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Visual Materials
One painting book entitled Painting Pastimes for Young Artists, 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. The front cover is a chromolithograph scene of three children painting the title onto a white fence. The back cover is not illustrated. The endpapers are illustrated with outline images that have been painted in with watercolor. The title page is illustrated, as is the verso of the title page. "Copyright, 1905 by Thompson & Thomas" is printed on the title page verso. The following three pages consist of a preface, instructions, and directions for mixing colors. The remainder of the book is comprised of a combination of chromolithograph, lithograph and outline illustrations for coloring. Some of the illustrations are 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. "Velma Varnam, from 1915. V1906" is written in ms. on the front pastedown.
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