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A Boatload of Pictures to Color
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One coloring book entitled A Boatload of Pictures to Color, illustrated by Corrine and Bill Bailey, published by The Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron, Ohio, and New York, copyright 1938. The title page reads: A Boatload of Pictures drawn for you by Corinne & Bill Bailey. This is a large, novelty coloring book that is 48 unnumbered pages in length. There is a storyline of text accompanying the pictures, written as if the reader was a passenger on a cruise ship. The illustrations are of things, people, equipment and sights associated with cruises and ships. The front and back covers are a single image of a large, modern ship sailing through the water. The cover illustration is signed "Bill Bailey." The insides of the front and back covers are blank. Many of the illustrations have been colored in with crayon. "April 5, 1939, Bruce C. Tibbetts" is written in ms., in purple crayon, on the inside of the front cover.
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Fritz Scholder's book of symbols for children
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"Symbolistic thought is believed to have origins in the late Paleolithic Age. Symbols were part of everyday life. Today, people respond to symbols both consciously and unconsciously on a daily basis. While symbols are usually thought of as images, pictures and signs, they can also include natural and man-made objects, animals and even words. Symbols can play an important role in religion, art, literature, folklore, myth, science and commerce. I have chosen both common and uncommon symbols for this book, and have drawn them using a stick and ink, always aware of the power of simplicity. Anyone can make these marks"--From page [5].
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The Valesquez Art Crayon: With Art Book for Coloring
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One boxed set of colored crayons entitled The Valesquez Art Crayon: with Art Book for Coloring. Under the title is the phrase "pronounced Va - Las -Ki- (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.)". The cover image features two children, a boy and a girl, using the crayons. The cardboard box has a flip lid which reveals a tray of crayons and small sheet of printed images. There are a total of eight images on the sheet, which is folded in half. The pictures depict children from around the world. All 16 of the crayons in the set are present and do not appear to have been used. The images have not been filled in.
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Books without Words. (Volume First)--Color and Form
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One set of paper weavings created by Emily M. Coe, ca. 1880. The set is comprised of five "books," plus three loose "pages" of paper weavings "manufactured only by Emily M. Coe, New York, originator of American Kindergarten System." They are marked "No. 1"-"No. 4"; only the 5th book is unnumbered. There are a total of 23 paper weavings, four per book plus the three loose pages. Each "book" has its title on the bottom of the third page, such as "Primary Colors--Curvilinear Solids," the first part of the title refers to the four paper weavings, the latter, the printed objects on the reverse of each page. For example, Book "No. 1,", "Primary Colors--Curvilinear Solids" has one page labeled "Blue" showing two tones of blue woven together, and on the reverse a shaded ball; the next is "Yellow" showing yellow and black interwoven, on the reverse a shaded oval; the third is "Red" showing red and a russet color mixed, with a shaded cylinder; and the last page is "Mixed Primaries" showing color changes as primaries mix, and on the reverse a shaded cone. The other "books" are labeled: No. 2, "Secondary Colors--Rectilinear Solids"; No. 3, "Complimentary Colors and Quadrangles"; No. 4, "Tertiary Colors--Polygons"; and the fifth, "Mixed Tertiaries--Triangles". The fourth paper weaving in each of the books is somewhat different than the others. In Books 3-5 there are black and gold weavings entitled "Fancy", with the weavings from 4 and 5 spelling out the words "FOR MA" and "FOR PAPA" respectively. Also of note: in the corners of the first drawing image are trademarks in the upper right and left corners, on the bottom corners are reproductions of a medal, one side of which reads "International Exhibition, Philadelphia MDCCCLXXVI". "Miss Ida Young[?]" is written, in ms., on top of the unnumbered fifth book.
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The Easel Painting Book
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One painting book entitled The Easel Painting Book: With Pictures that Children can "easily" paint, published by Ernest Nister, London, and distributed in the United States by E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, ca. 1890. The front cover of the book shows two children at an easel- a little girl holding a palette and paint brushes, a boy kneeling and playing with a dog. The book has been cut to fit the image on the cover so it has irregular edges. On the inside front cover is the note "To Inez Kimball from Aunt Inez, Christmas 1890." The book contains various images tied to nursery rhymes and verses. There are twenty pages in the book, some with multiple images. 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.
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