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Rare Books
Picture study in the elementary grades
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
One publisher's advertisement entitled The University Prints Special 1917 Announcement: A New System of Picture Study for the Grades, published by The University Prints, Newton, Massachusetts, 1917. This item is a single sheet folded once to create a 4-page leaflet. Illustrated with examples from the Picture Study Program, this advertisement promotes The University Prints' method of teaching art development to children. 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.
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Visual Materials
One order form entitled Announcement: Turner Picture Studies and Picture Study Prints, published by Horace K. Turner Co., Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1910. This 4-page form (1 sheet folded to create a 4-page leaflet) organizes images for sale by school grade, from Grade 1 through "Fourth Year High." The last page is the actual order form, with a printed date of "190_". A pencil ms. note at the bottom of the last page reads "1935". This form was laid into a catalog entitled Turner Art Catalogue, HEH RB# 603411.
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