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The Dutch Boy in Story Land
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One promotional painting book by O.C. Harn, published by National Lead Company, with 14 images, 7 in color and 7 in outline to be filled in using the complementary color image as a guide. Some of the images have been filled in using watercolor. There are four perforated tabs at the end of the book--probably where the "Decorative and Protective Painting" booklet, mentioned on the front cover, would have been included before its removal for use by adults.
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The Dutch Boy's Jingle Paint Book
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One promotional painting book and manufacturer's advertisement by O.C. Harn, published by National Lead Company. The book contains twenty images, with nine color images and nine identical outline images to be filled in using the complementary color image at its side as a guide. In the center of the book are squares of watercolor with overlays of tissue paper. Some of the images have been filled in using these watercolors, others have been filled in with both watercolor and wax crayon. On the bottom edge of the back inside cover, stamped in purple ink, are the numbers "96448 ORD 1178 21."
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Dutch Boy Lessons in Painting
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One 14-page promotional painting book for Dutch Boy white lead paint, published by National Lead Company, New York and Boston, comprised of 8 pages of outline illustrations for painting, and 3 leaves of watercolor paints (6 colors to a page) for use in painting the illustrations. Below each image are a few lines of promotional text. None of the images have been colored in, and the paints have not been used.
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The Black Lead Pencil Drawing Book
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One drawing book entitled The Black Lead Pencil Drawing Book, No. 3, Series 1, by H. Worsley, published by Dean & Son, London, ca. 1873. Below the title is printed "In six parts one shilling each." The number of this book is filled in (in pencil). This book is comprised of four lithograph plates, numbered 9-12. The front and back covers are printed on orange paper. The front cover is illustrated with the same image as plate no. 12, with the title above the image and the publisher's information below. The back cover is also illustrated, and is a publisher's advertisement which reads: "Will shortly be published, series the second of the Black Lead Pencil Drawing Book in six parts, one shilling each comprising progressive lessons in landscape and architectural drawing." Each of the four lithographs within this book are views of houses, with surrounding landscape. The images are signed "H. Worsley". Printed at the bottom of the first two leaves is "Published by Dean & Son, 11 Ludgate Hill." Printed at the bottom of the last two plates is: "Lithographed & Published by Dean & Son, 11 Ludgate Hill, London." "Mary E. Trumbull, Jan. 1, 1873" is written in ms., in ink, in the upper right-hand corner of the front cover.
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Outline Pictures for Little Paint Brushes: With Stories Giving Hints for Coloring, by the Editors of Babyland
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One painting book published by D. Lothrop & Co., Boston, with figures drawn by George F. Barnes. Twelve of the fourteen images in the book are accompanied by stories which hint at which colors to use and where. All of the images have been filled in using watercolor. Includes one freehand image at the back of the book of a young lady sitting on a fence rail.
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The Adventures of Ceresota
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One painting book entitled The Adventures of Ceresota, published by Northwestern Consolidated Milling Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota, producers of Ceresota Flour, copyright 1912. The front cover shows Ceresota contemplating his image on a sack of flour; the subtitle, A Painting Book in Story Form, appears below the image. The back cover features the company's trademark in the upper left, an image of Ceresota cutting bread in the center, and "Serial No. 143" in the lower-right corner. The inside front cover contains copyright information, the inside back cover has "[g]eneral instructions for young artists" for using "Japanese Water Colors." There are 24 images in the book, 12 in color and 12 in outline. Each outlined image was to be filled in by using the complementary color image at its side and by following the instructions preceding each group of images. Each outline image could be cut out of the book as instructed on the "cut here" line printed on the page near the gutter. None of the images have been in removed from this particular copy. The book also explains why the flour is called Ceresota, and how Ceresota's image came to be on sacks of flour. The numeral "7--" has been penciled onto the upper-right corner of the first page.
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