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  Votive offerings in clay pottery: photograph

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  This is a photograph of "votive offerings in clay pottery ("milagros") in the (Antiquarian) archaeological museum Corinth - Artifacts from Temple of Aesculapius" (from note on verso of frame). Photographer was John Connor. These offerings were given to Asklepios, the Greek god of medicine and of healing. The offerings are in the form of body parts (arms, feet, etc.).

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  Shadow photograph of wind tunnel test results, showing air stream from a 30-degree cone head

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  Shadow photograph of wind tunnel test results, showing air stream off 30 degree cone head, Ballistics Research Laboratory. Note in the hand of Grace (Burke) Hubble: "APG Huntington Library Collection."

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  Shadow photograph of wind tunnel test results, showing the air stream from a 30-degree cone head model

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  Wind tunnel test results, showing air stream off 30 degree cone head model, Ballistics Research Laboratory. Note in the hand of Grace (Burke) Hubble: "Huntington Library."

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  Shadow photograph of wind tunnel test results, showing air stream from a 30-degree cone head model

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  Shadow photograph of wind tunnel test results, showing air stream off 30 degree cone head model, Ballistics Research Laboratory. Note in the hand of Grace (Burke) Hubble: "Huntington Library."

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  Clay Modeling in the School Room

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  One art instruction book entitled Clay Modeling in the School Room, by Ellen Stephens Hildreth, published by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Massachusetts, copyright 1892. The book is an instructional guide for teachers, meant for use in kindergarten and primary school classrooms and is 76 pages in length. It provides general instructions for clay modeling, and features simple to more complex creations using solid forms of clay. The front cover is decorated and illustrated, with an image of a young boy creating a large clay vase. The back cover continues some of the design elements of the front cover, and features an image of a helmeted Roman figure (head and shoulders only). The book is divided into seven series: sphere, oblate spheroid, prolate speroid, ovoid, cone, cylinder and cube; each illustrated with line drawings and includes suggested items and directions for modeling. On the final page is a publisher's advertisement for "Books for Teachers published by the Milton Bradley Company". "5-" (price) is written in ms., in pencil, on the upper right-hand corner of the title page.

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  Blue Jeans : will never wear out : written by Joseph Arthur author of "The still alarm."

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  Image of a younger woman being escorted out of a doorway in the home of an older couple, while an old woman reaches out and an old man stands on a chair holding a framed picture on the wall, with a sign above the door that reads "God Bless Our Home"; the poster advertises the melodrama "Blue Jeans" written by Joseph Arthur.

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