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Children's Drawing Book
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One manufacturer's advertisement/drawing book entitled Children's Drawing Book, published by The Coats Thread Co., American Works, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, ca. 1890. This drawing book is 8 pages in length and contains 5 images, on grids, for copying onto separate grids. The first image is on the inside of the front cover. The front and back covers are printed in red. The title is framed by a decorative flourish above an image of an open sketchbook with drawing tools. Beneath is printed: "Presented by The Coats Thread Co. Sole agents U.S. for J. & P. Coats' Spool Cotton. (American Works, Pawtucket, R.I.)". On the back cover is an image of a spool of thread with the words "J. & P. Coats' best six cord spool cotton. White, fast black & colors."
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Hood's Drawing Book
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One drawing book, entitled Hood's Drawing Book, with Designs and Suggestions from an Artist of Long and Varied Experience, published by C.I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Massachusetts, 1898. The front cover of the drawing book shows a young man painting the title of the book onto a wood sign. The back cover of the book lists descriptions of various "Family Medicines" available from Hood & Company, including "Hood's Sarsaparilla," Hood's Tooth Powder," and "Hood's Olive Ointment." The 24-page book contains various drawing exercises, starting with simple forms and progresses to complex scenes. Inside the front cover are instructions, such as which pencils to buy and how to sharpen them. Preliminary exercises are on grids to aid the student in copying images; other exercises encourage independent efforts copying an image. Five of the images in the book have been copied into separate, loose papers, which have been inserted in the book. A few of the drawings relate to medical goods made by C.I. Hood & Co., such as the image of "Hood's Medicated Soap."
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Drawing Book of Butterflies
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One drawing book entitled Drawing Book of Butterflies, published by (compliments of) L.M. Brock & Co., Lynn, Massachusetts, ca. 1910. This drawing book is a promotional piece for Mrs. Dinsmore's Cough and Croup Balsam. It contains 8 pages of black and white images of butterflies and tracing paper in front of each page, for copying. The front and back covers are chromolithographs; the front cover features several butterflies and paint brushes, the back cover image is a little girl in a pink hat, standing next to a vase of roses. The inside front and back cover feature promotional and advertising text. Some of the images have been traced onto the tracing paper, and some of the traced and original images have been colored in with crayons.
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Drawing Book
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One manufacturer's advertisement/drawing book entitled Drawing Book, published by Chase & Sanborn, Boston, Massachusetts, 1897. This 12-page promotional booklet is comprised of lithograph images for copying, space for copying the pictures, and instructional and promotional text. The back and front covers are chromolithograph images; the front cover illustration is of three children who are drawing while seated on a pencil swing suspended by pink ribbons. The back cover features a landscape view, and an image of a can of Chase & Sanborn coffee. On the bottom of the back cover is printed "For sale by M.V. B. Clark, Keene, N.H." One of the images for copying is a coffee plant. On another page is a group of faces for coloring: "Character scketches, A Cheerful Group. [below each person's face], i.e. The grocer who sells the coffee. The boy who delivers it. The cook who prepares it. The waitress who serves it. This is the happy family that drinks it. This is the can of coffee. None of the images have been copied.
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Slate Drawings for the Young Folks
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One 16-page promotional drawing book advertising Belding Bros. & Co.'s silk thread and products, published by Belding Bros. & Co., Boston, Massachusetts. Each page contains several white-on-black illustrations, designed to represent chalk drawings on a drawing slate.
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One drawing book
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One drawing book: publisher and author unknown. Possibly from a Bartholomew series, ca. 1885?. This drawing book is comprised of 11 lithograph leaves of images intended for copying. The leaves are numbered 1-12; leaf 11 is lacking. Each leaf contains one or more images, with space below for tracing or copying. Some of the images include church arches, pots and kettles, vases and water glasses. The covers are lacking. Title supplied by cataloger.
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