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Modern Color Magic in Dress and Home Decoration
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One pamphlet entitled Modern Color Magic in Dress and Home Decoration, by Mae Martin, published by Wells and Richardson Company, Incorporated, Burlington, Vermont, 1937. This pamphlet is 32 numbered pages in length and advertises Diamond Tints & Dyes. It is illustrated with color images of the wide variety of uses for these products, including clothes, curtains, upholstery, towels, lingerie, etc. The front cover features an image of a woman in a pink dress with a multicolored peacock-like flourish who is appraising herself in front of a mirror . This vibrant image is set against a black background; the title is within a banner at the top. The back cover is black, with a diamond-shaped center of nine colored components. "Copyright 1937 Wells and Richardson Company, Incorporated, Made and printed in U.S.A." is printed on the inside of the front cover. A representation of an "Award of Honor to Diamond Tints & Dyes for Distinguished Service at the South Pole" is featured inside the back cover. Both an order form and a letter from the company addressed to Mabel Spofford are laid in the pamphlet.
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Art & Decoration in Crepe & Tissue Paper
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One instructional book/catalog, entitled Art & Decoration in Crepe & Tissue Paper, published by Dennison Mfg. Co., Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1895. This instructional catalog is 88 pages in length, and contains illustrated and textual instructions for creating lampshades, candle shades, flowers, doll dresses, picture frames and dinner napkins, as well as supplies needed for each project, with prices. Also included, mounted to p. 3, are tissue paper samples, with the company's full range of colors. The illustrated front cover features a lamp with an elaborate lampshade made from crepe paper; a dressing table "draped with Dennison's Imported Crepe Paper" is on the back cover. The inside front cover is a listing of the company's colored crepe paper in stock, and the last page and the inside of the back cover are manufacturer's advertisements for Dennison's Tissue Paper Outfits.
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Drawing and Tracing Book: Children at Play
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One joint drawing and tracing book entitled Drawing and Tracing Book: Children at Play, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, copyright 1898. The cover title is Drawing and Tracing Book: Children at Play. This book is comprised of 8 plates of lithograph images. There are no sheets of tracing paper in this volume. The publisher's statement is printed in the lower right-hand corner of the front cover: "Copyright 1898, McLoughlin Bros., New York." The back cover reads: "First Lessons in Drawing for Children", with a "No. 81" printed below it. Below these words is a floral decoration. The chromolithograph illustration on the front cover is of a young child, wearing a white cap and a white dress, holding a wooden spoon. The illustrations inside have been painted in with watercolors. "Marion Terry" is written in ms., in crayon, within the book.
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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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Industrial and Decorative Art in Public Schools
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One pamphlet entitled Industrial and Decorative Art in Public Schools, by Charles G. Leland, published by Philadelphia Social Science Association, 1880. This pamphlet is 18 numbered pages in length and is not illustrated. As stated on the front cover, this paper was "Read at a meeting of the Association, October 21st, 1880." Leland suggests the ways in which the young should be educated so that they can do something to support themselves. Industrial and decorative art, he argues, not only produces a tangible product, it trains the mind. On the inside of the front cover is a "list of the papers read before the Association" between 1871 and 1880. The last page is blank.
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American Text-Books of Art Education, Clark Edition, No. 5, No. 8 and No. 9
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Three drawing books entitled American Text-Books of Art Education, Clark Edition, No. 5, No. 8, and No. 9, published by L. Prang & Co., Boston, 1882-1886. These books are each 20 pages in length, and contain numbered exercises of lithograph illustrations, which emphasize line and form (Book No. 5); construction and representation (Book No. 8); and construction, representation and Roman decoration (Book No. 9). The front covers are decoratively bordered. The inside of the front cover of each features a "Special Notice to Teachers", which explains the use of this book. Book No. 8 also contains an advertisement for Prang's Models for Drawing on the inside of the front cover. A publisher's advertisement for "Prang's American Text-Books of Art Education: a course of instruction in drawing for public schools" begins on the inside of the back cover and continues onto the back cover of Book No. 5. This same advertisement is just on the back covers of Books 8 and 9. The exercises within consist of illustrations, patterns and designs of a relatively simple nature, often floral and leafy designs. Each of the exercises is textually and visually explained, with space for continuation or copying. Most of the exercises in each of the 3 books have been copied by a previous owner. "Mary Jones" and "1.00" (price) are written in ms. at the top of the front cover of Book No. 5. "Lucius Tompkins" is written in ms., along the spine side, on the front cover of Book No. 8. Book No. 5 is smaller than the other two. The dimensions provided are for Books 8 and 9.
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