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Artist's Scrap Book
Visual Materials
One set of art reproductions entitled Artist's Scrap Book, arranged by Pedro J. Lemos, published by The School Arts Magazine, Davis Press, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1929. This portfolio of art reproductions is comprised of 104 numbered plates and an illustrated publisher's advertisement for the portfolio. Each of the plates contain numerous images of artworks by a variety of artists. Each plate is numbered and the images are grouped and labeled by category. Some of the categories included are: Hillside Houses, Decorative Trees, Fantastic Figures, Busy Women, Feminine Activities, Colonial People, Figure Groups, Children of the Eighties, Foreign Lands, Birds, Animals, and Flowers. "Courtesy of the Ladies' Home Journal" is printed in the lower left-hand corner of each plate. The set of plates is housed within an illustrated paperboard folder; a paper label containing the contents list is mounted to the inside of the front cover. "Mabel Spofford" is written in ms., in pencil, on some of the plates.
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House in a Book
Visual Materials
One scrapbook entitled House in a Book, created by Marian B. Healey, ca. 1900 and ca. 1930. The scrapbook is divided roughly into two sections. The first is approximately 64 pages in length and created ca. 1900, followed by 54 blank pages and the second section, which is comprised of 78 pages of scrapbook images, created ca. 1930. The two scrapbook sections begin at each end; the (presumably) first set of images ca. 1900 begin at one end, and when the book is flipped over, the images ca. 1930 begin at the beginning of that end. "Marian B. Healey, "House in a book", I made this up around the age of 10 years old" is written in ms., in ink, on the front flyleaf of the first scrapbook section. An unnumbered ms. index of the following pages is written on the third page. The scrapbook pages are labeled in ms. with titles such as "Piazza", "Parlor", "Library", "Kitchen", "Pantry", "Store Room", and "Back Yard." The images are both black and white and chromolithographs. A similar arrangement is made with the second section of the scrapbook; rooms are labeled in ms. at the top of the page, with mounted color and black and white images. Some of the rooms included in this section are: Front Yard, Parlor, Living Rooming, Pantry, and Bedroom. Several magazine clippings from 1924 and 1925 are laid in at the beginning of this section. There are several loose images.
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Le Petit Coloriste
Visual Materials
One painting book, ca. 1876, entitled Le Petit Coloriste, publisher unknown. This book is comprised of 16 titled (but unnumbered) plates. The volume is bound in red cloth that has been stamped to resemble morocco. The title, within a decorative frame, is stamped in gold. There are 8 sets of plates, with two duplicate images per pair. One image is printed in color, the other without so that it may be colored. An inscription, in ms., dated 1876, is written on the front pastedown. Each of the uncolored images has been colored with watercolor. "25.00" (price) is written in ms. in the upper right-hand corner of the front flyleaf. A red and white binder's(?) label is affixed to the rear pastedown: "Aux 2 Blassons, Gravure, Papeterie de luxe, Kilchenmann, Cannes."
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Business Album, Houlton House
Visual Materials
One scrapbook created from a Boston business directory entitled Business Album, Houlton House, published 1868. It is in a cloth binding, with one-quarter red morocco (spine and corners). "Business Album" is stamped on the spine; "Houlton House" is stamped on the front and back covers. The scrapbook images have been mounted to each of the 152 pages, covering the text and images of the business directory. Most of the scrapbook images are in black and white, although there are also some chromolithograph images included. The images include a wide variety of subjects: portraits of well-known political, historical and social figures, political cartoons, fashion, architecture, flora and fauna, and illustrated poems. The prefatory notice on the last page is dated 1868.
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Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, Eastern Edition
Visual Materials
One scrapbook/collage created from The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, Eastern Edition, published by The Prang Educational Company, Boston, copyright 1899. The scrapbook is 40 numbered pages in length, and scrapbook images have also been added to the insides of the covers, and to the back cover. The scrapbook images are cut from newspapers and magazines, and cover most but not all of the lithograph images of the instruction book. Most of the images are black and white, but there are also many chromolithograph images. The majority of the scrapbook images are of women. "Cora E. Nash" is stamped, in blue ink, on the front cover.
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The Little Folks Painting Book
Visual Materials
One painting book entitled The Little Folks Painting Book, by Kate Greenaway, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, ca. 1910. This book is comprised of 15 plates of black and white images of children meant for coloring; many of these have been colored in. Each page contains four labeled images, one in each of the four quadrants of a page. The front cover is a chromolithograph of several children, one of whom is painting at an easel. The back cover is an illustrated publisher's advertisement for "Pantomime Toy Books." The inside of the front cover contains text in three parts: "The Little Folks Painting Book"; "A Few Practical Directions", and "Instructions for Mixing the Colors." The inside of the back cover contains publisher's advertisements.
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