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La Crescenta Crest. 1930
Visual Materials
Scene of a largely vacant area, La Crecenta Crest, with a small house and a town far in the background. The town in the distance might be Montrose.
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Practical Drawing, Art Education Edition. Book 5
Visual Materials
One drawing book entitled Practical Drawing, Art Education Edition, Book 5 by Practical Drawing Company of Chicago and Dallas, copyright 1925. The book contains both black and white and color illustrations, some of which are meant to be copied in the space provided (the facing page); others are studies in color, image, composition or proportion. The front cover features a color illustration of two young girls in mid-19th century dress playing with a stick and hoop on the front steps of a home. The back cover features the logo of the Practical Drawing Company. The insides of the front and back covers are decorated with a pale orange geometric pattern. The contents of this drawing book include a mixture drawing lessons, craft projects and picture studies of both old and modern paintings, posters, and illustrations. Instructions to students for further creative work accompany many of the illustrations and images. "50 [cents symbol]" is written in ms., in blue pencil, on the upper right hand corner of the first leaf inside the front cover.
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Home Painting Book
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One painting book entitled Home Painting Book, published by McLoughlin Bros., Springfield, Massachusetts, ca. 1930. The book is comprised of a series of double illustrations; for each set, one image is printed in color, the other is printed in outline form. The outline image was meant to be painted. On the front cover is a color illustration of two children picking flowers. A collage of colored chalk against a black background borders the principal illustration. "McLoughlin Bros. Inc., Springfield, Mass." is printed in the lower left-hand corner of the front cover; "2044, made in USA" is printed in the right-hand corner. The back cover is blank. The endpapers are illustrated with geometric designs. Directions for using the book and mixing paint colors are on the recto of the first page. The illustrations are printed on one side of each leaf. Some of the images within the book include scenes of playing children, animals, flowers and food. Few of the images have been filled in.
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Pacific Crest Trail Conference, 1935-1939
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Correspondence and other papers of Warren Lee Rogers and Clinton Clarke dealing with the Pacific Crest Trail. Included are Clarke's publications, the Y-Relays correspondence, photographs, radio scripts, participants' surveys and transcribed portions of the log book; the PCT registers and hikers' correspondence, maps, visitor guides and brochures of national forests and parks in Washington, Oregon, California and elsewhere. Correspondents include Ansel Adams, Hanson W. Baldwin, Devereux Butcher, Oscar L. Chapman, Ernest A. Dench, Newton Bishop Drury, Roland C. Geist, Francis P. Farquar.
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Pacific Crest Trail Conference, 1983-1991
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Correspondence and other papers of Warren Lee Rogers and Clinton Clarke dealing with the Pacific Crest Trail. Included are Clarke's publications, the Y-Relays correspondence, photographs, radio scripts, participants' surveys and transcribed portions of the log book; the PCT registers and hikers' correspondence, maps, visitor guides and brochures of national forests and parks in Washington, Oregon, California and elsewhere. Correspondents include Ansel Adams, Hanson W. Baldwin, Devereux Butcher, Oscar L. Chapman, Ernest A. Dench, Newton Bishop Drury, Roland C. Geist, Francis P. Farquar.
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Father Tuck's "Fairy Folk" Painting Book
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One painting book entitled Father Tuck's "Fairy Folk" Painting Book, Complete with Paints and Brush, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., of London, ca. 1907. This book is part of Father Tuck's Patent "Paintbox" Series. The front cover shows a leprechaun, or elf, seated and painting. Above the image are the remnants of six watercolors--red, yellow, blue, pink, green and brown--on slips of paper. The front cover and the book's pages are cut away in oval shapes around the watercolors. Illustrations of other painting books in the Father Tuck's Series are shown, which lists this book as No. 2571. Nine color images from various folk tales and children's stories, including Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Robinson Crusoe, appear within the book. Blank pages were meant to be used for copying. (The owner has used them for unrelated pencil and watercolor work.) All the illustrations are signed by Mabel Lucie Attwell. A ms. note "$8- 6448, 8 Lucie Mabel Atwell (sic) plates" appears on the front cover. The initials "V.W." appear inside along with the name "Vera W.".
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