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Real Pen Work: Self Instructor in Penmanship
Visual Materials
One fragment of a penmanship book entitled Real Pen Work: Self Instructor in Penmanship, published by Knowles & Maxim, ca. 1884. This piece is the binding only; the interior pages are missing. The boards are bound in brown cloth, with green cloth spine and corners. The title, which is in a decorative frame, is stamped in gold on the front cover. The back cover is illustrated with a horseshoe-shaped design that surrounds another line-based design. The publication information is taken from a bibliographic record in OCLC.
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Nashville Institute of Penmanship and Art
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Image of a birds, plants, and butterflies rendered in ornamental penmanship in an advertisement for the Nashville Institute of Penmanship and Art taught by Crandle & Webb, Proprietors.
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Child's First Book. Drawing Series. Self Instructor, No. 1
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One drawing book entitled Child's First Book. Drawing Series. Self Instructor, No. 1, by Josiah Holbrook, published by H.H. Hawley & Co., Utica, New York, and J.H. Mather & Co., Hartford, copyright 1846. The book contains 22 numbered pages of instructional text, a preface (pp. 2-4), and several pages of images for copying. Stated in the "Directions to Parents and Teachers" is the following: "With the Book before them, and a slate and pencil in their hands, they become 'self instructors'. As the pupil advances, paper may take the place of a slate, used with a lead pencil, pen, or both." The images are divided up into labeled categories: "Geometry; Containing Vessels; Household Utensils; Cutting Instruments; Tools; Articles of Dress, &c.; Agricultural Implements; House, Boat, &c.; Animals; Human Figures; Primary Solids; Diagonals of Squares; Mensuration; Circumscribed & Inscribed Figures; Regular Solids; and Geography." The insides of the front and back covers, as well as the back cover, are blank.
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Practical Geometry
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A.MS. 38 leaves 4to. A note of presentation and page headings in ornamental pen work, in another hand; with inscription on the flyleaf: Master Ruskin, Jan. 21, 1833.
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Gems and jewels
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The collection consists of 6202 black-and-white and color photographs, pen and ink drawings, and postcards, 1412 black-and-white and color negatives, 2606 black-and-white and color slides, and ephemeral materials, 1898-1982 (bulk 1920s-1930s) collected by the Automobile Club of Southern California. They form a general photographic reference collection as well as a broad visual survey of topics of interest to California motorists. Included are images of sites in North and Central America (with an emphasis on California), Europe, the Pacific Islands, and portraits, as well as images related to other subjects of interest to the Club's membership. Many of the images were published as illustrations for articles in the Club's first member magazine, Touring Topics. A large portion of the photographs were taken by authors of articles that appeared in Touring Topics; others were commissioned by the Club; and others appear to have been sent to the Club. Photographers (and authors) include, but are not limited to, Ansel Adams, Fred Archer, Viroque Baker, George Hugh Banning, Adelbert Bartlett, Virginia S. Bartlett, Andrew R. Boone, Julius Cindrich, Norman Clyde, Will Connell, Loyd Cooper, Imogen Cunningham, Asahel Curtis, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Fred Dapprich, E.H. Davis, E.E. East, John Anson Ford, Frasher, Ewing Galloway, Forman G. Hanna, Phil Townsend Hanna, Hoag and Ford, John Edwin Hoag, Bert W. Huntoon, Philip Johnston, Dr. Frederick Monsen, Dave Packwood, C.C. Pierce, Ernest M. Pratt, Putnam Studios, E. Willard Spurr, and John L. Von Blon.
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