Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
One manufacturer's advertisement/drawing book entitled Drawing Book, published by Chase & Sanborn, Boston, Massachusetts, 1897. This 12-page promotional booklet is comprised of lithograph images for copying, space for copying the pictures, and instructional and promotional text. The back and front covers are chromolithograph images; the front cover illustration is of three children who are drawing while seated on a pencil swing suspended by pink ribbons. The back cover features a landscape view, and an image of a can of Chase & Sanborn coffee. On the bottom of the back cover is printed "For sale by M.V. B. Clark, Keene, N.H." One of the images for copying is a coffee plant. On another page is a group of faces for coloring: "Character scketches, A Cheerful Group. [below each person's face], i.e. The grocer who sells the coffee. The boy who delivers it. The cook who prepares it. The waitress who serves it. This is the happy family that drinks it. This is the can of coffee. None of the images have been copied.
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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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One drawing book entitled Schaeffer Piano Drawing Book, published by Schaeffer Piano Mfg. Co., Chicago, ca. 1895?. This 12-page promotional booklet advertises Schaeffer pianos. Each unnumbered page contains one or more drawings and is covered by a sheet of tracing paper. The front and back covers feature chromolithograph illustrations; on the front cover is a little boy in a brown suit playing a violin. On the back cover, an image of two children peeking over a circular advertisement for Schaeffer Pianos is at the center of the cover. Some of the illustrations within the book are advertisements themselves: such as images of "Style 30" and "Style 40" of the pianos, and an image of the Schaeffer Mfg. Co. warehouse. Other images include an "American Indian Chief"; "Capitol Washington", and "A Street Group in the Philippine Islands." Advertising text is on the insides of the front and back covers. None of the images have been traced.
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One drawing book entitled Columbus Drawing Book for the Kiddies, published by Capital City Dairy Co., Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1917. The front cover shows a girl sitting at a table, drawing in a book with crayons; below the image is the subtext "Color with crayons, Win a Prize, See Inside." On the back cover is an image of four children carrying a box of Columbus Oleomargarine on two poles, as if it were on a sedan chair; above the image is printed "Look for this display in your grocer's store." A promotional piece for Columbus Oleomargarine, the booklet describes on the front inside cover and first page how to enter the contest (full instructions are given on pp. 10 & 11). The last page and back cover have recipes "in which Margarine has been Thoroughly Tested." There are 12 images in the book--six in color, six in outline. The outlined images were to be filled in using the complementary color image to its side as a guide. Each image illustrates a rhyming jingle also on the page, which makes reference to Columbus margarine. None of the images have been filled in. On the back cover, stamped in ink below "for sale by," is "Hertzler Bros. & Co., General Merchandise, Elizabethtown, Pa." and in the upper left-hand corner, in pencil, "98-90."
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One drawing book/manufacturer's advertisement entitled Child's Drawing Book, published by Vose & Sons Piano Co., Boston, ca. 1910. The front cover shows two girls sitting on a rug, one is holding a drawing slate, the other is drawing on a slate. The back cover image is of a child, sitting on a cliff above the ocean, painting on a canvas; above the image is printed "Piper & McIntire, 888 Elm Street, Manchester, New Hampshire." The book, a promotional piece for the Vose Piano company, includes advertisements for the company's pianos on the inside front and back covers, and two images of Vose pianos within the book itself. Eight images in outline, along with tracing paper overlays, are present. None of the images have been filled in. The first image has been partially traced in pencil.
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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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