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Drawing Book

Description: One drawing book of original and copied drawings entitled Drawing Book, creator unnamed, ca. 1888. The book is bound in light green paperboard; the front cover is illustrated with an engraved image of an open drawing books with drawing and writing instruments nearby. The title is above the drawing book. The back cover is blank. The drawing book is 20 unnumbered leaves in length, and contains 7 ink and watercolor maps and 3 leaves of pencil sketches of flowers. The maps are on the first 9 pages of the book, and the flower sketch are on the last 3 leaves of the book. The flower sketches are all dated [18]88. The maps are views of: the southeastern United States; the New England States; Palestine; the Mid-Atlantic States; the Caribbean; Australia, and an unlabeled map of Italy. Tissue paper guard sheets are bound in between each of the leaves.
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Date: circa 1888
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Drawing Book

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One drawing book of original drawings entitled Drawing Book, created by Ella Seaver in 1879. The drawing book is 12 unnumbered leaves in length, and contains 14 pencil drawings, some of which are dated November 1879. The are images of flowers, floral designs, and some vases. An accompanying note from DK states the images are "after Walter Smith." Some of the leaves are blank. None of the images are signed, but "Ella Seaver" is written in ms. in the upper right-hand corner of the front cover. There are tissue guard sheets between each of the leaves.

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Drawing Book

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One drawing book of original drawings entitled Drawing Book, created by Henry H. Holt in 1896. The drawing book is bound in a brown cardstock cover, and is manufactured by the H. Senior Co., New York. The front cover is illustrated, and the back cover is blank. The drawing book is 12 leaves in length, with pencil and crayon drawings on both sides of each of the leaves. Some of the drawings have been numbered. The drawings include images of animals, objects, people, and maps. Most of the images are numbered with a number that corresponds to the source from which it was copied (according to an accompanying note from DK), and the drawings have been numerically graded by the creator's teacher. Tissue paper guard sheets are bound in between the leaves. "Henry H. Holt, Woodbury, Vermont, Fall term 1896. Amy Denny, teacher" is written in ms., in ink, on the inside of the front cover. A ms. letter to Diana Korzenik, with its envelop and a photocopy is laid in.

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Drawing book of original drawings, circa 1845

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One drawing book of original drawings, untitled, creator unnamed, ca. 1845. The book is 16 unnumbered leaves in length, and contains original pencil drawings primarily of houses and animals. The drawings are undated and unsigned. Tissue paper guard sheets are bound in between each of the leaves. An accompanying not from DK reads, in part, "After Coe drawing cards?" Title supplied by cataloger.

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Drawing Book

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One drawing book of original drawings entitled Drawing Book, created by F.M., ca. 1850. It is bound in an illustrated orange paper binding; the title is within a twig and leaf decorative border that contains 4 small vignettes within each of the four corners. The title is centered. The back cover is similarly illustrated, with an eagle in the center of the frame. The book is 12 unnumbered leaves in length, and contains original and (presumably) copied pencil drawings, one of which is signed "F.M." The drawings include images of animals, people, fruit and flowers, and buildings. Tissue paper guard sheets are bound in between each of the leaves.

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Drawing Book

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One drawing book of original drawings entitled Drawing Book, drawn by Marie [?] Lloyd, ca. 1875. The book is 12 unnumbered leaves in length, and contains original pencil drawings. The covers are illustrated with engravings; the front cover is a still life image of artists' and scholars' materials, with a banner bearing the title. This image is within a decorative frame. The back cover is an image of an American bald eagle, with a banner reading "E Pluribus Unum" in its claws. This image is also within a decorative frame. The pencil drawings within the book are primarily of houses and buildings, the accompanying note from DK describes them as "clumsy." None of the images are signed, but "Marie [?] Lloyd" is written in ms., in pencil, on the front cover. Tissue paper guard sheets are bound in between each of the leaves.

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Drawing book of original drawings created by M.H.B., 1852

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One drawing book of original drawings, untitled, created by M.H.B., 1852. The drawing book is 10 unnumbered leaves in length, and contains original pencil drawings, mostly of landscapes and buildings. The drawing book is bound within marblized paper covers, and is untitled. The first drawing is signed "M.H.B" and is dated 1852; some of the other drawings are also dated 1852. Colored tissue paper guard sheets have been laid in between the leaves. Title supplied by cataloger.

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