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A Word Concerning the Care of Plaster Casts for School Decoration

Description: One flyer entitled A Word Concerning the Care of Plaster Casts for School Decoration: Repairing, Cleaning, Restoring, 1922. The advertiser of the plaster casts care service is Edward P. Garbati, 100 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts. The flyer consists of a postcard that can be detached and returned by school officials to Mr. Garbati. The date on the postcard is 1922.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1922
Call number: ephKAEE
Creator: Korzenik, Diana (1941-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Diana Korzenik, August 1997.; transferred from Huntington Art Reference Library, May 2000.; purchased from Mike Kaplan, October 2000.

Plaster-of-Paris model of a grape leaf

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One plaster-of-Paris model of a grape leaf, mounted on a rectangular base, labeled "1453" in the lower right hand corner. On the upper left hand corner is a medal medallion with the embossed words "P.P. Caproni & Bro. - Plastic Arts - Boston, USA." On the top edge of the model is a small wire loop. Title supplied by cataloger.

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Official Register of Harvard University, Harvard Summer School: An Unusual Program for Teachers of Art

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One flyer entitled Official Register of Harvard University, Harvard Summer School: An Unusual Program for Teachers of Art, Vol. XXXVIII, April 4, 1941, No. 15, published by Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1941. This 8-page brochure is an advertisement for a program offered by Harvard Summer School. In it are listed the courses offered, a description of the art workshop, the staff, facilities, social life, fees and credits, and an address to write for further information. Accompanying this brochure is a business reply postcard to subscribe to the Official Register of Harvard University. Also accompanying this leaflet is a mailing envelope addressed to "Miss Mabel Spofford, Supervisor of Drawing, Public Schools, Gloucester, Mass."

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Flyer from the Lecture Bureau of the Rhode Island School of Design, 1948

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One flyer from the Lecture Bureau of the Rhode Island School of Design, 1948. It is 4 pages in length; (made from a single sheet that has been folded into fourths). The listing of the members of the Lecture Bureau and their respective talks for the 1948-49 season is contained within. The flyer is addressed to "Office of the Principal, Gloucester High School, Gloucester, Mass." "Miss Spofford" is written in ms. above the typed address. Title supplied by cataloger.

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Cornell Summer School of Art

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One flyer entitled Cornell Summer School of Art, Directed by Grace Cornell and Charles F. Cornell, South Bristol, Maine, 1930. This 6-page informational brochure also includes a small application form. The dates of the summer school, as listed on the front cover, are July 2nd to August 5th, and August 11th to August 23rd, 1930. This brochure is accompanied by a mailing envelope addressed to "Mis[s] Mabel Spofford, Winchester Arms, Gloucester, Mass."

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Art Career School

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One flyer advertising Summer Classes at the Art Career School, New York, New York, 1949. This advertisement is for the 1949 summer session, June 20-August 26. Four separate classes are offered: Figure Drawing, Drawing and Painting, Applied Design or Illustration, and Outdoor Sketching. The sheet is folded into eighths within a blue paper folder, the first two pages of which are text and the latter six of which are (reproductions) illustrations, presumably artworks created in previous summer school classes. The cover title reads: "Art Career School." The item is accompanied by an unused mailing envelope with the school's name printed on it.

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A Meadow Lark's View of the Berkshire Summer School of Art at Monterey, Mass

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One single-sheet flyer for the Berkshire Summer School of Art, published by the Berkshire Summer School of Art, containing informational text about courses, methods, and faculty, an illustrated map of the campus, and three photograph illustrations. Accompanying this advertisement is a single leaf, labeled pp. 23-24 that has been removed from a book or brochure for the school.

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