Art and Materials for the Schools: Activities to Aid the War and the Peace

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  Art Education Alert: Aids America to Meet Wartime Needs

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  One book, copyright 1942, entitled Art Education Alert: Aids America to Meet Wartime Needs, published by the Pratt Institute, New York. This booklet is 48 pages in length, and contains black and white illustrations. The front cover is decorated in bold blue and red graphics, with the phrase "Four Freedoms: religion, want, speech, fear" along the left-hand side. The insides of the front and back covers are illustrated with a black and white visual representation of the wartime program for art. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is quoted on the title page. He cites the school as a significant factor in preserving American government. The introduction makes clear the way art can be instrumental for this purpose: "Art today is selling the prosecution of the war to our people: it is selling the need for conservation, for enlisting in the services, for stamping out rumor, for cooperating with civilian agencies, for financially supporting the government and the Red Cross." The book is organized according to age level-appropriate activities. "Introduction, A Plan for Art Education; The Elementary School Level; The Junior High Level; The Senior High Level; The Adult Education Level; The Supplement; Art in the War Today; Materials, Sources." "Mabel Spofford" is written in ms. at the top of the front cover.

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  Art Studies for Little People: Landscapes

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  One painting book entitled Art Studies for Little People: Landscapes, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, copyright 1902. The title page reads: Object Painting Book. This book is comprised of 8 leaves of chromolithograph plates: half in full color and half in dull green and black tones, intended for coloring by the student. The front cover is a chromolithograph of a house on a hillside, and cherry trees in bloom. "Copyright 1901 by McLoughlin Bros., New York" is printed in the lower left-hand corner. The back cover is blank, except for the Mother Goose logo in the lower right-hand corner, and "No. 83 1/2" printed below it. The inside of the front cover is illustrated with a palette containing 5 colors. "Directions for Using the Colors Printed on Other Half of Cover" are printed on the inside of the back cover. The title page, which bears a different title from that on the front cover ("Object Painting Book"), is decorated with line drawings. "Copyright 1902" is printed at the bottom of the title page. The images in the book are accompanied by rhymes and poems. None of the images have been colored in.

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  White's New Course in Art Instruction For Elementary Schools

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  Two drawing books entitled White's New Course in Art Instruction For Elementary Schools, published by American Book Company, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, copyright 1892. One book is labeled 5th year, the other as 7th year. Bound in brown paper. 5th year is 32 pages in length, (numbered and unnumbered); 7th year is 36 pages in length (numbered and unnumbered). The unnumbered pages in these two volumes were used as copying pages. All of the copying pages in 7th year are blank; some of them in 5th year have been filled in with pencil drawings. 5th year contains one page with paper cutout pattern pasted in. In each book are also several pages of "Illustrated Definitions", and the inside front and back covers of each book are manufacturers' advertisements for "Materials for the Study of Color, Form, and Drawing" to be used in connection with the books in the series.

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  Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 4-1882: Industrial Art in Schools

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  One pamphlet, copyright 1882, entitled Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 4-1882: Industrial Art in Schools, by Charles G. Leland, published by the Government Printing Office, Washington. This pamphlet is 38 numbered pages in length, and is not illustrated. The table of contents is listed on p. 3, and is divided into three sections: Introduction; Practical Teaching; and General Observations. The embossed ownership stamp of the Essex Institute is stamped in the upper right-hand corner of the title page;a Dewey decimal call number is written in ms. on the title page verso.

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  Report of the Committee on Elementary School Art

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  One pamphlet entitled Report of the Committee on Elementary School Art, Bess Eleanor Foster, Chairman, published by the Federated Council on Art Education, 1926. This report is 32 numbered pages in length; it is not illustrated. The first 7 pages include a list of related associations, a president's preface, a table of contents and an introduction. Several of the sections were written by named individuals, rather than the Council as a whole. There are ms. notes and annotations throughout. "Mabel Spofford, her book" is written in ms., in ink, on the bottom of the front cover.

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  System of Industrial Art Drawing: Ornamentation

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  One drawing book entitled System of Industrial Art Drawing: Ornamentation, by E. Croasdale, published by J.M. Stoddart & Co., Philadelphia, copyright 1876. Also printed on the front cover is: "Issued in sets from the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, by E. Croasdale, Principal, Second Series, Number Three." This book contains 7 plates (plate VIII is wanting) of Egyptian design and motif. Each plate is faced by a blank page intended for copying. This book is vertically oriented, with the cover and pages intended to be lifted up, instead of to the left, as usual.

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