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The adventures of sixteen-year-old David Balfour, an orphan, who after being kidnapped by his villainous uncle manages to escape and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.
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Visual Materials
A handmade magazine titled Photocam, dated July 1941, describing amateur photography dos and don'ts and photographic techniques, created by 19-year-old George Riggins and illustrated with 42 of his own snapshots. The typed and hand-inked 62-page magazine is designed to look like a professional publication, citing Riggins as editor, and containing articles on topics such as choosing cameras and film, suggestions for selling photographs, and lighting. The mounted prints depict people and landscapes in the San Joaquin Valley, Death Valley, and San Francisco. Accompanying the magazine is a Riggins family photograph album documenting family life in California approximately 1911 to 1951. There are several images of Latino and white school children at the Los Alamitos Boarding School, and group shots of girls on Y.W.C.A. outings in 1912. The images primarily depict family groups and children, houses, and a few automobile travel scenes in Death Valley.
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Visual Materials
One drawing book entitled The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, No. 9, Seventh Year, First Half, by John S. Clark, Mary Dana Hicks, and Walter S. Perry, published by The Prang Educational Company, Boston, New York and Chicago, copyright 1898. Sixteen pages in length, this book is comprised of a wide variety of lithograph and photograph illustrations intended for study and copying. Some pages include space for copying of images. The front cover is framed by a decorative floral border. The insides of the front and back covers are blank. The back cover is a publisher's advertisement for "The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction", and discusses the philosophy and use of the course. As stated in this advertisement, the "three general subjects of Art, - Representation, Decoration and Construction,- are included in the scope of this Course." The focus of this Book 9 is on construction and its relation to composition. 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, with "Varney School" and "Harold C. Brown" written in ms. at the top. "Harold C. Brown" is written in ms., in ink, in the upper right-hand corner of the front cover.
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