pencil Co.,
Northampton, Massachusetts, comprised of a dozen (2 are missing) pencils, each in a
wooden, cylinder-like case bearing a green paper label.
Box 68, Item 11
'Venus' Perfect Pencils.
Approximately 1910
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One boxed set of lead pencils manufactured by the American Lead Pencil Co., New
York and London, issued with 5 lead pencils and an eraser; only three pencils
remain.
Box 68, Item 17
Wallace Motif: A Fine Pencil.
Approximately 1920
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One boxed set of pencils, manufactured by the Wallace Pencil Co., Saint Louis,
U.S.A., comprised of 6 pencils, all from companies other than Wallace Pencil Co.
Box 68, Item 18
[Four miscellaneous writing pens].
Approximately 1935
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Four miscellaneous writing pens: two ballpoint pens made of plastic, and bear the
manufacturer name "Zaner Bloser Cols. O" on the handle; a twist-top pencil, encased
in plastic, made by Avon; and a steel writing implement.
Box 68, Item 14
7 Keys To Art.
Approximately 1940
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One boxed set of lead pencils, manufactured by the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company,
Jersey City, New Jersey, comprised of 7 "Dixon's Eldorado- the master drawing
pencil" pencils, each a different degree of hardness. Enclosed is a printed guide to
the varieties of pencil hardness.
Box 68, Item 15
Dixon's Eldorado: 'the master drawing pencil.'
Approximately 1940
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One boxed set of lead pencils manufactured by the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company,
Jersey City, New Jersey. The set was issued with one dozen pencils; one is missing
from this set. The pencils are varying degrees of hardness.
Subseries Y. Tools.
Approximately 1935 and undated
Box 74, Item 01
Tif-handle with lino-pens.
Approximately 1935
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One boxed tool for carving, manufactured by Heintze & Blanckertz, Berlin,
Germany, constructed of a wooden handle into which various carving bits are
inserted. A glasseine envelope containing several bits complete the set. Stamped
into the handle are "TIF 135, Germany" and "M. Grunbac Germany."
Box 74, Item 02
[Carving tool].
Approximately 1935
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One carving tool manufactured by J.L. Hammett Co.
Box 74, Item 03
[Ink roller].
Undated
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One ink roller with metal frame and wooden handle. "SPD" and "Made in USA" are
stamped on the metal frame.
Box 74, Item 04
[Rubber ink roller].
Undated
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One metal-framed rubber ink roller. The manufacturer is not identified.