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Slate Drawings for the Young Folks
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Slate Drawings, Useful & Instructive
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One 12-page promotional booklet advertising Balding Bros. silk thread published by Belding Bros. & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, with white-on-black illustrations designed to look like chalk drawings on slates. The inside of the front cover promotes Belding Bros. & Co.'s Drawing Book.
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Andrews' Slate Drawing Book
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One drawing book entitled Andrews' Slate Drawing Book, revised by Prof. Duncan McGregor, drawings by A.F. Brooks, and published by A.H. Andrews & Co., Chicago, copyright 1878. Fourth edition. Cover title reads: Andrews' Progressive Slate Drawing Book: Containing all the pictures on Andrews Noiseless Drawing Slates, for Schools and Families. Front cover also has publication information: Chicago: A.H. Andrews & Co., 1878. Front cover has a decorative border. On the back cover is an image of a framed drawing slate which reads "Andrews Patent Noiseless Drawing Slate". A notice on the verso of the title page, in part, states that "Prof. Duncan McGregor, President of the State Normal School, Plateville, Wis." This book has 38 numbered pages, 29 of which are illustrated, and the remaining pages contain text. The first 2 and last 2 pages are blank and unnumbered. The inside back cover contains advertisements for school equipment and furniture, and an applied label for "Baker, Pratt & Co., School Furnishers, Importers, Booksellers, and Stationers, 142 & 144 Grand St., New York." The images proceed from simple to more complex.
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The Cross Transparent Drawing Slate
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One glass drawing slate within a wooden frame manufactured by Ginn & Company, Boston, New York and Chicago, ca. 1893.
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Slate Pictures
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Five booklets of bound drawing cards published by L. Prang & Co., Boston (of which three are copyright 1863). These are entitled Slate Pictures: Drawing School for Beginners, numbered "2"(2 copies), "4", "6". The fifth booklet is entitled Slate Pictures for the useful selfemployment (sic) of young children and is numbered "II". While the first three booklets were clearly published by Prang, the fourth has no date and no manufacturer, and may be a European import. The back cover of the three Prang booklets have an advertisement for other Prang publications. All of the books have a similar green and white cover, and similar content. Of the images in the booklets, all are white on a black background, simulating drawing on slate with chalk. The images depict a variety of items and scenes including tools, weapons, landscapes, people, and animals. There are numerous pencil markings on the booklets, along with the names, in pencil, of "Eva L. Wheeler, Charleston, Mass." (inside cover, book number 4) and "Florence Mary (or May) Hubbard" (back cover, book number 6).
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Easy Pictures for Slate Drawing
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One drawing book/leaflet entitled Easy Pictures for Slate Drawing, published by Lyon Manufacturing Co., New York, ca. 1860. This item is a promotional advertisement for several products: Lyon's Magnetic Insect Powder; Mexican Mustang Liniment; Hagan's Magnolia Balm; Plantation Bitters and Lyon's Kathairon. On one side of this 10-page accordian-folded leaflet there are 5 advertisements (four of which with woodcut illustrations); the other side consists of the front cover (printed in red, black and white) and four "pages" of white-on-black illustrations, made to look like slate drawings. The images for copying include domestic and farm animals. All of the pages are unnumbered. "4-" (price) is written in ms. in the upper right-hand corner of the front cover.
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Young Folks' Drawing Book
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One manufacturer's advertisement/drawing book entitled Young Folks' Drawing Book, published by Billings, Clapp & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1886. This advertisement/drawing book promotes both Nichol's Bark & Iron and encourages drawing practice. It is 16 unnumbered pages in length, and contains manufacturer's advertisements, testimonials (dated 1884-1886), and illustrations for copying. Each of the illustrations are printed against a numbered and lettered grid; a blank grid is printed on the facing page for copying. The front and back covers feature chromolithograph illustrations; on the front cover is an image of children drawing and playing, on the back, a young boy sits wearing a red tam and sash, with the tam bearing the name of "Nichol's Bark & Iron." None of the illustrations within the booklet have been copied. "Trautmann Bailey & Blampey, N.Y." (chromolithography) is printed at the bottom of the front cover.
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