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One drawing book
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One drawing book: publisher and author unknown. Possibly from a Bartholomew series, ca. 1885?. This drawing book is comprised of 11 lithograph leaves of images intended for copying. The leaves are numbered 1-12; leaf 11 is lacking. Each leaf contains one or more images, with space below for tracing or copying. Some of the images include church arches, pots and kettles, vases and water glasses. The covers are lacking. Title supplied by cataloger.
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Drawing Book of Butterflies
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One drawing book entitled Drawing Book of Butterflies, published by (compliments of) L.M. Brock & Co., Lynn, Massachusetts, ca. 1910. This drawing book is a promotional piece for Mrs. Dinsmore's Cough and Croup Balsam. It contains 8 pages of black and white images of butterflies and tracing paper in front of each page, for copying. The front and back covers are chromolithographs; the front cover features several butterflies and paint brushes, the back cover image is a little girl in a pink hat, standing next to a vase of roses. The inside front and back cover feature promotional and advertising text. Some of the images have been traced onto the tracing paper, and some of the traced and original images have been colored in with crayons.
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Young Folks' Drawing Book
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One manufacturer's advertisement/drawing book entitled Young Folks' Drawing Book, published by Billings, Clapp & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1886. This advertisement/drawing book promotes both Nichol's Bark & Iron and encourages drawing practice. It is 16 unnumbered pages in length, and contains manufacturer's advertisements, testimonials (dated 1884-1886), and illustrations for copying. Each of the illustrations are printed against a numbered and lettered grid; a blank grid is printed on the facing page for copying. The front and back covers feature chromolithograph illustrations; on the front cover is an image of children drawing and playing, on the back, a young boy sits wearing a red tam and sash, with the tam bearing the name of "Nichol's Bark & Iron." None of the illustrations within the booklet have been copied. "Trautmann Bailey & Blampey, N.Y." (chromolithography) is printed at the bottom of the front cover.
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The Great Bear Drawing Book
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One manufacturer's advertisement/drawing book entitled The Great Bear Drawing Book, published by Great Bear Spring Co., Foulton, New York, ca. 1910?. This promotional booklet is 8 unnumbered pages in length, and contains advertising images and text, in addition to leaves of tracing paper for copying the images. It promotes Great Bear Spring bottled water. The front cover is a chromolithograph image of a white polar bear, seated at an easel painting a picture of a polar bear. A bottle of Great Bear Springs water sits prominently on a table in the foreground. On each of the 8 pages is an image, with rhyming promotional text below each image. For example, beneath the final image of a horse-drawn cart the text reads: "This is The Famous Water wagon, You've heard of it before; Just drop a line or 'phone us And you'll see it at your door." None of the images have been copied.
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Children's Drawing Book
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One 8-page promotional drawing book, published by The Coats Thread Co., American Works, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, containing 5 images, on grids, for copying onto separate grids.
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Drawing and Tracing Book
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One joint drawing and tracing book entitled Drawing and Tracing Book, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, copyright 1898. This book is comprised of 8 lithograph plates of images for both copying and tracing, with 8 leaves of tracing paper bound in front of each plate. The front cover is a chromolithograph scene of a little girl, holding a doll and a cat, crossing a wooden bridge and looking at a goat kid in her path. The title is above the picture. The back cover is a blue and white pattern design. The title page reads: Amusement for Little Children. Drawing and Tracing Book. The images for tracing are domestic and farm animals. On the inside of the front cover is some brief text about the benefits of tracing and drawing for children. "Ethel Grant- May 3" is written in ms, in pencil, at the top of the title page.
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