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    Actors on stage in drawing room while hands with a knife are pushing into the room

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    Actors on stage in drawing room while hands with a knife are pushing into the room. (GO 13 production?)

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    Images of the dens of composer Jack Warner and an archeologist named Greenwood. Also includes one exterior.

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    Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material consists of 57,893 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints; 39 presentation albums; and 17 boxes of office records, 1930-1974. Created primarily by Maynard Parker, the archive documents the residential and non-residential work of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, artists, builders, real estate developers, and clients associated with these fields, foremost among them the magazine House Beautiful. Also included in the collection are photographs taken by other individuals, such as architect Cliff May and Parker's assistant, Charles Yerkes.

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  • Clay Modeling in the School Room

    Clay Modeling in the School Room

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    One art instruction book entitled Clay Modeling in the School Room, by Ellen Stephens Hildreth, published by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Massachusetts, copyright 1892. The book is an instructional guide for teachers, meant for use in kindergarten and primary school classrooms and is 76 pages in length. It provides general instructions for clay modeling, and features simple to more complex creations using solid forms of clay. The front cover is decorated and illustrated, with an image of a young boy creating a large clay vase. The back cover continues some of the design elements of the front cover, and features an image of a helmeted Roman figure (head and shoulders only). The book is divided into seven series: sphere, oblate spheroid, prolate speroid, ovoid, cone, cylinder and cube; each illustrated with line drawings and includes suggested items and directions for modeling. On the final page is a publisher's advertisement for "Books for Teachers published by the Milton Bradley Company". "5-" (price) is written in ms., in pencil, on the upper right-hand corner of the title page.

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