Art and Materials for the Schools: Activities to Aid the War and the Peace | Collections | The Huntington

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Puppetry: An Educational Adventure
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One book, copyright 1934, entitled Puppetry: An Educational Adventure, by Virginia Murphy, published by Art Education Press, Inc., New York. The front cover, a red and yellow image of two marionettes, was designed and signed by Venizelos Kanellis. This book is 24 pages in length, and is illustrated with black and white photographs and sketches. Included in the book are instructions for making marionettes, stage setting, stage construction and play selection and performance. On the inside of the front cover is "Copyright, 1934, by Art Education Press, Inc." and "Printed in the United States of America by the Rumford Press, Concord, New Hampshire." A blue ink stamp reading "For sale by The Palmer Company, 120 Boylston St., Boston, Mass." is printed at the bottom of the title page.
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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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Bucilla Blue Book of Initials and Monograms, Volume 30
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One pattern book, copyright 1921, entitled Bucilla Blue Book of Initials and Monograms, Volume 30, published by Bernhard Ulmann Co. Inc. This pattern book is comprised of 12 leaves of initial and monogram patterns, all for the letter "C." The insides of the covers include charts of the contents and suggestions for use, and instructions for transferring them. The back cover is a manufacturer's advertisement for Bucilla cottons (cotton thread) to be used in conjunction with monogramming. "Price 15 cents" is printed near the bottom of the front cover. "Copyright 1921 by Berhard Ulmann Co. Inc." is printed at the bottom inside 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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Lettering, Its History, Principles & Practice
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One instructional book, copyright 1937, entitled Lettering, Its History, Principles & Practice, by Matlack Price, ["Basic Alphabets and many other illustrations were drawn by Otto Munzinger] published by Art Education, Inc., New York, New York. This instructional book is 32 numbered pages in length, and is illustrated with black and white images. Some of the items discussed are letter spacing, serifs, italics, and different fonts "in action". The book is bound in (faded) blue paper. "Mabel Spofford" is written in ms. at the top of the front cover.
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